MMOs, unfortunately, do not last forever. When they sunset and close down for good, the whole genre mourns.
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Gamigo is closing down RIFT EU server Bloodiron, the last PvP bastion in the game
Pour one out for one of the few remaining RIFT servers: Bloodiron is closing down. Gamigo made the announcement this morning, characterizing it as...
Kickstarted VR MMO Zenith officially goes into maintenance mode
It's the end of the road for Zenith, more or less, as its small indie team announced that the virtual reality MMO is going...
Riot Games was reportedly working on a Smash Bros-style League of Legends platform brawler
What would happen if you blended together the platform brawling of Super Smash Bros. with the character roster of League of Legends? You would...
Tencent’s co-op looter-shooter Synced is sunsetting just a year after its western PC launch
We're the bearer of more bad news today: Tencent is closing down its looter-shooter Synced.
Synced was a sci-fi co-op looter shooter from Tencent's Level...
PvPvE team shooter Exoprimal enters de facto maintenance mode starting July 11
It would be easy to believe that Capcom's PvPvE team shooter Exoprimal was something of a fever dream - any game that featured dinosaurs...
EA is killing PS3 and Xbox 360 online functionality for three Battlefield games
If you've been enjoying playing Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, or Battlefield Hardline on your older consoles, you should get in your last matches in...
Tribes 3 Rivals heads into de facto maintenance mode as developers offer compensation
There's bad but perhaps not unexpected news for Tribes 3 Rivals players today as developer Prophecy Games has put out a rather flatly titled...
XLGAMES’ messy masterpiece ArcheAge has officially sunsetted
Back in April, we got the sad but not entirely unexpected news that XLGAMES had decided to sunset the remains of ArcheAge, including the...
Jandisoft’s Mad World is sunsetting on July 4 after only 15 months online
I'm sorry to report this evening that buried under all the Summer Game Fest reveals was the quiet news that Jandisoft's unique MMOARPG Mad...
Legends of Aria’s crypto version, Britaria, goes bust over ‘financial constraints’
When Citadel Studios announced back in April that it was planning to relaunch the Kickstarted MMORPG Legends of Aria (fka Shards Online) as a...
Wildermyth developer Worldwalker Games announces that the game’s full-time development has ended
Here's the good news about Wildermyth if you've never heard of it: The game is out now, and the announcement below comes after the...
Overwatch 2 is killing its Hero Mastery Gauntlet PvE mode at the end of season 10
Blizzard is apparently taking an axe to yet another PvE-esque mode in Overwatch 2 as it winds down Hero Mastery Gauntlet for good at...
Redfall’s final update brings offline mode and revamps neighborhood and nest mechanics
With news that Microsoft is abandoning Redfall (after claims from the megacorp that it wouldn't be doing that), the latest announcement from developer Arkane...
Ubisoft cancels The Division Heartland in spite of record annual corporate revenues
There's a big blast of bad news for Ubisoft and everyone else coming out of the company's latest financial report: The company has outright...
Lightforge Games halts social RPG production, downsizes to a skeleton crew
Over the past few years we've been reporting on Lightforge Games, a development studio that entered our general genre radar for snapping up former...
Tencent and Control developer Remedy cancel co-op Project Kestrel
Steel yourself for great disappointment: A game that you probably had no idea was in the making has been cancelled. Massively OP grief counselors...
Kickstarted afrofantasy MMORPG The Wagadu Chronicles is sunsetting before launch
I'm terribly sorry to report this morning that The Wagadu Chronicles is shutting down development and sunsetting.
Our readers will know that Wagadu was a...
Cutesy golfing MMO PangYa sunsets in Thailand, marking the official end of the game
Unless you're an MMO fan of a certain vintage, the name of the game PangYa is probably going to sound odd to you without...
World of Tanks shares its calendar of events for May and closes out its replay video series after 10 years
If you thought World of Tanks clapping hands with Star Trek for an event was weird, have a look at the other things that...
World of Warcraft is retiring the Companion App as it looks forward to the Cataclysm Classic conversion
If you're still salty about being asked this ages ago, don't worry, World of Warcraft fans. Blizzard no longer cares if you have a...
