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Gamigo’s forums are down without explanation or ETA, affecting RIFT, Fiesta, Trove, and more
Hello everybody! It's RIFT's Fail Whale here to tell you of another little "oopsie" that's happening in Gamigo's neck of the woods! Apparently all...
The Game Archaeologist: The history of Hi-Rez’s Global Agenda
This past week, former Global Agenda players woke up to a surprising reality: Their game, which went offline in 2018, suddenly was back. Hi-Rez...
MMO Business Roundup: Unionbusting, Kakao, sportswashing, DDOS attacks, plagiarism, and PUBG
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO- and MMO-adjacent industry news. I'm sorry.
Raven Software: The internal Activision studio that saw first a strike and...
Gamigo launches a new department and plans new acquisitions to increase its publishing efforts
It would seem that Gamigo is intent on making the publishing arm of its business that much stronger in 2022. The company, which already...
GDC’s State of the Game Industry: NFTs, the metaverse, and more than half of game devs want to unionize
Ahead of the annual Game Developers Conference, GDC organizers poll industry workers and release it all in a state-of-the-industry wrapper, which has landed in...
The Game Archaeologist: Talking 25-year-old Tibia with CipSoft
It's not every MMORPG that can boast that it started back in the late '90s and is still going strong even today. However, Tibia...
The Stream Team: Ready for Trove’s Renewus 2022
New Year's Eve may have a single ball drop, but Trove's Renewus has a bunch of bouncy balls that keep dropping! Even better, Massively...
The Stream Team: Planning on some pixelated piracy in Plunder Panic
When Plunder Panic was brought to our attention, MOP's Chris was almost immediately intrigued by the whole thing. Retro-style arcade gaming? 2-D sprite graphics?...
Plunder Panic is a 6v6 action arcade title where 2-D pirates fight over different objectives
There are two things that immediately caught my interest when I saw the multiplayer arcade title of Plunder Panic cross our news desk: one,...
Trove’s New Year’s event, Renewus, is live as of today
MMORPGs do not get enough New Year events in my estimation, but Gamigo's Trove is making one happen. It's called Renewus, and it's on...
Diablo III’s Darkening of Tristram retro dungeon is live
It is time. You've put it off for far too long, and now the forces of hell are gathering for an all-out assault. The...
The Game Archaeologist: The Blizzard Real ID fiasco of 2010
As we come off a year when Blizzard Entertainment's seedy underbelly of scandals and coverups was exposed, I thought it might be worth risking...
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2021
It’s been quite a year of Choose My Adventure columns, hasn’t it? We did a pretty good random skip around of different games, in...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v5.0
It has been another thrilling year of exploring the relatively unknown or forgotten lands of MMORPG history here in The Game Archaeologist. From projects...
The Stream Team: Trimming tree dungeons in Trove’s Snowfest
Christmas is almost upon us, but Massively OP's MJ can't wait any longer! This year, she's diving into Trove's Snowfest a couple of days...
TERA Console’s upcoming battle pass is full of adorable alien invaders
They come to Arborea from a distant planet seeking one thing: to become skins for the heroes of the realm to wear. It's the...
Trove’s Snowfest includes new questline, dungeons, and a winter bomber royal mode
Snowfest is on in Gamigo's voxelbox Trove this week through December 28th, simultaneously on PC and console. Players can get to the Hub and...
The MOP Up: Trove’s polished paragon paradise
Trove is making sure that its players have plenty to do this season thanks to a Polished Paragon system. This patch came out on...
The Game Archaeologist: Hero101, the lost KingsIsle superhero MMO
You do get the sense that KingsIsle once had very grand plans for what is called its "101 Universe." After Wizard101 came out to...
Fallout 76 offers a peek at new rewards and allies coming in Season 7 on December 8
Fallout 76 will be all about the Night of the Moth on Wednesday, December 8th, but it will also be all about Season 7,...
