A reference to the sorry state of Hellgate: London as originally released by Flagship. “To have been flagshipped” is to have been screwed over by the studio in some way.
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Perfect Ten: 10 of the worst launches in MMO history
Launch time is a difficult time for every MMO, and honestly, I have nothing but sympathy for the teams launching a new game at...
Diablo IV’s head start launches this evening – Blizz warns it might be ‘a little bumpy’
A little over 11 years after the release of Diablo III, this is the day that Diablo IV hath wrought... for pricey edition pre-orders,...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is the Burglar LOTRO’s least-loved class?
In most MMOs that I play, I confess a certain attraction -- if not affinity -- for seeking out the least-played and -loved class...
NCsoft is taking Kakao’s ArcheAge War to court over alleged plagiarism of Lineage 2M
ArcheAge War isn't just a delayed blockchain mess: It's also the subject of a new lawsuit.
According to The Korea Times, NCsoft has filed a...
Perfect Ten: 10 franchises that deserve another shot at an MMO
Some experiments are attempted once and fail, and it's not hard to figure out why that didn't work. We don't really need to take...
The Daily Grind: Are lifetime MMO subs ever worth it?
I've more than once told the story about my guildie who bought a lifetime sub to Hellgate London (oh no). And I've personally never...
Avalon is the latest blockchain metaverse project from old-school MMO devs
I know, I know, another one of these metaverse-blockchain-Web3 startups, but this one is one that MMORPG fans will want to at least take...
Microsoft wonders if y’all are done playing Halo Infinite just yet
Things aren't looking too hot for the online entry of Microsoft's flagship FPS franchise. A new survey sent out to gamers from the tech...
Vague Patch Notes: Stop taking your released MMOs back to the drawing board
This is not a column about Kingshunt, but it is. It's not a column about Crowfall or Deathverse: Let it Die or even Crucible....
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v6.0
And that's a wrap on this year in history! While everyone says farewell to 2022, here at TGA we're always looking way back at...
Massively Uplifting: A season of gains and losses in the MMO world
Where has the year gone? Fall has wrapped up, winter is beginning, and the end of the year draws nigh. Today, many will be...
Flagship’s dead MMO Mythos is back as a single-player RPG from Hellgate owner Hanbitsoft
A few weeks ago on the MassivelyOP Podcast, Justin and I were trying to come up with MMOs that had centaur-like races, and we...
Albion Online’s latest patch introduces some zesty new victory emotes
Sometimes it's just not enough to win a PvP battle; you've got to make the person you take down feel humiliated, and while the...
Perfect Ten: An MMO sunset tour for 2022 to date
MMO sunsets can be weird. I am never happy when a game that people love goes away. It always represents a lot of lost...
Sea of Thieves balances and disables some milestones, teases Heart of Fire novel
Sea of Thieves' seventh season continues to chug along as Rare drops update 2.6.0.1 today. The highlight of the patch is a new time-limited...
Trove’s Sunrise update is live today with the new Solarion class and Sundered Uplands biome
Gamigo announced a big update for its flagship MMORPG Trove last week, and as of today, it's already here. Lead time is overrated! Sunrise is...
Kritika Global will resurrect as a play-to-win NFT monstrosity next week
So you guys remember Kritika Online, right? It was published here by En Masse but shut down back in 2019, although it continued running...
Warframe’s TennoCon returns as an all-digital event on July 16
Warframe fans, block off July 16th in your calendars: That's the day Digital Extremes is setting aside for the return of TennoCon. The studio...
The Game Archaeologist: Dark Eyes, a forgotten Japanese MMO from 1999
For a country that was the epicenter of video games (and, in many ways, still is), Japan never quite latched onto the MMORPG genre...
Rockstar confirms separate Short Trip missions in GTA Online, work on GTA 6, boost events for Red Dead Online
Rockstar Games is just full of announcements for its flagship series Grand Theft Auto. An announcement post outlines the future of the series, with...
