Official Site:Â Wizard101
Studio:Â KingsIsle Entertainment
Launch Date:Â September 2, 2008
Genre:Â Fantasy Family-Friendly Sandpark
Business Model:Â Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Mac
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Wizard101’s Spring Festival returns to feed all of your eggshell fishing needs
The most elusive catch in the waters of Wizard101 is back once more for the spring season. It's time once again for the Spring...
MassivelyOP’s guide to 13 MMORPGs that you can play on Macs
Until I got my first Macbook this past December, I admit that I never really paid attention to what MMOs could be played on...
Wizard101 invests in its PvP game while getting ready to reveal a ‘magical wave of new things’
The devs at Wizard101 conjured up a new patch for the game this week. The primary focus for this patch was tweaking various spells...
Gameforge begins sending out transition codes for EU Wizard101 players ahead of Gamigo takeover
During a Q4 2021 earnings call, MGI noted that Gamigo would be taking over stewardship of Wizard101 from Gameforge as part of MGI's ownership...
Wizard101’s KingsIsle sells Ukraine charity bundle, proceeds to reclaim EU publishing
One of many game studios looking to help with humanitarian relief in the Ukraine is KingsIsle. The studio announced that it is standing with...
Destiny 2’s Bungie halts sales to Russia, Gamigo begins Ukraine charity initiative in multiple MMOs
As Russia's devastating invasion of Ukraine continues, the gaming industry is continuing to make its voice heard as it opposes the harm inflicted on...
MGI Q4 2021: Gamigo’s parent company guns for mobile, takes over Wizard101 EU publishing, ignores RIFT
Gamigo's parent company, Media and Games Invest SE aka MGI, released its Q4 2021 financials to investors this week, reporting a 65% revenue bump...
Pirate101 and Wizard101 bring back the Friendship Festival as KingsIsle talks Pirate101 development trajectory
While Valentine's Day is technically behind us on the calendar, KingIsle's MMOs Wizard101 and Pirate101 are still very much in the spirit of love....
Massively Uplifting: MMOs show true love through helping kids, planting trees
Attitudes and thoughts about Valentine's Day vary widely, from crass commercialism to idyllic romanticism to complete indifference. But the fact remains that the spirit...
Global Chat: Is free-to-play in MMOs universally awful?
I think a lot of us sport a wide range of opinions on free-to-play business models, particularly depending on the way it's applied to...
Perfect Ten: Genuinely fun MMO minigames
Few people are without opinions on minigames in MMOs. Some love 'em, some hate 'em, and some just ignore 'em. Some even despise that...
Wizard101 and Pirate101 developer KingsIsle promises ‘exciting things’ for its January 27 KI Live broadcast
The KI Live broadcasts from Wizard101 and Pirate101 developer KingsIsle are usually something that regular fans of both games want to pay attention to,...
Perfect Ten: The best value MMOs at the start of 2022
One of the reasons that I have been a huge fan of MMORPGs for nearly two decades now is that they offer a terrific...
KingsIsle confirms new Pirate101 content for 2022 is in the works, looks back at 2021 design goals for Wizard101
Before launching into this story, let's put out a quick review. At the beginning of this year, players of Pirate101 started up a "flood...
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2021
It’s been quite a year of Choose My Adventure columns, hasn’t it? We did a pretty good random skip around of different games, in...
The Game Archaeologist: Hero101, the lost KingsIsle superhero MMO
You do get the sense that KingsIsle once had very grand plans for what is called its "101 Universe." After Wizard101 came out to...
Wizard101 takes you to the lost world of Lemuria with its latest update
Did you really think that Wizard101 was going to let you end this year without a heavy dose of charm, weirdness, and cybercop platypi?...
Gamigo investor report promises a ‘great update’ for RIFT in Q1, Atlas Rogues is abandoned
It's a bit of good news and unsurprising bad news out of the third quarter investor report from MGI, the company that runs Gamigo....
Wizard101 is testing a major fall update revolving around lemur people
Wizard101 is gearing up for a big fall update, whose second patch is currently in testing on the game's test realm. The update includes...
How to support Extra Life 2021, from Guild Wars 2 and EverQuest to LOTRO and City of Heroes
If you caught MJ's latest Massively Uplifting, you probably noticed that Extra Life is ramping up across the gaming industry, and particularly among MMORPG...
