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Battle Bards Episode 233: Epic fight music
For Battle Bards’ penultimate episode, Syp and Syl explore some EPIC battle music across many MMOs. After all, if we’re going to go out...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that experienced a surprising comeback
It's hard to pass up a really good comeback story. We love it when a beloved something or someone is counted down and out......
Massively OP Podcast Episode 455: Odyssey to the abyss
Justin and Bree discuss Riot's and Blizzard's layoffs, the death of Blizzard's Odyssey, Palworld, Kritika, The Day Before, and Star Trek Online, with adventures in Guild Wars 2 and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on memorable fluff loot.
The Stream Team: A first look at Valofe’s Kritika Zero
It's baa-aaack. That's right, Kritika Online has come back once more as Kritika Zero, and MOP's Chris is going to take a moment to...
Valofe’s Kritika Zero heralds launch on its own platform with ‘opening ceremony’ events
This week has officially seen the fourth attempt at making Kritika Online stick the landing, as Valofe's version of the anime action MMO has...
SoulWorker hands publishing duties off to Valofe ‘for its continued enhancement and maintenance’
SoulWorker is another one of those action MMOs that has had a history of being passed about more frequently than a football: The game's...
Kritika Zero is yanked from Steam hours before its launch in favor of Valofe’s platform
In the annals of unpleasant last-minute surprises for MMO launches, this one may take the cake. Yesterday we reported that the originally NFT-infested Kritika...
Kritika Global is officially shut down on Steam today while Kritika Zero heads for release tomorrow
This is a tale of two Kritika Online titles, which might be a mercy since this game has come back four different times. Specifically,...
Massively Overthinking: The slowest and fastest combat in MMORPGs
During a recent podcast discussion about City of Heroes' official revival, the MOP writers were talking about its combat, which - let's be honest...
Kritika Online is coming back for the fourth time, this time under the stewardship of Valofe
Kritika Online seems to keep coming back like a bad penny. The anime action combat MMO:
First landed on western shores in 2017 until...
Kritika Global’s latest update grants players one free character slot and adds a new character
Kritika Global, the action MMO that came back as a P2E zombie version of its former self and then shambled back to Steam without...
Kritika Global returns to Steam without P2E but with cash shop awfulness
Before we get to that headline, this story needs a bit of a refresher course: Kritika Online was an anime-styled action MMO that first...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that have fallen to the dark side of cryptocurrency
Here's an interesting point that's worth considering: For all the talk about cryptocurrencies, NFTs, the metaverse, and other Web3 buzzwords being the future of...
The Daily Grind: Is there any dead MMO you’d play if it were resurrected by blockchain schemers?
Earlier this month, Justin and I jawed on the MassivelyOP podcast about the revival of Kritika Online, which turned out to be an exploitative...
Newly relaunched Kritika Online’s cash shop is just as gross as you’d assume
Normally around these parts we would be cheering on the resurrection of an MMORPG. But in the case of Kritika Online, which has returned...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 376: Diablo mortal
Justin and Bree discuss Diablo Immortal, the Daybreak Marvel MMO, Kritika Online's shady resurrection, WoW's 9.2.5, and War Thunder, with adventures in SWG Legends, LOTRO, and Fallout 76, plus a voicemail on sequels to beloved MMOs.
Kritika Global will resurrect as a play-to-win NFT monstrosity next week
So you guys remember Kritika Online, right? It was published here by En Masse but shut down back in 2019, although it continued running...
Kritika:REBOOT is shutting down on February 16
Kritika Online originally was brought over by En Masse Entertainment and lasted for about a year and a half before being shut down by...
MMO Business Roundup: Gamestonk is tipping toward over as shares dip below $100 a pop
Welcome back to a fresh roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news!
Gamestonk: It's starting to look as if last week's wild GameStop stock squeeze...
The MOP Up: Snake, Braddock, and Rambo charge onto World of Tanks Console
World of Tanks' console edition is getting all '80s happy with the launch of season 3 this month. Wargaming announced that players can obtain...