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Here is our latest comic. Hope you guys like it.

So, back in October, we wrote an article here on MMOCrunch.com about a new subscription tracking website, called VOIG. It’s actually a really neat website that gives you all sorts of neat graphs, and numbers showcasing which MMOG has the better foothold in the overall (world) market.
Now, there is no way for us to be […]

I don’t have to tell you that buying and selling of MMORPG characters has become big business over the years. Back in the day you could easily go to Ebay and see hundreds if not thousands of listed auctions of people that were selling their MMORPG characters. Today however Ebay does not allow […]

On Wednesday about a min before calling it a night and going to sleep my hard drive decided to say goodbye. Basically everything started going extremely slow then things started to disappear. At first I thought it was a virus, but soon realized it was my HD. I have 2 HDs, […]

For the better part of a year, Blizzard has had a job listing on their website seeking team members to work on a “Next-Gen MMO”. When this was first reported a while back, I was one of the few pessimists who believed that it was just a clever way for Blizzard to say they were […]

Recently, Flying Lab Software decided to lift the NDA that surrounded Pirates of the Burning Sea’s (PotBS from here on out) closed beta, and with good reason too; the game is launching next month. After a long and lengthy development cycle it looks like this piratey-escapeed is finally going to get released to the public. Although, anybody […]

1) The Assassination of Lord British - Ultima Online - August 8, 1997

Lord British was killed during an in-game appearance on Ultima Online’s beta test on August 8, 1997. A royal visit was conducted as a part of server population stress test. A player character known as Rainz cast a spell called “fire […]

So, this past weekend some news was let loose basically saying that Activision and Vivendi Universal (owner of Blizzard) were merging together under the new name Activision Blizzard. Yada yada yada, old news right? Well, one of the questions brought to mind by many-a-gamer was “will World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, or Starcraft 2 be […]

Episode 5 of The Guild was released yesterday.  Thought I’d post a little reminder for you guys and enlighten those who haven’t yet heard of it.  I love this show.

Today IGN has released its Top 100 Games of All Time for 2007 and it seems that only one MMORPG made the cut.  World of Warcraft came in at a dismal 83 and no other MMORPG made the list.  No Ultima Online, no Everquest, no GuildWars, no nothing.
This begs one to question whether any of […]