retro
Trove’s newest patch reworks the Lunar Lancer and adds new dungeons and gear styles
Back when I was exploring Trove for Choose My Adventure, I had a lot of love for the Lunar Lancer, finding it an extremely...
The Game Archaeologist: Kingdom of Loathing
It is, in so many ways, the antithesis of a modern MMORPG. It has crude stick figure drawings instead of lush 3-D graphics. It...
Gamigo’s charity project planted 200K trees with player donations – now that promo is permanent
If you can somehow remember early 2020 - and I know, it's a painful ask - then you might remember that Gamigo began a...
‘Brutal’ MMO Valorbound explains that it’s really about friendship and flexible play sessions
Back in June, we introduced a new MMO project to you called Valorbound, which sought to set itself apart from the pack by being...
2-D retro MMO Mirage Realms is once again under heavy development
Back in 2016 the 2-D retro-styled MMO Mirage Realms crossed our notice; it's a single person project that sought to take an old school...
The Game Archaeologist: Tanarus, Sony Online Entertainment’s first online game
While EverQuest is perhaps thought of as Sony Online Entertainment's first online game, the truth of history tells us differently. Just as how Mythic...
Minecraft Dungeons is now available on Steam
Who wants to play Minecraft Dungeons on the PC but doesn't want to go through the Windows store in any way? The latter part of...
Trove asks players to side with fae or undead in latest event, releases the Bard class to Xbox and PlayStation
If you had to choose between undead horrors or trickster faefolk, which would you go for? That's the question being asked of Trove players...
Minecraft mod Mammoth is meant to allow more than 1000 players to play together
We're probably not going to blow anyone's mind with this revelation, but here it is: Making a lag-free environment for a bunch of people...
Nightmare is a new F2P pixelart MMORPG that’s launched on Steam today
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the launch of a new MMORPG! We're talking about Nightmare, a new open-world retro pixelart MMO from the indie...
The Game Archaeologist: SOE’s many MMO spin-off digital card games
One thing that I deeply admired about old Sony Online Entertainment was that it strove to experiment, innovate, and take risks. Sometimes those special...
Global Chat: Returning to Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2's new (old) leadership, uptick in communication, and upcoming expansion have a lot of MMO players returning to the game lately --...
Massively Overthinking: MMO ideas that were ahead of their time
I'm gonna say something wild right now: In some ways, CliffyB was ahead of his time. My husband and I came to this realization...
Trove’s latest PC patch adds ‘Depth Stepper’ gates to elite delves
Gamigo has rolled out a fresh content patch for Trove, at least for PC. The studio's calling it the Depth Stepper update. What the...
Choose My Adventure: Club Worlds are the pinnacle of player creativity in Trove
Homestead who? Dungeons what? Player-made items? Don’t need ‘em. The pinnacle of player creativity in Trove, without any peer or equal, is the Club...
The Game Archaeologist: Jeff Butler on EverQuest, EverQuest Next, and Vanguard
As an MMO historian, I have to applaud the work of former SOE developer Shawn Lord in his huge interview series with the people...
South Korea plans to abandon its 10-year-old ‘Cinderella law’ gaming curfew for kids
If you can stretch your brain back a decade, you might remember a flurry of articles in the western press about a gaming curfew...
Choose My Adventure: A quick spot of building and crafting in Trove
I have to admit, this one didn't take long at all to get through. I sort of assumed that building things in Trove was...
Global Chat: Hitting that endgame wall in MMOs
MMO blogger Digital Visceral recently wrote about a situation that many of us encounter in our games: Hitting that max level and feeling at...
Choose My Adventure: Back to the basic joys of dungeon running in Trove
This is way more like it.
The bare bones, basic, simple delight of Trove continues to be running around the open world, heading to whatever...
