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EverQuesting: The history of the EverQuest franchise
Back in 2013, I took a walk through the annals of the EverQuest franchise's history. What started as one title not only blossomed into...
The gaming community rallies around EverQuest Next AI developer Dave Mark
A renowned game AI designer who worked on EverQuest Next and John Smedley's Hero's Song is the focal point of concern following an accident...
One Shots: First steps into a wider world
Every MMORPG player knows that there is something incredible and magical in the feeling that you get when you take your very first steps...
Massively Overthinking: Could bots save dying MMORPGs?
Last week, a reader named Chris, who is writing a paper on the MMO industry and revivifying sunsetted games, dropped an intriguing question into...
The best Massively OP MMO reader polls of 2017
Polls are a quantitative sort of magic that we don't often get from our other articles - at least when they aren't being brigaded...
MMO Year in Review: Landmark is wiped off the map (January 2017)
December's many article roundups and awards always remind us that it's hard to remember what happened last month, let alone what happened way back...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG articles of 2017
For this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked the writers to do something most of them hate: brag! We've tried to isolate our favorite personal...
Storybricks CEO shares early EverQuest Next proposal documents
It has been a while since the dust settled on late, lamentable EverQuest Next, and even longer since the sandbox MMORPG acquired and then...
PAX West 2017: Dual Universe demos its persistent, seamless, sandbox universe
If you were hoping that another title would pick up the idea of a voxel world and run with it, you're getting your wish....
Perfect Ten: The 10 saddest MMORPG stories
Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...
The Daily Grind: What MMO would you like to see dump its branding or IP?
On Tuesday, Daybreak formally announced that the neglected PvE half of H1Z1, Just Survive, would be shedding its H1Z1 branding once and for all. The...
The Game Archaeologist: EverQuest Online Adventures
In the pantheon of SOE's (now Daybreak) flagship EverQuest franchise, there used to be a whole family of MMOs gathered around the table every evening....
Whatever happened to PlanetSide 2, A Tale in the Desert, and Istaria?
Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, "What ever happened to that game?" With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it's surprisingly...
Perfect Ten: EverQuest’s EverExpanding franchise
When Daybreak announced last year that it was cancelling the highly anticipated EverQuest Next project, the series' forward momentum lurched to a halt. This wasn't...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that died too soon
Your favorite game is going to die. I wrote about that. Some games are never even going to get to launching in the first...
Amazon Game Studios grabs H1Z1’s art director
Amazon Game Studios continues to lure talented developers away for its new multiplayer projects. Sebastian Strzalkowski became the latest to defect to the new...
Massively Overthinking: Being Uncle Owen in MMORPGs
Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...
One Shots: Through the portal?
The other day, Bree was complaining about how so many screenshots from modern MMORPGs suffer from a bland and monochrome palette. Coming to the...
The Game Archaeologist: SOE’s The Agency
The graveyard of Sony Online Entertainment and Daybreak Game Company is certainly full enough to be considered a threat if there was ever a...
Remembering EverQuest Next
Is it too soon -- or perhaps too pointless -- to wool-gather about EverQuest Next? After all, that MMO project is deader than dead,...
