interviews
Dave Georgeson offers players encouragement on Landmark shutdown
Former Landmark lead Dave Georgeson took to Twitter on Friday with a note of encouragement for fans of the soon-to-be shuttered MMO: "To those...
Hi-Rez Expo 2017: Hands-on with online card game SMITE Rivals
The cat is out of the bag. Or should I say Manticore? SMITE Rivals was announced at Hi-Rez Expo 2017 yesterday, giving players a...
Hi-Rez Expo 2017: Newly announced SMITE Rivals turns the gods into cross-platform collectible cards
They say good things come in threes, and with today's anticipated new game announcement at Hi-Rez Expo 2017, the studio has three SMITE titles...
Perfect Ten: Biggest MMORPG surprises of 2016
Back at the beginning of December, I posted a list of what I considered to be the biggest MMORPG stories of 2016. However, there...
Crowfall traces the career of Gordon Walton
When you follow the development of MMOs, do you ever find yourself wondering who these people are making the games and what is their...
Interview: BioWare devs reflect on five years of creating Star Wars: The Old Republic
I know that sometimes it's hard to remember exactly what you were doing five years ago. I know that I had been playing Star...
Why RuneScape embraces legacy servers
One of the big MMO stories in 2016 was the debate and drama over the demand for certain vanilla servers in popular games. Even...
Cold Iron’s Craig Zinkievich on funding, the genre, and the MMO nature of the game
Earlier this month, we got a curious press release from a new gaming studio called Cold Iron. I might have skipped over it but...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG stories of the year
Earlier this week, we posted our award for the biggest MMORPG story of the year -- the one we thought had the biggest impact...
RIFT has a ‘mind-blowing’ housing update planned for Patch 4.1
If you'd rather be fiddling around with player housing in RIFT than out fighting in the field, you're our type of homebody. Also, you...
How 2016 took Lord of the Rings Online to the gates of Mordor
As Lord of the Rings Online nears its impressive 10th birthday in April of next year, we see a game that's in many ways...
Check out a translated interview on TERA’s upcoming Lunar Dancer
Another new class is coming to TERA's Korean version, as we learned yesterday. We even got the barest version of information about that new...
Interview: ArcheAge 3.0 Revelation, fresh start servers, and the cash shop
ArcheAge’s big new 3.0 update is launching this week, and some big changes are happening with Revelation. And with big changes come questions, questions about...
Mech_Con 2016: MWO skill trees, game modes, and MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
As one might hope for from a convention, Mech_Con 2016 was a time to not only hang out with other fans and meet the...
Exclusive interview with Ashes of Creation’s Jeffrey Bard, formerly of Daybreak
Yesterday we covered a tip about a new MMORPG in the making: Ashes of Creation. Apparently we caught wind of this title before it was...
Project Gorgon crosses fundraising halfway mark, introduces the Fairy race
Good news for Project Gorgon: The indie MMO has crossed the halfway point in its current Indiegogo campaign, raising over $10,000 toward its $20,000...
SWTOR Knights of the Eternal Throne launches today; we chat with BioWare
Last year, the developers of Star Wars the Old Republic changed the focus of the game. Instead of continuing to make Knights of the Old...
Crowfall crosses minimum goal for its equity crowdfunding effort
ArtCraft announced today day that it's "officially crossed the minimum necessary threshold" for its latest crowdfunding effort for Crowfall. It's now raised $152,084 with...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most bothersome part of MMORPG monetization?
A recent GIbiz interview on Ubisoft's monetization reveals that studios, at least the type making online shooters, have come full circle again to the...
Three-year-old Warframe broke its concurrency record after The War Within
GIbiz has an interview out with Digital Extremes VP of Publishing Meridith Braun today, who sheds light on how Warframe is doing. It turns...
