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The Game Archaeologist: EverQuest II East
Publishing a video game globally is a monumental task, more so if it is a live online game such as what you'd find with...
Trove reaches second anniversary, gives away golden ticket chests
Happy second birthday, Trove! Here, have a slice of cake. It's somewhat pixelated and the frosting is made out of dirt, but we hear...
The Game Archaeologist: Where are all of the open-source MMOs?
Recently we had an interesting question come in from reader and Patron Rasmus Praestholm, who asked me to do a little investigating: "What (if...
Trove brings prehistoric fun to consoles
Dinos! Dinos! Dinos! Trove's anything-goes pop culture umbrella certainly has room enough for our prehistoric best friends, and today's Megalithic update brings plenty of...
The Game Archaeologist: Maze War, the first online multiplayer shooter
It is sometimes hard to know how far back to go when chronicling the history of early MMOs and their ancestors. After all, this...
Trove’s Megalithic update lands on PS4 and Xbox One June 27
Way back in April, Trion teased a "mega" 2017 update for Trove intended to bring the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game...
Trove activates all daily bonuses for week-long event
Sometimes you just got to get a little nuts, you know? Go crazy and flip on all of the switches, activate every bonus event,...
The ladybugs of Trove invade the game’s console versions
The ladybugs looked so cute and unassuming in Trove that we never thought they would attack. When they struck, the terror was... well, not...
One Shots: Walk of shame
From Zulika Mi-Nam's Adventures in Tale of Toast:
Log into a game to do some play testing.
"Hey, look at these cutsie graphics and...
The Game Archaeologist: Phantasy Star Online
The Dreamcast was a brief but shining aberration in the gaming world. Coming along years after Sega had fallen out of its position as...
EverEmber returns as a much larger MMOARPG
Chances are that there is probably no one among our readers who remembers EverEmber Online, a retro-themed MMO that released at the end of...
The Game Archaeologist: How Sceptre of Goth shaped the MMO industry
When it comes to text-based MMOs created in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, the sheer number of them would blot out the sky. There...
Portal Knights launches across multiple platforms
It's full steam ahead for Portal Knights, which launched yesterday on Steam, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. For those wondering if early access periods...
Win That War hauls out a ‘truly massive scale RTS”
Remember when real-time strategy games were all the rage and not games where you did weird things with dino poop to stay alive? Insane...
Warframe developer confirms retro hybrid shooter Keystone
Warframe has been positively kicking ass this past year, doing what MMOs seldom do: continue breaking its own concurrency records four years in. So...
Wynncraft fashioned a free MMO out of Minecraft
Love MMOs? Have a hankering for Minecraft? Your desire for the two aren't mutually exclusive in the case of Wynncraft!
If you haven't heard about...
DCUO preps WWII-era Age of Justice update for June
There's some positive word-of-mouth bubbling out about this summer's Wonder Woman feature film, which, if true, would be a boon to the bruised DC movie...
The Game Archaeologist: When Hellgate London got Flagshipped
It seems that it really wasn't too long ago that I was filling in the time between night classes by boning up on video...
NetEase has a smashing good first quarter 2017 thanks to mobile sales and Hearthstone
Chinese operator, developer, and publisher NetEase posted its Q1 2017 financial report this week, and the news is quite good for the company. NetEase...
Broke Protocol is Minecraft meets Grand Theft Auto
If you took Grand Theft Auto and molded it into the visual style of Minecraft, would it have crowd appeal? Cylinder Studios sure hopes...
