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The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes
The significance of Vanguard's development, release, long-running drama, second chance, and eventual closure should be of great interest not just to game historians but...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017
One thing you can say for the MMO industry: It never ceases to surprise all of us. No matter what predictions we may make...
Choose My Adventure: Challenging currency in Secret World Legends
Here's the thing that I love to point to whenever I talk about this portion of Secret World Legends: New England is really kind...
Whatever happened to Global Agenda, The Realm Online, and Mabinogi?
Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, “Whatever happened to that game?” With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it’s surprisingly easy...
Massively Overthinking: The state of early access, alpha, and beta ‘testing’ in the MMO genre
I remember years ago when then-Massively-columnist Rubi Bayer let loose with a blistering rant on the state of faux beta MMOs. She helmed Betawatch...
The Daily Grind: Is Destiny 2 an MMO?
Massively OP reader Sray suggested we open a can of worms today, and I just happened to have a can opener handy.
"Is Destiny 2...
Age of Conan (finally) adds 720-day loyalty rewards
In one of our recent Daily Grind discussions about MMORPGs that might make it to 20 years of live operation, some of our commenters...
Happy birthday to Fallen Earth, Aion, World of Warships, and Warhammer Online
This particular part of September is loaded with MMORPG and MMO birthdays. In addition to ArcheAge, whose corgipocalypse we've been covering already, and Ultima...
Whatever happened to Black Gold, Order and Chaos Online, and Eden Eternal?
Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, "Whatever happened to that game?" With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it’s surprisingly easy...
Funcom will still love Conan Exiles when the new baby is here
Longtime Funcom watchers and MMORPG veterans already knew that Funcom was working on multiple games as part of its Conan franchise push, but some...
The Final Fantasy XI mobile version hasn’t died
You could be forgiven for thinking that the long-awaited mobile version of Final Fantasy XI developed by Nexon had been unceremoniously banished to the...
Whatever happened to PlanetSide 2, A Tale in the Desert, and Istaria?
Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, "What ever happened to that game?" With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it's surprisingly...
The Game Archaeologist: Where are all of the open-source MMOs?
Recently we had an interesting question come in from reader and Patron Rasmus Praestholm, who asked me to do a little investigating: "What (if...
Perfect Ten: MMOs in limbo
The one thing that I thought we could all count on forever was that the MMO life cycle was pretty easy to understand. A...
Anarchy Online celebrates its sweet sixteen
Maintenance mode or no, Anarchy Online is going to celebrate its birthday in style. The MMO, which launched back in 2001, turns 16 this...
Global Chat: Saying goodbye to The Secret World
With the move to put The Secret World in maintenance mode and shift focus to the rebooted Secret World Legends, one MMO blogger decided...
Boot up your Age of Conan account for a free level 80 toon on its ninth birthday
So, Age of Conan players. Let's talk. I know this year has been kinda rough on you. You found out, as we did, that...
Final Fantasy XI preps a new event for its 15th anniversary
It's been 15 years now since Final Fantasy XI first launched in Japan, and the game is still receiving updates to this day. (Seriously,...
Final Fantasy XI prepares for its May version update
This month's version update for Final Fantasy XI is a little bit smaller than normal. Of course, that's understandable; there's a 15-year anniversary celebration...
Perfect Ten: Conversations with anthropomorphic concepts of MMO studios
Every so often, a man needs to have a conversation with some anthropomorphized concepts. I do that every few years. In the past, I've...
