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MMO Business Roundup: The gaming industry reacts to the Ukraine crisis
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business and industry news.
Ukraine: First, there's no way around the news that Russia shelled and...
Trove holds contests to mark ‘twosday’, prepares for a class changing update on February 23
Tomorrow is Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022, or 2/22/22 for those who want to sound like an automatic laser rifle. This "twosday" date is apparently...
Massively Uplifting: MMOs show true love through helping kids, planting trees
Attitudes and thoughts about Valentine's Day vary widely, from crass commercialism to idyllic romanticism to complete indifference. But the fact remains that the spirit...
Trove’s Heckbugs in Love Valentine’s event has returned through February 22
Trove is once again joining in the Valentine's day MMO spirit, though it's a little bit on the sad side this year, seeing the...
Gamigo’s forums are down without explanation or ETA, affecting RIFT, Fiesta, Trove, and more
Hello everybody! It's RIFT's Fail Whale here to tell you of another little "oopsie" that's happening in Gamigo's neck of the woods! Apparently all...
You can still sign up for Fractured Online’s early February alpha test
Gamigo and Dynamight Studios are gearing up for Fractured's first alpha weekend since Gamigo took over publishing for the Kickstarted sandbox.
"On Feb 4, 2022...
ArcheAge returns player items lost during account transfers from Gamigo to Kakao
When ArcheAge accounts were transferred over from Gamigo to Kakao in December, many players unfortunately found that certain items were missing from their characters...
Fractured’s character creation is going to make tabletop roleplayers feel right at home
Ever since Gamigo's announcement that it had secured publishing rights to Kickstarted MMORPG Fractured - now called Fractured Online - developer Dynamight Studios has...
Gamigo launches a new department and plans new acquisitions to increase its publishing efforts
It would seem that Gamigo is intent on making the publishing arm of its business that much stronger in 2022. The company, which already...
Fractured Online will transfer player data over to Gamigo on February 1
This is probably not particularly surprising news to those who are already invested in Fractured Online especially in a literal sense, but it's still...
Fractured Online, now under Gamigo’s banner, talks up its three racial factions
One of the spotlighted features in the early life of sandbox MMORPG Fractured Online was the fact that players could choose one of three...
Trove’s New Year’s event, Renewus, is live as of today
MMORPGs do not get enough New Year events in my estimation, but Gamigo's Trove is making one happen. It's called Renewus, and it's on...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2021
As the year that was 2021 comes to a close -- raise a glass, give a toast, and perhaps think of a few fond...
Interview: ArcheAge studios on the move to Kakao, bans, land rushes, and the future of the game
One of the surprises the end of 2021 had in store for MMO players was the move of XLGAMES' ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained from...
Fractured Online outlines plans to run a 24/7 beta test in 2022 in end-of-year address
It most certainly has been an interesting year for the sandbox MMORPG Fractured Online, not the least of which being the game's publishing deal...
KingsIsle confirms new Pirate101 content for 2022 is in the works, looks back at 2021 design goals for Wizard101
Before launching into this story, let's put out a quick review. At the beginning of this year, players of Pirate101 started up a "flood...
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2021
It’s been quite a year of Choose My Adventure columns, hasn’t it? We did a pretty good random skip around of different games, in...
Grab a Fiesta Online Amatheon Corruption pack to celebrate the holidays
Gamigo's adorable MMO Fiesta Online is in the middle of its winter celebration, and in honor of the season, the studio has granted Massively...
Vague Patch Notes: Skewed perspectives of the MMO industry
So there were some surprises when Fractured announced that it had secured a publishing deal with Gamigo, or rather that Gamigo announced that Fractured was...
ArcheAge’s free mana crystal Twitter promotion leads to a 24 hour-long exploitation spree
Back when Kakao was kicking off its relaunch of ArcheAge, it was running a Twitter promotion that promised mana crystals for players if a...
