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Crowfall gets a nod in HBO’s comedy Silicon Valley
Today in “weird crossovers that we really didn’t expect to happen,” the throne war MMO Crowfall was referenced in and even used for a scene in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. Yes, really. The...
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Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the MMO genre
Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for...
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Crowfall’s J. Todd Coleman looks back at past progress and ahead to 2020...
As we close out 2019, we all tend to get the urge to look back at past accomplishments and feel proud, even if they are small. Crowfall has certainly made a number of accomplishments this year, as a...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 250: Blue Mage Christmas
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, ArcheAge Unchained, Temtem, Crowfall, Dual Universe, Elder Scrolls Online, plus the site awards, with mailbag topics on MMO controls and meaningful...
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Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2019 predictions
The day has come: the day when we look back at last year’s predictions for this year and see how we did. Yep, this is a tradition around these parts – after all, what would be the fun of making...
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Crowfall discusses discipline adjustments, balance, and power polishing in...
December is halfway done, but there’s still time for Crowfall to provide its usual monthly update with the latest ACE Q&A video, which touches on a variety of updates coming to the throne war MMO....
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Fight or Kite: 2010-2019, the decade when PvP boomed and MMOs languished
The end of the decade is upon us. Many are now reflecting on how our lives have changed over the past 10 years. We’ve graduated high school, graduated college, and possibly entered the workforce as...
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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2020
With 2019 drawing to a close and a new decade of MMORPGs waiting for us just a few days away, the Massively OP writing crew has regrouped for another round of bold and goofy predictions for the year...
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Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2019
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP’s weekly and sometimes biweekly recap of the big news in crowdfunded MMOs. Hey, you folks who are convinced that Kickstarter is the absolute...
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Fight or Kite: Totally reasonable expectations for PvP MMORPGs in 2020
A new year is upon us, and I am especially excited this time around. The past few calendar swap-outs have been pretty stale from an MMO point of view. There was some tepid excitement to be had when the...
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Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2020
All right, 2019. We’re done with you. We’re moving on. We’re in a whole new decade. We’ve got a brand-new year full of new things to worry about! OK, maybe that’s just me. For this first Massively...
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J Todd Coleman promises Crowfall will be ‘the most strategic virtual...
A tweet from Crowfall prompted some responses from creative director J Todd Coleman that could perhaps perk a couple of ears, offering some promises for the game’s future both in terms of content and...
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Shadowbane emulator SBEmu announces a sixth season server wipe on January 11
Who here remembers Shadowbane? It was an open PvP MMORPG that ran between 2003 and 2009 and is the game that pretty much inspired Crowfall, seeing as how both games are headed by J Todd Coleman. We’ve...
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Perfect Ten: Upcoming MMOs to watch in 2020
There is a great feeling of flipping a calendar over to a fresh year, isn’t there? All that promise and potential spread out in front of you, the mystery of what the next 365 days will contain. If 2020...
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Crowfall preps beta, raises another $12M from investors to bring total...
Crowfall’s founder update hit the ArtCraft site this afternoon, and it’s a doozy. The studio’s J Todd Coleman says development progress is “fantastic,” and he should be excited, since the team just...
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Crowfall Q&A talks fundraising, alpha and beta, and War of the Gods features
It’s a bit of “second verse same as the first” for the latest version of the ACE Q&A video from Crowfall, but then again the game continues to further inch closer to its next phase of testing and...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 255: Girls, elementals, and other things that...
Justin and Bree discuss Magic Legends, Tarkov, World of Warcraft, Crowfall, Lost Ark, Elder Scrolls Online, and SWG Legends, with mailbag topics on how MMOs can avoid murderhobo gameplay and how to...
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Crowfall’s UI is getting less survival-y and more MMO-y with February’s test...
Call me weird, but user interfaces in games are among my favorite things to dig into, and Crowfall’s has been of particular interest to me over the years as it’s developed and changed what seems like a...
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Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG bugs ever
This week’s Massively Overthinking discussion topic is inspired by Crowfall’s J Todd Coleman, who last fall tweeted about the time playable spiders almost became a Thing in his earlier game,...
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Here’s how Crowfall’s spellbook and passive skills are changing in the...
Crowfall is back this week with another new dev diary, this one building on the UI changes coming in February (as detailed previously) with an explanation of the tweaks to the powers load-out. This is...
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