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Brighter Shores’ closed beta begins behind an NDA as player trading is delayed
Brighter Shores, the new MMORPG from Jagex co-founder Andrew Gower, officially enters closed beta this week - but you won't be hearing much about...
Dark and Darker Mobile delays launch from fall 2024 to the first half of 2025
I'm sure you've noticed by now, but October is a huge month for game delays, as studios look at the fall calendar and all...
Rumor: Nintendo is running a 10K player test for its secret Switch MMO
A huge test for a not-so-secret Nintendo Switch playtest is underway by the company itself -- and this could have significant implications for the...
33 Immortals delays early access into 2025 to address player feedback and stability problems
Earlier this year we started reporting on the not-so-massive 33 Immortals, a multiplayer co-op roguelike game that put 33 players together (natch) to try...
Helldivers 2 completes sweeping buffs and commits to more comms as jump-jetting Automatons menace players
Last month brought some big changes to the co-op shooter Helldivers 2, as Arrowhead Studios deployed a huge buff-granting update that brought the "power"...
The MOP Up: Lost Ark readies a two-gate raid and server transfers
Lost Ark is pumping out two updates in October, with one already live and a new raid, transfers, and cosmetics coming on October 23rd:...
Wayfinder sprints toward its 1.0 launch with the reveal of its 8th hero, Lora
We're just days -- nay, hours -- away from the full 1.0 release of the battered but spunky Wayfinder on October 21st, and Airship...
Betawatch: Aloft drifts to 2025-ish skies
If you'd been looking forward to playing Aloft this year during its previously announced fall early access, we're sorry to inform you that this...
Massively Overthinking: Are we over early access MMOs and the ‘early access trap’ yet?
A few weeks back, Shadow's Kiss, a Kickstarted vampire MMORPG that probably most of our readers never even knew about, threw in the towel,...
Cozy MMO Palia is letting us trade plushies in next week’s Fall’s Flourishes update
Palia is back and teasing yet another update for the open beta mini-MMO: The Fall’s Flourishes Update - aka patch 0.185 - arrives on...
Jagex’s RuneScape survival spin-off resurfaces asking for closed alpha testers
It's been a couple years since Jagex first announced that it was working on a survival game spin-off set in the RuneScape universe, but...
Brighter Shores shares load testing and new screenshots as it marches towards early access
If you're hearing the loud clanging of hammers and the rattling torquing of wrenches, that's just Brighter Shores doing a bit of tuning up...
Dune Awakening answers questions about PvP, console release plans, and a melee combat revamp
Dune: Awakening has put forth another monthly newsletter - its second one since the initiative started in August even if this one leaped over...
Betawatch: Brighter Shores is really launching in November after one last beta
You should get your whites whiter and your shores brighter when Brighter Shores goes into testing in late October ahead of a full release...
EverQuest kicks off Nights of the Dead, EverQuest II begins spooky season
Feel that chill in the air and scent of pumpkin spice? That's Halloween coming to take over all your MMORPGs for the next few...
Legacy: Steel and Sorcery is an multiplayer co-op ARPG made by ex-WoW devs
If you, like us, make a hobby of following the various projects that former World of Warcraft devs are creating, then you might be...
The Daily Grind: Do you bother leveling much in MMORPG playtests?
Amazon's New World is about to launch Aeternum next week, but I'm still thinking about the playtest. In that playtest, Amazon promised cosmetics to...
Medieval MMO Anvil Empires introduces cargo ships to cross the ocean blue
When medieval sandbox MMORPG Anvil Empires greatly expanded its in-development world map into several landmasses this past August, it created a new problem for...
Colony sandbox MMO SEED is in ‘pre-release,’ plans October 24 test run
The abrupt and bizarre death of colony sandbox and "society simulator" SEED in 2022 was only topped by its abrupt resurrection and return of...
My Time at Evershine devs: Get our Kickstarter to $2.5M and we’ll leap past early access
We weren't particularly surprised to see My Time at Evershine, the multiplayer follow-up to Pathea Games' My Time at Portia and My Time at...
