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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The Game Archaeologist: Six Halloween holidays from buried MMOs
There are two things to know about Halloween and MMOs. The first is that just about every online game in the known universe puts...
Curt Schilling settles 38 Studios lawsuit with Rhode Island
Ready your "beating a dead horse" memes one last time, MMORPG readers, because baseball star and video game mess Curt Schilling has finally settled...
Hyperspace Beacon: The five sins of roleplay in Star Wars The Old Republic (or any MMORPG)
I know that I have complained quite a bit about what Star Wars: The Old Republic doesn’t have, but I still play the game....
The Game Archaeologist: Six videos from MMOs that never launched
Whenever I compile lists or run articles on MMOs that never made it out of the gate, it seems as though talking about it...
Rhode Island investigators will not criminally charge 38 Studios
Neither Curt Schilling's 38 Studios nor the state of Rhode Island will be subjected to criminal charges after years of investigation into the bankruptcy...
Mark Kern says Blizzard took his vanilla WoW petition meeting ‘very seriously’
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Perfect Ten: My highlights from pre-launch MMO hype
Maybe the hype and anticipation of an upcoming MMORPG leaves you feeling burned out and turned off these days. Considering that some titles can...
Albion Online’s gateway dungeons offer incredibly flexible adventures
Albion Online is merging the concept of an old-school open world dungeon with its hellgate mechanic to make adventure spaces that feel fresh and challenging.
These...
Massively Overthinking: The curse of player-generated MMO content
The influx of new player-generated-content-oriented MMOs might make you think that PGC is on the rise, but if you've been around the genre for...
Uncharted Water goes to Neo-Babylon in its latest update
Raise the mizzenmast and jib the topsails, it's time for another tour of duty in Uncharted Waters Online! The pseudo-historical Age of Sail sandbox released...
Hellgate: London is on Android as a first-person shooter
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World of Tanks’ PS4 userbase swells to one million in five days
World of Tanks has just announced that it's amassed a million PlayStation 4 users since its launch on the platform last week.
"It's barely been...
Hellgate is shutting down its last server in the world
Hellgate is one of those titles that never quite seems to die; the former Flagship title has been resurrected and shut down so many...
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2015
It's become tradition to fare well the MMOs that sunsetted in the preceding year, but that wasn't always the case. At the beginning of 2015,...
Albion Online talks about its novel and community feedback patch
As the year wraps up, Albion Online continues to handle several irons in its alpha fire. One of these is release of a community...
Here’s a shocker: Hellgate is shutting down (again)
Raise your hand if you're surprised that the latest version of Hellgate is closing down. OK, smartasses in the back row, put 'em down,...
First impressions: SWTOR’s Knights of the Fallen Empire delivers
For the last few days, I have been playing the Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion Knights of the Fallen Empire. My expectations going...
World of Tanks’ Rubicon update is on a rampage
World of Tanks' October Rubicon update is introducing a brand-new game mode for Wargaming's flagship tank game: Rampage.
In this latest and permanent addition to...
The Game Archaeologist: Anarchy Online
"The future in your hands."
This was Funcom's promise to gamers in the early days of the 2000s. Even as the MMORPG genre slowly took...
Global Chat: Returning to WildStar for F2P
Many WildStar fans, past and present, are digging into the sumptuous buffet of the free-to-play patch on the test server for a better idea...
