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Perfect Ten: The big book of MMORPG death mechanics
Video games will kill your characters. It's inevitable. I still faintly remember my younger brother's first video game death, when he ran full-tilt into...
Wanna feel old? Ultima Online launched 21 years ago today
Ultima Online is officially old enough to drink. It's older than I was when I first started playing it all those years ago!
Yep, the...
Ultima Online’s 101st update is rolling out as player-made castles are ported into the game
Ultima Online's publish 101 has begun rolling out to the first-wave production servers today, meaning the update will trickle out to the rest of...
Ultima Online’s 21st anniversary patch introduces astronomy to Britannia
Ultima Online's 21st birthday is creeping up on us here, which means the game is older than some of our readers and will soon...
Shroud of the Avatar player explains how to work the game’s new furniture dyes
There are inevitably going to be two different sorts of reaction to the new furniture you can dye in Shroud of the Avatar. One...
Shroud of the Avatar starts shipping its collector’s editions
Here's a welcome bit of news for those who have been waiting for their physical feelies from Shroud of the Avatar: Collector's Editions are...
Massively Overthinking: What’s your favorite MMORPG swag of all time?
In a conversation about the recent Starflight 3 Fig campaign - which you won't see covered here since it's not multiplayer, but let me...
Shroud of the Avatar previews player-made dungeons, launches Kickstarter for comic book
Shroud of the Avatar has never been bereft of interesting ideas or experimental initiatives. One of these is getting a live preview today with...
Leaderboard: Does an MMORPG’s publisher factor into whether you’ll play it?
I was genuinely surprised to see so many people flip out over August's reveal that Ashes of Creation will be using My.com as its...
Shroud of the Avatar expands dye palettes to more furniture in this week’s update
One of my first MMORPG memories revolves around my standing at Britain bank in Ultima Online, offering to dye people's clothes for gold -...
New World preview from Gamescom slips into the wild as Amazon announces alpha signups
The first previews of Amazon Game Studios' New World MMORPG are finally trickling in from Gamescom just as the wraps are coming off the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs are nearly different games with max settings or upgraded clients?
MOP reader Nibbana has a great question for The Daily Grind today. "So I just picked up Shadow in order to run my favorite...
Shroud of the Avatar teases Polynesian cosmetics, example player-built dungeons
Does Polynesian stuff make sense in Shroud of the Avatar? At this rate, may as well! The game's latest newsletter shows off some of...
One Shots: Supporting characters
When you look for famous characters in your MMO, you may be looking for someone complete different than the rest of the crowd.
Lt. Commander Hikari...
Functional music boxes are coming in Elder Scrolls Online’s Murkmire
One of my most beloved possessions in Ultima Online is my music box: I spent months, probably years, collecting each "track" to insert into...
Leaderboard: Must MMORPGs revolve around grouping to be MMORPGs?
It would be easy to dismiss Saga of Lucimia's pervasive "group-based or go home" ideas as mere rhetoric, but the reality is, there exists...
Take a peek at the development of Shroud of the Avatar’s player-designed dungeon system
Drama seems to plague Shroud of the Avatar, but if you can look past it, there's some fun innovation going on inside Portalarium in...
Massively Overthinking: Should MMORPGs incentivize exploration – and how?
Our Daily Grind on exploration last week sparked an intriguing follow-up from MOP reader Miol.
"When asking about sightseeing and exploration in MMORPGs, you also...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO features that deserve widespread adaptation
You know what gets me excited about upcoming MMOs? It's certainly not the list of expected systems and features that have since become standard...
The Stream Team: Shroud of the Avatar’s Shooter Jennings album release party
Have you ever attended an album release party? You can in Shroud of the Avatar! Shooter Jennings, whose music is in game, has an...
