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Massively Overthinking: Toxic positivity in the land of MMORPGs
As I type this, we've been watching the Lord of the Rings Online transfer situation unfold for over a week now, and I've personally...
Project Gorgon celebrates its seventh year of Steam early access with a gift of explosive love
When I saw the memo on Discord about Project Gorgon's seventh anniversary on Steam, I did a little double-take, as I knew the game...
Kickstarted Minecrafty sandbox Voxile embraces the transcendent blocky joy of early access
The Minecraft vibes are quite strong with the newly arrived Voxile, and that's most certainly intentional. The "fully destructible" multiplayer voxel sandbox arrived on...
Last Epoch dials up a huge April update with a new faction, echo type, and mastery respecs
Life is about to get crazy -- in the best of ways -- for time travel ARPG Last Epoch. Eleventh Hour Games announced that...
SMITE 2 introduces Princess Bari and a HUD editing feature in latest open beta patch
Many of the gods added to the playable roster of SMITE 2 have been carryovers from the first MOBA, but the latest update for...
Medieval MMO Anvil Empires’ next update wants to put you in the back of its cart
While other MMORPGs try to impress you with gigantic dragon mounts or fully decked-out spaceships to transport your lazy butt from Point A to...
Corepunk’s delayed update includes extraction dungeon, weapon mastery, and runes
Corepunk certainly is no stranger to delays, so seeing the online MMOARPG push back its February patch to the end of this month should...
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...
Blockchain MMO EVE Frontier hires a real-world economist to help refine its in-game economy
EVE Frontier, the "hardcore" survival space MMO that CCP says can't possibly do what it does without being on the blockchain, is apparently taking...
Brighter Shores launches the first phase of its combat rework
I don't think anyone was going to argue that Brighter Shores had the most engaging and thrilling combat system in the MMO space. In...
‘I think we’ve cooked’: MMO sandbox BitCraft prepares for a Steam early access beta
Way back in 2021, we started following an up-and-coming MMORPG sandbox sim called BitCraft that - despite its perhaps inauspicious name - was not...
Pax Dei adds more features to its Discord chat system, including voice chat and chat bubbles
Pax Dei's switchover to a Discord chat client last November is about to get a substantial upgrade with the game's next patch.
The studio announced...
Brighter Shores says combat updates are on schedule as testing continues
The tuning of combat in Brighter Shores that Fen Research has been talking about for a couple of months is now updating behind the...
Elite Dangerous pauses new colony establishment to address an unspecified ‘important issue’
The first week of system colonization's open beta in Elite: Dangerous has passed, and it's been an extremely active week, with over 8,000 systems...
Guild Wars 2 is planning a WvW update in March and a PvP Push beta in May
Yesterday's full announcement of Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds Repentance chapter came with more than a trailer and date: It also came with a...
Midnight Murder Club unveils new game mode and ‘guest pass edition’ as it eyes March 13 early access
Since last summer we've been keeping an eye on Midnight Murder Club, a hide-and-seek multiplayer FPS that puts players into a dark mansion to...
Monsters & Memories dates its next open playtest for April 11, firms up its early access launch plans
Monsters & Memories has had open test weekends a few times along its development track, so hearing about a new one isn't necessarily a...
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...
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...
Tickets for Warframe’s first TennoConcert become available March
Every year, Warframe's TennoCon expands, and every year I wonder just how it could possibly get bigger. For 2025, it grows in a very...
