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Pearl Abyss’ ‘open world action-adventure’ RPG Crimson Desert will be playable at Gamescom 2024

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Considering the long spans of silence that have earmarked the progress of Crimson Desert, we know it was easy to presume that Pearl Abyss...

Homestead Online is an indie MMO that embraces character persistence, permadeath, and base building

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An indie MMORPG developer is asking for help to test out a brand-new title that's still in its early days. This would be Homestead...

Working As Intended: The Fridge Poetry game is the latest distillation of MMORPG PvP

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This morning, MOP's Sam busted into MOP's work chat with a link to the Fridge Poetry game. "It's more like an art project than a...

Kickstarted sandbox MMORPG Fractured Online is finally, officially out of early access

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Fractured Online has been through a whole lot over the last few years, from its Kickstarter campaign to its Gamigo-backed early access, then to...

X-LEGEND is bringing a classic yet ‘fully upgraded’ version of Grand Fantasia to Steam

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It's been a little bit since Grand Fantasia crossed our collective minds, so that means we need to review for a moment: The anime...

‘Adaption shooter’ Ascendant is plotting an August open beta – with transmedia ambitions

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What the heck is an "adaption shooter"? That was my first and really only question upon first hearing about Ascendant (fka Ascendant Infinity), PlayFusion's...

Colony and life sim MMO Polity highlights updates and seeks player feedback after a month of full release

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Do you remember Polity? It's been some time since this game crossed our radar. We first reported on this social life and society sim...

PvPvE medieval extraction RPG Dungeonborne begins its free-to-play Steam early access

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Last week we cast our eyes to Dungeonborne, a first-person multiplayer PvPvE extraction RPG that lets solo players or teams band together to delve...

Aetherian Chronicles is a side-scrolling MMORPG that lets players team up with others or LLM-powered bots

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The majority of large language model (LLM) AI tool proponents suggest that the tech can be utilized to fill out a virtual game world...

Here’s how to sign up for Path of Exile 2’s impending closed beta test

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If you are saddened by the fact that the preview and today's big livestream reveal focused only on Path of Exile 's new Settlers...

Frantic and vampiric co-op shooter EvilVEvil officially launches

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Back in March, our MMOs You've Never Heard Of roundup included EvilVEvil, a co-op shooter from Toadman Interactive in which players take up the...

Enlisted makes its return to Steam, and this time it’s completely free-to-play

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Gaijin Entertainment's multiplayer WWII FPS Enlisted was meant to make a big early access launch on Steam, but instead the shooter stumbled out of...

Neverness to Everness is Hotta Studios’ next gacha RPG set in a ‘supernatural urban open world’

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If that other studio can make a sci-fantasy urban RPG, then what's stopping Hotta Studio and Perfect World Entertainment from doing the same thing?...

Not So Massively: The problem with The First Descendant’s character unlock mechanics

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The First Descendant has made quite a splash since it launched earlier this month. Nexon's looter shooter, dubbed "Warframe with waifus" by the greater...

Player numbers for Once Human continue to climb as limited seasons ignite friction

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NetEase's survival shooter Once Human continues to make a significant and surprising splash in the multiplayer gaming world, as this weekend has seen player...

Multiplayer dungeon crawler Dungeonborne launches into early access next week

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We want to welcome to the site another new title today, Dungeonborne, as it sits on the cusp of its early access launch next...

Stalcraft X is an overhaul of the original free-to-play survival extraction MMOFPS

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There are enough multiplayer shooters out there to have some fly under the radar, which has arguably been the case for the MMOFPS Stalcraft,...

NetEase’s post-apoc survival MMO Once Human is live – and already tearing up Steam

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NetEase has been extremely busy the last few years, cranking out games and picking up studios to make more for what it apparently thinks...

Fight or Kite: Multiversus relaunched is just as fun as ever

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I had been eagerly anticipating the return of Multiversus ever since it was suddenly and unceremoniously shut down last year. For those who don’t...

Midnight Murder Club is a multiplayer FPS game of deadly hide-and-seek inside a pitch-black mansion

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What happens when six people are given firearms, then told to enter a completely dark mansion filled with traps to kill one another? You...

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