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Global Chat: Getting a handle on Legends of Aria
One of the great benefits of reading the wealth of MMO blogs out there is that you can touch base on a huge variety...
The Game Archaeologist: Digging up the history of City of Heroes
For the longest time in the early 2000s, MMORPGs scared me off. They looked too obtuse, too grindy, too ugly, and too unapproachable for...
Shroud of the Avatar’s 56th update is live, with a big PvP update and bug clean-up
Shroud of the Avatar's 56th release is upon us, having been pushed live successfully yesterday. A big chunk of the update is necessary but...
Massively Overthinking: Random acts of MMORPG kindness
Last week, down in the comments of an innocuous post about gamers being nice in Fortnite, a couple of MOP commenters requested a column...
Perfect Ten: The best expansions for specific MMOs
Looking over the past two decades or so, MMORPGs have grown by leaps and bounds with regular releases, events, and (of course) expansion packs....
This week’s Shroud of the Avatar patch includes an R2-D2 lookalike in homage to Star Wars
Shroud of the Avatar's release 56 is coming on Thursday, which means Portalarium's latest newsletter includes recaps of some of the content the team's...
Ultima Online plans rentable storage vaults for F2P players, plus new castle and keep designs
With the game's 100th patch in the rear-view mirror, Ultima Online's developers are already hard at work on the 101st patch due out in...
The Game Archaeologist: Kesmai’s Air Warrior and Legends of Kesmai
Most studios would be overjoyed to have pioneered one significant advancement in video game history, but then again, most studios aren't Kesmai. While it's...
Shroud of the Avatar’s newsletter covers the mysterious comet and player-created dungeon tools
Strange sights abound in Shroud of the Avatar right now. "Astronomers across New Britannia have noted that the approaching comet has agitated the creatures...
Black Desert launches a cross-regional ‘Global Lab’ test server
So many games have test servers of one form or another that we seldom even need to spell out the acronym PTS - and...
Interview and excerpt: The ‘Braving Britannia’ book preserves Ultima Online’s oral history
Earlier this week, we wrote about the launch of a new book that's right up MMORPG fans' alley. Dubbed Braving Britannia: Tales of Life,...
New Ultima Online book gathers developer and player interviews to document oral history
Old-school MMORPG players, heads-up for you: If you're a fan of Ultima Online or wanted to hear more about the seminal MMORPG after reading...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 177: ArenaNet A-bomb
Justin and Bree discuss the Guild Wars 2 debacle, Trove, The Sims 3, Camelot Unchained, Warframe, Shroud of the Avatar, Temtem, Final Fantasy XIV, Defiance 2050, and Trion's Marvel Heroes promo, plus a mailbag entry on looter shooters as the future of MMORPGs.
Shroud of the Avatar opens up optional ‘rewards’ subs, stretch goal cash shop to fund episode 2
With release 55 now behind it, Portalarium is focused on the future of Shroud of the Avatar. Specifically, that means episode 2, which is...
Richard Garriott rejects idea that Shroud of the Avatar is a ‘flop’, says the game will run ‘forever’
Shroud of the Avatar has long been an odd bird in the MMORPG crowdfunding space. Driven by the eccentric Richard Garriott, it raised large...
The Stream Team: Celebrating freedom in Shroud of the Avatar
What better way to celebrate freedom than in a game that is all about freedom to do and create as you want? Shroud of...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG skill system that avoids the ‘illusion of choice’?
Over the weekend, my husband and I were chatting about playing on a Star Wars Galaxies emulator again, probably the Legends one that people...
The Game Archaeologist: Raph Koster on MUDs and Privateer Online
The release of Raph Koster's monster book of game essays, Postmortems, was of high interest to Bree and me for different reasons. For her,...
Shroud of the Avatar’s 55th release includes brewing and starter houses for everyone
Portalarium is shaking off its layoffs and plunging onward with the release of Shroud of the Avatar's 55th update. Release 55 should be live...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO debuts by year, 1997-2006
By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...
