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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Ghost promises it’s an MMO and not a lobby title, discusses wider gameplay and design plans
With the Ghost MMO project wrapping up its development in 2024, it's time once again for the devs at Fantastic Pixel Castle to come...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Fantastic Pixel Castle shares new prototype gameplay and dev plans for its Ghost MMO
Fantastic Pixel Castle's upcoming MMO codenamed Ghost (aka Greg Street presents Ghostboi Adventures Online starring Bobby Battle Crab™) is wrapping up its year of...
The MOP Up: World War II Online bids farewell to the fishbowl
World War II Online aviators will be pleased to hear that a disliked visual is about to be killed: "The long-awaited, long-hated fishbowl effect...
Greg Street’s Fantastic Pixel Castle recaps Project Ghost’s classical and random zone testing
It probably will not stun you that the team at Fantastic Pixel Castle is rather pleased about how its third prototype milestone for Ghost...
Vague Patch Notes: Leveling in MMORPGs is cool because it’s finite
No matter what you do, leveling in an MMORPG is going to be too fast. It's also going to be slow. It is the...
Ghostcrawler makes the case for slower leveling in his upcoming MMORPG Ghost
The vast majority of MMORPG fans have yet to experience any part of Fantastic Pixel Castle's upcoming MMORPG simply known as Ghost through any...
NetEase Q2 2024: NetEase’s MMOs propelled a revenue lift, but its stock dipped hard anyway
We haven't often covered NetEase's financial reports, but as the company continues to chuck out (and sunset) new multiplayer games and MMOs, it seems...
Greg Street’s Ghost MMO readies for ‘very small’ external playtesting ‘in a couple of weeks’
Last week hungry MMORPG fans learned that Fantastic Pixel Castle's developing MMO Ghost would begin starting some of its first small scale but external...
Greg Street’s Ghost MMO devs talk community, quest design, open development, and the beginning of outside playtests
When the devs at Fantastic Pixel Castle reference the community building around its MMO Ghost as a den of "wholesome chaos," it's clearly done...
Fantastic Pixel Castle’s Project Ghost is still years out, but plans public playtest for ‘fairly soon’
Fantastic Pixel Castle announced that Project Ghost recently crossed its second prototype milestone, with the first happening back in April, and the studio is...
Greg Street’s Ghost dev studio talks prototypes and progress from a recent ‘innovation week’ session
The way Fantastic Pixel Castle is putting together its upcoming MMO Ghost certainly appears to be quite different from the usual game dev trajectory....
Massively Overthinking: Is tab targeting a problem in MMORPGs?
This past weekend, MMO designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street lobbed another bomb rather cavalierly into the MMORPG discourse, this one about tab targeting. And maybe...
Massively Overthinking: Fixing boring MMORPG dungeons
Earlier this month, MMO genre luminary Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street tweeted something from someone on his Ghost MMO team that's going to resonate with a...
Ghost dev Brian Holinka broadly discusses the MMO’s combat model
The name of Brian Holinka will very likely be familiar to MMORPG fans, primarily for his work as lead combat designer for World of...
Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street’s Fantastic Pixel Castle delivers a prototype peek of Project Ghost
It may not have an official name yet, but Fantastic Pixel Castle's Ghost has a face of sorts. This week, the Greg Street-run studio...
Vague Patch Notes: Why in the world do you want the Riot MMO to be a thing?
Let's make something clear right up front: If you came into this column eager to head for the comments section to say, "Well, I...
Riot has ‘decided to reset the direction’ of the Riot MMORPG as team goes ‘dark’ under new boss
It's hard to take the Riot MMO too seriously when we're still stuck using Runeterra pics and calling it the Riot MMO for want...
Ghost MMO devs discuss building an MMO, wrestling tech, and procedural generation in latest podcast
Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street and the devs at Fantastic Pixel Castle continue to assemble on Street's podcast to discuss the creation of the Ghost MMO...
