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Vague Patch Notes: Fractured Online deserved better, even if you think it looked bad
When it comes to upcoming MMOs, there's always a sense of uncertainty in terms of what the final product is going to look like....
Fractured should be back in February as Gamigo shrinks to just a quarter of its 2020 portfolio
Last month, Gamigo suffered a round of layoffs, axed multiple MMOs (dispatching them to other publishers), and stealth-deleted Fractured from its website - Fractured,...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2023
Years ago, I did the first version of this yearly column in a one-off format in the middle of the year just because I...
End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2023
You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that were actually true, then my job to round...
Fractured Online returns to closed development over ‘platform troubles’
Over the course of this week, we've been covering the ongoing Gamigo clownshow: The company suffered layoffs it didn't disclose, which took out the...
Fractured vanishes from Gamigo’s site, Fawkes Games opens a weird website
Yesterday, we covered the distressing news that Gamigo had suffered layoffs - including the loss of RIFT's last remaining community manager, which is already...
Gamigo transfers publishing of Aura Kingdom, Grand Fantasia, Shaiya, and Last Chaos amid layoffs and Aeria portal closure
It just wouldn't seem right to end the year without watching Gamigo light itself on fire, now would it? Fortunately, the company has indulged...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2022
I might be biased - by which I mean I am definitely biased - but 2022 was a year of big stories and big...
Airship Syndicate reveals Wayfinder, a gorgeous multiplayer RPG inspired by MMOs
It almost went unnoticed at this year's TennoCon thanks to the big reveal of Soulframe and Warframe's latest content round, but Digital Extremes actually...
Fractured Online awakens the guardians of nature with its latest update adding Primal Forms
For too long - meaning "since the early access stage of Fractured Online began" in this case - Wildfolk have had to deal with...
Vague Patch Notes: The art of picking winners and losers in MMO design
There's a meme that's gone around the Final Fantasy XIV community sphere for a while, and I'm going to try my best to explain...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO quality and the bandwagon fallacy
Here's a fact that is objectively true but feels objectively false: There's no law stating that the best MMO of all time, to date,...
Fractured Online patches in new Iridra race and interplanetary travel
Fractured Online's early access players are in for a treat today as Gamigo and Dynamight Studios have patched in interplanetary travel.
To access the travel...
Fractured Online disables new purchases for players in Asian countries, posts new survey
Players who want to play Fractured Online but live in Japan are going to have a harder time at this point, as Dynamight Studios...
Fractured Online fixes more bugs and introduces world events with its latest patch
The new patch that has just arrived to Fractured Online heralds additions and fixes. Sure enough, that's exactly what's happening in the sandbox MMORPG,...
Fractured Online patches out a long list of bugs and details its crafting mechanics
It's never too late to kick out a dev blog about the features of your sandbox MMORPG regardless of the fact that it's been...
Fractured Online deploys bug fixes for monster spawns and meat ahead of a community stream
So what's the biggest problem you're having playing Fractured Online? Hopefully your answer to that question was less along the lines of "no motivation...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 389: Grinding out them dailies
Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge 2, WoW Classic Cataclysm, Fractured Online, LOTRO's 2023 ocean expansion, and the Wizard101 hack, with adventures in Guild Wars 2 and WoW Classic, plus meta discussion on how The Daily Grind works and how game studios handle pesky journos like us.
Fractured Online’s latest patches stabilize the game, squash bugs, and close up a duping exploit
Now that Fractured Online has hit the seas of early access, it's time for the inevitable bug patching and stability improving updates that invariably...
EverQuest II kicks off Secrets of the Sands, the prelude to its unnamed expansion
While the title of EverQuest II's upcoming 2022 expansion is still under wraps, players can start heading it its direction thanks to a new...