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Crowfall’s new hires bring studio to 45 people as ‘complete game loop’ testing is mapped out
Let's talk about money. Specifically, let's talk about Crowfall's money. ArtCraft is doing just that in a dev blog out today.
Referencing the $6M cash...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG for a trio?
I've been considering this question ever since my husband and I upgraded our six-year-old's Guild Wars 2 account with Path of Fire and we...
The Daily Grind: Do MMO daily login rewards work on you?
I've always wondered about this because the last few years, I've seemed impervious to the charms of daily login rewards. Even for the MMOs...
Snail Games introduces PixARK, heading to early access in March
So you're a Minecraft kind of soul. You like that sort-of-pixelish-but-not-really look. Your friend is an ARK: Survival Evolved junkie. She's more about dinosaurs...
Crowfall addresses randomness, streaking and deck-style random outcomes
How much time do you spend thinking about random chance? If you play video games, probably a fair amount. The designers working on Crowfall...
Crowfall pores over Patch 5.4 improvements
Crowfall's pre-alpha test is back in business, having restarted with a brand-new build on January 23rd. The team braved an ice storm to record...
Crowfall shows off the Assassin’s toxic skills
Nasty toxins, sneaky attacks, and underhanded tactics: If these things appeal to your style of play, then you're definitely going to want to check...
Magic: The Gathering Arena’s business model stands on a ‘simple idea’ of universal access
"We want everyone to be able to experience Magic: The Gathering."
Upon this "simple idea" Wizards of the Coast is building Magic: The Gathering Arena's...
Crowfall’s Raph Koster goes into insane depth on the cost of creating video games
If you have an exceptional memory, you might recall that a couple of months ago, Crowfall and Star Wars Galaxies designer Raph Koster wrote...
Lost in Crowfall’s alpha? There’s a video for that – three videos, in fact
If you're a Crowfall backer currently logging into the game's current test phase for the first time because you are too impatient to wait...
City of Titans drafts volunteer to build metro landmarks
Considering that it's City of Titans and not Prairies of Titans or Lonely Country Road of Titans, it's safe to assume that this indie...
Crowfall explains its fun-first class balancing philosophy
Earlier this week, ArtCraft posted up its monthly ACE Q&A for Crowfall, and there are some juicy nuggets to behold within! Design Lead Thomas...
Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones comes together in one of Crowfall’s races
Can't decide between your love of two popular geek fantasy franchises? Come on over to Crowfall, and you can enjoy both!
The Crowfall art team...
Radiant Worlds is rescued but SkySaga’s fate remains uncertain
Things looked very bleak for SkySaga and its parent company Radiant Worlds last August when the upcoming multiplayer game shut down production following Smilegate's...
Crowfall is spicing up its maps with ‘adventure parcels’
The maps in Crowfall are assembled in a combination of procedural and hand-crafted generation. Individual bits are hand-crafted, but the maps as a whole...
Raph Koster on MMO ecosystems, the balance of power, and tennis
Most MMORPGs have the core sandbox problem: Whoever gets there first, controls all the toys and has the power to drive everyone else away....
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO hopes and wishes for 2018
One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It’s way too easy...
FCC extends accessibility requirement waiver for online games once again
Last year, my husband deployed the requisite accessibility tools to the college science lab he runs to accommodate a bright student who happened to...
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2017
It's true that we lost a lot of MMOs in 2016 -- bigger and more important ones than in 2014 and 2015. 2017, however, has...
PSA: RIFT, ArcheAge, and Trove are reclaiming abandoned names, so save yours soon
Happy new year! You don't need that old, musty name any more, do you? Especially if it hasn't been used in a while?
While you're...
