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Valheim begins public testing of cosmetic features and difficulty options of the Hildir’s Request update
If you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you can fight horrible monsters populating a Viking purgatory better. That's just...
Post-Gamigo Fractured, back home with Dynamight, is finally reopening testing June 22
It appears the long-running Fractured drama might truly be over as Dynamight Studios is getting back to its test plans.
Readers will recall that Fractured...
Not So Massively: Islands of Insight, Headbangers, 33 Immortals, & Baldur’s Gate 3
Hopefully you were outside touching grass this weekend and not glued to your computer screen, and if so, you missed a few new game...
Wayfinder’s latest gameplay preview video showcases its mechanics-filled boss fights
Wayfinder is continuing to make its way through the online show floors following its Summer Games Fest preview. This time around, the game was...
Whatever happened to Space Punks, ReWorld Online, and Shattered Galaxy?
Welcome back to another trio of games that needs a second look here in Whatever Happened To!
Space Punks: Space Punks is the Jagex-published looter-shooter...
Summer Game Fest 2023: Throne & Liberty, Path of Exile 2, Black Desert, Wayfinder, Fae Farm
We're updating at the end of this post with all the big MMO news!
Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest arrives today, marking the closest thing...
Multiplayer sandbox RPG Tinkertown will exit early access on June 22
Remember Tinkertown? It's a multiplayer building-focused sandbox RPG that we first reported on last July, with the promise of lots of exploration, building, and...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that ghosted us after talking a big game
There's nothing worse as a fan of games to buy into all of the hype and previews of a promising-looking project only to see...
Choose My Adventure: Age of Conan underwhelms almost immediately
For an MMORPG that has been out for as long as it has, Age of Conan sure feels like an early access title. And...
Cinderstone Online makes its early access debut, plans to share a roadmap soon
A couple of weeks ago we checked back in on Cinderstone Online, aka The MMO Formerly Known as Fioresia Online, where we found the...
David Brevik on Marvel Heroes’ 10th anniversary: ‘It is gone into the nothingness forever’
The importance of June 4th may have passed you by, but the creator of Diablo II and Marvel Heroes commemorated the 10th anniversary of...
Diablo IV’s early access launch has been relatively smooth, but license issues are blockading some players
While the official launch day is still a few spins of the Earth away, last night's Diablo IV's early access is being treated like...
Coreborn Nations of the Ultracore plans week-long open beta during Steam Next Fest June 19
The co-op survival sandbox Coreborn: Nations of the Ultracore already announced plans for its next big step in a July 18th Steam early access...
No, we didn’t write a ‘testimonial review’ supporting Kickstarter MMO Magic to Master
A couple of years back, we reported on the resurrection of Magic to Master, aka M2M, which along with Laniatus had apparently changed hands...
Diablo IV’s launch event is stirring up controversy – and it hasn’t even started yet
With Diablo IV's head start kicking off Thursday evening, the race will be on to see which players are crazy and dedicated enough to...
Drakensang Online’s Steam version moves out of early access into full launch along with a new server
Last September, the classic isometric MMO Drakensang Online made a surprise early access arrival to Steam, with plans to be in early access for...
Sandbox space sim Starbase’s development has been almost non-existent for a year now
Why go to (virtual) outer space when you can send robots to handle all of the peril for you? That's the thinking behind the...
Whatever happened to Project Genom, Inferna, and KurtzPel?
Welcome back to another edition of Whatever Happened To, a recap of MMOs we'd forgotten about but deserve some probing.
Project Genom: Get your F...
Diablo IV posts early access and launch schedule along with new live action trailer
With just a little over a week to go before the forces of hell are overrun by the forces of nerds in Diablo IV,...
Whatever happened to Osiris New Dawn, Cinderstone Online, and Magnificent 5?
Welcome back to a fresh edition of Whatever Happened To, the randomly occurring column in which we realize some MMOs have fallen off our...
