mythic entertainment

Originally known for Dark Age of Camelot, Mythic was snapped up by EA and put to work on several other MMOs new and old, including Warhammer Online and Origin’s Ultima Online, which predated it. It was closed down in 2014, but not before spinning out DAOC and UO to newly formed company Broadsword Online.

The Game Archaeologist: Fallen Age

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Imagine that one day you wake up, stumble to your computer, and check in on the morning news. Among the various tidbits is a...

Perfect Ten: Major MMO expansions and updates to expect in 2018

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Now that we're almost 1/12th of the way through 2018, it's probably about time to stop anticipating the year and start experiencing it. We...

Camelot Unchained lands $7.5M investment to hasten development: Our chat with Mark Jacobs on funding, VR, and beta one

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If you know one thing about indie MMORPG Camelot Unchained, it's that CEO Mark Jacobs appears to dwell perpetually in internet comment sections amiably...
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The Daily Grind: What MMO will be the next to change up its business model dramatically?

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You may not like it, but the vast majority of MMORPGs are free-to-play or buy-to-play as of 2018. EVE Online went free-to-play at the...

The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives

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When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...
Catching up, caching out.

Dark Age of Camelot is developing a free-to-play option for 2018

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While many MMO studios wait until January to release their year preview letters (and the lazy ones put it off until Ash Wednesday), Dark...

The MOP Up: Wakfu climbs the Mineral Tower (December 17, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes

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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...

EA has put the kibosh on a player-run Battlefield emulator – are MMOs next?

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We don't cover the Battlefield games much on Massively OP, but this particular story caught my attention anyway because of the company and subject...

MMO Halloween: Dark Age of Camelot, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm

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Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to... play? Halloween 2017 continues unabated in online games, so let's see what goodies and...
And sometimes, it's all about winning.

Massively Overthinking: Three-way RvR and ‘fair’ PvP in modern MMOs

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MOP reader Sally Bowls is on a roll with the good questions lately! She lobbed us one this past weekend that seems a good...

The MOP Up: Black Desert’s Taiwan meet-and-greet (October 8, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Dark Age of Camelot welcomes players back with a free month for its birthday

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Happy birthday Dark Age of Camelot! This month, Mythic's (now Broadsword's) classic realm-vs.-realm MMORPG celebrates its 16th birthday following its 2001 launch. The team raised...

Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs on guilds, groups, and the social systems that make an MMORPG go ’round

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Over the weekend, the studio behind crowdfunded RvR MMORPG Camelot Unchained released a hefty chunk of its ongoing beta one document, revealing extensive insight into...

Happy birthday to Fallen Earth, Aion, World of Warships, and Warhammer Online

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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...

The Game Archaeologist: Climax’s Warhammer Online

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Let's begin with a little personal history. Back in 2008, I decided to get into the blogging scene by jumping on board the latest...

Massively Overthinking: Female characters and gender-locked classes in MMOs

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One of the reasons I gravitated to and stick by the MMORPG genre in spite of its many ups and downs (oh, so many...

Battle Bards Episode 104: Something wicked this way comes

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And lo, as the Battle Bards walk through the zone of the shadow of death, they will fear no evil, but they will listen to evil’s...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: The 10 saddest MMORPG stories

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Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...

The MOP Up: State of Decay 2’s multiplayer mayhem (August 27, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

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