Official Site:Â Crowfall
Studio:Â ArtCraft Entertainment
Launch Date: N/A
Genre:Â “Throne War Simulator”
Business Model: Hybrid B2P (Optional Sub)
Platform: PC
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Crowfall explains the design of its skill trees
How do you get better at things in Crowfall? Obviously, there's personal practice, but in the more abstract sense, there are the game's skill...
Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for the MMO hipster
I say this with nothing but love in my heart: Some of you guys are serious MMO hipsters. Heck, some of you guys were...
Massively Overthinking: Counting the hits and misses of our 2015 predictions
Every year, we lodge our predictions for the next. Funny, strange, and deadly serious, these predictions are a glance back on the naïvetés of 2014 and...
Crowfall discusses the true meaning of ‘pre-alpha’
What is an alpha, really? What's the dividing line between an alpha and a pre-alpha when both are playable? If a game has had...
Crowfall’s latest vid diary talks UI customization and more
Crowfall's latest dev video addresses UI customization, and it features UX Designer Billy Garretsen. "The grand vision," Garretsen says, "is to really let people...
Crowfall addresses victory conditions, Malekai lore
When it launches, Crowfall is going to have to deal with the problem of winning. The most recent Ask Me Anything event for the...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMOs to be thankful for by type
It's been a while since I wrote a column that comes out on Thursdays, which means that it's also been a while since I've...
Crowfall: Milestones from eight months of development
Crowfall has been in development for eight months now. That sounds like a substantial amount of time until you think about how long games...
The Game Archaeologist: Shadowbane
Way back when I used to haunt the corridors of Gamestop and had yet to shun the place due to its stinky evil, I remember...
Betawatch: Devilian steps up its PvP game for its fourth closed beta test (November 20, 2015)
How strong is Devilian's PvP game? Really, it's hard to say, but it's being stepped up for the game's fourth closed test. That closed...
Crowfall moves into the next phase of pre-alpha testing
It's heady times for Crowfall developers and supporters, as ArtCraft announced yesterday that the project is taking a significant step into the next phase...
Crowfall posts demographic results from backer survey
Who the heck is funding Crowfall? The game is obviously funded, but who is spending money on it? Is it you? The results of...
Crowfall shares a little lore behind the First Crow
Who is the First Crow? He is a figure of some notoriety in Crowfall. He is eternal. He is unchanging. He is nothing. He...
New Crowfall site design asks players to consider their legacy
Roads can deteriorate, statues crumble, castles collapse, and books are lost. But legacies persist. A redesign for Crowfall's website plays up the idea that each...
Crowfall takes on the fine degrees of separation between bow users
You are not your weapon in Crowfall. Just because two archetypes use a bow in the game doesn't mean that they play the same....
Crowfall plans busy November
With October coming to a close, Crowfall is gearing up for a big November, with more frequent news updates and the next phase of...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Halloween 2015
Halloween is an unstoppable force in the MMO industry and will not be denied to developers and their players. It's that time of year...
Crowfall shows off the Champion’s design
Everyone has preferences about classes and playstyles in MMOs, and if you're the sort of player who plays only characters built like trucks wielding...
Crowfall conducts pre-alpha postmortem
Crowfall's first "Hunger Dome" pre-alpha test is complete and ArtCraft has many, many numbers to share in its postmortem.
During the test, the Confessor was...
Perfect Ten: MMO systems that could be great (but I haven’t seen it yet)
Before I start this column, I want to say two important things. First, my experiences do not extend outward to the limits of the...