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Crowfall studio ArtCraft spins off new company to license its MMORPG-oriented Artisan Engine

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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...

MMO business roundup: Virtual reality, Niantic, WoW emu hacking, and what Google’s up to

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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 Game Archaeologist: Raph Koster on MUDs and Privateer Online

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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,...

E3 2018: Hands-on with Mavericks, the MMO battle royale hybrid

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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...
Your approval fills me with shame.

EU’s Copyright Directive proposal has Second Life and Roblox players worried

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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...

‘Magic through serendipity’: Raph Koster on the glorious mess that was Ultima Online

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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...

Global Chat: Dipping back into MMO underwater combat

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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...

Perfect Ten: MMOs that claimed to be the first

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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 --...

The Soapbox: Three augmented reality game problems (most) MMOs don’t have – and one thing they do so much better

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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...

Global Chat: Giving Project Gorgon a try

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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....

The Game Archaeologist: Lineage

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If we judged MMOs by their numbers alone -- and I'm not suggesting we do so -- then the original Lineage would be the...
I Am Jack's Total Lack of Surprise

Boss Key mostly gives up on Lawbreakers, moves on to ‘passion project’

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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...

GDC 2018: Ready Player One Now, billion person gaming, and mitigating abuse

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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...
Ready player done.

Entropia Universe kicks off an event inspired by Ready Player One

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

GDC 2018: Ultima Online post-mortem with Richard Garriott, Starr Long, Raph Koster, and Rich Vogel

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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...
Surprised pikachu dot jpeg.

GDC 2018: The Legends of Aria devs talk closed beta, gankbox PvP, and the MMORPG genre

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

Ultima Online continues testing free-to-play patch

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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...

The Game Archaeologist: World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood pandemic

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

Sci-fi MMORPG Project C announced with Thief and Half-Life 2 devs at the helm

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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...
We're in it now, children.

Chronicles of Elyria isn’t afraid to enter the ugly zone of character creation

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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...

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