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Diablo-inspired indie OARPG Last Epoch is finally putting multiplayer through its paces
If you've got the Diablo bug right now but don't want to give Blizzard money or sit around twiddling your thumbs until Diablo IV's...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Quest Master’s Realm, Cheats PU, and Verses of Enchantment
Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMOs and multiplayer titles you've very likely never heard of - or at least haven't heard...
Embers Adrift’s patch trailer previews this week’s new zone and content
It's hard not to be grudgingly impressed with the can-do spirit of Embers Adrift's dev team. Since its launch last fall, the indie title...
Indie MMO Past Fate opens its alpha to all this weekend
Do you have plans this weekend? Not pretend plans to save face, I'm talking about actual engaging commitments. No? Then here's one option for...
Embers Adrift’s QA server previews new dice-dueling game and Grimstone Canyon zone
Embers Adrift dropped a state of the game memo for its community last night, kicking it off with a thank-you note to the playerbase...
Not So Massively: Dark Envoy’s demo is where RPG meets RTS
A while back I stumbled across the Steam page for co-op CRPG Dark Envoy and had the thought it could be fun to play...
Monsters & Memories expands early testing to include some ‘real players’
Despite being a long way from launch, Monsters & Memories already has begun to invite fans onto its test server to put this indie...
TwoKinds Online, the MMO based on a webcomic, is going offline to replace its networking platform
Do you remember TwoKinds Online? It was an indie MMORPG built on SpatialOS with an interesting source of inspiration, taking the 19 year-old webcomic...
Zenith tees up player housing test, picks up former New World creative director and WoW designer
Ramen VR CEO Andy Tsen dropped a letter to the Zenith community late last night with both industry and game news. For starters, the...
Fractured is on track for a March return after hasty backtrack from early access and Gamigo mess
At the tail end of 2022, following Gamigo's layoff-and-game-yeeting round, Kickstarted Fractured was counted among the victims. Fractured is the Kickstarted sandbox MMO from...
Ex-DICE alumni have formed a new studio focused on making a co-op online RPG built for small populations
After years working on the Star Wars Battlefront and Battlefied games, a small team headed by former DICE directors and featuring several ex-DICE employees...
The MOP Up: Meet Starfall, a new indie Minecraft MMO
So many amazing projects have been birthed from Minecraft over the past decade-plus, including fully formed games. One of the newer of these is...
Villagers & Heroes will finally launch interior housing in early 2023
We haven't checked in on indie MMO Villagers & Heroes since its Halloween festivities, and truthfully our last hard looks at the game came...
Ship of Heroes looks back at last year, notes creation of a Steam page and upcoming beta test registration
By all accounts, Ship of Heroes had a busy 2022 when you look over the game's retrospective blog post. The devs recount the variety...
MMORTS Kingdoms of Marazia returns from hiatus with rewritten code, world resets, and free-to-play model
Five years ago - in August 2018 to be precise - we reported on a new title called Kingdoms of Marazia, a simplistically styled...
John Smedley is leaving his position as head of Amazon Games’ San Diego studio
John Smedley is moving on from his role heading the San Diego branch of Amazon Game Studios, according to a memo sent to staff...
Kickstarted sandbox MMO The Repopulation is apparently dead as Idea Fabrik’s contracted dev team quits
When last we checked in on The Repopulation, it was in August, when I realized that the team behind the game had put out...
Embers Adrift adds Exile Freehold outdoor dungeon
If one of your New Year resolutions was to jump headfirst into a tough-as-nails indie MMORPG and challenge yourself to survive in a world...
MassivelyOP’s 2022 Golden Yachties: Favorite MMO site even madder about the P2E invasion than we are
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for favorite MMO site even madder about the P2E invasion than we are. (We call these...
Massively Overthinking: Our 2023 MMO resolutions
I know that not everyone does "resolutions," and that even most folks who make them don't actually stick with them. And when it comes...
