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Star Wars The Old Republic plans next update for August 2, bids farewell to Creative Director Charles Boyd
It's a bit of good news and bad news for Star Wars: The Old Republic fans. We'll start with the good news: Update 7.1...
The Game Archaeologist: The origins of Blizzard, Mythic, Funcom, SOE, and BioWare
A good origin story always captivates me, especially when it gives me a new perspective on something I've come to appreciate over the years....
Ultima Online begins testing 25th anniversary rewards, delivers summer gifts
It might be hard to believe it, but Ultima Online is about to turn 25 years old this fall. My brain doesn't even believe...
The Daily Grind: What’s the longest time period you’ve ever subbed to a single MMO?
This question is a bit biased toward the subscription era of MMOs, but I think it still has some relevance given just how many...
Massively Overthinking: Are you a cheater in MMOs or other games?
We recently got a press release about a pair of studies on cheating, and I hesitated to run it as a news article because...
Vague Patch Notes: Yes, sandbox MMOs need tutorials and guidance, too
I'm going to make some sandbox fans a little miffed right here with my opening premise. Yes, your sandbox MMO needs tutorials and probably...
Perfect Ten: Weirdly specific tropes found in every fantasy MMORPG
If you take some weird, outlandish, or out-of-the-ordinary item and then saturate your life with it, sooner or later the bizarre becomes the accepted...
World of Warcraft offers a $210,000 prize pool for Shadowlands Season 4
With the advent of the fourth season of Shadowlands' competitive scene, World of Warcraft is expanding the field to allow even more players to...
Family of former Ultima Online lead designer and game academic opens college memorial fund in his honor
Back in October of last year, we reported the news that Mike Sellers, best known to our corner of the gaming universe as a...
Whatever happened to Islet Online?
Back in February 2019, we were pulled in the direction of Islet Online, a cutesy and colorful blocky sandbox MMO from Korea that made...
MMO Business Roundup: Preservation, charity, modding, memes, and Microsoft’s merger
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business.
Microsoft ABK: It's not just the US digging into Microsoft's...
Massively Overthinking: Solved problems in MMOs
One of the most annoying pet peeves this genre seems to spin up frequently is some companies' tendency to treat solved problems as unsolved...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that have fallen to the dark side of cryptocurrency
Here's an interesting point that's worth considering: For all the talk about cryptocurrencies, NFTs, the metaverse, and other Web3 buzzwords being the future of...
The Stream Team: Forced to do SWTOR’s Belsavis story as Republic
In the middle of their quest for SWTOR's Galactic Loremaster achievement, Massively OP's Larry & MJ discovered that they had to go back and...
ArcheAge preps the Abyssal Kraken and highlights inspirations for the Great Prairie’s creatures
Release the Kraken! Specifically the Abyssal Kraken, which is coming to ArcheAge in an update arriving tomorrow. Sporting over 8M hit points, a mythic...
Colony sandbox MMO SEED raises another $41M in investment, partly from a blockchain company
Way back in 2017, we learned about a then-new SpatialOS MMORPG called SEED from Klang Games. SEED was supposed to be a colony-centered sandbox...
The MOP Up: World of Warcraft counts down the end of Shadowlands Season 3
Just a heads-up for those still participating in World of Warcraft's Mythic+ and PvP seasons: Season 3 has about a month left before Season...
Star Wars The Old Republic makes updates to R-4 Anomaly bosses and outlines July’s events
Testing for the upcoming R-4 Anomaly operation and Manaan daily area heading for Star Wars: The Old Republic has been happening since June -...
Perfect Ten: Abrupt MMO sunsets that shocked us
Not all MMO sunsets are equal, when you look at them. Sure, all impact players who made those games a home, but some titles...
Xbox head says reports of crunch at Fallout 76 studio are from a time when crunch ‘was just part of the industry’
"Times were different back then" can either be an explanation or a blanket excuse. Whatever side you fall on, that's effectively what was said...
