darkfall

Official Site: Darkfall (Darkfall Unholy Wars)
Studio: Aventurine
Launch Date: July 13, 2009
Genre: Fantasy Sandbox
Business Model: Subscription
Platform: PC

Perfect Ten: 20 upcoming MMOs to watch in 2018

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It has become a long-standing tradition as Massively OP and our former site that we like to end the year by creating a list...

Darkfall: Rise of Agon adds magical teleporting billboards

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Progress continues to march in Darkfall: Rise of Agon, with a smallish content patch added to the game last week that added a special...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 146: World of Warcraft’s fun police

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Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes' death, Darkfall New Dawn, LOTRO 2018, Neverwinter Nights, WoW's fun police, DDO, Hearthstone, and Trove, with mailbag discussions on Disney the lockbox villain and the max we'd pay for MMO subscriptions.
Overpriced or underpriced? Remember, they think they're really cool.

Darkfall: New Dawn launches on January 26, 2018

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At this point, it's an odd year when Darkfall isn't launching. Darkfall: New Dawn has announced that the game will launch on January 26th,...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: A list of all the MMORPGs I supposedly hate

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Did you know about all the MMOs I hate? I sure as heck didn't! I mean, I knew there were a few games I...

Battle Bards Episode 108: Vampires and werewolves

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Here’s a musical episode that you can really sink your teeth into! Your… ear teeth? In any case, the Battle Bards are evaluating our...
And sometimes, it's all about winning.

Massively Overthinking: Three-way RvR and ‘fair’ PvP in modern MMOs

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MOP reader Sally Bowls is on a roll with the good questions lately! She lobbed us one this past weekend that seems a good...

The Daily Grind: Why does EVE survive where other PvP sandboxes stumble?

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MOP reader Tobasco da Gama pointed us to a recent Reddit thread about why EVE Online persists, even in a weakened state, where other...

Massively Overthinking: Epic Tavern-style player-generated content in MMORPGs

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Ever played Epic Tavern? Massively OP reader Uli though it would make an interesting point of comparison for MMO content. "Epic Tavern is a...
This didn't work.

Darkfall: New Dawn tweaks colors, removes bindstones, and improves AI

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Right now it is not hard to keep the two Darkfall reboot projects separated. While Rise of Agon launched earlier this year, New Dawn...

Darkfall: Rise of Agon works on ‘reducing tedium’ with this week’s update

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As promised back in July, the team behind Darkfall: Rise of Agon are taking drastic measures to reorient the fantasy sandbox to a more...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: The 10 saddest MMORPG stories

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Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...
Mars mars mars mars.

Massively Overthinking: The survivalbox vs. the MMORPG

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A few weeks ago in Massively Overthinking, the team discussed the resurgence in popularity of small-scale co-op games and whether that has impacted the...

Darkfall: New Dawn releases state-of-the-game roadmap, says it’s 76% done

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Darkfall: New Dawn, one of a pair of indie-led player efforts to keep MMO sandbox Darkfall going after original studio Aventurine abandoned it last...
And now everything will be better forever!

Darkfall: Rise of Agon is at a ‘pivotal’ design moment

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From the sound of things, it doesn't appear that Darkfall: Rise of Agon is doing quite as well as its indie team was hoping....

Massively Overthinking: Building a better MMORPG economy

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We are on a roll with the epic questions for Overthinking lately! "The recent article about monetization got me thinking about just how much most...

Check out Revelation Online’s Eternal Chasm dungeon

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Revelation Online has a new dev blog up today on the Eternal Chasm, one of its level 59+ multiple-mode instanced dungeons. "Shinji – after the...
He's going to kill Rod and Todd! That's terrible! ...in principle.

Darkfall: Rise of Agon reveals its post-launch roadmap

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In case it slipped your mind, Darkfall: Rise of Agon launched a whole two months ago now. With the fresh car smell of this...
Ironically, this is the sort of controversy you'd probably rather face from inside a hot tub.

Massively Overthinking: Do MMORPGs aspire to pro-social mechanics?

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Massively OP reader and Patron Avaera has a thoughtful question for the team and readers this week. "I wish more virtual world games thought deeply...

Massively Overthinking: MMO monetization run amok

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Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...

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