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Whatever happened to Project Genom, Inferna, and KurtzPel?
Welcome back to another edition of Whatever Happened To, a recap of MMOs we'd forgotten about but deserve some probing.
Project Genom: Get your F...
TwoKinds Online, the MMO based on a webcomic, is going offline to replace its networking platform
Do you remember TwoKinds Online? It was an indie MMORPG built on SpatialOS with an interesting source of inspiration, taking the 19 year-old webcomic...
Fractured should be back in February as Gamigo shrinks to just a quarter of its 2020 portfolio
Last month, Gamigo suffered a round of layoffs, axed multiple MMOs (dispatching them to other publishers), and stealth-deleted Fractured from its website - Fractured,...
Fractured Online returns to closed development over ‘platform troubles’
Over the course of this week, we've been covering the ongoing Gamigo clownshow: The company suffered layoffs it didn't disclose, which took out the...
PvPvE survival shooter Scavengers goes from maintenance mode to sunsetted on December 16
It's been a fairly long stretch of time since we've heard much out of Scavengers, the PvPvE survival shooter from developer Midwinter Entertainment, but...
Crime life sim MMO Identity finally breaks radio silence with funding and development updates
You'd be forgiven for having completely forgotten about Identity, the ambitious life of crime simulation MMO that's made some big promises but ultimately saw...
Colony sandbox MMO SEED raises another $41M in investment, partly from a blockchain company
Way back in 2017, we learned about a then-new SpatialOS MMORPG called SEED from Klang Games. SEED was supposed to be a colony-centered sandbox...
Improbable CEO shows off M² tech test, claims the platform has ‘peak capacity’ of 1B users
Improbable CEO Herman Narula is once again making some pretty big claims on Twitter. A video demonstration shared last week (and posted on YouTube...
Scavengers enters PC maintenance mode and cans console development as its studio gets sold by Improbable
Over the past year, we've been following the development of Scavengers, a multiplayer PvPvE survival shooter that entered early access last April. Gameplay involved...
Whatever happened to Spiral Knights, Arcfall, and Antares Open World?
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs that needed a solid check-up in our Whatever Happened To series!
Whatever happened to Spiral Knights?
I'm happy to...
SpatialOS developer Improbable announces a ‘network of interoperable web3 metaverses’ called M²
Remember back in January when SpatialOS developer Improbable released a poll that asserted that a large number of gamers and game devs believed a...
Nightingale studio Inflexion has been sold to Tencent – and it’s still launching this year
Tencent is apparently continuing its gobbling-up of all the games and studios you're interested in: Improbable just announced it's sold Inflexion Games to Tencent...
You can still sign up for Fractured Online’s early February alpha test
Gamigo and Dynamight Studios are gearing up for Fractured's first alpha weekend since Gamigo took over publishing for the Kickstarted sandbox.
"On Feb 4, 2022...
SpatialOS developer Improbable’s polling says 90% of gamers think the metaverse will form in ten years
The joke is that 80% of poll stats are just made up numbers. That could certainly be applied to data released by SpatialOS developer...
It’s official: Gamigo’s new game is Kickstarted sandbox MMORPG Fractured
As we've been covering for the last couple of weeks, Gamigo's been teasing a big new secret MMORPG, and the community was already pretty...
SpatialOS had a huge head start on beating Facebook to the metaverse
About five years ago, the word "SpatialOS" was everywhere: It was supposed to be a platform designed to build previously impossible online worlds -...
Project X is a mobile ‘social sandbox MMO’ full of resource gathering and house building in closed beta
This one will need a little bit of context because the name Project X carries a tiny bit of history here. Back in 2018...
PvP sandbox Fractured is blindsided by ‘rampant’ player killing in alpha tests
With a growing studio and another major alpha test on the horizon, Fractured is taking things to the next level in 2021. Level 2,...
Life Beyond unveils plans to introduce MMORPG-like roles in the near future
It's time to once again bring another MMO title that might have fallen off of the radar back into focus. This time around, we're...
MMO Business Roundup: Chicken Drumstick, 9000 zombies, Valorant Mobile, Pantheon hiring, Secret World’s novels
Welcome back to our semi-regular roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent gaming industry news.
Chicken Drumstick: Yes, I'm afraid this is a real thing. Vice's Motherboard...
