Richard Garriott and Starr Long’s studio working on Shroud of the Avatar.
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Shroud of the Avatar’s Release 62 brings housing improvements and back-slot gear changes
The folks at Portalarium want everyone in Shroud of the Avatar to experience the joys of home ownership, which is why one of the...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2019
Working in this field has given me something of a sense of how a lot of the industry is going to play out. Take...
Shroud of the Avatar plans a hefty cash shop overhaul, includes $6999 package to support episode 2
Shroud of the Avatar's business model is apparently getting a bit of an overhaul. As the game's latest newsletter explains, Portalarium is changing things...
Shroud of the Avatar loses player services lead to Star Citizen’s Cloud Imperium Games
Shroud of the Avatar Community Manager Serafina announced today that she is moving on to greener pastures, stepping down from her role as Portalarium's...
Shroud of the Avatar offers free respecs, answers community queries
While Shroud of the Avatar isn't the most hardcore of MMOs out there, it certainly is a challenging beast to wrangle without the full...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2018
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's regular recap of what's going on in crowdfunded MMOs, which we do specifically...
Lord British (aka Richard Garriott) is now working as a telecommuting Robo-British
Richard Garriott, also known as Lord British, also known as the man behind Shroud of the Avatar and the Ultima franchise, has been upgraded to Robo-British. Or...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO resolutions for 2019
This week, for our first Massively Overthinking of 2019, I’ve asked the Massively OP writers to share their gaming resolutions or their basic MMO goals for the year. Won't you join us?
The best Massively OP streams of 2018
Massively OP's long-running Stream Team, unquestionably captained by MJ and her sidekicks Larry and Andrew, got a welcome surprise this year: Our newest writer, Chris...
Shroud of the Avatar expands fishing and teleporting with today’s release
Shroud of the Avatar's final update of the year is live later today as Release 61 hits the ground running and the devs get...
Shroud of the Avatar studio Portalarium confirms it’s taken over European publishing from Travian
Back in October, we briefly covered the news that Travian Games, Shroud of the Avatar's European publisher since 2017, appeared to no longer be...
Shroud of the Avatar brings all seasons together in harmony with Release 60
Beach party? Christmas? Fishing expedition? Why not all three! From summer to deep winter, Shroud of the Avatar has you covered with this past...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 195: April fools at BlizzCon
Justin and Bree cover the BlizzCon mess, Diablo Immortal, WoW Classic, WoW's content plans, Torchlight Frontiers, Shroud of the Avatar, Old School RuneScape, and LOTRO's legendary server, with a mailbag question on noobing it up in WoW.
Shroud of the Avatar details continuing work on fishing, teases roleplay content stream
Halloween is over, and you know what that means: Yep, two whole months of Christmas. Shroud of the Avatar is already teasing its winter...
Surprise! Shroud of the Avatar is now officially free-to-play
Have you taken advantage of the fact that Shroud of the Avatar has gone free-to-play yet? Or are you staring at that with some...
Shroud of the Avatar’s release 59 is live with a heavily revamped newbie experience
Live as of this morning in Shroud of the Avatar is the October update, better known as Release 59. As we've been covering this...
Shroud of the Avatar’s R59 newbie experience, Travian Games, and Reddit’s pay-to-chat complaints
Shroud of the Avatar's latest newsletter homes in on the game's 59th release, due out at the end of the month and currently on...
Vague Patch Notes: How do you play MMOs when you know humans suffered to make them?
The original Star Wars film was a passion project for a then-young George Lucas, and it was a project that nearly killed Lucas from...
Shroud of the Avatar’s Richard Garriott sheds CEO title for Creative Director role
It looks as if some corporate reorganization is going on over at Shroud of the Avatar studio Portalarium, as Richard Garriott's CEO title has...
Richard Garriott-signed copy of Shroud of the Avatar goes on sale
Have you ever wanted to get your hands on a piece of video game memorabilia that was signed by not only a designer but...
