Star Citizen ATV, Squadron 42’s projected 2020 beta, and Cloud Imperium’s $46M private investment - This week's Around the Verse does touch on the 3.4 release of Star Citizen, but the big news is definitely from Squadron 42, which has released its big roadmap as…
Hands-on: Dipping into Ashes of Creation’s Apocalypse battle royale - The first question we need to ask is: What am I, the sheepiest of all PvE sheep, doing in a PvP battle royale game? The second question follows: How quick…
Pathfinder Online adds enchanting, runs a major multi-week event - So what is going on with the struggling-yet-still-somehow-alive Pathfinder Online? It turns out that this fantasy title has been chugging its way along in early access all through 2018, putting…
City of Titans delays Issue 0 launch into 2019 – ‘We’re still here. We’re still fighting’ - You'd probably guessed it already, but Missing Worlds Media project lead Chris "Warcabbit" Hare has now confirmed the news: Kickstarted superhero MMORPG City of Titans is not going to make…
Crowfall muses on lessons learned from first test campaigns - Earlier this week, Crowfall began its first ever proper campaigns, allowing players to fight it out in a three-faction brawl for survival and control of the Dying Worlds. In the…
Elite: Dangerous raises big money for charity with a 24-hour stream - The team at Frontier Developments put on quite a show on December 17th with a bit of livestreaming. But the Elite: Dangerous crew wasn't just showing off a patch; no, it…
Ashes of Creation’s Apocalypse is now expected to launch this afternoon - It's been a bit of a slow start for Ashes of Creation's Apocalypse mode, which was meant to launch yesterday following the deployment of Intrepid's new website, but as the…
The Stream Team: A first look at Prosperous Universe - Massively OP's MJ has long talked about her plans to set up a family business is a sandbox MMORPG. With Prosperous Universe, a business is all she can build! This…
Massively OP’s 2018 Awards: Best Indie or Crowdfunded MMO of 2018 - Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2018 awards continue today with our award for Best Indie or Crowdfunded MMO of 2018, which was awarded to Elite Dangerous last year in this category's inaugural year. All indie MMOs…
Choose My Adventure: I am not good at drug running in Star Citizen - There's a rather popular quote in military circles that goes "no plan survives contact with the enemy." This quote springs to my mind as I recount my latest Star Citizen…
Identity’s latest patch lets you get completely blitzed out of your mind - The newest patch for MMO sandbox Identity has added consumables to the game, which of course means various things you can put in your body for boosts or stat penalties. Theoretically.…
Crowfall releases patch 5.8, the first campaign patch, without the first campaign - Good news, Crowfall fans, the long-awaited patch for the game's first real campaign releases today! Except it does so without the actual just-referenced first real campaign; instead, the patch has hit…
Camelot Unchained races to clear out its quest log before 2018 ends - With the winter holiday break coming up for the Camelot Unchained team, its members are working feverishly to get as much done as they can before the year closes. One…
The Repopulation’s long-awaited update is arriving December 18 - Yes, you're getting an update to game mechanics in The Repopulation for this holiday season. And that's the true meaning of Christmas, patches for The Repopulation. It makes more sense now than…
Legends of Aria discusses early access ‘growing pains’ while hotfixes keep rolling - It's been a rough ride for Legends of Aria in early access, something that the game's most recent newsletter acknowledged; the game was rolling out hotfixes for Early Access on Sunday,…
Guild Wars and Elder Scrolls franchise composer Jeremy Soule starts Patreon for exclusive music - It's not really a holiday season around Massively OP if we're not asking that annual question, "What is composer Jeremy Soule up to these days? And did he ever make…
Dual Universe opens winter alpha to all Kickstarter donors next week - If you put any money at all into sci-fi sandbox Dual Universe back during its 2016 Kickstarter, you're about to have a happy Christmas indeed, as Novaquark announced earlier this…
Ashes of Creation shows off alpha gameplay while prepping fans for the Apocalypse - With the public battle royale-style Apocalypse mode coming to Ashes of Creation next week, Intrepid Studios is leveraging the increased attention as best it can. In Thursday's livestream, the team…
You HAVE to see these Roaring Twenties-inspired Star Citizen clothes concept pieces - Chris Roberts and Sandi Gardiner are back at the helm of Star Citizen's Around the Verse this week, and it's fun! But let's be honest, you should skip past the…
Prosperous Universe blasts off to early access today - Call it early access, call it first access, just don't call it late to space dinner. The sci-fi sim Prosperous Universe is taking one giant leap forward for gamekind today…
Shroud of the Avatar expands fishing and teleporting with today’s release - Shroud of the Avatar's final update of the year is live later today as Release 61 hits the ground running and the devs get some much-needed rest for the holidays. Players…
Population Zero starts selling founder’s packs, lays out 2019 testing schedule - Russian-made survival MMO Population Zero plans to head into alpha testing at the start of 2019 -- and hopes to end the year with a full-fledged launch of some sort.…
Pantheon’s full world begins to emerge as pre-alpha winds down - One of the big hopes of the future of the MMO genre is finally putting all of its pieces together. Pantheon announced in its December newsletter that for the first…
Kickstarted MMORPG Crowfall is preparing to test its first real campaign - Crowfall's on a "fast track" to its first campaign, ArtCraft says. Getcher "it's happening" gifs: "After a few weeks of testing, our final pre-alpha milestone (lovingly numbered 'version 5.8' and…
Choose My Adventure: Postcards from the Star Citizen universe - Your votes last week in my first Choose My Adventure gave me a great way to start looking around the environs of Star Citizen by actually... well... looking around! Exploration…
Elite Dangerous’ Beyond – Chapter Four is live today with exploration, background sim, and guilds - The fourth chapter of Elite Dangerous' Beyond campaign is live today, and if it seems as if we've been covering it forever, that's only because Frontier has been remarkably good…
Camelot Unchained teases ‘epic siege battles’ as beta development continues - Hey, old school Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer fans, you might want to take a peek at the latest Camelot Unchained studio report. It sounds like siege content is…
Ship of Heroes opens registration for its first login test - It's uncommon for a development team to describe an upcoming test phase as "boring," since the goal is usually to get fans excited and happy to take part in testing.…
The Stream Team: Dog pile on Ship of Heroes! - Ship of Heroes is conducting another test, this time focusing on logging in a large chunk of players at once. It sounds like a great opportunity for a mosh pit…
