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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...
Q4 2023: NetEase’s revenues soar as the company invests in the western gaming industry
I am not sure whether it's dawned on MMORPG fans yet, but NetEase is doing a lot more than jousting with Blizzard and milking...
Ghost MMO devs discuss ideas for the game’s crafted and randomly generated zone design
The Ghost MMO being developed by Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street's indie firm Fantastic Pixel Castle, or as I like to call it Big Greggy's Fantastical...
End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2024 and beyond
We've said it before, but this time we really mean it: The future of MMORPGs looks amazing. Contrary to years when we've seen only...
Following Bobby Kotick’s exit, former ABK devs call out his toxic management and Overwatch 2 sabotage
Now that Bobby Kotick has floated away from Activision-Blizzard on a doubtlessly diamond-encrusted platinum parachute, some former developers at Blizzard are feeling confident enough...
Greg Street’s Ghost MMO heralds 2024 focus on prototyping combat, classes, art, and player-owned land
Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street is probably one of the few people who can get off calling his MMO project Ghost without coming off as screechingly...
