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The studio behind Albion Online.

Global Chat: World of Warcraft’s wild frontier

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How is World of Warcraft like the wild west of American history and legend? Something about Barrens chat might come to mind, but blog...

Albion Online wings a week of extra time at players for DDOS disruptions

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Albion Online emerges this week extremely battered and bruised after a prolonged series of DDOS attacks against the game and even demands for ransom...

Albion Online offers proof that it is still being DDOSed by RMT blackmailers

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It's hard not to feel sorry for Albion Online. As we've been reporting, the newbie sandbox has been absolutely plagued by a long series of nasty...

Albion Online’s DDOS blackmail saga continues

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I've more than once joked with our writers and readers that Massively OP is not an uptime monitor, but we're making a special exception...

Albion Online hit with ransom demand during weekend DDOS outages

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On Saturday, we reported on a series of nasty DDOS attacks on the newly launched PvP sandbox Albion Online, which unfortunately continued throughout the...

Global Chat: Dipping into Albion Online

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Now that Albion Online has officially launched, what's the verdict? It's a little hard to get a feel for that, since I haven't seen...
Could be going better.

Albion Online updates players on server issues and offers compensation

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Every game is going to have issues when it launches; the good ones acknowledge those issues and keep players updated on the state of...
Now I am hidden in the woods until they find me

Albion Online is so popular it had to add emergency teleporters to its main hub

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People are playing Albion Online, which is a good thing for the game. However, it's less good when Caerleon has more than a thousand...
ride the build train

Albion Online introduces its character builder

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Like any game with a surfeit of character build options, Albion Online can be a bit overwhelming at first. What are you supposed to...
fun fun fun

Albion Online is hitting login queues as Veteran players get to log in

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Launch is here for Albion Online and it's popular enough that there are queues. Yes, login queues are being login queues. According to the...
WE GO TOGETHER

Albion Online expands its launch rollout

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Some MMOs have launch days, but some MMOs are not Albion Online, which is claiming a good chunk of this week to officially release...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 127: EVE walks no more

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Justin and Bree discuss Secret World Legends, LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2, EVE, SWTOR, Black Desert, Albion, and Citadel, plus a mailbag question on class and character investment in MMORPGs, with a special interview segment featuring ARK: Survival Evolved composer Gareth Coker.

The Stream Team: Launch day adventures in Albion Online

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Today's the day Albion Online shuffles off its beta coil! Legendary founders pack and legendary starter pack owners get a headstart that started this...

Albion Online raised almost $10M, officially launches today

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If it seems as if you've been hearing about Albion Online for a long time, you're not wrong. In fact, the game has delayed...

Massively Overthinking: Consumer protections in the MMORPG industry

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Veteran Massively OP reader Miol says he's exhausted by a recent string of stories in which MMO companies screw gamers over, one after another:...

Albion Online devs apologize for starter pack snafu

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The Albion Online founder community has been none too pleased about Sandbox Interactive's original decision about what non-founders would get in their starter pack...

The Stream Team: Albion Online’s beta winds down

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It's been a long while since Massively OP's MJ has explored Albion Online, and she's eager to get back in before the beta doors...

Albion Online plans huge beta finale ahead of July 17 launch

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Albion Online is finally making the transition from beta to launch this month. Sandbox Interactive has posted a timeline of events leading up to...

Albion Online winds down beta, prepares for launch

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With 250,000 backers supporting it and a team of 50 working on it, Albion Online is just about ready for its prime time debut....
Really?

Here’s how Albion Online’s open-world raid bosses work

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In anticipation of the upcoming launch of Albion Online, Sandbox Interactive has posted a fresh dev blog on the big bads of the game,...

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