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SuperData September 2020: Fall Guys falls hard, WoW claws its way back up
SuperData's September report on the state of the game industry's global revenues is not going to shock anyone this month.
On the PC side, League...
Vague Patch Notes: Kickstarter shouldn’t be your investor demo funding
There are a few things that kind of make me see red about indie game studios. Generally speaking I'm of the philosophy that indie...
Indie MMO Inferna adds guilds and greatly improves game performance
It's been a good long while since we last checked in with Inferna, an indie fantasy MMORPG that's being crafted by a small development...
Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever on the innovation of the indie MMO scene
The process of creating the MMO Ship of Heroes has apparently been enlightening to Heroic Games' CEO Casey McGeever according to an interview between...
Yes, Genshin Impact is blocking Hong Kong and Taiwan-related chat
There are some words you can't say in Genshin Impact even when chatting with friends. These words are probably not of an enormous surprise to...
Open beta MMORTS Starborne announces Dissidence expansion with new map, mode, and historical servers
Icelandic developer Solid Clouds announced something this week for Starborne that most MMO betas never see: an expansion. It's called Dissidence, and it's promising...
Fractured AMA covers questions about fast travel, PvP, pricing, and testing plans
Dynamight Studios' CEO Jacopo Gallelli decided to open an AMA for Fractured, and curious players responded with a wide swath of questions about the...
Massively Overthinking: MMO voids that haven’t been filled
I swear, so many of the posts I bookmark on Reddit to muse on later wind up deleted, and today I've got another one,...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: LiteBringer, SamuTale, IcarusM, Stellar Warfare, Primordials of Amyrion, A3, Raid Shadow Legends, Second Extinction
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you've probably never heard of (or have entirely forgotten about).
LiteBringer: Tibia fans who aren't...
Vague Patch Notes: Apple vs. Epic is not good vs. evil
So Epic has really gone all-in on fighting against Apple here, huh? The company is using Fortnite as a wedge in hopes of bringing down...
The summer of no E3 seems to be treating publishers and developers just fine in terms of buzz
This is the year of no E3, the year with no big summer convention in which everyone packs together in a building to see...
Project Gorgon adds a new animal form [update]
Project Gorgon is calling it -- the end of beta, that is.
Coupled with a July 16th patch notice was the announcement that the beta...
Indie MMO One Hour One Life’s latest update annihilates nearly all of its reported issues
The indie sandbox MMO One Hour One Life has made a lot of strides recently, with the game continuing to crank out new updates...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMO developers stuck in the past?
Earlier this month - so what feels like at least a few years ago - the MMO community amused itself jousting over comments from...
Veterans Online is a top-down twin stick 5v5 PvP shooter
When I spotted this game in our newsroom, I was a bit confused by its title; Veterans Online doesn't sound like a particularly good...
MMO Burnout: We Happy Few is a single-player virtual world
After having it on my radar for many years, I've finally gotten around to playing indie stealth/survival game We Happy Few. It's a good...
Kickstarted cyberpunk MMO Zenith features footage of the pre-alpha, teases alpha
One of the big Kickstarter MMO hits from 2019 was Zenith, which leaped onto the scene and raised over a quarter of a million...
Star Sonata 2 plans a June 12 release on Steam
Steam, the platform of kings! Or the platform that almost everyone has installed on their PCs, making it vital for obtaining widespread notice; one...
Project Gorgon’s next update, ‘a couple weeks away,’ will let you breed your pets
Leave it to Project Gorgon not to stop at merely allowing players to own pets but to breed them as well. The indie MMORPG...
Ship of Heroes is enthusiastic about Unreal Engine 5 – but practical implementation is a long way off
Last week, Epic dropped a bunch of news and a headline-grabbing video showcasing Unreal 5. While a lot of the ensuing discussion centered on...
