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Well now things just got interesting over in the land of Kickstarted Crowfall. ArtCraft announced this morning that it's spinning off a "new division" called...

We've got some MMO industry topics you shouldn't miss, so welcome back to our MMO business roundup! • Last week, Pokemon Go company Niantic previewed...

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,...

Automaton Games CEO James Thompson came along with Improbable, Bill Roper, and Mavericks to this year's E3, where I got a second chance to...

A proposed law that's making its way through the European Union's legislative bodies has both players and studios worried that a wave of oppressive...

I was a wide-eyed, naive kid when I first stepped into Ultima Online in 1997, and as it turns out, the developers were too. That's...

Guild Wars 2's recent renovation of underwater combat has brought back some interest to this oft-neglected sphere of gameplay. Inventory Full's Bhagpuss used this...

We've all been there. We're playing our favorite MMORPG and then self-appointed professors of game history start arguing in world chat about firsts --...

I'd like to think that I'm kind of a healthy gamer. While MMOs take a lot of time, the nice thing is that their...

With Project Gorgon now out on Steam early access, many first-time visitors to this strange game are feeling out the world and its systems....

If we judged MMOs by their numbers alone -- and I'm not suggesting we do so -- then the original Lineage would be the...

Long after players had tried and moved on from the gravity-defying Lawbreakers, its studio has conceded defeat. Boss Key Productions put out a statement today...

It's no surprise that Ready Player One was constantly being referenced at GDC 2018, especially in VR, AR, and MMO panels. It's not just because of...

The plot of the novel and upcoming film Ready Player One is that you can win total control of a virtual world by having...

Plenty of panels at GDC are recorded and uploaded to the internet weeks after the event, including this one. It's not quite the same...

One thing I love about GDC compared to other conventions I cover is how many actual developers I get to talk to, especially without...

Can you smell it? The sweet scent of spring is in the air -- and free-to-play trials as well! Ultima Online is on the...

It began with an exploitable glitch. It exploded into an uncontained nightmare of death. It established a meme as strong as Leeroy Jenkins. It...

Let us make an already interesting MMO news day a bit more so, shall we? How about the introduction of a brand-new, full-fledged MMORPG...

It's a no-brainer that a lot of your MMO audience is going to want to create good-looking, attractive, and physically fit characters. But if...