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MMO Business Roundup: Microsoft’s ZeniMax Vault, Square’s financials, and the Fortnite ‘scapegoat’ lawsuit
Welcome back to another happy fun roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
ZeniMax: Microsoft is apparently creating a subsidiary named Vault...
Gamigo unleashes Valentines events on ArcheAge, RIFT, Trove, and Defiance
Gamgio's got a fleet of Valentine's Day events stacked up for its MMORPGs. To wit:
ArcheAge invites you to "synthesize your love" with the...
A new version of the long-sunsetted MMORPG Shadowbane has landed on Steam
Shadowbane has had one of the strangest journeys of an MMORPG over the past two decades. Originally launched in the early 2000s, the PvP-centric...
Crowfall discusses tutorial progression and campaign scoring changes in latest livestream
The devs of Crowfall -- specifically J. Todd "Bono Glasses" Coleman and Thomas "Ultrabeard" Blair -- had a lot to talk about in a...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMO players secretly just want ‘another WoW’?
Last week, there was a provocative discussion on the MMORPG subreddit about the genre. I don't want to get tangled up in the whole...
Trove introduces Deep Dragon mounts to console players in latest update
If you're the sort of Trove console player who likes to chase hard-to-find materials to put together an extremely shiny mount, then you're going...
Massively Uplifting: 2021 begins with Trove’s trees, Warframe’s Tennobaum, and Star Trek Online’s Tribbles for charity
Ready or not, here 2021 comes! And that's a relief to many. It's no stretch to say that we want 2021 to be a...
Cubox is a blocky open-world MMORPG mixture of building, crafting, and fighting
What do you get when a game smashes together elements from Minecraft, Diablo, Tibia, and Don't Starve? You apparently get something like Cubox, at...
End-of-Year Eleven: The best-value MMOs at the start of 2021
What exactly is value, especially when it comes to MMOs? We all know what the word means, but the thing about "best value" is that...
Battle Bards Episode 185: Taking Flight
Flying has always been both beloved and controversial in MMORPGs, but no matter what your stance on it, at least you can agree that...
Into the Super-verse: Will we ever get a Marvel MMORPG?
While DC Universe Online is coasting high on its success in Year Ten, it feels a shame that there's no Marvel MMORPG to match...
Crowfall seeks to make attributes more meaningful and customizable in its next update
Strength. Dexterity. Constitution. We all know attributes like these are the hallmarks of RPG characters. Most of the time they're just numbers with varying...
Trove is celebrating Hug Day with a mini community giveaway
Apparently, this coming Thursday is National Hug Day, a holiday that we really can't celebrate with the gusto that it deserves for rather obvious...
Massively Overthinking: What MMO were you hoping to hear much more about this past year?
So 2020 wasn't exactly the year a lot of us probably thought it was going to be in early January. Every bit of our...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 304: League of MMORPGs
Justin and Bree discuss Riot's new MMO, RuneScape, Neverwinter, Crowfall, and Path of Exile, with adventures in Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft, Torchlight II, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on losing hype and legal complexity in MMOs.
Lord of the Rings Online’s new expansion bundle smashes its huge barrier to entry
Lord of the Rings Online had one heck of a 2020, in all the ways you're thinking: It stole players' hearts by giving away...
The Game Archaeologist: Free Realms
Its very name was a declaration of rebellion against the status quo. In an era that had yet to shift from a subscription-only model...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2021
Welcome to 2021, folks. It's not even going to have to try all that hard to be better than 2020!
For our first official Massively...
Crowfall’s first beta patch of 2021 includes a revamped leveling system
As the crow flies into 2021, it sees a glorious feast before it -- a feast full of downed players, beta testing, and... could...
Minecraft Earth is sunsetting in June due to the inability for people to play in-person together
With global lockdown restrictions seemingly on the road to getting worse and not better due to the pandemic and the events of the past...
