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Happy 20th birthday, Ultima Online! Here’s how to get caught up on the OG MMORPG
Just about 20 years ago, my boyfriend and I were wandering through Media Play (heh) when he picked up this box for some new online subscription video game with a cheesy Hildebrandt cover. I was...
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Crowfall introduces the half-elf race, promises racial choices offer...
Remember this lovely ranger lady from Crowfall’s original concept art? We sure do, since we’re pretty fond of using it. Turns out in the new split archetypes system, she’s a half elf, a race that’s...
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Battle Bards Episode 106: Early access themes
Instead of looking back at MMORPGs this week, the crew of Battle Bards launches forward into early access! What would a show about music from MMOs that aren’t even officially out yet be like? We’re...
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Crowfall clarifies Kickstarter ‘proof-of-concept’ statements
The folks at Procedural Worlds have a new interview-slash-testimonial from Crowfall Lead Environment Artist Jon O’Neal, in which he talks up that company’s enviromental design tools as employed in the...
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Crowfall details the obdurate Stoneborn race
The Stoneborn of Crowfall are not dwarves. They sometimes get referred to as dwarves, but it’s a ridiculous name because they’re as large as normal people. They’re also not a normal race, either, as...
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Crowfall’s Raph Koster explains why MMO systems stagnate and die
The man who pretty much wrote the book on many MMORPG systems shared another piece of keen insight about a pitfall in many competitive systems. In a short blog post, veteran MMO designer Raph Koster...
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Crowfall goes over the history and perks of Humans and Elves
Even Crowfall, as progressive as it is with its racial choices, must bow to the ironclad law of MMOs that state, “Every fantasy game must contain, at the bare minimum, a human and Elf playable race.”...
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Crowfall devs on why they don’t make their soft launch production checklist...
Happy October: It’s time for another Crowfall Q&A. ArtCraft’s Thomas Blair and Mark Halash and sit down to answer questions from high-end Crowfall backers. Of note, they cover multiple skill...
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Crowfall’s hour-long stream previews the game’s next big patch
Testing for Crowfall is still in full swing, and that means that when you watch something like the most recent hour-long stream, you do so with full knowledge that everything in the game can still...
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Crowfall wraps up its launch lineup with the Centaur, Minotaur, and Guinecean...
Over the past month or so, Crowfall has been steadfastly working its way through the list of the dozen races that will be available during the game’s remaining testing and launch. As of today, that...
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Massively Overthinking: Three-way RvR and ‘fair’ PvP in modern MMOs
MOP reader Sally Bowls is on a roll with the good questions lately! She lobbed us one this past weekend that seems a good follow-up to a comment thread discussion about the problems inherent in...
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Crowfall demos more action harvesting, starts taking guild name reservations
Crowfall isn’t content to make gathering as dull and repetitive as in other MMOs, which is why the team is putting great stock in its so-called “action harvesting.” This system has come under further...
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Crowfall explains castle wall construction, addresses patch 5.3
Chances are that all save but the most architecturally nerdy among you don’t find walls, panels, and sockets a particularly exciting topic. But your opinion on this might change when those elements...
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Crowfall shows off new UI windows (and some eye candy for the nerds)
“Boxy and functional” is not usually a compliment unless you want to get slapped or are describing a Volvo. But when it comes to Crowfall’s new user interface screens, this is sincere praise indeed....
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Crowfall gets you up to speed on Pre-Alpha 5.3
It has been a while in the making, but Crowfall’s Patch 5.3 is on its way… “soon.” The team isn’t quite saying when yet, but there is plenty of discussion to be had on the contents of this anticipated...
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MMO biz roundup: The voice actor strike, e-sports crime, CCP VR, Crowfall,...
Let’s end the week talking about money. What could go wrong? The year-long video game voice actor strike is finally fully over, as more than 90% of the members of SAG-AFTRA voted to approve the...
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Crowfall shows off the Cleric powers in action
The Cleric of Crowfall is not solely a healer. That’s not to say the Cleric doesn’t heal people, of course; in fact, several of the powers you’ll see in the video down below and one of the Cleric’s...
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Crowfall opens up dozens of race and class combos
It’s a good time to be a Crowfall pre-alpha tester. The select elite are being treated to a new build today that adds in all of the new class and race combinations that the developers have been...
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Crowfall delays soft launch until 2018
A lot of things have changed for Crowfall over the past year, several of them being pretty darn significant. Decoupling races and classes alone was a pretty big deal. So it probably comes as no huge...
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Crowfall’s action harvesting has all the swirly sparkles and powerful pips
Now that Crowfall fans have a little longer to wait before the game’s soft launch, they have time to fully absorb this lengthy article on action harvesting. Yes, ArtCraft has been pushing this vision...
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