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One Shots: Zen and the art of motorcycle flying
As we all well know, motorcycles are among the safest forms of transportation ever devised. This is especially true if you careen off-road without...
The Stream Team: Playing cowasaurs and dinoboys with Trove
Ah, the memories of playing cowasaurs and dinoboys when we're young. Wait... that doesn't sound right. But it is right right now in Trove!...
Trove’s Cowasaurs and Dinoboys event sees dinosaurs and cowboys try to encourage each other
Dinosaurs and cowboys would already make strange bedfellows, but what if both factions were trying to encourage people that the opposite side is awesome?...
Monumental, the studio that bought Crowfall, just bought Boundless too
To make some sense of this press release and why it matters to MMO fans, we're going to have to throw it back to...
The Game Archaeologist: The legacy of Ultima Online
Last week in The Game Archaeologist, we traced the history of Ultima Online’s origin, development, and testing -- not to mention one pesky in-game...
NFT gaming consultant proposes conscripting poor gamers as MMO NPCs
In case you needed another reason to keep crypto out of gaming, a new article on Rest of World chronicles an NFT scheme in...
The Game Archaeologist: How Ultima Online got made
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...
Atomic Heart teases a Bioshock-like journey through an alternate USSR
In Atomic Heart, a new first-person shooter from Mundfish, the clock is rewound back to the 1950s and players are shuttled into an alternate...
Minecraft-powered MMORPG Wynncraft enters open beta for its 2.0 update before its full release
It's been five years since we peered in on Wynncraft, the MMORPG that runs on Minecraft (just in case any of the other voxelbox...
Global Chat: Will World of Warcraft ever give up its raiding fixation?
MMO blog Kaylriene posted a lengthy article recently examining the state of the non-raiding scene in World of Warcraft while comparing it to Blizzard's...
Massively Overthinking: The most unusual subscriptions in the MMO space
A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, so long ago that I can't remember who or when, a listener asked us about unusual MMO...
Retro roguelike MMO Mythic delays launch to late September
Dungeon crawlers are going to have to assign a few more stat points to (P)atience if they were looking forward to dipping into the...
The Game Archaeologist: MegaWars, the Star Trek online sim from the ’70s
When we look at the early days of online computer gaming, it shouldn't be a surprise that the geeky crowd that was working on...
Trove’s Lunar Plunge brings back the battle against the minions of Q’bthulu until August 23
Eldritch horror that are boxy and colorful are still eldritch horrors, so players of Trove are going to want to perhaps handle the matter...
The Stream Team: Peeking in on the early access of retro-style survival RPG Tinkertown
We're back once again with another quick check of a developing multiplayer title! This time around we're getting a quick look into Tinkertown a...
The MOP Up: Trove’s Sunrise update arrives on consoles
Trove's new Solarian class is finally available to play on Xbox, Switch and PlayStation, as the Sunrise update landed on those consoles this past...
The Game Archaeologist: That time when EverQuest let you play as the monsters
It's a near-given that in every MMORPG, players assume the roles of heroes who are sent out to vanquish the evil, dark, or at...
Microsoft-owned Minecraft bans NFT and blockchain implementations over exclusivity, unreliability, and fraud
If you can't see the writing on the wall when it comes to blockchain shenanigans, you should probably get your eyesight checked out because...
The Game Archaeologist: The origins of Blizzard, Mythic, Funcom, SOE, and BioWare
A good origin story always captivates me, especially when it gives me a new perspective on something I've come to appreciate over the years....
Retro dungeon crawling MMO Mythic makes its free demo Mythic Origins fully available
Last month the MMO Mythic crossed our desk; it's a retro-styled roguelite MMO that promised an "infinite procedurally generated labyrinth" full of puzzles, monsters,...