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The ladybugs of Trove invade the game’s console versions
The ladybugs looked so cute and unassuming in Trove that we never thought they would attack. When they struck, the terror was... well, not...
Crowfall transitions testing into a live environment, updates Kickstarter rewards
Crowfall is about to take its next step into a larger world. The PvP MMO announced that it's preparing to layer a live environment...
One Shots: Walk of shame
From Zulika Mi-Nam's Adventures in Tale of Toast:
Log into a game to do some play testing.
"Hey, look at these cutsie graphics and...
Massively Overthinking: MMO monetization run amok
Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...
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...
