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Perfect Ten: Time travel in MMORPGs
Over the years, I've been fascinated with the concept of time in MMORPGs. It's one of those things that developers probably don't want you...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 113: Avatar vs. toon
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Trove, LOTRO, TERA, Elite, WoW, Star Citizen, and WildStar, with a mailbag question on MMORPG midcore accessibility.
RIFT, Trove, and ArcheAge start accepting Razer zGold
There's a new way to pay in Trion Worlds' games, and that way is Razer zGold.
Trion announced this week that all of its games,...
Trove’s 2017 patches will catch console up to PC, add sub-classes for everyone
Trove is in the midst of a changing of the guard at Trion, as Producer Andrew "Avarem" Krausnick hands over the reins to his...
EVE Fanfest 2017: Hands-on with competitive VR sports game Sparc
At the end of February, CCP Games announced a new game that has nothing to do with EVE Online or even the EVE IP. Named Sparc,...
One Shots: Eight-bit vista
One of my favorite MMO April Fools of all time is Guild Wars 2's playable Super Adventure Box. It's so brilliantly designed and executed...
WeMade Entertainment invests in ArcheAge’s XLGAMES
XLGAMES has received a vote of confidence in the form of some welcome investment from fellow Korean developer (and publisher) WeMade Entertainment. MMO Culture...
EVE Fanfest 2017: EVE Valkyrie adds atmospheric flight in Groundrush, coming April 11th
Virtual reality dogfighter EVE: Valkyrie has taken centre stage in the emerging VR landscape, growing from a tech demo developed by some devs at CCP Games...
Albion Online has huge plans for its player-run economy, including all-crafted drops
Albion Online isn't letting up on the updates in the window of time from now to July when it launches for real, nope. Today,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 111: Secret World’s Destiny
Justin and Bree discuss The Secret World, City of Heroes vs. MxM, Paragon Chat, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2 SAB, April Fools' Day, WoW 7.2, Destiny 2, and Club Penguin, with reader mail on Funcom and MMO guilds.
RIFT’s sixth Carnival of the Ascended has begun
Busy playing RIFT's Forged in Flame update? Bet you forgot all about the anniversary festival known as Carnival of the Ascended. Trion did! Well,...
RIFT’s Forged in Flame update today will treat endgamers to new content, LFR tools
MMORPG players can use some happy news today, yeah? How about this: RIFT's Forged in Flame patch is officially live.
The core of the update...
ArcheAge begins Lantern Festival, ignites currency controversy
Over on the ArcheAge Reddit, people are grumpy. No, stay with me; they might have a point here. Trion kicked off an odd sort...
The Daily Grind: What anticipated MMO expansion turned out to be a disappointment?
It's with a heavy heart that I have to admit that RIFT: Starfall Prophecy kind of let me down. I was really, genuinely looking...
The Game Archaeologist: How DikuMUD shaped modern MMOs
Even though there are hundreds and thousands of MMOs spanning several decades, only a small handful were so incredibly influential that they changed the...
RIFT acknowledges expansion issues, talks about new zone and challenge servers
If you felt let down by the execution of RIFT: Starfall Prophecy, you're not alone. In this week's producer's letter, Trion Worlds admits that...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 109: We are all Dragonborn
Justin and Bree discuss our PAX awards, Guild Wars 2, Wizard101, WoW, LOTRO, DDO, The Repopulation, EverQuest, Eternal Crusade, and Pathfinder, with mailbag questions on Funcom's mystery game and Landmark-like sandboxes.
Massively OP’s PAX East 2017 awards and best-in-show reader vote
We've finished rolling out all of our PAX East content this year, and we've put our MMORPG-addled noggins together to try to choose our...
Trion will gquit its old studio tonight, moves into new digs this weekend
You might not notice, since the servers are fine and customer service is operating from Austin, but Trion's Redwood Shores studio is packing up...
Albion Online AMA on pay-to-win, free trials, and global servers
Sandbox Interactive ran an AMA for its in-development indie MMO Albion Online on Reddit last night, covering everything from the game's business model to...
