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Engines have been big news for MMO players in recent months as indie sandbox The Repopulation's struggles with Hero Engine drove it offline and...

Remember Sacrament, the ultra-difficult, jack-of-all-trades MMORPG by indie dev Ferocity Unbound Core Studios? In apparent cooperation with the studio, YouTube channel OP Game (no...

Pining for an isometric indie sandbox? How about a "massively multiplayer life simulator" like Wild Terra? We've been following the game since last fall;...

Indie sandbox Das Tal is running a "dev-supporter-exlusive" playtest this weekend to test its latest build and its new features. What can testers expect...

A reader named Rob provides this week's Massively Overthinking topic. It's a really good one! "Why isn't playing an old MMO from a previous decade...

For reasons which remain shrouded in mystery, there are still very few games in which players take control of airships simply as a matter...

When it comes to creating a science fiction MMO, there are two directions you can take. You can either hold up EVE Online as...

If you're trying to play Otherland through Steam today, you might be noticing the store page is offline. Drago Entertainment dev Lucjan told concerned fans...

The Repopulation has finally issued its promised announcement to the community following the long HeroEngine drama that drove it offline last month: Above &...

This week we've been abuzz about Smed's Hero's Song Kickstarter cancellation - the KS more than the game, mostly because the game is happening...

A while back we reported on a small indie sandbox called The Underground that placed a premium on allowing players to craft and be...

What do you know about HEX: Shards of Fate? If you've ever played it, probably more than me. But what do you know about...

The "jack of all trades" indie MMO Sacrament is still in its design docs stage, occasionally releasing batches of information and concept art to...

Today, we finally learn what John Smedley has been working on since he resigned from his decades-long role at Daybreak. The industry veteran has founded indie...

Missing Worlds Media's Warcabbit is showing us how the superhero sausage is made in a recent post on the City of Titans forums. The in-development...

A Massively OP reader has tipped us off to trouble brewing over in TheWorld, an ultra-indie MMORPG we've never before covered. Staff and moderators...

Indie sandbox Chronicles of Elyria captured MMORPG players' attention last autumn when it began revealing details about some of its more unusual mechanics, including...

Indie sandbox TUG has become the beneficiary of a huge windfall. In a new Kickstarter update sent to backers this afternoon, Nerd Kingdom announced that...

Last week, MMO designer Raph Koster made a Twitter comment that's stuck in my mind: https://twitter.com/raphkoster/status/682380531934322688 Hell yes it has. It's getting mainstream and indie attention left...

With virtual reality headsets hitting the market, a hot topic in the MMO community has been over when we'll be seeing VR merge with...