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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...
Massively Overthinking: Is the MMO genre facing an identity crisis?
MMORPG blogger and MOP commenter Isarii (@ethanmacfie) recently published an excellent video positing that the MMO industry is facing a "massive identity crisis."
"The MMO...
Day four of Crowfall’s teaser week: Are we getting warm yet?
ArtCraft is clearly taking Crowfall's teaser week super seriously, what with naming today's teaser images "hottiemchotster" and "jamesgoblinlikesthis." There's not much to the Thursday...
Crowfall expands Eternal Kingdom testing, drops yet more teasers
Are you tired of Crowfall's string of teasers leading up to a big announcement on May 16th, or does every word and screenshot add...
Crowfall posts another teaser for the reveal of teasers
What could Crowfall's teasers for Teaser Week mean? Are they teasing new classes? New races? New combinations of same? Today's teaser is just a...
Crowfall’s teaser week begins with the Frostweaver archetype
Last week, Crowfall studio ArtCraft posted a teaser that it would be posting more teasers this week on the road to a something "massive" -- a...
One Shots: Lonely hearts
Are gamers really lonely? Do we flock to MMORPGs as a response to that? I'm pondering these thoughts today following the response of a...
Trion streamlines its Glyph launcher to decrease its memory footprint
If you play one of Trion Worlds' online games, then chances are very good that you also use Trion's Glyph launcher on a daily...
Crowfall teases next week’s teases for May 16 reveal
Who wants a teaser for more teasers! Nobody? Bad news because we're getting some anyway, so go make some popcorn. A lot of it.
The...
‘Reputation should matter’: Crowfall ties your account name to your character name
Anonymous griefers, Crowfall might not be the game for you. In May's developer Q&A video, the team clarified that players' character names will be...
Perfect Ten: Exploring MMORPGs from the far corners of the world
Have you ever noticed that while there's an entire world out there, most all of the MMORPGs we discuss and play tend to either...
The Daily Grind: Are MMORPGs better off without stories?
Last week, Massively OP community veteran BalsBigBrother pointed out -- rightly! -- that while Trove is amusing, it's very much lacking in prepared story or...
One Shots: Through the portal?
The other day, Bree was complaining about how so many screenshots from modern MMORPGs suffer from a bland and monochrome palette. Coming to the...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMORPG players a minority in their own genre?
Deep in the comments of the MMOs-vs.-survival-sandboxes thread from last week, reader miol_ produced a beautiful comment about how MMO players have become a...
Battle Bards Episode 97: The sound of magic
“Magic can be ANYthing!”
The forces of magic run deep within MMORPGs, casting shadows of wonder wherever we look — and listen. In today’s show,...
RuneScape DDoS hacker gets two years in U.K. prison
Ever hear that expression, "His name is mud?" It applies on every level to the incarceration of one Adam Mudd this week, who received...
Crowfall’s hellcat has a purr of doom
One shouldn't forget that Crowfall's various campaign worlds will be populated by more than just irate players looking to make the world burn (and...
