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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Dark Domain, Habbo Hotel, Project Eternal, Stein.world, Zezenia, LaTale W
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've never heard of (or have totally forgotten about!). We've got a few...
Occupy White Walls sets off a Cambrian Explosion, adding new assets, artworks, and features
Bizarre indie art-museum-creator Occupy White Walls has released its latest major update, Cambrian Explosion, which introduces two new vendors, camera enhancements, new artworks to...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Mordhau, Dransik Rebirth, Aberoth, Star Sonata, and Kicks Online
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent online multiplayer games you've probably never heard of - or have totally forgotten about.
Up first:...
The Game Archaeologist: Minions of Mirth
While large teams with big budgets and studios backing them are expected to push out smash hit MMORPGs, to me it's always vastly more...
Indie MMORPG Oath has successfully funded on Kickstarter at nearly twice its original ask
Oath has been a bit of an anomaly on the Kickstarter scene this spring: Ten days into its campaign, it had raised only $6000,...
Valiance Online’s latest alpha patch touches on characters, animations, and interior procedural generation
We're having a superhero MMO moment here, folks. Last week, Valiance Online teased something big happening, and now we know what it is: an...
Legends of Aria’s latest update brings changes to the mount system, introduces ‘horses that don’t suck’
Earlier this week, indie sandbox MMORPG Legends of Aria received its Point Release 5 update which, among other things, brought big changes to the...
VR MMORPG OrbusVR reboots and expands as as OrbusVR: Reborn today
It's a big day for MMOs - and MMO players who've been itching to see more titles on VR. That's because OrbusVR officially launches...
Villagers & Heroes announces A Tale of Earth and Sea expansion and new Shaman class
Indie MMO sandbox Villagers & Heroes did not have the best winter, what with the game being hacked and all back in February. But...
Lawful Neutral: The future of MMO game design in a streaming gaming world
It’s been an interesting few weeks for gaming. We saw the announcement of Google’s game streaming service, Stadia, and then Apple’s subscribe-to-access game service,...
Indie sandbox MMO Fractured will finally enter alpha one this month
Indie sandbox MMO Fractured is moving another step down the development line: It's just announced the start of its alpha next week.
"The first testing...
OrbusVR Reborn launches on April 23, will be an Oculus Quest launch title
You know, the MMORPG genre doesn't really get many virtual reality games, which is a shame - who doesn't want the holodeck? But there...
MMO Cartographer: Touching all the things in Project Gorgon
Welcome to MMO Cartographer! I'm Mia, and I'll be your guide through this winding journey through interesting MMORPGs - some small, some forgotten, and...
Indie hacking MMO Spycursion admits defeat on Kickstarter, but game development will continue
We've been tracking the Kickstarter for upcoming hacking MMO Spycursion for several weeks now, and it's coming down to its last two days. And...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that set themselves up as spiritual successors
As with the larger video game market, sequels aren't unknown in the MMO space. We've seen studios take a stab at following up successful...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Astroflux, Star Sonata, and Mankind Reborn
Welcome back to another brief roundup of MMOs and other online games you've (probably) never heard of.
Astroflux is an interesting one that came across...
Villagers & Heroes has dispatched extravagant compensation for February’s hacking mess
Back in February, we learned the startling news that the cutesy indie crosssplatform MMORPG Villagers & Heroes had been hacked. At the time, the...
Indie space-mining MMO Exocraft has launched today
If you're a fan of building spaceships and mining space rocks but aren't so much of a fan of the spreadsheets and subterfuge that...
Confusing ports of One Hour One Life demonstrate the frustrations of generous public domain games
Remember indie game One Hour One Life? Back in November, it made headlines for its Steam launch; it's an one-man-dev-team MMO where you start...
Indie cyberespionage sandbox MMO Spycursion sneaks into Kickstarter tonight
Back at the beginning of February, we covered an unusual indie PC MMORPG called Spycursion. It's basically a cyberespionage sandbox MMO rich in "edutainment,"...
