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‘It’s all coming back, just as you left it’: Fawkes hypes the return of Defiance with a new teaser video
Last week, we got the surprising but welcome news that Fawkes Games is unsunsetting Defiance, Trion Worlds' old "transmedia synergy MMO, come April 18th....
Perfect Ten: Short but mighty playable MMO races
I like short races in MMOs. Not exclusively, but if there is an option to go small or go home, you can bet that...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 510: Defiance defies the odds
Justin and Bree discuss the return of Defiance, the sale of Pokemon Go, World of Warcraft's housing, BlizzCon 2026, and Pantheon's PvP, with adventures in WoW and LOTRO, plus a mailbag topic on Dungeon Fighter Online and other deep-cut MMOs.
Defiance’s revival team didn’t get the database, will start with the final patch, and can’t commit to major updates yet
Back on Tuesday, we reported on the news that Fawkes Games - which in the past has picked up multiple discarded Gamigo MMORPGs -...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 509: Lord of the Transfers
Justin and Bree discuss the LOTRO transfer mess, the return of APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth, Throne and Liberty's Wilds of Talandre, Guild Wars 2's Repentance, Elder Scrolls Online's Fallen Banners, and Fractured's new owners, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, Diablo 3, and Farm Together 2, plus a mailbag topic on gating story beats with raiding.
Trion’s 2013 transmedia synergy MMO Defiance is being revived by Fawkes Games
Two days ago I was explaining to my gen alpha children the origins of Trove's Heckbugs event and how the whole game was a...
One Shots: Clean up on aisle everything
If you came here hoping to find beauty and wonder encapsulated in a single picture, look away, for Minimalistway is bringing you nothing but...
APB Reloaded is fully online after a month in the void as Little Orbit calls Fallen Earth its ‘next big priority’
After a month offline, APB Reloaded is fully back - and we don't just mean the test server.
At the beginning of February, both Little...
APB Reloaded has finally reopened its test server after nearly a month offline
APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth are finally on the verge of restoration after nearly a month of struggles.
Readers will recall that both Little Orbit...
Little Orbit’s CEO flew to Amsterdam to supervise APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth’s new servers
The month-long downtime saga of APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth may be coming to an end relatively soon. The servers for both of Little...
Epic successfully sued a Fortnite cheater – and forced him to post a public apology video
Ten years ago, then-Daybreak-president John Smedley created some fun MMO drama when he went on Twitter and ranted his heart out over the nearly...
Little Orbit’s Matt Scott: ‘There is not a chance in hell that I am letting APB Reloaded shut down’
For almost three weeks now, we've been covering the unexpected downtime over at indie MMO studio Little Orbit, as Fallen Earth and APB Reloaded...
APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth are still offline, but Little Orbit is moving to a new host now
We've been keeping tabs on a massive server outage affecting Fallen Earth and APB Reloaded, which has taken both games offline for two weeks...
APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth are still offline after a week – and it may be a lot more
The "unexpected downtime" that hit Little Orbit's Fallen Earth and APB Reloaded on February 3rd continues into its second week -- and the studio...
EG7 Q3 2024: Palia hits console this spring as EverQuest, LOTRO drive Daybreak revenue
EG7 - that's the Swedish games conglom that bought up Daybreak and then kinda got taken over by Daybreak, amusingly - released its year-end...
APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth servers are down unexpectedly due to network issues
Hope you didn't have plans to dive into one of Little Orbit's MMOs today because both APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth went down unexpectedly...
Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2025?
You know, you're not reading this piece until January, but I sat down to write it ahead of the turn of the year, when...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs that came back from the dead
The fact that I loved Charlotte's Web as a child probably had some influence on my developing brain, but it does mean that I...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives, 2024 edition
While MMORPGs constitute a shifting, ever-evolving market, their history remains surprisingly evergreen. That's what history is: Facts and stories stamped and preserved for our...
Star Wars: The Old Republic touts 2024’s modernization efforts, updates, and Mac beta
Compared to some of the cadence of the big dogs in the MMO genre, Star Wars: The Old Republic might not be producing the...
