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Indie sandbox MMO Galaxies of Eden talks crafting and economy, shares a pre-alpha housing test
Looking for Star Wars Galaxies without playing Star Wars Galaxies? Then you probably have your eyes on Galaxies of Eden, the ambitious indie sandbox...
Social life sim MMO Polity plans 2022 launch as closed beta marches on
Last spring, we covered a new-to-us MMO called Polity by Jib Games. It's essentially a Turkish indie social game that borrows ideas from The...
Working As Intended: Brute-forcing the MMO industry
If you're a music fan, and you probably are since you're a human, you've probably come to grips with the sense that somehow the...
Fractured invites MMO players to test its fall alpha starting tomorrow
As we've been covering, indie MMO sandbox Fractured is preparing its big fall alpha phase, which kicks off tomorrow, September 22nd, and runs through...
Archewood conjures dreams of the 16-bit glory days transported to 2021
You can understand why very small indie MMO teams might gravitate toward creating SNES-style titles, as the graphics are far easier to work with...
Omuni Reborn resurrects a failed MMORPG project for another try
What's that we spy with our little eye? It's another interesting-looking MMORPG in the embryonic stage! Our gaze today turns to Omuni Reborn, an...
AA indie sandbox MMO Galaxies of Eden discusses classic vs. action combat switch and skill balancing
A month ago, we covered a new sandbox MMORPG under development by MIR Cybernetics Corporation: Galaxies of Eden. It's absurdly ambitious, with an alpha...
Nightmare is a new F2P pixelart MMORPG that’s launched on Steam today
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the launch of a new MMORPG! We're talking about Nightmare, a new open-world retro pixelart MMO from the indie...
MMO Business Roundup: Clockwork Labs’ sandbox startup, NPIXEL, LOTRO’s community, and more
Welcome back to another quickie roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Clockwork Labs: Brand-new indie game studio Clockwork Labs has raised...
Pixel sandbox MMO RPG MO celebrates ninth birthday with a big ol’ patch
It's been way too long since we checked in on RPG MO - 2016, in fact - so we're going to rectify that today,...
Leafling’s August new-player overhaul lets players level without fighting
Back in June, our own Fight or Kite columnist Sam raved about a newish indie MMO he'd been playing: Leafling. The pitch was that...
Indie MMO TitanReach has apparently suspended development as ‘funds have dried up’
I have some bad news for fans of indie MMORPG TitanReach: The game has apparently suspended development thanks to a lack of funding. Australian studio...
Gamescom 2021 touts over 70 devs and publishers, highlights panels on education and societal change
While this year's Gamescom is going to be different as it's forced to go all-digital due to COVID-19, the event itself is going to...
CODEX, an MMO based on the Shards engine, launches early access today after a brief delay
Just last week we first reported on CODEX, a project that licensed Legends of Aria's Shards Engine for the purpose of creating an MMO....
EverQuest designer’s throwback MMO rebrands as Monsters & Memories
You may recall that earlier this year we reported that former EverQuest and DCUO developer Shawn Lord was working on a "throwback" MMO, which...
Among Us developer Innersloth raises eyebrows at Fortnite’s Impostors mode and its striking similarities
While we cast our own shade in the direction of Fortnite and the recently introduced Impostors mode, with its barely veiled copycatting of Among...
Galaxies of Eden is a new sandbox MMORPG with all the Star Wars Galaxies trappings
So here's a new MMO that just landed in our inbox: It's called Galaxies of Eden, and studio MIR Cybernetics Corporation is billing it...
Indie MMO TitanReach’s free-to-play access is live — for a limited time
TitanReach, an indie MMO with an ambition to marry old and new school design together, may have been out of your financial reach with...
Massively Overthinking: Has Blizzard’s sexism lawsuit changed your gaming plans?
Following last week's disturbing revelation that Blizzard has been covering up more than a decade of abuse and that the state of California is...
Cyberpunk multiplayer shooter RPG The Ascent has officially released on Xbox and PC
Publisher Curve Digital and Swedish indie studio Neon Giant are offering up some twin-stick shooting ARPG goodness for yourself or a few of your...