Spun out of EA as one of the last remnants of Mythic Entertainment, Broadsword now runs Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot.
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Perfect Ten: Awful things I don’t miss about 2000s-era MMO gaming
Nostalgia is a tricky beast to ride. It can unlock all sorts of blissful memories, bring us back to old favorites, and reclaim a...
The Daily Grind: Do you remember your very first mount in an MMORPG?
In response to one of our articles on Villagers and Heroes, MOP reader Wishful Maybe remarked on the game's age, saying, "I still remember...
The MOP Up: Ultima Online preps a five-part Rifted Crown event
Ultima Online's Publish 120 is chugging away on the test server -- and with it a five-part event called The Rifted Crown that sounds...
The Daily Grind: What’s the ideal gateway game for MMORPGs?
If you're a veteran MMORPG player, it's pretty likely that you came to MMORPGs through one of a handful of ways that I can...
Massively Overthinking: Is Dune Awakening an MMO, MMORPG, survivalbox, or something else?
In this week's Massively Overthinking, we have a very simple question on deck in honor of Dune Awakening's headstart: What the heck is it?...
Dune Awakening’s $70+ headstart has officially begun – are you playing?
If you shelled out for either of the two largest Dune Awakening preorder packs, your time has come! No, literally, your time to play...
The Daily Grind: Is there something that used to be hard for you in MMOs that now seems easy?
When I was a wee lass in the early days of MMORPGs, I was extreme nervous about jumping into roles I had no familiarity...
One Shots: A time to reflect
Your pause to read this week's One Shots -- the modern version of the ol' weekly funnies in the newspaper -- is a good...
Star Wars The Old Republic deploys Update 7.7: Dynamic Worlds today – but you’ll have to wait on the story
A big Star Wars: The Old Republic game update without a story is kind of like Christmas without the presents -- still quite serviceable...
City of Heroes Homecoming’s i28p2 Legacy enters testing with a major content revamp for Kallisti Wharf
City of Heroes Homecoming fans, your long wait for fresh content is over - or will be soon, anyway. The officially licensed live version...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 518: Too much horsing around
Chris, Justin, and Bree discuss Equinox Homecoming's early access, Dune Awakening's beta, Neverwinter's Red Harvest, the former Cryptic MMOs' journey to Discord, Pax Dei's layoffs, and SWTOR's 7.7, with adventures in Palia, Lost Skies, Tower United, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus a mailbag topic on emulators we don't talk about.
One Shots: What the Dwarves saw that awful day
Katriana kicks off our festivities today with this harrowing shot of Dwarves digging too deep: "My friends and I met a dragon (again) in...
Here’s what’s coming in Star Wars The Old Republic’s Update 7.7 Dynamic Worlds
The love for Star Wars The Old Republic seems as if it's on the rise these days, especially following a May 8th developer livestream...
Vague Patch Notes: Challenge and rewards in MMOs are made up
All right, folks, pop quiz. I want you to name for me the first major raid in Ultima Online. That was the first game...
Star Wars The Old Republic hands out double XP and another droid pet for Star Wars Day
Is it really Star Wars Day unless players of Star Wars: The Old Republic are being handed a little droid friend for free? We...
Ultima Online’s spring roadmap includes a new live event in June’s publish 120
If you're a longtime Ultima Online player, you know just how unusual it is to get a roadmap, but so far this year, we've...
Massively Overthinking: The unforgivable sins of MMORPG quest design
Last week, I was continuing my first trip through Lord of the Rings Online's Gundabad (yes, I am behind), and I bumped into some...
We’re finally getting our first glimpse of 12-year-old Camelot Unchained since last year in today’s dev stream
Today is the day: the day when we finally learn what the hell is going on with Camelot Unchained.
MMORPG vets will surely already know...
The Daily Grind: How much does voice acting impact an MMORPG?
I recently returned to Elder Scrolls Online after a long break, and I went through that honeymoon period where you're reminded of all of the...
The Daily Grind: What are the tipoffs that mark gamers out as veteran MMORPG players?
Back during the first weekend of the Lord of the Rings Online transfer mess, I spent an inordinate amount of time in the game's...
