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New indie MMO Legendarium Online claims inspiration from Ultima Online and Tolkien
Like a prairie dog popping its head above ground to check out the scene, a new indie MMORPG suddenly emerged to make its presence...
Unity is adding excessive new per-install fees – game developers aren’t having it
Unity has been struggling with its public and corporate relations over the course of 2023, first with multiple rounds of mass layoffs that cut...
Jagex-pubbed RuneScape-inspired Melvor Idle releases Atlas of Discovery expansion
Last year, we covered the unexpected rise of Melvor Idle, a solo indie idle game based heavily on RuneScape and ultimately published by Jagex...
Single-player MMO-inspired Erenshor launches a F2P demo today on Steam
Over the course of the summer, we've been keeping an eye on Erenshor, largely out of curiosity. That's because the game isn't an MMO...
Cozy solarpunk survivalbox Loftia funded on Kickstarter with over $1.2M US
Loftia closed out its Kickstarter last night with a whopping $1.27M US pledged from over 16,000 backers. In its thank-you letter to supporters, studio...
Indie MMO Gloria Victis and its studio are shutting down on Halloween after a decade online
I'm sorry to report this afternoon that the long-running siege PvP MMORPG Gloria Victis is sunsetting. Polish indie studio Black Eye Games made the...
Embers Adrift’s August patch improves ‘combat feels’ and adds the hunting log
Power of the Ember Veins: That's the name of this month's patch offering from Embers Adrift. Yesterday's update to the indie MMO may not...
KallaX is a hilarious multiplayer IKEA furniture building experience coming to PC
When I first spied the press release for KallaX and realized it was multiplayer and we could cover it, I mentally nixed all the...
Abyss is a new PvP sandbox MMORPG coming in 2024, and it’s already selling currency
We've updated the end of this post with new info that's come to light regarding the game's origins.
MMORPG fans eager for new frontiers can...
Genfanad is swapping out its classic MMORPG combat model with a TCG deckbuilder instead
The old-school-styled indie MMORPG Genfanad was always something of a unique duck in our genre, but Rose Tinted Games' next major update is going...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Starship Traders, Arena Breakout, X8, Jumanji, The Grey War
Welcome back to another rundown of some MMOs and other multiplayer titles you've probably never heard of!
Starship Traders - MMO Fallout put this one...
Early access survival MMO Coreborn Nations of the Ultracore releases adventure patch at Gamescom
Coreborn Nations of the Ultracore is just a month into early access, and it's already forging ahead with updates - six of them, in...
BioWare is restructuring – and that means 50 roles ‘eliminated’ at the studio
Bad news for BioWare today, as General Manager Gary McKay has admitted that the studio's impending reshuffle means a wave of layoffs. McKay says...
ZeroSpace Kickstarter promises a ‘cinematic RTS’ that weaves a sci-fi epic and massively multiplayer galactic warfare
Assuming one takes the elevator pitch of ZeroSpace at face value, this game could be flipping all of the RTS gamer switches: It promises...
Infinitum Vitas is an optionally multiplayer sci-fantasy ARPG that promises hundreds of hours of content
There are a lot of indie "passion projects" that glide under the radar, and one of the more interesting parts about our job is...
‘Romantic gold rush’ MMO Annex rebrands as Pioneers of New Dawn, plans fourth quarter alpha testing
This past November we all got word of a new post-apocalyptic survival MMO known as Annex, which is being developed by indie studio Arctic...
BitCraft developer releases source code for its SpacetimeDB backend engine to everyone on Github
How has the 20-person Clockwork Labs studio been able to put together its sandbox MMORPG BitCraft? With the use of its bespoke backend engine...
Indie time-travel MMO Into the Echo releases interactive lore website experience
If you've forgotten all about time-travel MMO Into the Echo, we'll totally forgive you because we had too. And that's because we haven't heard...
Pixelart MMO Tales of Yore officially launches out of early access
It's been months since we last peeked in on Tales of Yore, the goofy but detailed retro 2-D MMO from indie studio Coke and...
The Daily Grind: Have your opinions on MMO PvP changed over the years?
One of the first columns I penned for MOP after we went indie was a column about what I wanted from serious MMO PvP....
