[AL:Rift]Official Site: RIFT
Studio: Trion Worlds
Launch Date: March 1, 2011
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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The Steam spring sale is upon us with deals on MMOs from New World Aeternum to Pantheon
Is it actually spring? No. But do you actually need an excuse for a Steam sale? Also no! But that's exactly what we got...
Defiance’s revival team didn’t get the database, will start with the final patch, and can’t commit to major updates yet
Back on Tuesday, we reported on the news that Fawkes Games - which in the past has picked up multiple discarded Gamigo MMORPGs -...
Trion’s 2013 transmedia synergy MMO Defiance is being revived by Fawkes Games
Two days ago I was explaining to my gen alpha children the origins of Trove's Heckbugs event and how the whole game was a...
RIFT runs a new Carnival of the Ascended to celebrate the game’s 14 years of operation
It is perhaps a touch bittersweet to celebrate the 14th anniversary of RIFT when the past few years have not exactly been the most...
Hellbugs and Heckbugs invade Trove and RIFT as Valentine-themed events continue
The first thing you're going to do when you see this headline is complain that Valentine's Day was, like, so last week, and you...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs that suck in interesting ways
This week's Massively Overthinking is entirely inspired by a fantastic argument made by YouTuber on Bluesky. Iron Pineapple declared that "a good game can...
MMO Hype Train: The odd allure of Eternal Tombs’ live game masters
For a lot of MMORPG players, there are certain keywords that prove to be deal-breakers if we hear them in conjunction to an upcoming...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs with creative idea hooks
There's so much blatant -- and lazy! -- copying in the world of entertainment and arts that anything novel is to be cherished. I've...
The MOP Up: RIFT gets some surprising API improvements
Already we're checking off the "something positive happens for RIFT" square in our 2025 bingo card, as Gamigo's team invested some time improving the...
Torchlight Infinite dev just launched Go Go Muffin, a ‘cozy fantasy MMO’ for mobile
Do you know the muffin MMO? Well, you're about to. Torchlight Infinite developer XD Games is calling its new F2P mobile game Go Go...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Godspawn, Guild Wars 2’s latest release
Today marks the release of Godspawn, the first content patch of the Janthir Wilds expansion cycle for Guild Wars 2. While this patch comes...
The MOP Up: Aion reworks sieges, raids, and world bosses
NCsoft brought a sweeping raft of changes to many group activities in Aion this past week: "We are excited to reveal that we have...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you feel is spinning its wheels these days?
When we think of MMOs that have stalled out or are spinning their wheels doing a lot of nothing in particular, often our minds...
Trove is already preparing its Thanksgiving event as Gamigo puts its whole catalogue on sale
With Halloween behind us, blocky sandbox Trove is already gearing up for a holiday that most MMORPGs don't do at all: Thanksgiving. Trove's version...
RIFT shivers with terror as the Autumn Harvest reaps once more
If the scariest thing that RIFT fans can envision is their MMO closing, then it's almost a relief to see the sheer terror and...
Perfect Ten: The complete list of CCP’s weird EVE Online projects and offshoots
CCP Games, like some other studios we could mention, seems to be a place where the team got one very successful MMO off the...
RuneScape dates Group Ironman and tweaks Gate of Elidinis, OSRS delays mobile UI updates to November
Sure, there's Halloween things to expect out of RuneScape, but the month of October is also bringing some other non-spooky things to players as...
Choose My Adventure: Guided adventure, multiplayer hijinks, and pantslessness in Once Human
I'm going to be honest, I'm a bit surprised at just how on-rails Once Human is so far. Chalk that up to another assumption...
The Stream Team: Subduing a V Rising rift
It may be too soon, but Massively OP's MJ is ready to face some V Rising rifts. Well, at least the first tier! Those...
EVE Online engages the group-minded Siege of Zarzakh event for a limited time
Apparently an enemy NPC group in EVE Online has decided that attacking the gates to Zarzakh, which means it's time for players to mobilize...
