Official Site:Â The Crew
Studio:Â Ubisoft
Launch Date:Â December 2, 2014
Genre:Â Real-World Racing MMO
Business Model:Â B2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
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Massively Overthinking: Does the MMO genre have too many games for its own good?
Last month I saw a video from YouTuber Josh Strife Hayes with an eyebrow-raiser of a thesis: He essentially argues that we have too...
The Crew 2 is open for a free test drive this weekend
Do you remember The Crew 2? Are you currently playing The Crew 2? Because Ubisoft would like you to do so, and to that end the...
RIFT Prime character transfers were delayed over ‘unforeseen circumstances’ as Trove loses CM
When Gamigo announced that it was closing down RIFT Prime, the game's progression server, it told RIFT players that their characters would be safely...
Hyperspace Beacon: I wasn’t going to talk about Anthem, but I think I should
Like everyone else working in or around the gaming industry, I read Kotaku's Jason Schreier's exposé on BioWare's development of Anthem. And like many...
Torchlight Frontiers’ time-limited contracts are its version of seasons
The crew over at Echtra Games isn't hellbent on reinventing the MMOARPG format, but instead it is concentrating on taking what works in similar...
Battle Bards Episode 140: Piano piano!
It’s one of the most powerful and versatile of musical instruments, and now the piano is getting its own featured show here on Battle...
Hyperspace Beacon: The Star Wars MMOs and communities beyond SWTOR
Time flies: I am now coming up on nine years of covering Star Wars: The Old Republic professionally. Of course, I was a Star...
The Stream Team: Timber goes the ARK forest titan
Last time on Live and Die with Dinos, Massively OP's MJ experienced summoning the giant green forest Titan on ARK's Extinction map. Now, she...
Battle Bards Episode 137: League of Legends’ hero themes
What’s your hero’s theme? If you play League of Legends, you know the answer to that already, because every hero in that game has...
The Stream Team: Deep-diving ARK Extinction’s green cave, part II
Last week, Massively OP's MJ and the crew delved into ARK: Extinction's green cave. Except, it was eerily empty and quiet for most of...
Star Trek Online update brings Mirror Universe Tilly, free tardigrade pets, and better skin
You can't keep a bad captain down -- or an available voice actress who is bearing the sole burden of representing her entire TV...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 203: New year, same old loot
Justin, Bree, Eliot, and Chris team up for an end-of-the-year roundtable to recap our massive annual awards rollout, our holiday gaming fun, and the Atlas launch.
Midweek Mop Up: GTAO, Ubisoft, Path of Exile, Heroes & Generals, Foxhole, Vindictus, Crew 2, War of Rights, and more
It would not be unfair to say that this week has been one of the most news-heavy weeks of the year, to the point...
The Crew 2’s next update is literally about smashing cars into other cars, finally
You know, but for the fact that I've been working ahead on holiday recaps and awards and have seen The Crew 2 pop up...
Smed vows he’ll someday make a game akin to EverQuest Next
Earlier this week on the podcast, Justin and I were joking around about how one of our favorite fun things to write about is...
The Stream Team: Free flying in Star Citizen
With the free fly event this weekend, and the Expo is the place to be on Hurston. Massively OP's MJ and friends tried to...
The Stream Team: Enlisting some ARK enforcers
Massively OP's MJ has a tech stego and some monkeys, but she really wants her very own enforcer! So far it is the closest...
Guild Wars 2 dev explains the real cost of crunch to games and gamers, Rockstar Lincoln clarifies crunch policy
Rockstar's crunch problem and the ongoing industry discussion around games dev labor abuses don't appear to be dying down. Ahead of the weekend, Rockstar Lincoln...
Champions Online starts its four-week anniversary event
At one year shy of a full decade, Champions Online has defied all odds to become the longest-running superhero MMORPG on the planet. That...
Gamescom 2018: The Crew 2 shows off hovercraft fun
Ever since he was a young lad, Trab Gunderson has had only one dream: Racing hovercrafts around. Sadly, at age 14 he was diagnosed...
