Richard Garriott and Starr Long’s studio working on Shroud of the Avatar.
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Richard Garriott gives RPG game developer permission to use Lord British
You may have never heard of a game called Corven, but one of the industry's most famous developers is lending his fame to put...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2019
After 10 years of covering MMORPG news, I can assure you that I am still fired up to keep doing this. One of the...
Shroud of the Avatar adds Krampus, Lua integration, and the ability to make unicorn stew
Have you ever looked upon a unicorn and been hit with, not a child-like sense of wonder, but the desire to turn it into...
Shroud of the Avatar’s Release 71 adjusts Tartarus, the Despair dungeon, and several combat skills
Today marks another update launch for Shroud of the Avatar, which is bringing some general improvements to several parts of the game, including the...
Shroud of the Avatar works on bards, complains about negative press coverage
It's no secret that many of us here aboard the Good Ship MOP love us some Bard classes or support classes in general, so...
Shroud of the Avatar claims move from Portalarium to Catnip will bring ‘positive change’
Honest-to-goodness hope or trying to put a brave face on things? We'll let you decide when you read Catnip Studios' letter following the recent...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 242: And then Blizzard said, ‘Hold my beer’
Justin, Bree, and Eliot discuss the Blizzard boytcott and fiasco, the Daybreak layoffs, Shroud of the Avatar's sell-off, the Guild Wars 2 hacker piece, and a few happier stories too.
Make My MMO: Star Citizen drops alpha 3.7 as it turns 7 itself
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Star Citizen went absolutely mad with infodumps, and I almost feel sorry for it because it got half...
Shroud of the Avatar finally admits the Kickstarter book is not happening, offers in-game items instead
Yesterday, we covered the bizarre but perhaps expected news that Portalarium has transferred Shroud of the Avatar and other assets to Catnip Games, which...
Shroud of the Avatar changes hands as Portalarium transfers assets to Catnip Games
Hey you know when's a good time to drop potentially bad news? Underneath somebody else's even bigger bad news. Apparently, today it's going to...
Perfect Ten: Kickstarter MMOs that raised the most money
The rise of crowdfunding in the mid-2010s swept a large wave of MMORPGs our way that might never have happened otherwise. For a while...
Shroud of the Avatar dates next SotACon event, releases more Episode 2 bundles
Sometimes you have to root around in the Shroud of the Avatar update digest to find the interesting stuff. Digest #352 kind of has...
Shroud of the Avatar’s spoopy Halloween release 70 is officially live
While we already knew that Shroud of the Avatar was going to start dressing up for the best holiday on Earth (Halloween) with Release...
Shroud of the Avatar’s Release 70 brings Halloween themed fun on September 26
As we near October, it stands to reason that more of Halloween will start to invade the MMO space. Shroud of the Avatar looks...
MMORTS Travian Legends turns 15 years old with its Victoria Codex event
You folks remember Travian Games, right? At one point, the company was designated as the European publisher for both Crowfall and Shroud of the...
Players held a steamy Release 69 ‘dance party’ in Shroud of the Avatar
We assume most MMO players are at least aware of the more "adult" roleplaying that goes on in the quiet corners of our genre...
Shroud of the Avatar’s R69 test build brings back a comet and Aether Creatures, adds a high tier dungeon
The QA test server for Shroud of the Avatar has a new build of the sandbox MMORPG for players to check out. Release 69...
Shroud of the Avatar hosts a livestream about fishing in fetid water
If you want to watch a community livestream about Shroud of the Avatar's community team hosting a fishing contest in fetid water, gosh, today...
Shroud of the Avatar’s Release 68 kicks off a new update cadence
Things are almost always changing in Shroud of the Avatar, but it sounds like some of those changes are now going to be arriving...
Massively Overthinking: Revisiting sheep and wolves in MMOs
One of the meta discussions we've been having here on MOP this week has centered on PvP sandbox titles like Albion Online, specifically how...
