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Defiance’s revival team didn’t get the database, will start with the final patch, and can’t commit to major updates yet
Back on Tuesday, we reported on the news that Fawkes Games - which in the past has picked up multiple discarded Gamigo MMORPGs -...
Stars Reach’s Raph Koster discusses plans for outer space and ‘full-blown sandbox MMO’ mechanics
Right now the pre-alpha for Stars Reach is pretty much focused entirely on ground-based things like mining, killing creatures, and during this week, seasons...
Trion’s 2013 transmedia synergy MMO Defiance is being revived by Fawkes Games
Two days ago I was explaining to my gen alpha children the origins of Trove's Heckbugs event and how the whole game was a...
Wolcen Studio’s PvPvE extraction ARPG Project Pantheon plots its second closed alpha
The beginning of this year marked the reveal of the next game to come out of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem developer Wolcen Studio -...
Betawatch: BitCraft prepares for early access in May
We do not hand out an annual award for most unfortunately named MMORPG, but you have to imagine that if we did, BitCraft would...
The Stream Team: Starting over with a different character in Blade & Soul NEO
The voting public spoke and MOP's Chris is listening: He'll be starting afresh in Blade & Soul NEO with a new character that's a...
Star Citizen outlines progress on base building, crafting, and mission updates in February report
Like clockwork, Star Citizen has pulled together another monthly progress report to recount development steps made for the previous month, and so that means...
‘Infinite’ sandbox MMO DreamWorld unveils a gameplay trailer and runs an open playtest until March 16
Four years ago we first started covering Kickstarted game DreamWorld, a so-called "infinite sandbox MMO" that made some sky-high promises and hung its hat...
Star Citizen details updates to character item recovery arriving in alpha 4.1 and beyond
The penalty for character death in Star Citizen is going to get a fresh new wrinkle, as CIG has begun to test item recovery...
Devolve Online is a vehicular extraction shooter MMORPG that promises a fight for growth among hundreds of players
Yep, it's another extraction shooter. Only this time it's promising a battleground for hundreds of players at once and instead has people driving vehicles...
Soulframe previews new social hubs, factions, and caster weapons coming in its next pre-alpha
Digital Extremes has once again poured informational maple syrup all over the waffle faces of Soulframe players in its most recent dev stream, specifically...
Ashes of Creation’s February devstream looks ahead to tropics, Phase 3, and the Rogue class
There's an awful lot to digest from Ashes of Creation's latest two-hour developer livestream. Currently, the MMO is in the middle of its Alpha...
Stars Reach’s Kickstarter broke half a million dollars already, deep-dives the fishy princess Hansian species
Less than a week into its whirlwind Kickstarter - remember, we didn't even know there'd be a Kickstarter two months ago! - Stars Reach...
RuneFest 2025: Old School RuneScape’s new Sailing skill enters open alpha later this month
The revivified RuneFest event brought Old School RuneScape fans a 2025 update plan of its own, and as one might expect, there was a...
Betawatch: Monster Hunter Wilds lands with quite an impact
While I tease our editor-in-chief occasionally about the games that we highlight here in Betawatch, she is not the only person who plays video...
Star Citizen discusses its latest narrative twist and what it means for alpha 4.0.2’s story missions
"This was a false flag operation," say the narrative team members of Star Citizen, "and you fell for it." And they're doing it with...
Stars Reach Kickstarter hits $450K, unlocks crafting appearance customization as devs say headstart isn’t P2W
As the Stars Reach Kickstarter nears half a million dollars, the Playable Worlds team is using Kickstarter memos to further explain how the game's...
CipSoft’s PvPvE zombie shooter MMO Persist Online has ‘all core mechanics now implemented’ as it plots its testing course
Last year we heard about Tibia developer CipSoft entering the PvPvE sub-genre with Persist Online, which the studio classed as "a true, old-school MMORPG...
Ethyrial Echoes of Yore adds relics, hardcore mode, and party looting as Steam user reviews perk up
We're once again taking a moment to recount the updates and progress of Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore. As a refresher, this sandbox MMORPG's initial...
Raph Koster’s Stars Reach has launched its $200,000 crowdfunding campaign (and now it’s fully funded)
If you're seeing these words, then the Kickstarter for Stars Reach is finally live.
Longtime readers will know we've been covering this game since...
