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How the Drynch stole SkySaga’s Christmas
Oh that dastardly Drynch! SkySaga isn't even officially released, yet its Midwinter holiday has come under siege by the ever-grumpy Drynch.
"The Drynch has stolen...
Trove soft-launches with PlayStation 4 and Xbox One console open betas today
The mass-movement of MMORPGs to console platforms that's pervaded 2016 continues today with the launch of Trove's PlayStation 4 and Xbox One open betas...
Trove launches on the PlayStation 4 this week
While Trion Worlds announced earlier this year that its sandbox Trove would be coming to consoles by the end of 2016, the studio demurred...
Trove raises the roof on its console release party
At Trove's house, the party never stops. Well, to be more accurate, it just goes on for a very long time.
Back in early November,...
The Game Archaeologist: A talk with the man behind EQOA’s revival project
This past week we reported on an ongoing attempt by a small group of faithful EverQuest Online Adventure fans to bring back the MMO...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG stories of 2016
As we start to come to grips with the fact that we will be turning over the calendar into 2017 in one short month,...
The Game Archaeologist: EA’s Majestic
"This is not a game. Or is it?"
Conspiracy theories and paranoia were hot with pop culture in the 1990s, largely thanks to movies like...
The Stream Team: Taste-testing Trove’s Turkeytopia
Massively OP's MJ loves turkey, and rumor has it she'll have more turkey than she can handle in Trove. Hopefully that includes the mount...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2016
As you're gobble, gobbling up food today, rooting for your favorite football team, and enduring the uncomfortable political conversations at the dinner table, you...
Techno-turkeys invade Trove
You gotta love Trove: The game has absolutely no reservations about being odd in the name of fun, nor hesitations that adding, say, a...
The Game Archaeologist: Mark Jacobs on Mythic’s early online games, part 2
We're back with our second part of an interview retrospective of Mythic Entertainment's early online games with CSE's Mark Jacobs. Last week, we talked...
Trove throws community party to celebrate console’s unknown launch
Hey everyone! Trove is coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this fall! When? Um... look over there! It's a party! Stop asking questions!
Indeed,...
The Game Archaeologist: Mark Jacobs on Mythic’s early online games, part 1
When you bring up the name "Mythic Entertainment," chances are that most gamers are going to immediately think of the studio's two major MMOs,...
Trove’s underwater dragon is a rare quarry worth hunting
Only in MMOs will killing a dragon net you a dragon. Such are the mysterious and physics-bending ways of the loot table.
For example, Trove...
The Daily Grind: Are real screenshots critical to your MMO purchases?
Last week, Steam told developers that it will be cracking down on "bullshots" -- images that don't actually depict the game they're supposed to...
BlizzCon 2016: Diablo III’s Necromancer class and classic Diablo experience
If you missed the BlizzCon liveblog (or fell asleep before the ending), you missed the best part and the biggest cheers: Blizzard announced big...
Cheers to the MMORPG studios supporting Extra Life this weekend
Extra Life is kicking off this weekend! The charity group has been organizing game developers and players alike in an annual gaming marathon for...
The Game Archaeologist: Six Halloween holidays from buried MMOs
There are two things to know about Halloween and MMOs. The first is that just about every online game in the known universe puts...
Superdata’s September report shows Destiny, WoW, GW2, SWTOR, and TERA doing well
Superdata's September games market report is up, and the console revenue rankings have a new old king: Destiny. Yes, Destiny has returned to the...
Anarchy Online says that it is coming to Steam ‘soon’
One of the oldest sci-fi MMORPGs looks like it will soon become one of the newest members of the Steam club. On the official...
