early access
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen shows off the Port of Rulun ahead of its arrival in the next update
Sure, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has been mostly focusing on the combat and progression update for the past while now, but there is something...
Camelot Unchained ends spawn camping, balances classes, and applies quality-of-life updates
An RvR MMORPG like Camelot Unchained is almost always going to run into some cheese tactics employed by its playerbase, meaning the game will also...
The Stream Team: Surviving a summer holiday swim in Subnautica 2
Going for a nice swim sounds like a great way to spend this hot summer holiday. It's just that one must survive the swim...
Monsters and Memories’ revamped Beastmaster and Rogue join the closed beta with today’s update
As Monsters and Memories spends its summer shoring up the game to meet the early access date set after its last delay, studio Niche...
Windrose teases the new biome, improved ship gameplay, and wind mechanics coming in Ashlands
Are you one of the 11,000 people still playing Windrose at its peak concurrency these last few weeks? Or maybe even just one of...
Stars Reach says it’s reached a ‘pivotal moment’ in testing and requires a full wipe
Early game testing comes with a number of caveats, the most notable of which is that the developers may choose, for a variety of...
Valheim’s price is going up in September as the devs won’t confirm post-launch content
If you're one of the five people left on the planet who don't already own Valheim, you should probably just go for it during...
Aussie indie MMORPG Spiritvale scores almost $250K on Kickstarter ahead of July early access
Since the end of last year, we've been covering SpiritVale, a hypercute MMORPG from an indie dev out of Australia. The game hit Kickstarter...
Subnautica 2’s lawsuit spectacle ends with big payouts for devs and the departure of the CEO
The success of Subnautica 2's early access in 2026 has been shadowed by its ongoing legal situation, sparked last year when Krafton delayed Subnautica...
Multiplayer sci-fi sandbox SpaceCraft introduces an offline solo mode just two weeks after its early access
You could frame this as either a great way to keep an online game available to play or an ill portent of its open...
Another doomed Kickstarter MMORPG goes up in smoke as DreamWorld is pulled from Steam
In April 2021, we penned an editorial titled There is no good reason for MMO gamers to fund DreamWorld. DreamWorld was an MMORPG pitching...
Survival sandbox Sand Raiders of Sophie sees 200K new players since its early access launch
Despite its awkward name, Sand: Raiders of Sophie has been tearing it up ever since its early access launch last week. The western mechpunk...
Palworld 1.0 officially launches on July 10 with 27 pages of patch notes
After a couple of years swimming in the waters of early access, definitely-not-Pokémon survival crafter Palworld is hitting the big stage with its 1.0...
Co-op Soulslike Serpent’s Gaze adds a new weapon and shares a general roadmap of updates
Serpent's Gaze is continuing to ping off of our multiplayer radar as well as gamers' interest. You may remember that this one started its...
Camelot Unchained makes texture loading more performative in latest weekend update
The weekly updates to Camelot Unchained's weekend-long early access tests continue on yet again (obviously), and this week is once more focusing on performance with a...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Fumes, Battle for Embolia, and Enarian Online
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of! In this roundup, we've got car combat, a visually pretty MUD, and a...
Wayfinder studio unveils a (probably single-player) isometric sci-fi action game called DUST Origins
Most of the folks here at MOP know Airship Syndicate as the studio behind the fun but ultimately bellyflopped multiplayer RPG Wayfinder. You'll recall...
Past Fate opens the Depths of Korag and changes its combat model in latest patch
Korag is pretty deep, man. Like, have you ever thought to plunge into those depths, bro? There's so much to Korag that he's got...
RuneScape Dragonwilds is headed to several Asian territories thanks to ‘landmark’ publishing deals
It would appear that Jagex is extremely pleased that its early access multiplayer survivalbox RuneScape: Dragonwilds is expanding to gamers in the Asia-Pacific regions, so...
Stars Reach adds a lore animatic, addresses stability, and revokes outdated playtest ahead of early access
If you woke up this morning to a Steam popup telling you that your Stars Reach playtest access had been revoked, don't panic. Playable...
