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Fractured Online reclaims and migrates its website, promises to reopen testing soon
As readers likely remember, Gamigo and Fractured Online developer Dynamight Studios officially confirmed in April what many already suspected: that both companies have split...
Interview: KingsIsle talks Pirate101’s Steam launch, Sinbad Chapter 2, and the future of the game
KingsIsle's Pirate101 is having a bit of a renaissance right now. The high seas-themed sibling MMO to the popular kids game Wizard101 has two...
RIFT runs Shiny Shenanigans event with ocular surgery [Updated]
The tenacious existence of RIFT continues despite all odds, as Gamigo activated a short-duration Shiny Shenanigans event this week. From now through May 14th, players...
The Daily Grind: Has there ever been an MMO that over time morphed into a game you no longer love?
The temptation with a title like that is to talk about World of Warcraft slowly and inexorably doubling-down on its least fun content year...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 421: Beyond time and space
Justin and Bree discuss Star Trek Online Unraveled, SWTOR Old Wounds, Gamigo's move out of MMOs, Chrono Odyssey's reveal, EVE's 20th anniversary, LOTRO's new raid, and Villagers and Heroes' housing patch, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on WoW's wild lore.
MGI’s 2022 financial report is bad news for RIFT and most of Gamigo’s remaining MMOs
Gamigo and KingsIsle parent company MGI recently posted its 2022 financial report, and things aren't looking great for interest and investment into current and...
Lawful Neutral: What if Activision-Blizzard just… sold Blizzard?
Last week, Activision-Blizzard and Bobby Kotick got a bad surprise: The UK moved to block the acquisition of ABK by Microsoft, citing concerns over...
Eden Eternal has relaunched with a side order of NFTs and a delay on Steam
It's re-launch day for Eden Eternal, and if you haven't been following along, well sit back because we're about to do a recap, and...
Trove revamps rewards and destinations in this year’s Spring Fling event, live through May 16
Spring has sprung for Gamigo's blocky sandbox MMORPG Trove as the Spring Fling event has returned. OK, maybe spring has flung? The themed event...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 420: The New, Mad World of Warcraft
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's content cadence, the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard buyout, Blizzard's messy financials, WoW's 10.1 patch, the end of forums for New World and Lost Ark, the death of a whole class in MapleStory, the messy launch of Mad World, and the surprise return of Fractured, plus adventures in LOTRO and Star Trek Online.
Eden Eternal returns in May under new management after being killed in 2021
It's not every day that a gaming studio shutters three MMORPGs in one go, but this happened back in February 2021 when Gamigo closed...
Fractured and Gamigo finally confirm their split as Dynamight says it’s reclaimed ‘the rights of Fractured Online’
Until yesterday, Fractured Online's website hadn't had a single update since before Christmas, when the game basically imploded in a blast of publisher shenanigans...
Trove celebrates tax day by… adding new market taxes aimed at curbing inflation
It's tax day here in the US, so I'm sure our US readers just cannot wait to get off work today and log into...
Gamigo hosts St. Patrick’s Day scavenger hunt across RIFT, Trove, and Fiesta Online’s social media
We learned a couple of new things today, thanks to Gamigo. First, we discovered that you can include little pictures as part of URLs,...
Former Trion boss Scott Hartsman illuminates the rise and fall of RIFT
Yesterday, we ran an editorial from MOP's Tyler focused on his reasoning that MMOs are better off showcasing their own special attributes than tearing...
Trove’s St Patrick’s Day – sorry, St Qubeslick – event has returned through March 20
Here it is, folks: the very first MMORPG St Patrick's Day event of the 2023 season, and it happens to be in Gamigo's MMORPG...
Post-Gamigo, X-LEGEND has big expansion plans for Aura Kingdom and Grand Fantasia
Back in December, Gamigo announced that it was closing down multiple MMOs on its roster, transferring some of them back to their original developers....
Trove buffs the Gunslinger and tweaks merchants with the Gunslinger Noscope patch, live now
Earlier this week on the MOP Podcast, we noted that Trove was one of Gamigo's few remaining money-making MMORPGs, and we couldn't see the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 411: The way to Wayfinder
Justin and Bree discuss Amazon, Throne & Liberty, New World, Wayfinder, DDO, Gamigo, and RIFT, with adventures in LOTRO, ESO, New World, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on putting ourselves in MMOs and themed character designs.
X-LEGEND confirms its plans for a global re-launch of Eden Eternal
Earlier in the week Redditors discovered some indications that Eden Eternal was on its way to a return following its closure by Gamigo. We...
