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Leaderboard: Did you participate in Crowfall’s equity crowdfunding raise?

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Finishing up today is Crowfall's Indiegogo-based equity crowdfunding campaign, one of the first games and MMORPGs to take advantage of new 2016 laws that...

Cops-and-robbers sandbox Identity on griefing, prison, customization, and more

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Identity is an open-world, cops-and-robbers sandbox, and it isn't asking you for money. That's because it was already Kickstarted to the tune of almost...

Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas on free-for-all PvP, races, classes, housing, and more

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Back in December, we published an exclusive dev diary about El Somni Quas, an indie sandbox from a Czech studio that actually cut its teeth...

Origins of Malu proclaims ‘we are not dead,’ downgrades from an MMORPG

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Last April, we reported that the indie MMO Origins of Malu was suspending development as it sought investors to help fund the project. Since...

MMO Year in Review: Turbine gave the ring to the eagles (December 2016)

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This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we...

LOTRO Legendarium: A cautious hope for the future

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One of the threads that weaves the Lord of the Rings narrative together is that of hope. Holding onto faith in friends, perseverance against...

EverQuesting: Welcome to the Daybreak family, LOTRO and DDO

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Sometimes there's news that just makes you go, "Huh?" At times it happens because said information makes no sense whatsoever; other times it surprises...
Overpowered.

Perfect Ten: Biggest MMORPG surprises of 2016

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Back at the beginning of December, I posted a list of what I considered to be the biggest MMORPG stories of 2016. However, there...
Yeah, systems are the problem.

Darkfall: Rise of Agon team updates community on progress

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Transparency is vital to smaller, indie MMO projects, especially ones driven by a volunteer team. The crew over at Darkfall: Rise of Agon have...

MMO Year in Review: Carebear tears of Elyria (May 2016)

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This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we...

Smed has canceled Hero’s Song, offers everyone refunds

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Pixelmage Games, the indie studio headed up by MMO veteran John Smedley, announced today that it is folding up, which means Hero's Song is...

Standing Stone Games tells the story of its name and logo

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Kind of curious about why Turbine's ex-developers formed their new indie studio with the name Standing Stone Games? And what is up with that...

Ashes of Creation demos caravans and villages in beautifully creepy Christmas video

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Indie outfit Intrepid Studios has an atmospheric new video out for its fledgling Ashes of Creation MMORPG -- well, not so fledgling after all,...

Multiplayer sci-fi sandbox Hellion demos survival gameplay ahead of January early access

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Back in November, we reported on the rollout of Hellion, a PvP-centric multiplayer sci-fi survival sandbox aiming for a Jaunary early access launch. Today,...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 96: Rogue Two

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Justin and Bree discuss the big Turbine/LOTRO/DDO news, plus Xmas in MMOs, WoW legendaries, console Trove, poor ArcheAge, and 2017's offerings, with a surprisingly pertinent mailbag question on going indie vs. sticking with a publisher.

Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas arena design dev diary

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Last week, we covered new info about El Somni Quas, an indie sandbox from Czech studio that actually cut its teeth on Ultima Online...

The Daily Grind: Does Daybreak’s involvement with LOTRO and DDO worry you?

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Yesterday, we were all pretty astonished to learn that Turbine has spun out Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online --...
LotRO

Turbine spins LOTRO and DDO teams out to new studio, using Daybreak as publisher

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Welp, didn't see this one coming. Turbine has just announced that it's spinning off the Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online...

The Stream Team: Wandering into Wild Terra for the first time

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It's no secret that Massively OP's MJ loves sandboxes, so she's always interested in checking out new ones. Wild Terra went into Steam Early...

Pro e-sports team opens retail shop in London

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So file this one under "that happened": A pro-gaming team has opened a pop-up e-sports retail store in London. The team is Fnatic, and really...

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