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‘We never intended to create a hardcore game’: Corepunk devs recap playtest
Corepunk already shared some initial player feedback from its second playtest - "challenging and punishing" was used a fair bit - but now developer...
Corepunk shares player feedback from its playtest: ‘Challenging and punishing’
Overshadowed by a pretty busy news weekend was the fact that genre hybrid MMO Corepunk ran its second weekend playtest with a little over...
Corepunk plans for its next test phase starting November 4
Good news, Corepunk fans: The game's next phase will be starting pretty soon on November 4th and will have significantly more people involved in...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 439: The upcoming MMO show
Justin and Bree discuss a range of upcoming MMOs - Wagadu Chronicles, Corepunk, Eternal Tombs, BitCraft, Ashes of Creation, and Tarisland - plus a mailbag topic on Wayfinder.
Corepunk’s tiny September alpha test leads to changes for immersion, solo gameplay, and questing
We had a bit of a laugh over Corepunk's 21-person September alpha test on this week's MOP Podcast, but a test is a test, and...
Corepunk is running a tiny preview test this weekend with several more planned ahead of December early access
It's been a long couple of years of waiting - and five delays, several of them due quite literally to the invasion of Ukraine...
Corepunk will finally open testing in September: ‘The most interesting exchanges are about to start’
When last we checked in on Corepunk, we noted that the MMORPG had been delayed at least five times, owing heavily to the fact...
The Daily Grind: What are your top three most anticipated MMOs?
Blue Protocol. Throne and Liberty. Wayfinder. Ashes of Creation. Pantheon. Star Citizen. Palia. Ship of Heroes. Corepunk. Soulframe. Dune Awakening. Nightingale. Tarisland.
I could keep...
Massively Overthinking: Are we in an ‘MMO hype vacuum’?
James "MMO Folklorist" Crosby recently penned a piece using a term that seems so apt I feel we should all adopt it: the MMO...
Corepunk says beta delay is due to unfinished optimization, but it’s making progress with bots
Corepunk is back in the news today with its May developer update, and with everything this game's been through - including the evacuation of...
Corepunk devs answer 20 questions about NPC swearing, lack of item durability, and more
Artificial Core's top-down fantasy/sci-fi hybrid emerged this week to follow up on the lengthy profession (and gameplay) video that the studio put out last...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 410: Cyberpunk meets gaslamp
Justin and Bree discuss Corepunk, Diablo IV, Palia, Nightingale, Blizzard, NCsoft, Pearl Abyss, and EG7/Daybreak, with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls Online, and SWG Legends.
Corepunk posts an hour of gameplay footage that focuses on gathering and crafting professions
This past December, we heard fresh word out of Corepunk that was generally a combination of good news and bad news: The game's beta...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2023
As 2022 drew to a close, we spent our Massively Overthinking roundtables discussing our predictions for 2023 as well as our goals. Now, we're...
Corepunk has suffered yet another delay but says beta is finally ‘close’
Despite previous promises that it would have a closed beta test running by the end of 2022, Corepunk and its team announced that it's...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2023
Nobody can see the future, but it sure is fun guessing, and that's exactly what we're going to do for (to?) the MMO genre...
Corepunk promises closed beta by the end of the year
For fans of the genre hybrid Corepunk, it's been a most distressing year of silence. After several delays and an announcement this past May...
Whatever happened to the oft-delayed Corepunk? It’s suspended Russian region support
When last we checked in on Artificial Core and its upcoming MMO Corepunk, the Amsterdam- and Kyiv-based studio admitted that it was hunkered down...
Kyiv-based Corepunk studio says it’s lost contact with some staff stuck in Ukraine
Upcoming MMO Corepunk has joined - in fact, had long since joined, unbeknownst to us - the long list of game studios affected by...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2022
OK folks, it's that time of the year again: the time when we cast our eyes ahead and try to pinpoint what's going to...
