The Internet Warlord himself.
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Alganon has been offline for two months, is now owned by Derek Smart’s 3000AD
Nine years ago on Massively-that-was, we began covering the MMORPG known as Alganon - you'll recall it as a bit of a World of...
Derek Smart’s Line of Defense brings on secondary team for console version
Derek Smart's MMO Line of Defense has a progress update this week covering the state of the game's build. A new patch is on...
Whatever happened to Alganon, Ryzom, and Forsaken Legends?
Ever find yourself wondering, "Whatever happened to so-and-so? We never hear about that MMO in the news any more! Is it still running? Does...
Line of Defense solidifies engine switch, B2P business model
Derek Smart's Line of Defense is expecting a new public build later this month, this one focused on the next phase of defense mechanics...
Derek Smart is pulling Line of Defense from Steam over review-bombing
In response to a question about Line of Defense's status on Steam, developer Derek Smart (yes, that Derek Smart) has told players that he...
Massively Overthinking: The Star Citizen money machine
Massively OP reader Ichi has posed us an interesting question. At the end of 2015, a lot of gamers, including some of our own...
Not So Massively: Top 10 most surprising NSM stories of 2015
Back in 2011, our former corporate overlords at Massively-of-old noticed that games like League of Legends were getting pretty damn popular and asked us to work...
MMO Year in Review: Smed & Smart (July 2015)
This year, we're taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head...
The most popular MMORPG articles of 2015
Earlier this week, we posted a rundown of the most popular MMORPG conversations of 2015, calculated by number of comments and then number of...
The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2015
One of my favorite things to do every year is look through Livefyre and round up the articles that you guys just would not...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Biggest MMO Blunder of the Year
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for biggest MMO blunder of the year.
Last year, we called developer hubris and obstinance the biggest blunder...
Ascent’s lead dev offers insight on the Star Citizen controversy
Last week, the Massively OP podcast hosted guest James Hicks, the developer behind impressive indie space sandbox MMO Ascent: The Space Game. You won't...
Not So Massively: Cloud Imperium threatens a lawsuit (October 5, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts responds to publication’s ‘long troll’, threatens legal action for defamation
Unless you've been living under a rock lately, you probably know that Star Citizen and its creator Chris Roberts have been under siege from...
Not So Massively: Martin Shkreli slammed in e-sports; Star Citizen legal letter revealed
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
Star Citizen is safe from the FTC so far, letter to backer suggests
If you were worried that a certain Internet Warlord's crusade against Star Citizen might make it to the feds, you can breathe a little...
RSI’s attorney responds to Smart’s Star Citizen demands
The strange saga of Derek Smart's quixotic campaign against Star Citizen continues. The game developer sicced his lawyer on RSIÂ last month, delivering a series...
Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts on dedication, delays, and Derek Smart
In a new and very lengthy interview with Polygon, Chris Roberts fields a wide range of questions about the development and delays of Star...
Leaderboard: Which MMO devs would you like to see in an epic rap battle?
Sometimes the MMO industry is so absurd that all we can do is laugh at it. OK, not sometimes, most of the time, and...
Star Citizen threatened with class-action lawsuit
Internet Warlord Derek Smart is at it again: This morning, the dev behind Alganon and Line of Defense ramped up his crusade against Star Citizen and Chris Roberts with...
