rich vogel
The Game Archaeologist: How Ultima Online got made
You know how there’s that yokel in every global chat channel that likes to troll players by claiming that World of Warcraft was the...
GDC 2021: Star Wars Galaxies was a complex game of corporate greed and fan love
It was an MMO built in about three years, with a miserable launch, a depressing churn rate, and the most infamous patch in all...
MMO Business Roundup: FIFA lockboxes, anti-swatting policy, Fortnite on SNL, Free Guy, UO postmortem
Whenever our newsroom gets overloaded with weird industry-related articles that nobody feels like writing, another edition of the MMO Business Roundup gets its wings!
FIFA...
New Ultima Online book gathers developer and player interviews to document oral history
Old-school MMORPG players, heads-up for you: If you're a fan of Ultima Online or wanted to hear more about the seminal MMORPG after reading...
GDC 2018: Ultima Online post-mortem with Richard Garriott, Starr Long, Raph Koster, and Rich Vogel
Plenty of panels at GDC are recorded and uploaded to the internet weeks after the event, including this one. It's not quite the same...
The MOP Up: Monster Hunter World’s Tokyo reveals (September 24, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
The Game Archaeologist: Meridian 59
A colony founded through a magical nexus, Meridian 59 had it all going on -- until, that is, the portal to the colony collapsed...
