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Ikonei Island is a cozy co-op multiplayer game that your friends can hop into without buying
MMOs, MMORPGs, and multiplayer games are naturally better with friends along, but sometimes you can't really force your friends to buy a game and...
Vague Patch Notes: Default MMORPG genre features change over time, and that’s OK
I want you to picture a nonexistent MMO in your head right now. Not one that hasn't released yet; one that hasn't even been...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Party Play is peak Niantic
Pokemon Go's newest feature, Party Play, is out now, and it's... well, very Niantic. Since the feature was first datamined, it seemed like it...
Albion Online’s Wild Blood patch is live with shapeshifting weapons, tracking, and island updates
Albion Online's massive fall patch is finally rolling out today: Wild Blood is officially live, with its promised tracking system, new potions, awakened items,...
Post-apoc survival shooter The Front charges into early access
It feels like the other day that someone was asking on the MOP podcast if there were any MMOs set in contemporary times. And...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Harvestmath Festival returns with a new mount and cosmetics
Lord of the Rings Online's autumn events are underway today as the Harvestmath Festival has officially returned to Middle-earth - and it's got fresh...
Guild Wars 2’s Halloween events return once again on October 17
"When is Guild Wars 2's Halloween event coming out?" my kids asked me last week.
"Probably not next week, or we'd already have a teaser...
Stardew Valley’s patch 1.6 will include new festivals, new late-game content, and 8-person multiplayer
Seven years on from launch, Stardew Valley remains the game that keeps on farming, and every time we think we were supposed to have...
Black Desert PC makes PvE-focused class tweaks, applies conquest war QoL, and fights sweets-stealing bears
It's quite a week in the PC version of Black Desert, as the game's latest update has made another wide assortment of changes to...
MMORPG sandbox BitCraft sets alpha for early 2024, picks up Austin Wintory and Rachel Hardy for the score
Earlier this week in our coverage of BitCraft's crafting and economy deep-dive, we pointed out that studio Clockwork Labs has been teasing something big...
Vague Patch Notes: The games industry arrogance cycle, in MMOs and elsewhere
Unity has fallen. Oh, sure, the company has rolled back the worst parts of its incredibly boneheaded "give us money for your successful game"...
MMORPG sandbox BitCraft details the importance of core-skills and interdependence in its crafting systems
Clockwork Labs has been teasing... something for BitCraft over the course of September, noting just a week or two ago that it's been a...
Astroneer’s fall event has players farming up sturdysquash in spaaaaace
It's three great tastes that taste great together: It's space sandboxes, it's farming, and its a Falloween event. Yep, Astroneer's traditional fall event is...
Massively Overthinking: Massively Overwhelming content in MMORPGs
This past weekend, I picked up my first premium house in Lord of the Rings Online after much hemming and hawing. I didn't expect...
Albion Online details Wild Blood’s new player island biomes – and multiple farms per toon
Of all the content going into Albion Online's Wild Blood patch next month, the islands and farming rework has been the bit that caught...
Albion Online opens up a final window to move your player island before Wild Blood arrives
With its beefy Wild Blood update on deck to arrive on October 16th, Albion Online's game is about to shake things up in many...
Albion Online’s Wild Blood update eyes an October 16 release
With Halloween and a full moon on the horizon, Albion Online is set to unleash its inner beast when its Wild Blood update arrives...
Hands-on: Cozy game Fae Farm might strike familiar gameplay beats, but its setting is the sauce
I appreciate how a lot of my opinion of Fae Farm is going to come off reductive or as I'm damning it with faint...
Why I Play: Palia is cozy and fun, but why is it multiplayer – and where is it going?
On paper, Palia seems like it wouldn’t interest me. It is a lighthearted jaunt through a bright, cartoonish environment that involves building relationships with...
Cozy solarpunk survivalbox Loftia funded on Kickstarter with over $1.2M US
Loftia closed out its Kickstarter last night with a whopping $1.27M US pledged from over 16,000 backers. In its thank-you letter to supporters, studio...
