Richard Garriott and Starr Long’s studio working on Shroud of the Avatar.
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Vague Patch Notes: Finger-pointing in the MMO and multiplayer games industry
I know for a fact that I've already made the joke at this point about how Babylon's Fall just straight-up Babylon Fell, but the...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that went through complete technical clownshows
I've gone on record multiple times to state that when you get right down to it, MMOs look pretty darn complicated. There are a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 392: Don’t rollback my heart
Justin and Bree discuss New World's fresh start and Brimstone Sands, expansions for EverQuest and EverQuest II, the sale of My.Games, Final Fantasy XIV, Mythos, Echo of Soul, Shroud of the Avatar's huge rollback, and the Secret World TTRPG Kickstarter, with adventures in WoW and SWG Legends.
Shroud of the Avatar is back online, but that ‘test’ rollback to August has become a live reality
It has been a long week for the developers and followers of Shroud of the Avatar. The problems began when developer Catnip Games sought...
Shroud of the Avatar says it ‘is not going away,’ but a ‘sanity test’ build rolls the MMO back into August
Earlier this week we reported on a major issue affecting Shroud of the Avatar and its latest release, which featured a bug tied to...
Shroud of the Avatar’s latest release was so ‘borked’ that it was down all weekend – and still is
Shroud of the Avatar was supposed to kick out Release 106 last week - Thursday, September 29th, to be exact - but the patch...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO Kickstarters that let us down
MOP's Chris penned a solid piece earlier this week about the fate that has apparently befallen Destiny's Sword, and as I was editing it,...
Vague Patch Notes: The perpetual MMO crowdfunding engine
Do me a favor right now and navigate over to the Star Citizen webpage. It's possible that this has wildly changed in the time...
Richard Garriott’s NFT MMO has a website and a name: Iron and Magic
You may remember that space tourist Richard Garriott, fresh off the utter collapse of Shroud of the Avatar, had threatened us all with another...
Shroud of the Avatar talks about ending contests and moving to a new Unity 2021 build
Last week saw Shroud of the Avatar fire up another livestream featuring several of the devs and Richard Garriott in attendance, and most of...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that have fallen to the dark side of cryptocurrency
Here's an interesting point that's worth considering: For all the talk about cryptocurrencies, NFTs, the metaverse, and other Web3 buzzwords being the future of...
Shroud of the Avatar lets you process the heck out of new fetid fish types
Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever been playing Shroud of the Avatar and found yourself with an inventory downright overflowing in...
The MOP Up: MapleStory celebrates 17 years of two-dimensional adventuring
As of last month, it's been 17 years since MapleStory first released. To celebrate, Nexon released the Blooming Forest update with plenty of anniversary...
Vague Patch Notes: Stop giving rich people money to make failed MMOs
Richard Garriott has been to space. I'm going to repeat that a lot for emphasis, just because I feel like it's important. Richard Garriott...
Richard Garriott is building a blockchain MMO following the failure of Shroud of the Avatar
Richard Garriott is working on a new MMORPG, and yes, it's filled with NFTs.
Garriott, who is probably best known to mainstream gamers as the...
Shroud of the Avatar’s latest release introduces a kobold metropolis and some fresh fetid fish
Happy 100th release of an alpha build, I guess? That's right, Shroud of the Avatar has published Release 100 to the developing MMORPG and...
Shroud of the Avatar boss claims confusion over SeedInvest: ‘I’ve done the part that I’m contractually obligated to do’
The waters surrounding Shroud of the Avatar continue to get muddier after a letter to investors of the game from equity crowdfunding platform SeedInvest...
SeedInvest tells Shroud of the Avatar investors that Portalarium eluded its accountability efforts
Shroud of the Avatar has been a black mark on the MMORPG genre, Kickstarted MMOs, and genre founding father Richard Garriott for years, and...
Shroud of the Avatar adds tameable lions and tigers and delicious wyvern eggs in Release 97
If you're hungry for an egg dish in Shroud of the Avatar, why not treat yourself to one of the rarest eggs out there?...
Shroud of the Avatar opens the social hub of Castle Atos, makes decorative dread artifacts, adds fancy zombies
There are lots of zombies in gaming. Slow ones, fast ones, ones that lumber forth with single-minded purpose, ones that explode. But have you...
