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Perfect Ten: Endless dungeons in MMOs
Most MMO dungeons are normal songs. You start out and you have a pretty clear picture of the beginning, middle, and end; they don't...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 178: #womenarecosmetic
Justin and Bree discuss WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Wild West Online, Star Citizen, Defiance 2050, Rend, and Fractured, with a mailbag question on in-game conflict resolution and a special interview on Blaugust Reborn.
The Stream Team: Sunfest fun in Trove
Summer sun means Sunfest fun in Trove. For the rest of this week Trovians and Geodians alike can enjoy this seasonal festival, and Massively...
The Game Archaeologist: A history of EverQuest’s expansions
I don't know if EverQuest holds the crown title for the MMO with the most expansions, but I'm sure it's among the top three...
The Daily Grind: What exactly defines an ‘indie’ MMORPG studio?
Earlier this week, I happened to see a mainstream website refer to ArtCraft as an indie studio, and it jolted me. ArtCraft, as anybody...
Trove celebrates three years with the interplanetary Sunfest event
If you were looking for a reason to get back into Trove to check out Geode, this week is it. Trion's voxel sandbox is...
Crowfall explains its new Vivox chat integration
The chat system in Crowfall was developed in-house for chatting within the game, and it had only one problem insofar as it didn't actually...
Star Wars Galaxies book takes fans back to this late, great MMO
Unless you're willing to venture out onto the wild space of emulated servers, you won't be getting Star Wars Galaxies back. That doesn't mean...
Crowfall talks about test patch 5.7 and the horrors of zoning
The latest community Q&A video from Crowfall is actually not that at all. It's supposed to be that, of course, that's what it claims...
Perfect Ten: Best MMO debuts by year, 2007-2017
Continuing from my previous column that went back to 1997, I'm going to be running through the second decade of graphical MMORPG launches and...
Interview: ArtCraft’s J. Todd Coleman on prepping Crowfall’s Artisan Engine for the broader industry
Yesterday, Crowfall studio ArtCraft announced it was spinning off a brand-new company dubbed ArtCraft Technologies that would basically turn Crowfall's engine into a marketable...
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.
Crowfall studio ArtCraft spins off new company to license its MMORPG-oriented Artisan Engine
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...
The Stream Team: Trove celebrates three years!
It may be a Monday night, but it's a party night! Trove turned three years old today and Massively OP's MJ is ready to...
Trion Worlds offers free MMO goodies for Marvel Heroes refugees
Ever since Trion Worlds announced that it had snapped up all of the remaining assets from Gazillion and Marvel Heroes, we have wondered what...
Crowfall shows off a time-lapse wood elf painting
So yes, we're all sad that Crowfall is being delayed a little bit longer, but on the plus side one of the reasons for...
Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI in review and choosing our next MMO
Here's the weird part about this week's column: I'm going to tell you, in short, that Final Fantasy XI is still a good game...
Crowfall introduces mega deeds and panels for tricking out your Eternal Kingdom castles
Set aside your castles in the air: Crowfall's castles are built on solid ground. ArtCraft's most recent dev blog is all about them, or...
The Stream Team: Hunting for pets in Trove’s Geode
There's still much more to do in Trove's Geode! Massively OP's MJ feels like she has barely scratched the surface of this update (despite...
Online games are avenues for hate group recruitment, according to former white supremacist leader
Playing a game of linking awful online activities to white supremacist movements is like the worst possible variant of the old Six Degrees of...
