A fresh first impressions: Checking out Palia for the first time on Switch
Outside of MMORPGs, life sims are probably the most-played genre in my household. I originally bought Stardew Valley for my wife a few years...
Wayfinder’s Eventide holiday events are live alongside Senja rework and awakening system
Eventide is officially upon us in Wayfinder - the tweaked version, that is. As we wrote last week, Airship Syndicate soft-launched part of the...
Corepunk’s latest NDA-free test round sees mixed reviews, early game complaints, and survival annoyances
The latest NDA-free alpha test for OARPG Corepunk is almost wrapped up (it ends this Wednesday, December 20th), but already player impressions are a...
Valheim targets Ashlands for the first half of 2024, shows off foods, plants, and ‘absolutely badass’ armor
Valheim has posted its final dev blog for 2023, which is once more all about the ongoing Ashlands biome update, and it leads off...
Funcom’s Dune Awakening is readying another closed beta test for early 2024
Funcom is continuing to inch along with playtests for the Dune Awakening survival MMO - in fact, the one it opened sign-ups for a...
‘Aquatic adventure MMO’ Age of Water readies an early access release in the first quarter of 2024
It's been the hottest of minutes since we heard from Age of Water, the self-described "aquatic adventure MMO" set in a flooded post-apocalypse from...
Nightingale’s team ‘flexes’ its creative muscles by adding fishies and grumpy critters
In its final dev blog of 2023, Victorian realm-hopping sandbox Nightingale hopes to end the year by "flexing" its creative projects and giving all...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen delays latest pre-alpha test into 2024 over broken backend system
Just as things were beginning to ramp up for pre-alpha testing of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, the plans laid by Visionary Realms get...
Betawatch: Skull and Bones kicks off closed beta, Corepunk launches closed test with no NDA
Apparently Skull and Bones is now in closed beta. According to the game's "official Twitter account" and "sources familiar with the matter," anyhow. Do...
Tribes 3 Rivals promises a business model that has learned from past monetization mistakes
Near as we can figure, there are two types of players learning that the venerable Tribes FPS franchise is coming back in the form...
PvPvE extraction RPG Seekers of Skyveil continues closed alpha tests and reveals more characters
We're going to need a few moments to recount this one because it's had a bit of a winding initial path. At the start...
Ship of Heroes’ latest dev blog talks up its attempts to make combat smoother and more enjoyable
If you peeked in on Ship of Heroes' Steam Next Fest demo as we did, you probably noticed that combat was... well, bad, let's...
Massively on the Go: Palia’s Nintendo Switch version works on the go, but it’s still better at home
Let me start off by saying this isn't going to be yet another impressions piece on Palia. We've already had three of those, and...
Star Citizen brings three new vehicles, updated salvage, and more derelict settlements in alpha 3.22
Players of the alpha version of Star Citizen can now go from Wrecks to Riches, or at least they can do so provided they...
Siege Camp’s Anvil Empires pre-alpha begins testing housing interiors, player markets, and pack animals
Still keeping an eye on Siege Camp's Anvil Empires? We are, and development of the war-centric sandbox MMORPG continues this weekend with a major...
Fantasy sandbox Myth of Empires aims for a February 2024 release
With a nasty legal tussle between Snail Games and Angela Games solved and a partnership between the two forged, fantasy sandbox MMO Myth of...
Tarisland addresses genderlocking and pay-to-win, boosts raiding over crafting
Following Tarisland's second closed beta, Tencent has resurfaced with another dev blog exploring player feedback - and what the company aims to do about...
Eco’s big Update 10 adds boat building, country settling, and tech tree adjustments
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...
Book of Travels adds new rooms to snoop around in and new quests to follow in latest patch
Three new rooms, two new quest lines, and a bunch of bug fixes: That's the Cliff's Notes version of the newest content patch for...
V Rising plans end of early access in 2024 with a new zone, endgame events, and gameplay tweaks
V Rising is once more electing to talk about but not talk about future updates as its latest dev blog pirouettes through teases and...
