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Don't do survival the hard way, with only your fleshy meatbag shell as your primary resource. Use your brains and futuristic technology to summon...

Avast, feast your eyes here, ye swabbies: Sea of Thieves be settin' sail for the waters of closed beta on the 24th of January...

The "when will Battle for Azeroth" speculation train is rolling once again because it looks like patch 7.3.5 is just around the corner. We...

Now that Star Citizen's Alpha 3.0 is finally here, the team has a high outlook for the development process going forward. In this week's...

A comment on Reddit about the current size and viability of Kritika Online got me thinking about MMO playerbases in general lately. We all...

Fresh off of its "largest" alpha test to date, Saga of Lucimia and its team are gearing up for a busy 2018. In a...

After a few days of playing Bot Smashers at Hi-Rez Expo 2018 this past weekend, I sat down and talked shop with Rory Newbrough, Bot...

Hi-Rez Expo 2018 ended this weekend, which means my opportunity to play the studio's new 1v1 mobile game Bot Smashers has also ended. And...

Thanks in part to the recent "The Free Kingdom of Elyria" promotion, Chronicles of Elyria has shot past three-and-a-half million dollars in crowdfunding raised...

Here we are, in the untamed wilderness of 2018! It feels a lot like 2017 so far, except that it's a year later. Also,...

Looking for a relaxing, colorful, and winsome MMORPG to while away the dark winter nights? You might want to check out Antaria Online, a...

While Fractured, the dynamic fantasy sandbox MMO, has been sporadic with its development blogs, when they do arrive, you can be assured that they...

One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It’s way too easy...

With a relatively flat year in terms of Kickstarter's video games fundraising, 2017 ended up handing the crown of crowdfunding back to Star Citizen....

Big brother SMITE isn't getting all the attention at this year's Hi-Rez Expo 2018 - Paladins is definitely seeing some love too. The team-based shooter got...

You could argue that a pre-alpha is itself a seed that will eventually grow into a full, playable game. It'd be a bit of...

Hunting down bugs in a video game is not the same as hunting down enemies. That's true even if the bug is a severe...

We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey as we head into...

Saga of Lucimia is charging into the new year with energy and gusto. The hardcore fantasy MMO is currently running its ninth pre-alpha test,...

Ship of Heroes is super-jumping right into 2018 with two documents of note. The first is a retrospective of what the Heroic Games team...