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The Game Archaeologist: Wing Commander Online and Privateer Online
In late 2012, former Wing Commander developer-slash-movie director Chris Roberts emerged from a decade of obscurity to ask for help to fund his vision...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG Crafting of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Crafting of 2016, which is a new award for our staff this year...
ArcheAge catches, smooshes APEX bug
Trion has confirmed reports of a recent APEX duping bug in ArcheAge, but there's apparently no need to panic -- it's already been squished...
The Soapbox: Asheron’s Call is dead, and Turbine killed it
You'd think recent news about Asheron's Call 1 and AC2 would be easy to swallow. After all, we'd already been warned that Turbine was becoming a mobile...
Identity creates a cops-and-robbers life simulator
Are you a good or bad person at heart when you play pretend? Either way, you will have a place in Identity, an upcoming...
Interview: ArcheAge 3.0 Revelation, fresh start servers, and the cash shop
ArcheAge’s big new 3.0 update is launching this week, and some big changes are happening with Revelation. And with big changes come questions, questions about...
Exclusive interview with Ashes of Creation’s Jeffrey Bard, formerly of Daybreak
Yesterday we covered a tip about a new MMORPG in the making: Ashes of Creation. Apparently we caught wind of this title before it was...
Ashes of Creation promises a sandbox MMO full of organic events
A wild MMORPG appears! Your excitement or skepticism is super effective!
So here's your out-of-the-blue MMO reveal for Tuesday. The game is called Ashes of...
How MMO economies have gotten smarter about fighting hyperinflation
If you're anything like me, you don't spend a great deal of time thinking about the large picture of MMO economies. It's mostly just...
Black Desert’s whole New World is live today, boost server opens tomorrow
If you're a Black Desert fan just waking up and stumbling to the internet this morning, good news: The game is back online.
It's been...
Black Desert’s ‘New World’ server merge will keep the game offline most of Wednesday
Black Desert's big "New World" server merging is set to finalize tomorrow on schedule, Daum announced today, changing up the usual maintenance cadence:Â The servers...
Guild Wars 2 AMA covers lockboxes, old dungeons, and economy quirks
Last night, ArenaNet's Mike O'Brien and 16 other members of the Guild Wars 2 live team hopped on Reddit for an AMA coinciding with...
Enter the Breach in Path of Exiles’ next league, launching December 2
If you've ever wanted to call out "Once more unto the Breach!" as a battle cry, Path of Exile offers you just that chance...
EVE Online is officially free-to-play today with Ascension
"We are happy to announce that EVE Online: Ascension has been successfully deployed!"Â That's the word out of Icelandic MMORPG studio CCP Games this morning,...
Black Desert Online merges down into EU and NA ‘New World’ servers
If you ever thought that Black Desert's server structure was unwieldy and esoteric, good news for you! Kakao has announced that the western version...
Ascent: The Space Game’s presidential election and player-run GoFundMe
Among the fun quirks of sandboxes is the political intrigue they can spawn. One such drama is currently unfolding in indie sci-fi sandbox Ascent: The...
Cross-platform space MMO Nebula Online has launched today
EVE Online has a little bit of competition in the hardcore kitchen this month, as indie title Nebula Online launched today on iOS, Android,...
EVE Online GMs removed at least 25 trillion ISK worth $400,000 from the game
If you've been reading the gaming news this week, you may have heard about the enormous amount of wealth that was recently removed from EVE...
EVE Evolved: Alpha Clone economics, bragging rights, and restrictions
Yesterday at EVE Vegas 2016, developer CCP Rise held us spellbound with tales of his recent misadventures in EVE Online recently when pretending to...
Kakao permabans Black Desert shovel exploiters
This past weekend, Black Desert devs disabled some unusual items in the game: shovels and empty bottles. It turned out that exploiters had been using...
