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Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that died too soon
Your favorite game is going to die. I wrote about that. Some games are never even going to get to launching in the first...
Crowfall on mini-class disciplines, guilds, communication, and the dawning of campaign worlds
Crowfall's Mark Halash and Thomas Blair are back with another Q&A video for the game with questions provided by backers. Starting off, Blair says...
Amazon Game Studios grabs H1Z1’s art director
Amazon Game Studios continues to lure talented developers away for its new multiplayer projects. Sebastian Strzalkowski became the latest to defect to the new...
Massively Overthinking: 2017’s MMORPG zeitgeist
This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...
Shroud of the Avatar makes $2M equity crowdfunding pitch, plans 2017 launch
Shroud of the Avatar's Summer Telethon concluded last night, having raised from players $115,000 and unlocking multiple stretch goal rewards for players, including balloons...
The Game Archaeologist: How Sceptre of Goth shaped the MMO industry
When it comes to text-based MMOs created in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, the sheer number of them would blot out the sky. There...
Massively Overthinking: Disentangling MMO classes and races
Last week, a guildie of mine mentioned that he'd been interested in Crowfall until he realized he couldn't be a gerbil (Guineacean) of the...
Portal Knights launches across multiple platforms
It's full steam ahead for Portal Knights, which launched yesterday on Steam, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. For those wondering if early access periods...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 118: Crowfall breaks up the band
Justin and Bree discuss ESO Morrowind, Crowfall, Wild West Online, Destiny 2, Funcom financials, Star Citizen, SWTOR, Dreamfall Chapters, and Ultima Online, with a mailbag question on dating in MMOs.
Crowfall explains the logic and breadth of passive powers
It is reasonable to assume that anyone who has spent a bit of time playing MMOs is familiar with the basic concept of passive...
Wynncraft fashioned a free MMO out of Minecraft
Love MMOs? Have a hankering for Minecraft? Your desire for the two aren't mutually exclusive in the case of Wynncraft!
If you haven't heard about...
Crowfall wraps up marathon seven-hour stream event, promises open beta by the end of 2017
Following Crowfall's titanic reveal of expanded and new features earlier this week, the dev team sat down for a seven-hour livestream event yesterday to...
Massively Overthinking: Being Uncle Owen in MMORPGs
Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...
Crowfall fans create mix-and-match class survey
After the astonishing reveal yesterday that Crowfall is decoupling its races and classes to offer more build freedom, what will you make? This burning...
Crowfall is shifting away from race-bound class archetypes
Crowfall's teaser week is over, so what was the tease? "Massively expanded character customization options," ArtCraft says, confirming some of the earliest hunches that...
One Shots: MMOs are serious business
As we all well know, MMORPGs are a Serious Business indeed. We must treat them reverently and with our utmost due diligence as we...
Ashes of Creation meets Underrealm stretch goal, eyes $2M in crowdfunding
With well over two weeks to go in its Kickstarter campaign, Ashes of Creation has already outpaced similar efforts from Chronicles of Elyria ($1.36M...
NetEase has a smashing good first quarter 2017 thanks to mobile sales and Hearthstone
Chinese operator, developer, and publisher NetEase posted its Q1 2017 financial report this week, and the news is quite good for the company. NetEase...
Broke Protocol is Minecraft meets Grand Theft Auto
If you took Grand Theft Auto and molded it into the visual style of Minecraft, would it have crowd appeal? Cylinder Studios sure hopes...
Day five of Crowfall’s teaser week: A ‘triad of confusion’
Yes, Crowfall's teaser week is coming to a close today, with two new images and a story excerpt commenting on the insidious nature of humans.
If yesterday's...