early access
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s weekly patch continues Mastery retooling – the Enchanter is up next
As Pantheon Rise of the Fallen's combat and progression overhaul continues testing, Visionary Realms has made it to week 12 with another update for...
SpiritVale apologizes for a rocky launch as it works to hire a backend dev and fix its auction hall
We noted yesterday that indie MMORPG SpiritVale has been having a very uppy/downy launch week. Since its July 15th release, Baikun Interactive has seen...
The Daily Grind: What anticipated MMO completely let you down the first time you logged into it?
It's a lot of fun getting hyped up for an upcoming MMORPG, following it through the development process, watching all of the videos, and...
Multiplayer RTS ZeroSpace celebrates early access launch with community events
Kickstarted multiplayer RTS ZeroSpace has officially launched into early access this week and is celebrating with community events for PvE and PvP. The initial...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 573: Project Demogorgon
Justin and Bree discuss SpiritVale's launch, DDO Terror of Demogorgon, Overwatch, FFXIV Mobile, and the situation with Shroud of the Avatar and the Ultima franchise, with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and Farm Together 2, plus a mailbag topic on predictability (and not) in MMORPGs.
Indie MMORPG SpiritVale sees 20,000 concurrent players as the dev fights economy-wrecking bots
If you're the kind of person who sees an indie chibi MMORPG launch and thinks, "You know, I should go find a way to...
Gods Death & Reapers maps out new arenas, a party system, and its upcoming early access features
Last May saw Gods, Death & Reapers, the PvPvE extraction RPG from Wolcen Studio, host its fifth closed alpha playtest, which MOP's own Sam Kash hopped...
Palworld has now hit nearly a million concurrent players since its 1.0 launch
After what feels like almost forever in its early access state, Palworld has launched into 1.0, and players have responded with... well, playing the game....
Controversial ex-blockchain MMO Soulbound Online has officially entered early access
We're having a bit of a week for low-key launches here in the MMORPG genre, and here comes another one: SpiderWare's controversial "pixel-art action...
MMO society life sim SEED arrives in early access today after nearly a decade of development
MMORPG "society life simulator" SEED - not to be confused with the other MMO called Seed that shut down 20 years ago - is...
Stars Reach says it’s ‘an update or so away’ from early access, promises ‘big chonky updates’ in the future
Sandbox MMORPG Stars Reach really is just about to move into its next major stage of development: That's the takeaway from the latest developer...
The Daily Grind: What are your early access MMORPG must-haves?
My distrust of early access MMORPGs and really all early access games is hopefully well established at this point, but if not... y'all, I'm...
Online RPG Everwind recaps its early access to date: ‘We couldn’t have gone far if you hadn’t stood by our sides’
It's now been four months since the Minecraft-looking survivalbox Everwind went into early access, and the team behind the game took a moment to...
Multiplayer train-centric survivalbox EverRail roars its way down the early access railroad tracks
A-hoo-wee da-hoo-wee, ol' clickety-clack's a'echoing back, but that's not the sound of an old bluesy standard; it's the arrival of EverRail, the survival sandbox by...
Necesse teases its July 30 Rust & Romance update with NPC relationships, biomes, and bumper cars
When Necesse began teasing its new update last week, I certainly wasn't expecting one this massive - nor one with this theme. It's called...
Brightfall is a co-op survival crafting game set on a cursed Celtic island that consumes light and minds
Yep, it looks like we've got another multiplayer survivalbox coming forth, but this one seems to lean pretty heavily on thematics and higher degrees...
The MOP Up: Crimson Desert adds a cross-save feature across all its platforms
Hopping between gaming platforms got a lot easier as a Crimson Desert player, thanks to this past week's inclusion of a cross-save feature on...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s weekly dev report is a cornucopia of more tuning, tweaking, and polishing
The second verse is the same as the first for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's latest weekly development digest, in that it's mostly noting efforts to...
Erenshor’s solo dev discusses retention issues, the use of LLMs, and the MMO sim’s path to 1.0
Brian Burgee, the sole developer for the single-player MMORPG sim Erenshor, has a whole lot to say about where things stand and where they're going, particularly...
Sky Children of the Light’s wholesome Van Gogh experience is live today on all platforms
Back in June, dreamy cozy MMORPG Sky Children of the Light announced that it was adding an interactive Vincent van Gogh exhibit in what...
