Megacorp known to MMO gamers primarily for its ownership of BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. EA has previously been the steward of Mythic Entertainment (which in turn once controlled Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot) as well as The Sims Online, Warhammer Online, and Dawngate.
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Star Wars The Old Republic readies public testing of its next lair boss and dynamic events system soon
Star Wars: The Old Republic game director Eric Musco has some fresh details about the game's incoming Game Update 7.6: Galactic Threads patch -...
Massively Overthinking: How do you stop MMOs from feeling like (or becoming) a part-time job?
In last week's Choose My Adventure, MOP's Chris penned a perfect paragraph summing up the paradox of MMORPGs - it doesn't even matter what...
Vague Patch Notes: What is good meaningful leveling in MMORPGs?
All right. So we are here at long last, at the end of Leveling Month, although it's actually more like Month And A Bit....
Apex Legends gets transparent about drop rates in response to a recent South Korean gaming law amendment
It's a generally widely understood assumption that items are made rare purely because the drop rate numbers are fudged by game studios, but players...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 488: Amazon vs Amazon
Justin and Bree discuss Ultima Online New Legacy, New World Aeternum, Throne and Liberty, Lord of the Rings Online's Legacy of Morgoth, and fall expansions for EverQuest and EverQuest II, with adventures in World of Warcraft, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2, plus a mailbag topic on what we're willing to do for long-term MMO rewards.
Star Wars: The Old Republic previews the Feast of Prosperity starting on October 8
Quick, what's the best way to restore fear in a galactic crime syndicate overseen by corpulent slugs? If you said "throwing a gigantic feast...
The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest personal challenge you’ve set for yourself in an MMO?
A few weeks back, I saw a post on Reddit about an MMO player who had decided to set himself a bizarre project: to...
Ultima Online’s New Legacy will finally launch October 15
If you noticed that Ultima Online's New Legacy stress test came to an end on Tuesday without, you know, an actual date for the...
One Shots: Even monsters should brush their teeth
Imaginations being what they are, I've spent perhaps too much time thinking about what sentient monster lives are like when we're not beating the...
Massively Overthinking: Do you expect compensation for MMORPG trainwrecks?
Earlier this week, Blizzard admitted that a major bug had resulted in serious and permanent data loss for some World of Warcraft players, including...
Ultima Online devs are working with ClassicUO modders to rehab the ancient client and renderer
We're going for a record here, clearly! This will mark the third time we've needed to write about Ultima Online this week, what with...
Perfect Ten: The MMO races that nobody ever seems to choose
Just because an MMORPG offers a wide array of character options doesn't mean that player interest will be equally divided among them. We've long...
Star Wars The Old Republic opens tester signups for its native Mac launcher
Surprised but pleased by last week's announcement that Star Wars The Old Republic is getting a native Mac client? We were too. And now,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 486: Amazon’s daring October gambits
Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty's early access, World of Warcraft's data loss fiasco, SWTOR's Mac client, Guild Wars 2's new PvP mode, Pantheon's December early access, and New World's Aeternum and season, with adventures in GW2, WoW, and LOTRO.
Ultima Online has officially turns 27 years old today as it kicks off its final New Legacy stress test
So listen, an MMORPGs 27th birthday is not a big deal, except in the sense that I can count on less than one hand...
PlanetSide 2 studio Toadman was hit with some nasty layoffs and studio closures this month
A few weeks back, Daybreak's Enad Global 7 announced that it was laying off a chunk of its subsidiary Toadman Interactive and closing down...
Ultima Online will run one more New Legacy stress test starting tomorrow, its 27th birthday
Last week, we noted that Ultima Online had counted eight beta tests for its New Legacy server already and was running out of time...
Star Wars The Old Republic boss teases 7.6 Galactic Threads and a native Mac launcher for SWTOR
Broadsword - yes, it still feels weird to type that - has just delivered its latest producer letter on Star Wars The Old Republic,...
Global Chat: The War Within continues WoW’s upward trend
We'll kick off this week's tour of MMO blogs with a diverse first impressions piece of The War Within by Kaylriene, who praises the...
Perfect Ten: 10 Blizzard games that everyone forgets existed
So by this point I think it's fair to say that most of our readers are aware that I love weird rabbit holes that...
