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World Adrift posts its public roadmap, improves climbing so it doesn’t kill you
The veil of secrecy has been lifted from Worlds Adrift, and now every Tom, Dick, and Jane will be able to know what the...
Bless Online shakes up and builds out its combat system
With its early access debut coming next month, Bless Online has a lot riding on how well it can present itself to a western...
PAX East 2018: Talking superhero MMOs with Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever
At this year's PAX East, I discovered that my mental picture of Casey McGeever did not match the actual man in person, but that...
Wild West Online calculates how horses react to being shot multiple times
How do you tame the wild west? One patch at a time, my friends.
The developers behind Wild West Online continue to adjust the western...
The Day Online streamlines the MOBA format
Believe it or not, there are studios out there still trying to break into the heavily cornered MOBA market. For Korea's Reloaded Studios, the...
Crossout’s battle station wagons jump on the battle royale bandwagon
Here at the esteemed Massively OP offices, where every day is a silver-lined dream aboard a gold-lined yacht, we have established a policy of...
DayZ to reboot with a new game engine but still won’t leave early access
Is it weird that it seems so long ago that DayZ was the "it" survival arena game for streamers? How quickly we've moved on,...
PAX East 2018: State of Decay 2 debuts a gory gameplay trailer
Before we had zombies to beat up without remorse in games, what did we used to kill? White dots and angry little mushrooms, mostly....
Betawatch: Defiance’s beta, TERA’s console launch, and Eliot’s in the brig (April 6, 2018)
Welcome back to another look at all the MMO beta happenings of the week! I've stashed Eliot in the brig so that I can take...
Crowfall’s 5.5 pre-alpha is live with female centaurs, player vendors, and a new map
Crowfall is ready to push its pre-alpha testing phase to the limit. A new dev video from ArtCraft this week shows off some of...
World of Warcraft reveals Battle for Azeroth plans
The information dam seems to have broken with World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, and we are all about to be swept away in...
The Black Death overhauls building, introduces guild systems, and wipes all the things
The Black Death is taking no prisoners with its latest patch, V.026. Also called Dominion, the huge content update makes some rather sweeping changes...
Defiance 2050 puts out the call for beta testers
With Defiance's reboot scheduled for this summer, Trion Worlds needs as many testers as possible to help run the game through its paces.
This is...
Crowfall’s April Q&A focuses on quality of life improvements
The host of small improvements and tweaks that result in a better operating game client and a more enjoyable user experience can be just...
Battle royale Darwin Project adds a duo mode
Will we ever dig to the bottom of the pit of battle royale titles? Probably not, but here's another one that's been in development...
SoulWorker Online leaves open beta, preps for release [Update: It’s launched!]
Say farewell to SoulWorker Online's open beta -- and hello to release! Gameforge announced that the import has wrapped up its one-month-plus open beta...
ECO is full of garbage (and patches)
Planetary simulator ECO is surprising testers with an interesting twist that will be sure to keep them on their toes (and plugging their nose):...
GDC 2018: Games can help humanity, be profitable, and get support from gamers
Games alone won't make the world better. They won't even make gamers better. We publish some articles that certainly seem pretty pro-games, but we're...
Wild West Online outlines current system initiatives
Busy times over at Wild West Online, where the dev team is pushing forward on multiple fronts. Currently, the devs are focused on bringing...
Dogma: Eternal Night goes silent as its community manager resigns
Dogma: Eternal Night has slipped into the shadows of silence -- and some fans are concerned.
As was pointed out on Reddit, the studio hasn't...
