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Indie MMORPG Project Gorgon adds horse breeding and instanced guild halls in latest update
Do you know how outlandish a feature has to be before the devs of Project Gorgon have to call it outlandish? It's outlandish indeed,...
Co-op cozy game My Time at Evershine funded on Kickstarter in just 35 minutes
Last week, MOP's Chris took a look at My Time at Evershine, the latest multiplayer cozy game from Pathea Games, best known for My...
Nintendo hit Palworld’s Pocketpair studio with a patent lawsuit in Japan
Palworld's unexpected explosion of fame has been one of the recurring narratives of 2024 - and so has been its obvious inspirations. In fact,...
How hyper investment and greed led to the games industry’s ‘GaaSacre’ and downward slump
Hindsight is always 20/20, and no more is that axiom more appropriate than a look back at how the gaming industry got to the...
Cozy co-op van life game Outbound just funded on Kickstarter for almost $300K
Now this is the kind of "living in a van down by the river" that I can get behind: Outbound has officially funded on...
Kakele Online adds fishing, improves gameplay features, and opens a world of cyborgs in latest update
This past July we checked back in on the latest happenings for Kakele Online, a 2-D mobile and PC indie MMORPG from Brazilian studio...
SAG-AFTRA union secures AI protections with multiple studios including ARK dev Studio Wildcard
The strike initiated by voice actors in the SAG-AFTRA union this past July is beginning to yield some positive results for voice actors who...
The Spell Brigade is a ‘hectic bullet-heaven’ multiplayer co-op title headed for early access September 16
If you've got three friends who all love the chaos of a bullet heaven shooter, then you probably already have the ingredients to enjoy...
Pick Me Pick Me is a multiplayer ‘AI-powered PvP dating sim’ with bizarre monetization
You probably clicked on that headline to wonder just what in the deuce a PvP dating sim is about. Well we unfortunately can't tell...
Massively Uplifting: Labors of love, generosity, and grief in Warhammer, Terraria, Conan Exiles, Albion, ARK, and more
Labor Day in the United States is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievement of the American workers. The official Department of...
Co-op D&D-like Wildermyth preps console launch this fall with digital and physical editions
Can I gush for a little bit here? One of my absolute favorite recent indie games is Wildermyth, a title that seeks to replicate...
Multiplayer RTS ZeroSpace previews an ‘MMO mode’ called Galactic War
Crowdfunded indie RTS ZeroSpace has released a view video previewing the Galactic War mode, described as an MMO within the game. The Galactic War...
Unleashed Games confirms its MMO Haven will be used for additional titles made with generative AI
In the beginning half of the year, we started covering Haven, a developing MMORPG from Unleashed Games that promised gameplay beats familiar to those...
Paragon successor Predecessor officially launches today as a F2P MOBA on PC and console
At this afternoon's Gamescom Opening Night Live, the indie team at Omeda Studios formally launched Predecessor, one of multiple MOBAs spawned from the remains...
Survival sandbox Enshrouded racks up three million players this year so far
It turns out that a whole lot of people like pick-axing their way to success, if survival sandbox Enshrouded's history this year is any...
Not So Massively: Immortal Gates of Pyre offers multiplayer RTS fans a glimmer of hope
It's been a busy month for fans of the real time strategy genre. Even as Stormgate ran its early access preview, another crowdfunded StarCraft...
MMO Business Roundup: Bandai Namco’s Q1 2025, My Games’ publishing arm, Tencent at Gamescom
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! And much like yesterday's digest, we begin with some quarterly financials! Woo!
Bandai Namco:...
Predecessor, the Paragon spinoff MOBA, confirms a full release from early access August 20
Aw shoot, here we go again. Another spinoff MOBA built from the bones of the shuttered Paragon is about to head from early access...
Project Gorgon buffs Necromancers, preps mount cosmetics, and fixes AOE issues
Indie MMORPG Project Gorgon dropped a fresh content-and-QOL patch this week in what devs characterized as a "nice well-rounded update" with a little bit...
Indie studio Moon Rover Games receives $3.5M in funding from NCsoft for co-op shooter Project Aldous
It's been over a year since we were first introduced to Moon Rover Games, an indie studio made up of former Ubisoft and EA...
