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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...
Fractured Online and its dev team have been bought out by a new studio – and it’s not a crypto scheme
Kickstarted MMORPG sandbox Fractured has been teasing something big coming for the last month, punctuated by a promise from Dynamight's Jacopo Gallelli earlier this...
Dauntless is officially sunsetting following the layoff of the team back in January
I'm sorry to report this afternoon that Phoenix Labs' Dauntless is closing down.
The sunset news came in the form of a brief tweet this...
EVE Frontier makes an 18-minute case to play this blockchain hardcore MMO
Still not sold on EVE Frontier but curious about what sets this title apart in CCP's EVE universe -- other than its use of...
The reboot of Kickstarted MMO Shards Online, Legends of Aria Classic, is officially sunsetting
I'm sorry to report this morning that Legends of Aria Classic is closing its doors - again. The news comes via the game's Patreon...
Not So Massively: Checking up on StarCraft II’s would-be successors
For some time now, MassivelyOP's Not So Massively column has been keeping an eye on the crop of upcoming real time strategy games that...
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...
Riders of Icarus, which once had 1M western players, is riding into the sunset under Valofe’s banners
A week ago, we covered the odd news that Valofe's Riders of Icarus had abruptly canceled its plans to merge down the North American...
Richard Garriott is still toying with Ultima Online spinoff ideas – like maybe a TTRPG
MMORPG gamers might recall that last summer, Ultima Online creator Richard Garriott grabbed headlines a bit by accident when he casually told a player...
A ‘majority’ of Dauntless and Fae Farm devs at Phoenix Labs have apparently been laid off
We've got bad news for fans of Dauntless and Fae Farm tonight: Studio Phoenix Labs posted to Linkedin that its owners have "made the tough...
Creature capturing MMO Untamed Isles resumes development after being bought up by a blockchain studio
It's been almost three years since we heard anything out of Untamed Isles, a cute-looking creature capturing MMORPG from developer Phat Loot Studios that...
PlayerUnknown has aspirations of creating a metaverse over the course of three interlocked game releases
Yep, that word is being used by a big name developer again. But then that big name developer is Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene, the guy...
One Shots: Pretty please give me those pretty spaceships
It's a new year of community screenshots here at One Shots Incorporated (that's right, we're now a soulless corporation with algorithms and AI and...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Vague Patch Notes: EVE Frontier’s blockchain foundation makes it a worse MMO
It is a mark of pride for our readers that basically none of you are having CCP Games trying to play around with the...
Ubisoft shareholders are apparently still in buyout negotiations – under Guillermot family control
Rumors of an Ubisoft buyout have popped up multiple times in recent memory - in fact, the last one was back in October, when Bloomberg...
CCP does not want you calling its blockchain game EVE Frontier a blockchain game
The side projects of EVE Online are bursting with news today, as the integrated FPS EVE Vanguard has decided to open up its testing...
Ubisoft is shuttering XDefiant already, along with multiple studios – around 277 workers affected
Dreadful news for XDefiant fans and Ubisoft workers tonight: The game is closing down permanently, and several hundred Ubisoft employees are being laid off.
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