[AL:Rift]Official Site:Â RIFT
Studio:Â Trion Worlds
Launch Date: March 1, 2011
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Black Desert revamps and shortens Savage Rift, implements offline leveling
Black Desert players are being treated to a big update this week featuring the revamp of Savage Rift that basically makes the PvE co-op...
Global Chat: Is it worth your time to alpha test MMOs?
Taugrim raises a very interesting question this week on his blog. Namely, is it really worth your time to alpha test MMOs these days?...
RIFT datamining discovers a new companion system
A brand-new feature has been datamined on RIFT's test server, with players trying to figure out what this system entails.
It's called Planar Disciples, perhaps...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO features that deserve widespread adaptation
You know what gets me excited about upcoming MMOs? It's certainly not the list of expected systems and features that have since become standard...
Global Chat: The ‘We Don’t Play World of Warcraft’ Club
What do you do when you don't play World of Warcraft but everyone else all around you does and won't stop talking about it...
Global Chat: Getting a handle on Legends of Aria
One of the great benefits of reading the wealth of MMO blogs out there is that you can touch base on a huge variety...
Massively Overthinking: Random acts of MMORPG kindness
Last week, down in the comments of an innocuous post about gamers being nice in Fortnite, a couple of MOP commenters requested a column...
RIFT opens the River of Souls raid for progression players
Another day, another step forward for RIFT's progression server. Players on the Prime shard have another challenge to fill their current endgame time, as...
The Daily Grind: Rank the top three housing MMOs ever made
WildStar. RIFT. EverQuest II.
If I had to choose three MMORPGs that contained the best housing systems and then rank them, that list up there...
RIFT hangs ten with this year’s Summerfest
When we have a winged, masked figure riding a surfboard through the air in an MMO, we are firmly through the looking glass without...
ArcheAge, Trove producers address Trion layoffs, tell players not to worry
Last week's Trion Worlds layoffs appeared to have hit ArcheAge particularly hard, with the loss of a well-known producer to the eliminated positions, on...
Choose My Adventure: Starting fresh in RIFT
When RIFT first came out, I had very low hopes for it. The game already was launching into a crowded field, and it was...
Fortnite rolls out season 5 as Epic Games retroactively grants modders a bigger profit cut
Fortnite's season 5 is live now with its all-new battle pass to turn your free-to-play experience into dress-up battle royale. We know that's what...
RIFT’s progression server moves on to Ember Isle, onslaughts, and planar attunement
It's a big step forward for RIFT's one and only progression server. Prime inhabitants can now move into the game's 1.6 Update with all of...
Perfect Ten: Best MMO debuts by year, 2007-2017
Continuing from my previous column that went back to 1997, I'm going to be running through the second decade of graphical MMORPG launches and...
Trion Worlds offers free MMO goodies for Marvel Heroes refugees
Ever since Trion Worlds announced that it had snapped up all of the remaining assets from Gazillion and Marvel Heroes, we have wondered what...
Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI in review and choosing our next MMO
Here's the weird part about this week's column: I'm going to tell you, in short, that Final Fantasy XI is still a good game...
Tamriel Infinium: All the lore you need to know for Elder Scrolls Online’s Wolfhunter DLC
Lycanthropy has been a part of the Elder Scrolls lore since Daggerfall, even if it did kind of skip Oblivion. Elder Scrolls Online introduces...
Global Chat: A starting point for WoW Classic
The recent announcement of WoW Classic's starting point -- Patch 1.12 -- started to make the prospect of this legacy server a lot more...
RIFT hands out free progression server vault space
Have you ever gotten excited about a game issue or MMO extended downtime because you know that there's a good chance that you will...
