rift

[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

RIFT’s 3.2 Echoes of Madness patch is now available

Jef Reahard - April 15, 2015 9

Trion wants you to know that RIFT's 3.2 patch is officially live. Echoes of Madness adds a 20-player Hammerknell raid and improvements to instant...

Trion is upping RIFT’s daily and weekly quest rewards in 3.2

Jef Reahard - April 14, 2015 17

Trion has posted a note on RIFT's official forums confirming that it will be upping the rewards for daily and weekly quests in tomorrow's...

RIFT’s Echoes of Madness update arrives on April 15

Justin Olivetti - April 12, 2015 18

RIFT players salivating for Update 3.2 won't have much longer to go: Trion Worlds announced that Echoes of Madness will be launching on Wednesday,...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you turn real money into MMO money

Eliot Lefebvre - April 9, 2015 56

Two days ago, World of Warcraft launched the WoW Token service, which will kill the game forever. It thus joins the list of every...

Preview RIFT’s player dimensions made with the Anywhere key

Eliot Lefebvre - April 9, 2015 24

Player housing sometimes is difficult to get a handle on. When given an infinite canvas, some players don't know what to do with all...

Here’s how to jury-rig a VR alternative for Elite: Dangerous

Justin Olivetti - April 8, 2015 38

If you've had dreams of flying spaceships in the third dimension but were too poor to afford an Oculus Rift, then one clever gamer...

What's that saying about diving into the past because the present is less interesting?

RIFT chronicles the remaking of the Hammerknell raid

Eliot Lefebvre - April 7, 2015 8

If you came into RIFT late in its life cycle, you missed Hammerknell. If you weren't raiding when Hammerknell was super relevant to the...

The Daily Grind: Do you ever want to change your character’s race?

Justin Olivetti - April 4, 2015 95

We all whine and complain about MMO cash shop offerings, but you know what's one item that I'm always glad to see? A race...

The Soapbox: The misguided quest for MMO stickiness

Tyler F.M. Edwards - April 3, 2015 58

This guest Soapbox was originally commissioned in 2015 through Massively Overpowered's Kickstarter campaign and is authored by Tyler F.M. Edwards, who blogs at www.superior-realities.com....

RIFT turns a raid into an instant adventure playground

Justin Olivetti - April 3, 2015 25

Raids are usually the purview of, y'know, raiders in MMOs, which is unfortunate as much of the game's population won't get to see all...

Cabal II reveals its ‘Abysmo’ unique dungeon system

Bree Royce - April 2, 2015 29

You can color us surprised at the response to Cabal II, ESTSoft's inbound action MMO, but fortunately North American gamers won't have to wait much longer...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 8

Justin Olivetti - March 31, 2015 41

Justin and Bree discuss Crowfall, Skyforge, LOTRO, Dungeon Fighter Online, Pillars of Eternity, EverQuest's progression server, and wardrobe systems in WildStar, RIFT, and SWTOR, with mailbag questions on the MMORTS genre and how F2P cheapens gameplay.