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[AL:Rift]Official Site: RIFT
Studio: Trion Worlds
Launch Date: March 1, 2011
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

Black Desert merges silver storage on console, adds individual war rewards for PC, tweaks Bell of Aal on mobile

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This week has once more seen all three variants of Black Desert get their own individual updates, which means another three paragraphs of condensed...

Gamigo shuffles out RIFT’s old Hellbugs event for the Lunar New Year weekend

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Gamigo's been a bit of a mess the last couple of months, and by all accounts RIFT's last community manager was let go earlier...

Fractured should be back in February as Gamigo shrinks to just a quarter of its 2020 portfolio

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Last month, Gamigo suffered a round of layoffs, axed multiple MMOs (dispatching them to other publishers), and stealth-deleted Fractured from its website - Fractured,...
Wheeeee

Fractured Online returns to closed development over ‘platform troubles’

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Over the course of this week, we've been covering the ongoing Gamigo clownshow: The company suffered layoffs it didn't disclose, which took out the...

Fractured vanishes from Gamigo’s site, Fawkes Games opens a weird website

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Yesterday, we covered the distressing news that Gamigo had suffered layoffs - including the loss of RIFT's last remaining community manager, which is already...

Gamigo transfers publishing of Aura Kingdom, Grand Fantasia, Shaiya, and Last Chaos amid layoffs and Aeria portal closure

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It just wouldn't seem right to end the year without watching Gamigo light itself on fire, now would it? Fortunately, the company has indulged...

Old School RuneScape layers on new features for speedrunning worlds and applies the last of Poll 77’s updates

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This week has brought some new goodies to the speedrunning worlds of Old School RuneScape. Specifically, two new quest options are moving from "beta"...

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have gotten too grim and dark?

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While we expect grimdark themes in certain MMOs -- such as Secret World, Mad World, or Star Stable -- even the most light-hearted among...

The MOP Up: SWTOR spins a Bounty Hunter yarn

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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, it was nearly your bedtime and Star Wars: The Old Republic sat down next...
WHEEEEEEEEEEEE

MMO veteran Scott Hartsman discusses why overseas game publishing is so messy

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All right, so Blizzard and Netease are no longer working together for publishing the former studio's games in China. That's significant, but it should...

Gamigo is apparently opening new official forums for Trove and Fiesta Online after eight months of downtime

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Back in February we were all pretty surprised by a sudden shutdown of the official forums for Gamigo's suite of MMORPGs, effectively turning off...
Here I am, stuck in the middle with whatever this is.

TERA’s console version continues to see new weapons and dungeons in monthly updates

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We are now roughly four months removed from the sunsetting of TERA on PC, which leaves one question: How is the console version doing...

Choose My Adventure: Alone in the crowd of Lost Ark’s endgame

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Even at the max level in Lost Ark, I find that I'm still kind of playing alone. A little bit. Though I suppose I...

Old School RuneScape shares player reactions to Poll 77 as the Jagex launcher gets multi-account support

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Earlier this week Old School RuneScape opened up its 77th poll with the focus on making a host of quality-of-life features. As usual, the...

One Shots: Fresh from the portal of death

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When he stepped through the portal and toward a brand-new world, this Dwarf didn't realize that he'd be disintegrated -- and an identical copy...
Smoke on the water

Aion and RIFT mark the spooky season with Halloween sales and quests

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'Tis the season for the Pumpkin King to be doing what he does best, which is apparently spreading terror throughout Aion and adding a...
Well, all right.

The MOP Up: Embers Adrift’s soundtrack swells prior to launch

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With less than a week to go before Embers Adrift becomes the newest launched MMORPG on the block, the studio pointed out that its...

The MOP Up: Valheim comes to Microsoft’s store this month

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That kooky Norse survival sim Valheim is sending a raiding party to new shores -- in this case, to Microsoft itself. The company announced...
It's not nothing!

Massively Overthinking: Have you ever returned to an old MMO and fallen in love?

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Earlier this month, MOP's Eliot penned a WoW Factor that doesn't quote but certainly does evoke the ol' Heraclitus quote about how you cannot...

Black Desert Console brings quality-of-life adjustments to Node and Conquest Wars

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Taking part in the Node and Conquest Wars of Black Desert on console should hopefully be a nicer experience overall thanks to this week's...

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