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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Battlefield 2042 plans limited-time free-to-play periods in December and talks up its next two seasons
Earlier this week we had worried aloud that Battlefield 2042 might not make it to a third season owing to the fact that fans...
Overwatch 2 promotes its first mythic skin while reducing legacy skin prices for former players
Dressing up your favorite Overwatch 2 character in shiny skins is likely what makes most players spend their money, and Blizzard is hoping that...
Ex-CCP devs announce post-apoc survival MMO Annex
Ready for a new player in the MMORPG genre? Then meet Arctic Theory, a studio composed of former CCP and EA developers who banded...
SWTOR is launching Showdown on Ruhnuk with new planet and PvP overhaul by the end of the year
During its livestream last night, BioWare revealed Star Wars The Old Republic's next big thing: Game Update 7.2, Showdown on Ruhnuk, launching "winter 2022."...
The Stream Team: Marking Makeb and Hoth off the lore to-do list in SWTOR
Massively OP's Larry and MJ can't help but be excited/relieved as they close in on completing the Galactic Loremaster achievement in SWTOR. Today, Makeb...
Dark Age of Camelot runs catch-up leveling event, marks 21st anniversary
If you're the type that believes that Dark Age of Camelot's real fun and realm-vs.-realm participation starts at max level, then you're going to...
Six year-old Battlefield 1 sees a surge of players after Battlefield 2042 flops and work starts on next game
We've noted before that Battlefield 2042 has not been in the best shape. The shooter launched last year and almost immediately struggled to gain...
The Daily Grind: What would you say is the best item rarity system in MMOs?
Let's talk about rarity systems in MMOs! The first one I remember was Ultima Online's, and it was text-based without colors and hardly counts....
WoW Factor: Breaking down the ‘third era’ of World of Warcraft development
We are, at the time of this writing, less than a week out from the second part of the Dragonflight pre-patch for World of...
EA Q2 FY23: Live service titles are 73% of EA’s business, sports lootboxes sell big
The second quarter earnings call from Electronic Arts has pretty much confirmed what most people were probably assuming: 73% of the company's business is...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO conspiracy?
You probably don't know this about me, but one of my hobby subjects is pseudoscience and conspiracies and why people fall for them. I've...
Loric Games commits Mythic and BioWare vets to building a survival game rich in story
What happens when you combine the experience of former BioWare and Mythic Entertainment devs with the survival sandbox sub-genre? We're all projected to find...
The Stream Team: Planet hopping for SWTOR achievements
How many planets can Massively OP's Larry and MJ clear in their quest for SWTOR's Galactic Loremaster achievement in one go? Tonight, they plan...
Perfect Ten: 10 things to understand about MMO Bards
In the past four installments of this pseudo-series, I have done columns on archetypes that exist in every single game. Every game has a...
The Daily Grind: Do you prefer realistic MMO mounts or pocket mounts?
On the MOP podcast back in September, we answered a question from listener Sergio about neat MMO features with a long-running history in the...
Dark Age of Camelot’s recurring Halloween festivities return for another year
Halloween has once again come to Dark Age of Camelot, and while this year's festivities might not be new to regular players, it's hard...
Electronic Arts will sunset multiplayer servers for a wide assortment of classic games this year
As Tim Curry's character can tell you, escaping capitalism requires some pretty severe steps, but unfortunately the online multiplayer servers for a number of...
Star Wars The Old Republic’s Galactic Season 3 is back online with new and adjusted rewards
After a bit of a delay caused by an unexplained issue, players of Star Wars: The Old Republic can finally get themselves a companion...
Star Wars The Old Republic delays Galactic Season 3 launch over unspecified ‘issue’
Star Wars: The Old Republic had planned to kick off Galactic Season 3 with yesterday's patch, but apparently some unforeseen issue has derailed that...
The next Sims game aka ‘Project Rene’ will apparently offer some sort of multiplayer
Longtime MMORPG vets have... let's call it history with The Sims franchise thanks to The Sims Online, which wasn't so much an MMO as...
