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MMO Hype Train: Rooting for Project Gorgon in light of tremendous loss
In a different timeline, I think I would've been one of those players who entered the MMO space through Asheron's Call. I remember going to...
Star Citizen elaborates on its new cadence and plot-based content release plans
Last week, Star Citizen talked about changes to its content cadence and a primary focus away from adding features and toward introducing content and...
Blockchain ‘space survival MMO’ EVE Frontier will offer a 10-day free trial on February 14
EVE Frontier, the so-called "space survival MMO" blockchain game that CCP Games doesn't want people to call a blockchain game even though it's a...
Solarpunk MMO Loftia shows off work on Hanging Gardens district, an NPC, player clothes, fishing, and more
The cozy solar-powered MMO Loftia is back from the winter break and "in full-on dev mode" as it brings forth updates on several different...
Betawatch: Pantheon finally made it to Unity 6
It's been delayed and pushed off many a time, but Pantheon finally launched its big patch upgrading to Unity 6 this week, so we...
Vague Patch Notes: How long do online games truly get to live?
I'm going to start this article by asking a question I don't actually want an answer to: How long has Minecraft been popular?
Objectively there...
‘We are designing it to last for decades’: Stars Reach is hoping for ‘a few hundred thousand players’
Are you feeling the hype yet from the approach of the Stars Reach Kickstarter? Because Playable Worlds is kinda going all out with blogs...
Raph Koster offers a high-level overview of what Stars Reach is and what you’ll do in it
"Today I’m going to give you a tour of Stars Reach, the game. Like, the whole thing." So begins Raph Koster's latest dev blog...
Star Citizen details work on AI and preparation for new and improved missions in January report
We've only started the month of February and gotten details on November and December's work, but it's too late to look back too far...
Stars Reach lays out its four major Kickstarter tiers, including one where you can design a planet
We're a week away from the Stars Reach Kickstarter launch, but Playable Worlds is already teasing what the Kickstarter tiers - and therefore some...
Star Citizen’s alpha 4.0.1 is such a mess that CIG has cancelled the Red Festival free-fly event
Last December, CIG head Chris Roberts stated an intention for alpha builds of Star Citizen would focus on "decoupling feature development from content creation...
Chronicles of Elyria’s dev blogs disappear, and there’s no timeline for when they’ll return
This past December we reported on the continued drawing inward of communication and updates from the kickstarted MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria, as Soulbound Studio's...
Soulframe shares in-progress wolf-centric features and outlines new area, weapons, and features coming later this year
Digital Extremes' recent Warframe info deluge wasn't all it had up its sleeve, as the devs behind Soulframe also came together for a devstream...
Ashes of Creation takes players on a treasure hunt in January development stream
Hunting for treasure isn't the exclusive domain of marauding pirates, whip-cracking archaeologists, or tomb raiders; it's now part of Ashes of Creation alpha two...
Betawatch: Path of Exile 2 is now affecting the original Path of Exile’s development
Remember being told that Path of Exile 2 was not going to impact Path of Exile's development? Well, that's happening now. We're sure that...
MMO sandbox BitCraft releases a vignette of player-made settlements from its November alpha
Remember last summer when BitCraft took followers on a video tour of the settlements players built during its July alpha test? Well we're getting...
The Stream Team: A first live peek at the pre-alpha build of Stars Reach
It's been the talk of our site, our readers, and the MMORPG community overall: It's the in-development sandbox from Raph Koster's Playable Worlds Stars...
Star Citizen releases the Fight for Pyro event in alpha 4.0 preview, teases new alpha 4.0.1 ship
Star Citizen alpha 4.0 - that is, the "preview" version as opposed to the forked-off alpha 3.24.3 - is getting itself a new event,...
MMO Hype Train: The odd allure of Eternal Tombs’ live game masters
For a lot of MMORPG players, there are certain keywords that prove to be deal-breakers if we hear them in conjunction to an upcoming...
Ashes of Creation previews an updated point of interest ahead of its next monthly livestream
If you got a distinct whiff of a "visually prettified point-of-interest" smell when checking out Ashes of Creation's Twitter account, that's not just you;...
