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Riders of Icarus, which once had 1M western players, is riding into the sunset under Valofe’s banners

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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...
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Richard Garriott is still toying with Ultima Online spinoff ideas – like maybe a TTRPG

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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

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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

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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...
Hmm. Appears I'm still alive.

PlayerUnknown has aspirations of creating a metaverse over the course of three interlocked game releases

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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

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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

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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...
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End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024

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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

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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...
You are bad and you should feel bad.

Vague Patch Notes: EVE Frontier’s blockchain foundation makes it a worse MMO

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It is a mark of pride for our readers that basically none of you are having CCP Games trying to play around with the...

Former Dauntless dev decries Awakening update as ‘blatantly not player focused’

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It's not just the veteran players who are extremely upset at the Awakening update for Dauntless; the game's former associate producer Jessie Leigh Gagnon...

Ubisoft shareholders are apparently still in buyout negotiations – under Guillermot family control

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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

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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

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Dreadful news for XDefiant fans and Ubisoft workers tonight: The game is closing down permanently, and several hundred Ubisoft employees are being laid off. Ubisoft...

Multiplayer RTS titles ZeroSpace and Immortal Gates of Pyre plan public tests this weekend

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This month, multiplayer RTS ZeroSpace moved from alpha to beta testing, and to celebrate, developer Starlance Studios will throw open the gates for a...

Whatever happened to the relaunched sandbox MMORPG Legends of Aria Classic?

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This week appears to be the kind of week where we flip through the old albums and see why there hasn't been anything major...

Blockchain MMO EVE Frontier extols the expanded galaxy and gameplay mechanics of its latest test build

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The blockchain sandbox MMO EVE Frontier appears to be desperately wanting to remind players that it has gameplay to offer and not just a...

Dauntless breaks its long radio silence with a commitment to releasing its revamp by the end of the year

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It has been quite some time since we specifically checked in on the multiplayer Behemoth-hunting RPG Dauntless, but that was primarily because news coming...
You are bad and you should feel bad.

Blockchain sandbox EVE Frontier’s next test challenges players to find artifacts starting November 7

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CCP Games' hungry hungry blockchain hippo EVE Frontier already announced plans for its next playtest to begin early this month, but now we have...

Ubisoft’s NFT battler Champions Tactics was broken to the point of unplayability over the weekend

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Near the end of October, Ubisoft's NFT figurine PvP battler Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles quietly made its full release with almost no amount of...

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