early access
V Rising previews new armor, crafting tier, and PvP shard ahead of Q2 formal launch
Vampire survivalbox V Rising's latest dev dispatch does not include a launch date, so don't get your hopes up for that. We're still apparently...
Nightingale’s latest trailer teases crafting, combat, and stunning player housing
With its early access release only five days away, gaslamp-fantasy survivalbox - sorry, "open-world survival crafting game" - Nightingale is dropping yet another trailer to...
Wayfinder’s latest patch improves its performance and UI
If you felt like Wayfinder was too punishing on your gaming machine, you may want to return for this week's patch to see if...
Nightingale preps for early access launch with a FAQ and dev video
Will Victorian survivalbox Nightingale have it all together when it leaps into early access on February 20th? We're only a few days away from...
Last Epoch outlines February 21 patch, details the Warlock and Falconer classes
Last Epoch has been absolutely bursting with news, information, and reveals as the OARPG heads for its exit from early access into full launch...
Fractured previews Endgame Changer’s primal energy, enchanting, and potion systems
Earlier this month, Dynamight Studios announced a big update for early access MMORPG sandbox Fractured Online. The so-called Endgame Changer patch is expected to...
Behaviour’s puzzle MMO Islands of Insight has officially launched on Steam
Last year, we caught wind of a new MMO - and yes, Behaviour Interactive and Lunarch have indeed flagged it as an MMO on...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 457: Sailing into February with cannons blazing
Justin and Bree discuss Skull & Bones, FFXIV on Xbox, WoW Classic, New World, and Nightingale, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on day and night cycles and getting out of MMO gaming ruts.
Not So Massively: Lightyear Frontier is a charming blend of survivalbox and life sim
Like many people, I spent a lot of last week downloading and trying demos on Steam's Next Fest. There was one I almost didn't...
Progress Bar: Inside the latest 24-hour pre-alpha test of Pantheon Rise of the Fallen
This past Saturday was when Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen elected to open up its floodgates and let a whole bunch of people into...
Palworld continues its critter preview videos with a look at the legendary Frostallion
Depending on how far along you've gotten in Palworld (assuming you're one of the millions playing the survivalbox), you might have already gotten to...
Multiplayer survival sandbox Smalland exits early access February 15 with new content and features
Back in March 2018, we first caught wind of Smalland, a multiplayer survival sandbox that sees players as itty-bitty sprites surviving in the scaled-up...
First Impressions: Nightingale’s survival and realmwalking blend could make it a stand-out in the sub-genre
Our regular readers know that the survival sandbox sub-genre is suddenly getting very crowded in very short order, which means that the upcoming gaslamp...
Magic to Master goes crypto, ties down a publisher, and eyes a nebulous February early access release window
With all of the loud goose honking that came out of the gaming industry in 2023, it would be understandably easy to have forgotten...
Two weeks into early access, Kickstarted survivalbox Fractured Veil patches up and merges servers
While server merges are sometimes necessary and healthy, they're not the best optics when they happen mere weeks after a game's early access release....
Players rolled nearly 50K characters during Nightingale’s stress test last weekend
When Inflexion announced this week that it's planning to launch Nightingale's early access two days earlier than originally planned, it casually mentioned that it...
Not So Massively: Stormgate isn’t delivering a revolution (yet)
Stormgate's marketing is laser-focused on studio Frost Giant's plan to deliver an "RTS revolution." With StarCraft II still popular but slowly waning as it...
Enshrouded’s first major patch addresses bugs, crashes, multiplayer stability, and world reset timing
It's been a couple of weeks since the survival sandbox Enshrouded made its early access debut, and while the game has received several hotfixes...
Animal Crossing-inspired cozy MMO Galactic Getaway launches $50,000 Kickstarter
Twice last spring, we covered a new-to-us MMO called Galactic Getaway, a game that had been in production already since 2021. We originally binned...
Nightingale, counting nearly 50K testers, is launching early access two days earlier than originally planned
Hope you didn't take the original launch date off because Nightingale's early access release has been pushed up two days.
"Inflexion Games announced the launch...
