early access

During this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I attempted to tackle a question sent in by commenter and listener Sally Bowls - specifically,...

Good-bye Early Access! It's a glorious day when a game can say that, and today Guardians of Ember gets to join the ranks of launched...

Epic Games announced this morning that Fortnite's upcoming PvP mode will essentially be free-to-play. The game was originally touted by Epic as a PvE survival...

After wandering the lands of early access since last December, the Runewaker-developed hack-and-slash Guardians of Ember has now gained enough confidence, experience, and (most...

Update: Aww, nuts. Epic has already disabled it, calling it a "configuration issue" and bug. Bet you've never actually ridden a physical lockbox from an...

Every voyage has a beginning, and for Puzzle Pirates' newest server, the maiden voyage began this past week. It's called Dark Seas, and it's a...

Early access or no, players expect their games to work right when they're shelling out money for them. The developers of the reworked Dark...

This past summer, ARK: Survival Evolved finally officially launched, ending its stint as an early access game just three days before PAX West, then promptly announced...

When the history books go to record the development of Project Gorgon, they're going to have to use terms like "ages" and "epochs" to...

Get ready for a flood of information from Conan Exiles. Funcom admitted that it had been dropping the ball on talking with fans about...

There are times when Worlds Adrift is meant to be lonesome, but that doesn't mean it needs to be lonely. The development team has...

Eurogamer's Chris Roberts interview covers why the alpha 3.0 is more like early access than beta, how making games has changed in the era of crowdfunding, and why he's tired of giving out 3.0 launch estimates - even when he's being called a liar by detractors.

For its first major content update, Dark and Light's Mysteries of Blackice Peaks proved to be a bit of a mixed bag. While adding...

With its domination over Steam and 10 million units sold, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has the industry's direct and rapt attention. But this immense success hasn't...

It might be tempting to become so wrapped up in the endless possibilities and power of Citadel: Forged With Fire's magic that you might...

Nobody wants to see the word "rollback" associated with a game, including the designers. You can tell that the staff behind Dark and Light...

Indie sandbox MMORPG Wild Terra (official site, Steam) has been in early access since December, a nostalgia-driven medieval sim that allows players to build up...

This year's online juggernaut is not, surprisingly enough, anything made by Valve, Blizzard, or Riot, but instead one stemmed from the mind of a...

Longtime Funcom watchers and MMORPG veterans already knew that Funcom was working on multiple games as part of its Conan franchise push, but some...

Massively OP's Justin Olivetti joked that it sounded like a game by Mad Libs, but Wild Buster is in fact a sci-fi hack-and-slash MMOARPG being ported westward...