mmo shooter
Reaper Actual delays its early access launch to May 27 to tighten up vehicles, squads, and servers
At the top of this month, John Smedley announced that his studio's PvPvE persistent war MMO shooter Reaper Actual would be heading to early access...
Reaper Actual ties down May 20 early access release date – here’s how much it will cost
If you had perhaps suspected that Distinct Possibility Studios' unveiling of its latest funding round for shooter MMO Reaper Actual portended bigger announcements, then you...
Not So Massively: Impressions of Dia and other recent updates to The First Descendant
Back in 2025, I played a fair bit of The First Descendant, but over that time I watched it slowly degrade from a mindless...
PlanetSide 2 kicks off its Valentine’s Day directive event and tries to sell Year of the Horse cosmetics
What do Valentine's Day and the Lunar New Year have in common? Well, as we noted in our earlier roundup, they both fall on the...
With Anthem’s closure approaching, fans explore a rogue server and plan a final flight event
With Anthem scheduled to close its servers for good on January 12th, 2026, loyal fans are working to ensure BioWare's ill-fated looter shooter doesn't...
PvPvE MMOFPS Pioner officially begins its early access development phase
Like a mutant morphing before our very eyes, the post-apocalyptic PvPvE MMOFPS Pioner has transformed from a game in closed testing to a game...
Brass Rain is a new military MMOFPS from Yarnhub backed by $2.9M in investment
MMOFPS fans and military sims, I have something intriguing for you today, and it is a real MMO shooter and not another extraction clone:...
NCsoft’s MMO shooter Cinder City takes us to grimy places with its cinematic trailer
Horizon Steel Frontiers isn't the only upcoming NCsoft MMO that's looking for attention at this week's G-Star. "Large-scale MMO shooter" Cinder City sought to...
Post-apoc MMOFPS Pioner begins its open beta testing this week after a bit of a delay
This past September, we checked in on Pioner, the in-development MMOFPS from Serbia's GFA Games that promised plenty of PvPvE danger in a post-apocalyptic...
Smed’s MMOFPS Reaper Actual fixes bugs and temporarily rolls back an enemy AI hotfix
The top of October saw Reaper Actual, the MMOFPS from John Smedley's Distinct Possibility Studios that offers a standard and blockchain version, begin its...
Blockchain MMO EVE Frontier preps Cycle 3 for October 15, sandbox EVE Online confirms CSM 20 candidates
While the recent big headline out of blockchain survival sandbox EVE Frontier was fully focused on a partnership for its blockchain element, the newest...
EVE Vanguard discusses plans for its next steps and future adjustments while still eyeing a summer release
All testing things must come to an end, and so it did this past week for MMOFPS module EVE Vanguard, which wrapped up its...
Not So Massively: The First Descendant’s Nell is a brilliantly fun character in a hollow game
In my last column on The First Descendant, I shared some pretty scathing criticisms of the current season and its new Axion Plains zone....
NCsoft’s Cinder City discusses its MMO leanings, endgame, and gameplay mechanics in an interview
This year's Gamescom dropped a bunch of sequels on every gamers' head, but interspersed through it all were a couple of all-new titles -...
Not So Massively: The First Descendant’s third season isn’t beating the goonerslop allegations
Sure, the balance is broken beyond belief, and the new content is a miserable slog of HP sponges and RNG, and the rollout for new content is painfully slow, and we haven't gotten a zone with anything so colourful as grass since launch, but we can watch Bunny take a shower, and that's the important thing!
Gamescom 2025: Smed’s MMOFPS Reaper Actual talks up gameplay mechanics, eyes early 2026 release
It's been the better part of a month since we heard any major peeps out of Reaper Actual, the in-development extraction MMOFPS being developed...
NCsoft’s MMO shooter Project LLL gets a real name – Cinder City – and a plan to launch in 2026
Remember how NCsoft has been namedropping Project LLL to its investors for the last couple of years? Maybe not; it hasn't been heavily touted,...
PlanetSide 2 finally clears desync issues that have plagued the EU server for nearly a week
At the start of the week we chronicled problems that sprang up on PlanetSide 2's Wainwright EU server, as a content patch appeared to...
PlanetSide 2 outlines public test phases for its Infiltrator rework currently in progress
The Infiltrator. The sneaky, stealthy, sniper-y class of PlanetSide 2 that evidently requires a reworking. That's part of the focus for the current version...
Zenimax Online Studios union reaffirms support for Blackbird devs as workers roast Xbox execs over AI slop
The splash damage from Microsoft's decision to gut its games division, especially the developers behind Zenimax Online Studios' formerly in-development MMO Project Blackbird, is...
