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And that's a wrap on this year in history! While everyone says farewell to 2022, here at TGA we're always looking way back at...

I might be biased - by which I mean I am definitely biased - but 2022 was a year of big stories and big...

All right, 2022, you are officially no longer allowed to surprise us any more because we're doing the end-of-year thing now and that means...

Catnip Games is still recovering from Shroud of the Avatar's disastrous Release 106 update, but the team is reportedly in the "home stretch" of...

Over the course of October, we've been chronicling Shroud of the Avatar's problem-laden launch of Release 106. The update had technical issues that kept...

I know for a fact that I've already made the joke at this point about how Babylon's Fall just straight-up Babylon Fell, but the...

I've gone on record multiple times to state that when you get right down to it, MMOs look pretty darn complicated. There are a...

Last week in The Game Archaeologist, we traced the history of Ultima Online’s origin, development, and testing -- not to mention one pesky in-game...

A thought occurred to me the other day regarding World of Warcraft and the way that it deformed the MMO industry: People who are...

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...

You may remember that space tourist Richard Garriott, fresh off the utter collapse of Shroud of the Avatar, had threatened us all with another...

Last week saw Shroud of the Avatar fire up another livestream featuring several of the devs and Richard Garriott in attendance, and most of...

Here's an interesting point that's worth considering: For all the talk about cryptocurrencies, NFTs, the metaverse, and other Web3 buzzwords being the future of...

Way back in 2017, we learned about a then-new SpatialOS MMORPG called SEED from Klang Games. SEED was supposed to be a colony-centered sandbox...

When news of the impending overturn of Roe v. Wade in the United first leaked in early May, so few games companies spoke up...

Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever been playing Shroud of the Avatar and found yourself with an inventory downright overflowing in...

Yesterday, our genre's core subreddit floated a poll to subbers about whether or not crypto and NFT game threads should be characterized as scammy...

In a thought-provoking essay, MMO blog Parallel Context wrestled with the question, "Who gets to decide what is fun in multiplayer games?" This is...

Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV 6.1 and housing issues, Elder Scrolls Online High Isle, RIFT's update, DDO's cat people, and Richard Garriott's NFT project, with adventures in LOTRO, ESO, DDO, No Man's Sky, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on FFXIV's adventure plates.

Richard Garriott has been to space. I'm going to repeat that a lot for emphasis, just because I feel like it's important. Richard Garriott...