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Profane is seeking testers for its ‘first basic combat test’
Did you know that Profane has a Discord? There's a Discord for Profane. You should join it. The Discord. The one for Profane. The...
Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds scored $25M in investment for his ‘modern sandbox MMO’
Raph Koster's Playable Worlds is inching a little closer to a playable world thanks to another cash infusion.
GIbiz reports that the company has raised...
Embers Adrift recaps updates made to the beta over the course of March
There are a few things one tends to expect out of an open development MMORPG, and one of those things is a monthly report...
Profane is looking to create a whale with harvestable resources on its body
The picture you see above is a piece of concept artwork for a very large whale that will be found in the waters of...
Profane talks up armor skins, Portinus culture, and a new island creation tool
Regular readers by now know that the developing PvP MMO Profane really does love to kick out Twitter threads, and the past three weeks...
Mainframe Industries’ cross-platform cloud-powered MMO raises over $22M in series B funding
Let's open this up with a bit of a history lesson: Back in October 2019, some former vets of CCP Games, Remedy, and Next...
Profane ponders the effects of seasons, weather, and day/night cycles to gameplay
Yep, it's another Twitter thread from Profane. Yep, it's once again rather design document-like and vaporous. It's also something distinct and not often considered...
Genfanad is a browser-based ‘nostalgic’ MMORPG that also seeks to shake up RPG tropes
Reading up about the old school-styled browser-based MMORPG Genfanad, I'm brought to mind another certain MMORPG that tries to both mirror the classics while...
Profane provides a look at a tropical region cenote in latest Twitter thread
Today we're all going to learn more about some of the tropical landscape of Profane as well as a new word: cenote. That's basically...
Valorbound promises a full-loot PvPvE MMO with horizontal progression and ‘hardcore’ health management
That headline sure makes this one sound like a big, snuggly time, doesn't it? But developer Team Scionica believes there's a market for an...
Dual Universe is officially part of the GeForce NOW games library (but you still need to pay a sub to play it)
Raise your hand if you want to pay for a sub to access a games service and then pay a sub to access one...
Ravendawn shares over 30 minutes of uncut pre-alpha gameplay footage
Are you curious to learn whether the in-development old-school MMORPG Ravendawn is as much of a Tibia lookalike as Redditors claim? Then perhaps you...
Profane delays a couple of alpha roadmap features thanks to a player movement bug
When bugs attack, they can upend a few things in game development. That sort of fate has befallen Profane, the PvP sandbox MMO that...
Some Assembly Required: The future of Dual Universe’s puzzle events and development
While I may be sad at missing Dual Universe's first big puzzle event that was just solved (though folks can still follow the clues...
Some Assembly Required: How clever gamers solved Dual Universe’s massive puzzle event in record time
If you are a fan of sandboxes and virtual worlds - and you are reading Some Assembly Required, so you probably are - then...
Ashen Empires emulator Dransik Rebirth is allegedly shut down by a cease and desist order
In May, our roundup of MMOs you've never heard of offered a quick look at Dransik Rebirth, a rogue server of the old-school MMORPG...
Mankind Reborn shares new Union City, gameplay improvements, and alpha roadmap
Anyone remember Mankind Reborn? It's a cyberpunk sandbox MMO that looks to be a spiritual successor to the sunsetted Face of Mankind; we touched...
Some Assembly Required: A Stage Reborn brings live theater to Final Fantasy XIV
There's roleplaying in MMORPGs, and then there is playing a role! We're talking pixelated actors performing live theater within a virtual world. Yes, it's...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen offers a closer look at the Enchanter class, posts June newsletter
When Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen goes live, I suspect the Enchanter class is the one I would gravitate toward. Its primary functions are...
Some Assembly Required: Will Starbase’s focus on minutiae be too much of a good thing?
Recently, Massively Overthinking explored chores in sandboxes and MMOs that can feel like jobs. I may not have answered that then, but boy am...
