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Not So Massively: Stormgate was not ready for early access

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As the first of StarCraft II's spiritual successors to make it to a public launch, Stormgate will be releasing free to play for all...

Old-school web browser MMORPG Tanoth has been resurrected in a playable beta format

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Here's a blast from the past that is sure to catch genre fans by surprise. Does anyone here remember Tanoth? It was a web...

Crowdfunded multiplayer RTS Stormgate enters headstart today ahead of its August free-to-play launch

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If you're an MMORTS junkie as MOP's Tyler is, you've probably been watching Stormgate's development with great interest over the last few years. In...

Cozy multiplayer life sim Spellfarers conjures up an early access launch

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Grab your trusty spell books, phone a friend for support, and take a trip on your favorite flying broom (or high-speed internet line) right...

StarCraft II-inspired multiplayer RTS Immortal Gates of Pyre plans Steam playtest this weekend

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After a lengthy period of silence, the team behind indie RTS Immortal: Gates of Pyre has announced a playtest on Steam for August 2nd...

Dual Universe unveils a standalone version that lets players host their own fully customized private servers

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If you're the sort of person who was intrigued at the prospect of playing Dual Universe but were not thrilled by the thought of...

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...