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Now here's an interesting collab. Yes, it's yet another "ex-Blizzard people form a new studio and investors give them stacks of money" studio, but...

I know, I know, another one of these metaverse-blockchain-Web3 startups, but this one is one that MMORPG fans will want to at least take...

You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that was actually true, then my job to round...

And that's a wrap on this year in history! While everyone says farewell to 2022, here at TGA we're always looking way back at...

For an MMO that's all about death and reincarnation, there's either irony or hope in Crowfall going offline today supposedly for retooling. Whether or...

Over the summer, a Twitter user replied to one of our Daily Grinds suggesting that a certain MMORPG was poised to "disrupt the MMO...

While our own Game Archaeologist columnist Justin offered a retrospective of Ultima Online (and its alt ruleset server New Legacy was delayed into next...

You know how there’s that yokel in every global chat channel that likes to troll players by claiming that World of Warcraft was the...

Veteran MMO developer Raph Koster, who himself is working on a sandbox MMO couched in a metaverse, is back with another dev blog this...

Let's ignore the fact that "decentralization" is shorthand for pyramid scheme grift nowadays and think back to how the internet was once a very...

There are many MMOs of various designs working their way through the development process right now, but as we well know, not all of...

"My friends and I would skin someone alive for an SWG 2," an old Star Wars Galaxies player recently wrote on Reddit, and that...

Raph Koster is no stranger to talking about the concept of the metaverse - he's done it a couple of times already, trying to...

A while back, someone in our comments (I can't find it again, so I can't remember who!) dug up a quote from Raph Koster...

Raph Koster's Playable Worlds MMORPG has picked up two new executives today: Gordon Walton and Omar Abdelwahed. Walton will be immediately recognizable to modern MMO...

Earlier this week we reported on a big cash injection for Raph Koster's Playable Worlds, with the studio raising $25M in Series B funding...

Raph Koster's Playable Worlds is inching a little closer to a playable world thanks to another cash infusion. GIbiz reports that the company has raised...

"Metaverse." It's the one word that, apparently, drives game execs and investors into a babbling frenzy just seconds before they explode into venture capital...

If you're new to our genre, first of all welcome, and second of all you should be familiar with Dr. Richard A. Bartle, a...

This article is part three of a four-piece series on safety in Pokemon Go as well as other Niantic games. You can read all...