Richard Garriott and Starr Long’s studio working on Shroud of the Avatar.
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The Game Archaeologist: The assassination of Lord British
At the end of August 2015, the fledgling Shroud of the Avatar community gathered together for a massive PvP fight. This wasn't to be...
Shroud of the Avatar’s release 22 ‘feels like a turning point’
Shroud of the Avatar's Release 22 is scheduled for tomorrow, and whoa does it boast a lot of stuff. Producer Starr Long has penned...
Shroud of the Avatar is getting at least one novel
There's a Shroud of the Avatar novel in the works, and it's being credited to both developer Richard Garriott and author Tracy Hickman. Publisher Macmillan's...
Shroud of the Avatar will start new players in outer space
Portalarium continues to flesh out Shroud of the Avatar, most recently with a new intro setting called the Island of Storms. This place is...
Shroud of the Avatar explores the secrets of Nightshade Pass
The newest Shroud of the Avatar newsletter has a large feature on the creation of Nightshade Pass, a narrow canyon of a zone that includes...
Shroud of the Avatar adds in instruments and fishing with release 22
Have you been thinking to yourself that Shroud of the Avatar would be better if you also had the chance to engage in a...
Lord British’s death captured for posterity in Shroud of the Avatar PvP event
Shroud of the Avatar fans recently witnessed a bit of history: the in-game death of Lord British! During a 12-hour livestream event and pledge...
Shroud of the Avatar posts Release 21 features and instructions
The bright side of Shroud of the Avatar being in a test state is that sometimes whole systems can be rewritten as just part...
Shroud of the Avatar teases dragons, housing, and R21
Shroud of the Avatar's latest Update of the Avatar newsletter debuted over the weekend. It includes a look at some "very large creatures" (also...
I need Shroud of the Avatar’s airship house
Shroud of the Avatar posted another meaty newsletter update over the weekend. Update of the Avatar #138 features more on the architecture of the...
Shroud of the Avatar creates the creepy Desolate Hills
Every good MMO needs a spooky and ooky graveyard zone, which is why Shroud of the Avatar is hard at work to create the...
Shroud of the Avatar pushes out Release 20 with 113 player-run towns
Are you playing Shroud of the Avatar's latest release right now? Obviously not, you're reading this article, but you could be playing it right...
Starr Long on story focus and Shroud of the Avatar’s Release 20
Shroud of the Avatar's Release 20 is accessible right now, assuming you're a backer at the First Responder level and above, or that you...
Shroud of the Avatar on troll fights and more
Shroud of the Avatar's latest newsletter was published this weekend, and Portalarium uses it to talk further about the fantasy sandbox's obsidian architecture. As...
Shroud of the Avatar’s Long talks building narrative on top of a sandbox
Shroud of the Avatar's latest Update of the Avatar has been released. As per usual, it sums up the major happenings for Portalarium's crowdfunded...
Shroud of the Avatar caps (and sells out of) player-owned towns with overland map access
Shroud of the Avatar has been selling players the right to run their own towns for a while, which is a good thing. It...
Shroud of the Avatar offers a 10% pledge bonus for the summer
Shroud of the Avatar has been offering its pledged testers regular updates for a while now, and that's pretty darn cool. If you were...
Make My MMO: July 11, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Derek Smart reminded everyone that he exists. Not that he's crowdfunding an MMO or anything, but he did...
Shroud of the Avatar maps out the next three months of updates
Did you ever see that late '90s TV show Early Edition, where this guy got a copy of tomorrow's newspaper a day early? Shroud...
E3 2015: Garriott and Long share Shroud of the Avatar secrets
This past year, Shroud of the Avatar moved from a monthly weekend-release cadence to being online 24/7, but the major updates have been no...
