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Working As Intended: Stars Reach could be the demographic revolution MMORPGs need
When Raph Koster started talking in Discord on Saturday night, I was super annoyed because I knew I was going to lose my whole...
Wolcen studio unveils ‘ExtrAction RPG’ Project Pantheon, plans closed alpha in February
No, we didn't sneeze while typing the word "extraction" in that headline; that's literally the kind of game sub-genre that Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem...
Early access VR MMO Ilysia announces public testing of its ‘largest update ever’ on January 15
It's been a few months since we heard any major peeps out of Ilysia, the early access VR MMO being developed by Team 21...
Multiplayer survival ARPG Gatewalkers sees updates peter out as devs shift to a single-player title
Do you remember Gatewalkers? It's a sci-fi co-op survival ARPG that we first reported on in 2020 and even shared some impressions from an...
‘Conquest adventure’ MMO Havenhold shares stats and lessons from previous alpha playtests
Do you remember Havenhold? We first reported on this martial arts-styled "multiplayer conquest adventure" MMO (or MMOACT to use the game's own parlance) last...
Raph Koster’s Stars Reach MMORPG is launching a Kickstarter in February – and could launch as early as 2026
Raph Koster and Playable Worlds announced during their fireside chat this evening that they're launching a Kickstarter campaign for sprawling sci-fantasy sandbox MMORPG Stars...
Betawatch: Pantheon adds servers in the wake of population bumps
People really like Pantheon, it turns out! That's the most logical conclusion to the fact that the game has apparently hit some new concurrency...
PSA: Star Citizen followers raise the alarm over continued conflicting refund policy messages
If you've been following the discussions around Star Citizen, you might have seen the topic of the sandbox's refund policy come up, perhaps even...
End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2025 and beyond
As we turn the page on another fascinating year of MMORPG history, we cross into fresh territory. What lies ahead? Surprises, disappointments, and endless...
The names of multiple Star Citizen execs ousted before the new year are finally surfacing
Yesterday we reported on the resignation of Carl Jones from his position as chief strategy officer for Star Citizen developer CIG, which appeared to...
Fight or Kite: The PvP MMOs we’re watching in 2025
Today we arrive at the first Fight or Kite column of the newest quarter of the century, and while I can’t speak for other...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation drama, Corepunk impressions
The past couple of weeks have seen two back-to-back holidays, so there wasn't as much beta news as you might have expected, but there...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen takes a victory lap after a milestone-filled 2024
Last year was an unsurprisingly big one for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, which means that Visionary Realms is understandably going to feel pretty...
Ashes of Creation influencer flames out by making accusations Intrepid calls ‘false and defamatory’
Whenever YouTubers, content creators, or influencers decide to drop a game that they'd hitched their entire online brand to, it can often have a...
Van camping sim Outbound aims to deliver an alpha in the first half of 2025
Maybe it's completely silly to be this excited over what amounts to a mobile life sim in which you live in a van down...
Superhero MMO project City of Titans shows off gameplay improvements after a quiet 2024
It's probably not the best sign when a developing MMO barely pokes its head up to make any sort of fuss over the course...
Ashes of Creation previews new dungeon, new races, and player housing added in Alpha Two phase two
It's a sequel to a sequel to an alpha! OK, not really, but Ashes of Creation is indeed moving forward to phase two of...
Betawatch: SWTOR’s Mac test, Stars Reach’s preview, Steel Hunter’s beta weekend
Some weeks, everyone is going whole-hog on beta developments. And some weeks you have two back-to-back holidays coming up so everyone decides "eh, let's...
Star Citizen alpha 4.0 releases as a ‘preview’ version that runs parallel to the ongoing alpha 3.24.3
CIG promised over and over that Star Citizen would get its alpha 4.0 release before the end of this year, and technically speaking, it...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
