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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Ultima Online delays New Legacy into 2023, hosts in-game faire to celebrate 25th anniversary
At the top of 2022, MMO studio Broadsword was still on track to launch Ultima Online's New Legacy by the end of the year....
The MOP Up: Valheim comes to Microsoft’s store this month
That kooky Norse survival sim Valheim is sending a raiding party to new shores -- in this case, to Microsoft itself. The company announced...
Global Chat: Torchlight Infinite’s infinite challenges
The upcoming Torchlight Infinite is starting to build some positive buzz for this multiplayer ARPG, and Battle Stance was on the scene to check...
Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning turns on double XP for a birthday weekend bash
This Sunday will mark 14 years following the initial release of Warhammer Online. Now, those of you with some awareness of history will remember...
Star Wars The Old Republic players will be getting a more efficient and faster launcher soon™
I'm going to be honest, whenever I get the random urge to re-install Star Wars: The Old Republic, I'm almost immediately punished for it...
Massively Overthinking: Have you ever returned to an old MMO and fallen in love?
Earlier this month, MOP's Eliot penned a WoW Factor that doesn't quote but certainly does evoke the ol' Heraclitus quote about how you cannot...
The Stream Team: The republic stories of SWTOR’s Balmorra, Taris, and Corellia
After a brief interlude of new content, Massively OP's Larry and MJ are ready to return to the Republic planetary stories Balmorra, Taris, and...
The Game Archaeologist: The legacy of Ultima Online
Last week in The Game Archaeologist, we traced the history of Ultima Online’s origin, development, and testing -- not to mention one pesky in-game...
Massively Overthinking: The weirdest ways we’ve leveled in MMOs
One of my favor flavors of fluff post we do occasionally is report on folks who have accomplished fame by leveling "wrong" in MMOs,...
NFT gaming consultant proposes conscripting poor gamers as MMO NPCs
In case you needed another reason to keep crypto out of gaming, a new article on Rest of World chronicles an NFT scheme in...
Vague Patch Notes: The MMORPG industry shockwaves that still reverberate
A thought occurred to me the other day regarding World of Warcraft and the way that it deformed the MMO industry: People who are...
Global Chat: How can MMOs help us navigate better?
Contains Moderate Peril recently tackled a subject that is very near to my heart, which is the tools, difficulty, and art of navigating around...
Dark Age of Camelot’s Covenant Crossroads event tasks players with making a pact and killing demons
The northern crossroads region of Dark Age of Camelot has come down with a particularly nasty case of demons, and it's up to players...
The Game Archaeologist: How Ultima Online got made
You know how there’s that yokel in every global chat channel that likes to troll players by claiming that World of Warcraft was the...
MMO dev Raph Koster disambiguates sandboxes, themeparks, simulation, and stagecraft
Veteran MMO developer Raph Koster, who himself is working on a sandbox MMO couched in a metaverse, is back with another dev blog this...
Massively Overthinking: Who’s really paying for MMOs?
Two years ago, we did a piece on dark patterns in MMO design, and in the comments, a reader named Shadex De'Marr penned a...
The Stream Team: Showing off SWTOR’s newest content
Not only does it take forever for SWTOR to introduce more content, but it has trickled down to only small puddles to splash in....
Star Wars: The Old Republic outlines its plans for events through the month of September
A long time ago (the beginning of August), in a galaxy far, far away (in-universe), Star Wars: The Old Republic started the Nar Shadda...
No, Amazon is not trying to buy EA, probably
If your gaming-related social media feeds were full of breathless hot takes and panicked concern over rumors that Amazon was looking to buy up...
Vague Patch Notes: Novelty is a contradiction in an MMORPG genre that discourages it
The newest member of the Big Five in the MMO space released in the west back in 2015, which was seven years ago now....
