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Voxel-y MMORPG EverCraft Online rebrands as Adrullan Online Adventures ahead of May 2 stress test
What's in a name? Well, at least a few more syllables in the case of Adrullan Online Adventures, which is the new name for...
‘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....
MMO Hype Train: Why are Monsters & Memories’ vibes so intriguing?
What attracts you to an upcoming MMORPG project? There are a few factors in my mind that result in a rather quick assessment of...
The Steam spring sale is upon us with deals on MMOs from New World Aeternum to Pantheon
Is it actually spring? No. But do you actually need an excuse for a Steam sale? Also no! But that's exactly what we got...
Trove’s St Patrick’s Day event, St Qubeslick 2025, has returned to the sandbox
I don't mean to alarm you, but St Patrick's Day is coming up on Monday, which means a whole lot of leprechauns, pots of...
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 -...
Kickstarted Minecrafty sandbox Voxile embraces the transcendent blocky joy of early access
The Minecraft vibes are quite strong with the newly arrived Voxile, and that's most certainly intentional. The "fully destructible" multiplayer voxel sandbox arrived on...
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...
Storyboard: How do you roleplay in MMOs that don’t want you to roleplay?
Readers, I am about to blow your minds. Are you ready to have your minds absolutely blown? It's going to be a huge shock,...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: QANGA, Urban Dead, Voxile, and Cyborg Immortal
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you've never heard of!
QANGA
QANGA is a new-to-us multiplayer sci-fi survivalbox from iolaCorp Studio...
Guild Wars 2 is planning a WvW update in March and a PvP Push beta in May
Yesterday's full announcement of Guild Wars 2's Janthir Wilds Repentance chapter came with more than a trailer and date: It also came with a...
Stars Reach teases adorable retro bug people for its newly unlocked species
As we noted yesterday, when Stars Reach crossed the $500,000 crowdfunding threshhold on Kickstarter, players effectively unlocked the pre-launch (rather than post-launch) addition of...
Whatever happened to Minecraft-esque multiplayer sandbox Hytale?
Who here recalls Hytale? We first started reporting on this one back in 2018 and have seen it pop up on the wider radar...
Gaijin’s sci-fi voxelbox Cubic Odyssey brings a planet to explore, fight on, and mine for Steam Next Fest
Last month was when we all learned about Cubic Odyssey, a sci-fi voxel sandbox in development from Atypical Games and published by Gaijin Entertainment...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with the very best soundtracks
I've long had an affection for video game music and feel content to live in an age where I can actually obtain it and...
Hellbugs and Heckbugs invade Trove and RIFT as Valentine-themed events continue
The first thing you're going to do when you see this headline is complain that Valentine's Day was, like, so last week, and you...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO games, events, and ideas hitting the decade mark in 2025
A decade is a long time. It's kind of weird that we don't think much about games or shows or whatever hitting the decade...
Vague Patch Notes: How long do online games truly get to live?
I'm going to start this article by asking a question I don't actually want an answer to: How long has Minecraft been popular?
Objectively there...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs (and MMO-adjacent games) you can play on Nintendo Switch in 2025
In our family, there's an ongoing joke that I was the one who got the Nintendo Switch as a birthday present a few years...
There’s a Final Fantasy XI zine on Kickstarter right now for your Vana’diel nostalgia tour
So how did people put together enthusiastic fan projects before we all had the internet? Why, you made a zine, of course. Assembled loosely...
