early access

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...

Happy PAX day, folks! Here's your first big fun announcement: Phoenix Labs' co-op OARPG Dauntless is launching closed beta. Today. In just a few...

Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you you've never heard of! Tonight we have four titles to highlight. NosTale Remember...

The latest video for Snail Games' early access revival of Dark and Light is about houses, but not the kind of housing you're thinking...

Aw, damnit. My.com is giving up on its Allods-themed Cloud Pirates MOBA already. The company doesn't say why, but given the successes of its...

Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...