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Trove on graduating Beta University and heading into the real world
The stages of pre-launch development always conjure some measure of protection for a fledgling video game. It may be rough, but that's OK, it's...
Massively Overthinking: Random encounters in MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor TheChiHawk, and it's coming from an unusually not-so-massive corner of gamesdom for us:
Are...
Crowfall devs answer questions about stamina, DoTs, and more
Crowfall has published another installment of its combat chat video dev blog. Featured are designers Thomas Blair and Tully Ackland, who spend nearly six minutes...
Trion Worlds teases creepy new game
Is the devil inside you? Trion Worlds is pretty sure it's the devil and not Intel, anyway. The studio behind MMOs RIFT, Defiance, and...
Sit and stay awhile with Landmark’s newest update
Let there be chairs! In the latest Landmark Live broadcast, Producers Terry Michaels and Emily Taylor show off some of the changes added to...
Crowfall introduces the player layaway program
If there's a big juicy Crowfall purchase that you'd like to make, but your current funds are lacking, then boy does ArtCraft have a...
Trove plans a stress test event to celebrate the end of beta
Trove is really leaving beta for real, and to celebrate, the developers want players to break the servers tomorrow. If necessary. Ideally, the servers...
Crowfall tweaks armor design, releases Knight modeling vid
ArtCraft is changing how Crowfall's armor system works. The crowdfunded "throne war simulator" originally featured a series of character-based armor tiers that allowed for...
Landmark devs: Respawning is working as designed
Addressing complaints that respawning mobs and resources are broken in Landmark, Daybreak came out today to say that, on the contrary, everything is working...
Crowfall won’t make use of ‘phake’ physics
Crowfall's latest dev blog talks combat physics, and in particular ArtCraft's goal "to use realistic physics in as many gameplay aspects as possible." The...
Trove expands server capacity to handle population influx
It's a good problem to have: Trove's servers are filling up to the brim and even causing queues to form. Fortunately, Trion Worlds said...
Global Chat: Does the 12X leveling speed hurt or help SWTOR?
I love seeing interaction and cooperative projects between MMO bloggers because what fun is there in being an island? Especially when we talk about...
Crowfall raises $2M in crowdfunding, demolishes the holy trinity
Crowfall continues to rake in hefty amounts of donations, as the title just crossed the $2 million threshold for crowdfunding to date. More than...
One Shots: Bagpipes in the woods
I can't say that I'm the biggest fan of bagpipe music, although I do harbor a certain fascination for any musical instrument that looks...
Trove will teach you how to train a dragon next week
Trove is apparently racing to see just how much content it can cram into this voxelbox title before it launches on July 9th. Next...
Crowfall developers discuss balance in a new Q&A video
If you want total and absolute balance for one-on-one classes in Crowfall, you will be disappointed. That's the first answer in the new question...
ECO boasts server-wide permadeath for failure
Individual character permadeath is so yesterday, right? An upcoming title, ECO, dares to think even bigger, proposing "server-wide permadeath" if players can't band together and...
Crowfall’s Confessors represent the darker side of religion
The team behind Crowfall is hard at work preparing what it's calling a "core combat test" between three diverse archetypes. One of these, the...
Here’s an early look at Crowfall’s keeps
A lot of Crowfall is going to come down to the environments. That might seem a little bit odd or silly, but if you...
MMO Week in Review: Eyes on EverQuest Next (June 7, 2015)
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMOÂ news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review!
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