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Indie space sandbox Avorion celebrates first anniversary – and 300K sales
Avorion's been on our radar for the last year, almost to the day: It's a "procedural co-op space sandbox where players can build their...
TitanReach promises to start its limited early access on February 28
It's almost time for indie MMO Titan Reach to open the doors to early access, apparently. A new entry on the official site reveals...
Project Gorgon’s improved animation system lets it get down with its bad self
As we look forward to seeing how Project Gorgon shapes up this year as it heads toward its 2022 launch, there's one thing that...
Indie MMO Wild Terra 2 begins early access with a ‘spirit of adventure’
The sequel to Wild Terra is finally here for players looking for a dash of fresh winter gaming. Wild Terra 2: New Lands has...
Past Fate details work on professions, mounts, and new weapons as it zeroes in on next alpha test
While things have once more been quiet on the front of Past Fate, that doesn't mean the devs at Icy North Games have been...
Perfect Ten: The top MMOs to watch in 2021
"MMOs are dead!" "MMOs are dying!" "We didn't get any good MMO releases this past year!"
While I won't argue with the last one there,...
The Daily Grind: What MMOs are you no longer anticipating in 2021?
At the end of every year for almost as long as I can recall, we've delivered our "most anticipated" award. The winners in 2019...
Albion Online saw an ‘ever-growing population’ in 2020, promises mobile release in 2021
As many game studios are doing right now, Albion Online's Sandbox Interactive is pausing to take stock of the year that has passed and...
Project Relic is an in-development online multiplayer action game that draws from real-world ancient relics
Let's look ahead to a new game that may happen but may not happen because -- let's be real here -- the deck is...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2020
Earlier this week, we named our biggest MMO story of the year and gave it an award, though we imagine it's hard for a...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Indie MMO of the Year
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Indie MMO of the Year, which was awarded jointly to Villagers & Heroes...
Indie MMO Gloria Victis has just rolled its way into beta
Happy beta launch week to Gloria Victis! No, really. The MMO has been in early access alpha since 2016, but it's finally moving out...
Whatever happened to pre-alpha indie MMORPG Arcfall?
Earlier this year when we last checked in with Arcfall, an Ultima Online-inspired indie MMO, we learned that the team had hopes to officially...
Console LOTRO and DCUO’s huge playerbase: Everything we just learned about Daybreak thanks to EG7
MMO twitter has been ablaze since yesterday's announcement that Daybreak is being bought up in its entirety by Swedish games company Enad Global 7,...
Ship of Heroes’ latest video talks mission creation and likely 2021 launch
How do they make the sausage when the sausage is an MMORPG? Generally, gamers are quickly made to regret that question, but Heroic Games...
The MOP Up: Shadow Arena pings instead of pongs
Pearl Abyss' Shadow Arena got a lot more friendly this past month thanks to an improved ping system and the addition of login rewards.
"The...
Jukebox Heroes: The best of Ashen Empires’ soundtrack
Originally inspired by the Ultima series, Dransik came out in the early 2000s as an isometric MMO that rode the rails of indie gaming...
Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the devs of the MMO genre
Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for in and around the MMO genre the last couple of years - and now we're gonna do it again.
Epic is suing Apple in Australia over Fortnite as Apple halves its profit cut from indie devs
You might think Epic Games' primary business is video games or video game engines, but as it turns out, it's fast becoming "filing lawsuits."...
Fractured’s fall alpha has testers knee-deep in player cities, farming, and mounts
As promised, Fractured's fall alpha is fully upon us now, as the in-development sandbox expands its content and its testing pool once again.
Over the...
