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Eco’s big Update 10 adds boat building, country settling, and tech tree adjustments

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The climate-balancing sandbox MMO that is Eco has introduced what is being called a "massive upgrade" after a year of production: Update 10 has...

Sandbox MMO Eco lets players establish towns, countries, and federations in December 12 update

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Do you remember Eco? It's a Kickstarted sandbox MMO that tasks players to work together in order to maintain global ecology that started early...

Whatever happened to Eco, Odd Giants (Glitch), and Istaria?

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Welcome back to Whatever Happened To, our intermittent check-in on MMOs that may have fallen off your - and our - radar! Odd Giants Odd Giants...

Perfect Ten: Weirdly specific tropes found in every fantasy MMORPG

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If you take some weird, outlandish, or out-of-the-ordinary item and then saturate your life with it, sooner or later the bizarre becomes the accepted...

Gamescom outlines efforts to be ‘climate neutral’ in 2022 and beyond

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Gamescom is, without a doubt, the single largest gaming convention on the planet, which means it also requires massive amounts of energy to operate...
That'll cost you money.

The Soapbox: Reconsidering social media as an MMORPG

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At GDC 2011, Raph Koster gave a talk in which he said, "Games are fundamentally social media and always have been." You can watch...

Make My MMO: Crowfall’s GvG tourney is dishing out $50K in cash and prizes

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This week in crowdfunded MMOs, you could win a slice of $25,000! Or you could if you're a badass in crowdfunded beta MMO Crowfall,...

Why I Play: Multiplayer sandbox Eco is so much more than just an ecology simulator

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I’ve been struggling to come up with a succinct way to describe Eco. The game was recently the subject of a Whatever Happened To...

Whatever happened to sci-fi MMO ECO?

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It has been the hottest of minutes since we cast eyes on ECO, the multiplayer planetary simulator that entered early access in February 2018;...

Global Chat: Getting an early look at Crowfall’s beta

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Now that Crowfall's beta is on the scene, plenty of curious gamers are streaming in to see what ArtCraft's ambitious PvP title has to...

GDC Summer 2020: Better living, climate awareness, and citizen science through games

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Way back during GDC 2018, I covered several panels relating to gaming for good. Things like citizen science projects, games as medicine or for...

ArcheAge, RIFT, Trove, and more Gamigo MMOs launch a reforestation charity initiative

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Gamigo is announcing a big charity project today with Eden Reforestation Projects, which will raise money to plant trees all over the world while...

The Survivalist: My top 20 survival game goals for 2020, part the first

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You might say that I like survival games. You should say it because I really, really do. Especially games that let me explore and...

Massively Overthinking: Thoughts and predictions on Guild Wars 2’s next big thing

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Last week, Guild Wars 2 put an end to the whining about info droughts by promising a big reveal of living story season 5...

The Survivalist: What ever happened to the smaller survival sandbox MMOs? Part two

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Last week we learned what was up with a number of the smaller survival sandbox MMOs. Sadly, some have faded away, but others are...

Make My MMO: Oath’s Kickstarter success, Star Citizen’s funding drama

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen made headlines once again thanks to a rather brutal article on Forbes that references everything from Chris...

The Survivalist: Giving thanks for survival, from the genre to Conan Exiles

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Since my column falls on Thursday, I always have the honor of sharing in the spirit of Thanksgiving by discussing what I am grateful...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained marches on; Albion players murder half a million bunnies (April 7, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained continues inching along toward its planned summer beta. According to the game's latest update, CSE is running internal...

ECO is full of garbage (and patches)

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Planetary simulator ECO is surprising testers with an interesting twist that will be sure to keep them on their toes (and plugging their nose):...
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Massively Overthinking: Paying for MMORPG emulators, legal or otherwise

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MassivelyOp reader Bryan recently wrote to us with a fun question about emulators, a topic that will simply never die as long as MMORPGs...

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