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Fight or Kite: One specific update would make Crowfall worth playing every day
The past couple of weeks I’ve been having a fantastic time romping through Crowfall’s campaigns. When you have a good group of players by your side, fights are both exhilarating and quite fun. But...
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The Daily Grind: How do you pass the time until your crowdfunded MMO launches?
While reading the informative interview from Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs the other day, it hit me how long it has been since some of these crowdfunding projects first revved up a campaign. Yes, it...
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Fortnite launches second-birthday goodies as season 9 ends with bizarre...
Just about two years ago, Epic Games finally launched Fortnite, a cartoony co-op shooter/sandbox hybrid it’d been working on since 2011 that we called “Crowfall for PvE fans” after playing its E3...
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Crowfall’s 5.100 update, The Fortunes of War, is officially live for...
A flurry of excitement has spread across the Crowfall forums today as update 5.100, more colorfully known as The Fortunes of War, has just gone live for pre-alpha testers. There’s gobs of content in...
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Fight or Kite: Exploring Crowfall’s banking, newbie, and God’s Reach update
This past week Crowfall patched in update 5.100 (that’s right – we’ve gone from 5.9 to 5.100, as one does), which wiped existing characters and added in a handful of new features. As we wrote last...
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Crowfall’s July ACE Q&A dissects the Fortunes of War update
The end of July saw Crowfall’s latest ACE Q&A session, which was held back on account of J. Todd Coleman’s work travel. Both he and design director Thomas Blair are back, however, with another...
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Players can now compete in Crowfall’s Trial of Gaea for a stat-buffing Badge
The common refrain/hashtag espoused by Crowfall is “take the throne,” which sort of references the fact that campaigns have a limited time and see a faction hoisted up as the winner. That said, there...
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Massively Overthinking: Problematic faves in MMOs
A while back, a reader suggested that it was impossible for a fan who loves something to recognize its shortcomings, and I was taken aback. I’ve always thought that the people who love things usually...
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Crowfall’s Decap-a-Thon event will reward you for collecting the skulls of...
Decap-a-Thon sounds almost playful until you realize that you’re effectively lopping off the heads of other player characters to get points. But hey, this is Crowfall, and nobody said a throne war...
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Crowfall’s Infected ruleset offers the best of both worlds
Quick primer on Crowfall’s world types for you today: The upcoming PvP MMORPG is running limited-duration campaigns set in four different world types, with relatively safer worlds offering fewer...
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Fight or Kite: Crowfall’s new Infected content is the best thing added to the...
This past week has been the best week I’ve had in Crowfall all year. First, ArtCraft dropped a weekend-long event that really turned heads, and then it immediately followed that up with a new world...
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Blizzard is spinning up another WoW Classic server, this time for South America
It looks as though Blizzard is still cranking out the WoW Classic servers, as yesterday the company announced it’ll add a new server for the game aimed at Spanish- and Portuguese-language players in...
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Crowfall’s ongoing Trials of the Gods moves on to Yaga, goddess of magic
Crowfall players have fought in the name of Gaea the Earth Mother, and now it’s time to fight in the name of the goddess of magic. The Trials of the Gods moves on through the Crowfall pantheon with yet...
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MMORTS Travian Legends turns 15 years old with its Victoria Codex event
You folks remember Travian Games, right? At one point, the company was designated as the European publisher for both Crowfall and Shroud of the Avatar, and while it’s not in that role anymore, it does...
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Crowfall details the War of the Gods milestone and what it means for an alpha...
A major milestone is on the horizon for Crowfall in the form of War of the Gods. This collective name for several updates is not only meritorious because it adds a new style of campaign, a new class,...
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Raph Koster is making a new MMO and just raised $2.7M in seed funding to do it
So, who wants a new and well-funded MMORPG from the guy who literally wrote the book on virtual worlds? I knew you would. Raph Koster-led studio Playable Worlds announced today that it’s pulled in...
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Perfect Ten: Kickstarter MMOs that raised the most money
The rise of crowdfunding in the mid-2010s swept a large wave of MMORPGs our way that might never have happened otherwise. For a while there, we were seeing new project after new project get funded, not...
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Crowfall’s ACE Q&A talks War of the Gods as the game readies up Decapathon 2
October’s ACE Q&A for Crowfall is up and online, and to perhaps nobody’s surprise, it’s all about the upcoming War of the Gods milestone. Specifically, the Q&A touches on the new mode’s win...
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Massively Overthinking: Niche MMOs vs. everythingboxes
Earlier this month, veteran MMORPG designer Raph Koster announced that he’s finally making a new MMORPG, with a suite of top devs and a fat stack of cash to do it. While the pitch has been a little...
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Fight or Kite: PvP games to play if you’re still boycotting Blizzard
The past couple of weeks in the land of Blizzard have made for a wild ride. Some of us have extremely strong feelings and emotions regarding Blizzard and its handling of the whole Blitzchung situation...
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