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Crowfall comes alive with its new day/night cycle
It’s amazing how something as simple as days turning into nights and vice-versa can serve to transform a static setting into a living, breathing world. ArtCraft hopes that its new day/night cycle will...
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Crowfall shows off the features of its 5.6 build
The next big milestone build for Crowfall is patch 5.6, and it’s a big one. It has the first pass of the vassal system, for example, which is one of the major elements of the game. It has the first...
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Crowfall gets so popular it overwhelms its own code
Every MMO wants to be popular. You get to sit at the nice lunch table and everyone talks about how cool you are, all great stuff. But Crowfall hit an odd tier of popularity with its latest patch. The...
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Crowfall’s going to keep you hooked with its zippy plant picking
Have you ever given much thought to harvesting in MMOs? Probably not much, if we’re all honest. Yet gathering plants can fill an important niche in players’ gaming sessions just like the mats they...
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Jukebox Heroes: Six musical themes for upcoming MMORPGs
Usually in Jukebox Heroes I’m looking back at current and sunsetted MMORPGs, but this week I thought I’d change things up a bit by looking ahead. That’s right — we’re going to be going into the future...
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Star Wars Galaxies creator Raph Koster to release postmortem book on MMORPGs
Raph Koster is certainly a well-known name in the MMORPG industry who has spent his career working on titles such as Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Metaplace, and Crowfall. But did you know that...
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Crowfall’s team answers design questions about classes, crafting, and mounts
Will Crowfall have mounts? That burning question is one of several that the development team fielded as the MMORPG’s creation turned into the summer months. Mounts are very much on the board for...
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Massively Overthinking: Why is no one meeting the obvious player demand for...
Massively OP reader ichi_san has a burning question about the state of the industry. “Lots of people seem to be looking for an MMO they can get into – consider the rush into Bless as an example. Lots...
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E3 2018: Fortnite launches on the Switch today
It seems weird to me now that the game we were preciously calling “Crowfall for PvE fans” at last year’s E3 has changed so drastically in that time that right now it’s leading the battle royale pack...
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Crowfall cranks out Pre-Alpha 5 while working on 5.7
This week, Crowfall’s testing phase moved into Pre-Alpha 5 — but you wouldn’t know that to listen to the developers. The team seems much more interested in what’s coming with Patch 5.7, which is why...
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Crowfall delays again: ‘Soft launch is not going to happen by the end of this...
Here’s a slight damper for your weekend: Crowfall has decided to delay its soft launch into 2019 due to the additional work that the studio believes should to be done. ArtCraft said that between...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 175: Virtual heartbreakers
Justin and Bree discuss E3, WoW Classic, Crowfall's delay, Defiance 2050's release date, Fortnite's Sony mess, Black Desert's dating mechanics, and EVE and Star Citizen's ship squabble, with mailbag...
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Crowfall shines more light on its day/night cycle
With a fully dynamic world that involves varied spawns, parcels that are moved around, and generated terrain, the Crowfall team had a tougher challenge than most to create good-looking lighting that...
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Crowfall’s seasonal changes affect more than just the vistas
Forget oohing and ahhing over day/night cycles in MMORPGs — Crowfall is bringing whole seasons to its campaign worlds, and they’re going to be nothing like you’ve seen before in online RPGs....
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Crowfall explains the Hunger that’s killing everything
The Hunger is going to destroy everything in Crowfall. That’s how the story ends. You can stave it off for a time, and the latest development post is all about how you can do that. But the point is...
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Crowfall introduces mega deeds and panels for tricking out your Eternal...
Set aside your castles in the air: Crowfall’s castles are built on solid ground. ArtCraft’s most recent dev blog is all about them, or rather, about the battlements, walls, and gatehouses that will...
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Crowfall shows off a time-lapse wood elf painting
So yes, we’re all sad that Crowfall is being delayed a little bit longer, but on the plus side one of the reasons for that is making the game more open for customization. That means more concept art,...
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Crowfall studio ArtCraft spins off new company to license its MMORPG-oriented...
Well now things just got interesting over in the land of Kickstarted Crowfall. ArtCraft announced this morning that it’s spinning off a “new division” called ArtCraft Technologies and specifically...
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Interview: ArtCraft’s J. Todd Coleman on prepping Crowfall’s Artisan Engine...
Yesterday, Crowfall studio ArtCraft announced it was spinning off a brand-new company dubbed ArtCraft Technologies that would basically turn Crowfall’s engine into a marketable product for other...
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Crowfall talks about test patch 5.7 and the horrors of zoning
The latest community Q&A video from Crowfall is actually not that at all. It’s supposed to be that, of course, that’s what it claims to be on the tin (or in the video header), but the upcoming...
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