MMOs, unfortunately, do not last forever. When they sunset and close down for good, the whole genre mourns.
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The Stream Team: So long, SoulWorker
Massively OP's MJ had a first look at SoulWorker, and now she's having a final look. The anime action combat MMO is closing its...
Gameforge officially sunsets the western version of SoulWorker tomorrow
Back in February, we covered the frustrating announcement that Gameforge was planning to sunset the Western version of SoulWorker. The only good news to...
Amazon and Leyou have canceled that unfinished Lord of the Rings MMO
For the last few years, we've been covering a new Lord of the Rings MMO that was a collaboration between Tencent's Leyou Technologies and...
Ubisoft announces shutdown dates for several of its older online titles
Today's bad news for legacy online support is that some of Ubisoft's older titles now have a firm date of online shutdown. If you've...
Population Zero has apparently sunsetted, is now just plain zero
Population Zero appears to have fulfilled its destiny and now has zero population.
Reports are coming in from both press and players on Steam that...
Nielsen is closing down SuperData and its monthly gaming revenue peeks
I think I might have been the only person on the planet who noticed that March had slipped by without a monthly report on...
Agony of a Dying MMO is an atmospheric narrative game about players’ final hours in a sunsetting MMO
How do you cope with the closing hours of an MMO as it shuts down? We all have a variety of answers to this...
Rumor: Sony is getting rid of the PlayStation 3, PSP, and Vita stores this year
If there are digital games you've always wanted to get for your now-older PlayStation 3... now might be the right time to do it....
Nexon and Square canceled the Final Fantasy XI R mobile MMO, citing an insufficient ‘level of creative differentiation’
Last fall, we poked around trying to figure out what happened to the Final Fantasy XI Remake, the mobile game that was originally announced...
Netease’s SpatialOS-built multiplayer VR RPG Nostos is being shuttered after less than two years
Back in August 2018, we cast our eyes in the direction of Nostos, an "open-world VR RPG with online elements" that let four players...
Valve ends Artifact’s reboot dreams and shoves it into maintenance mode
BioWare isn't the only studio throwing in the towel after attempting a reboot of a promising title. Fans of Valve's digital card game Artifact...
Blade & Soul’s Unreal Engine 4 upgrade is coming this year in spite of Frontier World’s cancelation
We've updated this article at the end with a big update - the original story follows.
If you were excited about the Unreal Engine 4...
Gamigo grants Defiance players’ wishes, posts sunset schedule, and runs a weird survey
Ready to bask in the riches that Gamigo wishes to pour down upon your upturned face? Then you'll first want to head over to...
After just four months in open beta, pixel MMO Naïca is already in maintenance mode
Naïca hasn't been around long enough for anyone to remember the combination of keys to make the ï without copypasta, and now it's over,...
Not So Massively: A eulogy for Anthem and Defiance
Last week was a bloodbath. In a single day, we saw Electronic Arts consign one game to eternal maintenance mode, and Gamigo announced closures...
Leaderboard: So, is RIFT next?
Gamigo, which just bought the studio behind Wizard101 and Pirate101, cleaned house yesterday, purging multiple MMORPGs that it acquired during its past acquisitions of...
Eden Eternal becomes the third MMORPG Gamigo killed off today
Right about now, a whole bunch of Gamigo MMORPGs are wishing they had to deal with only server merges. That's because Gamigo's now axed...
Defiance and Defiance 2050 are dismissed from duty
Clearly, Gamigo is cleaning house today. Shortly after announcing that the MMO publisher is shutting down Twin Saga, it also posted a farewell notice...
BioWare is halting development on Anthem Next, but Anthem itself will stay up
A few weeks back, we reported on credible rumors that BioWare was revisiting whether or not the Anthem reboot was still happening. BioWare had...
Gamigo is sunsetting Twin Saga in April, saying it could ‘no longer sustain itself’
Twin Saga wasn't the biggest MMO in town, but it's probably one of the cutest, so we're sad to report today that Gamigo has...
