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Interview: Talking Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons’ soundtrack with lead composer Maclaine Diemer
Maclaine Diemer is the long-time lead composer for Guild Wars 2, with soundtrack credits going as far back as the very first Living World...
MGI Q4 2021: Gamigo’s parent company guns for mobile, takes over Wizard101 EU publishing, ignores RIFT
Gamigo's parent company, Media and Games Invest SE aka MGI, released its Q4 2021 financials to investors this week, reporting a 65% revenue bump...
Trove’s latest patch completely revamps the Shadow Hunter and tweaks combat to boot
Gamigo's big Trove patch officially went live on PC yesterday, headlined by a much-needed revamp of the Shadow Hunter class.
"When going into a revamp...
Trove holds contests to mark ‘twosday’, prepares for a class changing update on February 23
Tomorrow is Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022, or 2/22/22 for those who want to sound like an automatic laser rifle. This "twosday" date is apparently...
The Game Archaeologist: Dark Eyes, a forgotten Japanese MMO from 1999
For a country that was the epicenter of video games (and, in many ways, still is), Japan never quite latched onto the MMORPG genre...
Massively Uplifting: MMOs show true love through helping kids, planting trees
Attitudes and thoughts about Valentine's Day vary widely, from crass commercialism to idyllic romanticism to complete indifference. But the fact remains that the spirit...
Not So Massively: The Anacrusis is nowhere near ready for launch
The Anacrusis is a four-player co-op shooter intended to be a spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead. I was never a particularly big L4D...
Global Chat: Is free-to-play in MMOs universally awful?
I think a lot of us sport a wide range of opinions on free-to-play business models, particularly depending on the way it's applied to...
Trove’s Heckbugs in Love Valentine’s event has returned through February 22
Trove is once again joining in the Valentine's day MMO spirit, though it's a little bit on the sad side this year, seeing the...
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...
