John Smedley’s Independent Studio Is Closing Down

Hero's Song

John Smedley, a legendary figure in the MMO industry for his work on EverQuest and other ground-breaking titles, today announced via Twitter that his independent development studio Pixelmage Games will be closing down, and development on Hero’s Song will cease. Following successful crowd-source funding and interest from several big investors Hero’s Song was able to … Read more

Dead Island: Epidemic Shutting Down, Neverwinter, DarkScape and more! | The XP 9.18.2015

What’s up Attackers, Kirk here and welcome to the September 18th edition of The XP. On today’s show we’re going to cover Dead Island Epidemic Closing Down, Everquest Expansions announced, Neverwinter, WIldstar and a new Runescape? That and more on today’s episode! Earlier this week Deep Silver announced that they are ceasing further development on … Read more

Break The Rules In This MMO And You Will Be Sent To Virtual Prison

Daybreak Games recently revealed plans that will see drastic changes made to the crime and punishment elements of EverQuest II as the developers hope to take innovative strides to combat disruptive players and rule breakers in the long-running MMO. The new methods will see the introduction of a brand new “prison server”, called Drunder. Players … Read more

John Smedley Believes The Generation Of Theme Park MMO’s Has Come To An End

H1Z1 News

Recent years have seen the MMO industry flooded with poor-quality clones attempting to emulate the success of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft but if those hundreds of failed attempts isn’t evidence enough to suggest the era of the vanilla theme park MMO has passed, Daybreak Games President John Smedley also gave his 2 cents on the … Read more

Eight of The Most Memorable MMO Dungeons Ever Designed

Dungeons are a staple of the MMO genre; large-scale challenges requiring co-operation and co-ordination between anywhere from five to a few hundred players to adequately complete. Of course, not all are created equal, and some stand head and shoulders above their peers. Today, I’d like to tip my hat to those few legends, those instances that’ll stick with us for years to come as shining examples of how to do dungeons right.