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Valheim targets Ashlands for the first half of 2024, shows off foods, plants, and ‘absolutely badass’ armor
Valheim has posted its final dev blog for 2023, which is once more all about the ongoing Ashlands biome update, and it leads off...
‘Aquatic adventure MMO’ Age of Water readies an early access release in the first quarter of 2024
It's been the hottest of minutes since we heard from Age of Water, the self-described "aquatic adventure MMO" set in a flooded post-apocalypse from...
Nightingale’s team ‘flexes’ its creative muscles by adding fishies and grumpy critters
In its final dev blog of 2023, Victorian realm-hopping sandbox Nightingale hopes to end the year by "flexing" its creative projects and giving all...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2024
It's time once again for the MOP staff and readers to engage in our favorite end-of-the-year MMO: collectively guessing what's going to happen next...
V Rising plans end of early access in 2024 with a new zone, endgame events, and gameplay tweaks
V Rising is once more electing to talk about but not talk about future updates as its latest dev blog pirouettes through teases and...
Palia has launched into free-to-play early access on the Nintendo Switch as of today
It's launch day for Singularity 6's cozy MMO Palia - a launch day of a sort, anyhow, as the early access title joins the...
‘Shit happens,’ The Day Before devs tell disgruntled players as mass-refunds continue
We're into day six of The Day Before drama, which certainly doesn't embroil any of you, as our readers were too clever to buy...
The Day Before dev studio announces its closure, claims the game ‘failed financially’
It hasn't even been a week between the early access release of The Day Before and today, but supposedly the game's launch has been...
The Day Before devs downplay original massively multiplayer pitch as playerbase and reviews plummet
When survival shooter The Day Before made its scheduled but disastrous early access launch, multiple players pointed out a wealth of issues with the...
Here’s how multiplayer will work for Nightingale’s early access launch next year
It's almost as if Inflexion made its latest dev blog for us, as in for the MMO and multiplayer-loving segment of gaming: Nightingale has...
Palia brings the holiday cheer with its the next leg of its winter update
On the cusp of its Nintendo Switch release, Palia is packing in the holiday cheer. The life sim MMO released its winter update this...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions
We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...
The Day Before actually launched – and it’s already being savaged in reviews
Does anything inspire faith in a game more than the developers coming out to specifically say that their game is not a scam or...
Hawked’s early access on PC is underway with a console crossplay beta this weekend
Over the past few months we've been keeping an eagle eye on Hawked, MY.GAMES' colorful entry into the PvPvE extraction shooter sub-genre. Readers might...
Book of Travels is totally overhauling its combat system (yes, it has a combat system)
When you think of Might and Delight's tiny MMO Book of Travels, the word "combat" may not immediately spring to mind. But the game...
Fractured’s devs smacked it with a nerf bat to reduce ‘crazy solo speedy farming’
Fractured Online's been in early access (again) for only a few weeks, but it's already cranking out patches, and the most recent tackles some...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 448: The holiday MMO rush begins
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic's Season of Discovery, EverQuest II's Ballads of Zimara, SWTOR's Chains in the Dark, ArcheAge's big Unchained merge, and Wagadu Chronicles' early access, with adventures in LOTRO and Project Gorgon, plus 2023 awards teases and a mailbag topic on getting into MMOs with too much content.
Ahead of launch, Fntastic tells players The Day Before is not a scam or an asset flip
Many players have cast a wide assortment of aspersions against developer Fntastic and its upcoming survival shooter The Day Before, particularly in light of...
Under a Rock is a multiplayer survivalbox full of oversized creatures, Neanderthals, and dangerous magic
"Ever wonder how you and your closest friends would fare stranded on an island where Neanderthals still exist, and magic can be just as...
Wayfinder brings PlayStation 5 version up to par – with the return of crossplay
In the midst of a hunt for a publisher and preparations for this month's early access update, Wayfinder found the time to bring its...
