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Massively OP Podcast Episode 114: Moving to the big city
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, WoW, Ashes of Creation, Carbine, Marvel Heroes, and Project Gorgon, with mailbag questions on the joys of Trove and the plight of MMO pets.
Take a peek at the development of Crowfall’s winged fae assassin class
OK, so "minimum viable product" is pretty much the worst thing an MMO dev can say about her game. But how about "minimum viable...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 113: Avatar vs. toon
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Trove, LOTRO, TERA, Elite, WoW, Star Citizen, and WildStar, with a mailbag question on MMORPG midcore accessibility.
Crowfall has big changes in store for its alpha UI
An MMORPG with a crappy user interface doesn't last long in 2017. ArtCraft has this lesson memorized and has put it to good use...
The Game Archaeologist: SOE’s The Agency
The graveyard of Sony Online Entertainment and Daybreak Game Company is certainly full enough to be considered a threat if there was ever a...
RIFT, Trove, and ArcheAge start accepting Razer zGold
There's a new way to pay in Trion Worlds' games, and that way is Razer zGold.
Trion announced this week that all of its games,...
Crowfall’s destructible castles are hungry hungry hippos
One of my favorite early MMORPG PvP memories is from Dark Age of Camelot, where I liked to position my Huntress atop my side's...
SkySaga prepares to shut down alpha servers ahead of soft launch
Take a last long look at SkySaga's alpha servers because they won't be around much longer. In a good way! Smilegate announced today that...
Trove’s 2017 patches will catch console up to PC, add sub-classes for everyone
Trove is in the midst of a changing of the guard at Trion, as Producer Andrew "Avarem" Krausnick hands over the reins to his...
Crowfall shows off gender-alternative variants of the Assassin and Druid
Now that the Crowfall team has revealed most of the core archetypes that will come in the launch game, the devs are turning their...
Jukebox Heroes: Your top six favorite MMO music themes
After over a month of voting and counting down, we've arrived at the final six picks for your favorite MMORPG theme songs of all...
Crowfall adds skill loadout customization
Thanks to a new update, Crowfall is giving its players more freedom than before in customizing their own playstyle. The focus here is on...
Crowfall answers questions about stuff that doesn’t exist yet
The latest video Q&A from the Crowfall team answers a whole lot of questions about things that don't exist in the game at this...
U.S. district court hears Pokemon Go trespassing lawsuit
Last summer when Pokemon Go took off, so did the lawsuits from property owners who claimed Niantic was effectively encouraging players to illegally trespass...
Albion Online has huge plans for its player-run economy, including all-crafted drops
Albion Online isn't letting up on the updates in the window of time from now to July when it launches for real, nope. Today,...
Massively Overthinking: Competition vs. community in MMOs
Quantic Foundry, the games research group we've been tracking ever since it posted its original Gamer Motivation Model, has a new piece out this...
Take a look at Crowfall’s massive Eternal Kingdoms system
We're just going to put this out there: Crowfall's Eternal Kingdoms are more than just the "social backbone" of the game; they're one of...
The Game Archaeologist: How DikuMUD shaped modern MMOs
Even though there are hundreds and thousands of MMOs spanning several decades, only a small handful were so incredibly influential that they changed the...
Crowfall reflects on its ‘unrelenting series of updates’
It's a little hard to believe, but we've now been watching Crowfall develop since late 2014, going from a teaser announcement through a successful...
The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to multiplayer survival sandboxes
Welcome to The Survivalist! Ya'll might have noticed that I have gravitated a bit from my happy home of deep, immersive virtual worlds (possible...
