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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...
Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up Black Desert and selecting our next destination
Back when I mentioned that I was learning to like Black Desert a while back, I got this tweet from the game's official account....
Massively OP Interview: Ashes of Creation on a new way to MMO
Today, Ashes of Creation takes a big plunge into an all-or-nothing Kickstarter campaign. Over the past few months, the MMO seemed to come out...
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,...
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,...
WeMade Entertainment invests in ArcheAge’s XLGAMES
XLGAMES has received a vote of confidence in the form of some welcome investment from fellow Korean developer (and publisher) WeMade Entertainment. MMO Culture...
ArcheAge begins Lantern Festival, ignites currency controversy
Over on the ArcheAge Reddit, people are grumpy. No, stay with me; they might have a point here. Trion kicked off an odd sort...
Albion Online AMA on pay-to-win, free trials, and global servers
Sandbox Interactive ran an AMA for its in-development indie MMO Albion Online on Reddit last night, covering everything from the game's business model to...
Researchers study ArcheAge’s beta wipe for real-world apocalypse behavior
If the world was to end this week, how would people react? That's an interesting question to ponder in the abstract, but researchers took...
Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #24-19
What are the best and most popular MMO theme songs of all time? A couple of weeks ago I posed this question to the...
ArcheAge opens up the tallest zone in the game and improves your underpants
Hope you are not afraid of heights, because ArcheAge's newest zone is also its tallest zone to date.
In this past week's February update, the...
Lost Continent: ArcheAge Revelation’s fresh start servers aren’t doing newbies any favors
It’s been over a month now since ArcheAge’s massive update 3.0 went live, adding oodles of new content to Trion’s expansive fantasy sandbox. The...
The Stream Team: Picking a perfect ArcheAge pet
It's that time again, when ArcheAge gives you the chance to adopt adorable pets during the Pawesome Festival. And how could Massively OP's MJ...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best music system?
In Andrew's retrospective of Asheron's Call 2 last week, he mentioned that the game had a music system, something I'd long since forgotten, if...
The Game Archaeologist: Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds
I confess that I have a particular fascination for MMOs that came into existence in the 1990s. It's not only the fact that I...
ArcheAge invites your guild on an adventure this week
This week's ArcheAge patch has kicked off a string of events to keep you occupied well into February. To start with, the fantasy MMO has whipped...
One Shots: Healin’ skellies in Shards Online
When the NDA is away, the cats will play -- and take screenshots! Bless our dear community for documenting upcoming MMOs as they venture...
ArcheAge offers compensation to players for server outages
Who here likes server issues? Sure, they kind of suck while they're happening and prevent you from being able to play the game you...
ArcheAge suffers lengthy downtime over vanishing NPCs
ArcheAge just cannot catch a break. Disappearing NPCs prompted another complete restart of the North American servers yesterday, which didn't solve the problem. Trion...
The Daily Grind: How often do you claim refunds on MMOs?
Chargebacks were a big deal in 2016: Black Desert, ArcheAge, and No Man Sky were all embroiled in community drama thanks to perceived chargeback...
