MMOs, unfortunately, do not last forever. When they sunset and close down for good, the whole genre mourns.
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Fallen Earth begins its Last Stand
After a slight delay due to patcher issues, Fallen Earth's 10th anniversary -- and its final hurrah in its current incarnation -- has begun.
Little...
Paladins is shutting down in China on November 30
Publisher Tencent has come to an amicable decision with Hi-Rez Studios to shut down Paladins in China. The decision comes roughly three years since...
Fallen Earth postpones anniversary event and server shutdown by a little bit
What happens when you try to shoehorn in an event into creaky infrastructure that you never built? Chances are, nothing good. Little Orbit is...
Bless Online has officially sunsetted – RIP, Bless
Back in June, Neowiz announced the sad news that Bless Online's western version on Steam - the last version left alive - was sunsetting...
Fallen Earth is going offline indefinitely (but hope remains for a reboot)
Fallen Earth's 10th anniversary event is about to become the post-apocalyptic MMORPG's last hurrah - at least for now.
Little Orbit announced on Tuesday that...
Internet spaceship roguelike MMO Lazarus is shutting down
We have a soft spot for plucky indie MMOs like Lazarus, and have been tracking its development since its inception. Described in its infancy...
Alpha MMO battle royale Mavericks has been canceled as its company enters bankruptcy
Mavericks is toast, I'm sorry to report this morning. GIbiz caught a notice posted on the website of the game's company, UK-based Automaton Games,...
The Stream Team: Say good-bye as Worlds Adrift floats into the sunset
It's another sad day in our gaming verse as yet another title joins the realm of sunsetted games. Massively OP's MJ will be in...
Ubisoft’s Mighty Quest for Epic Loot is resurrected — as a mobile game
Back in 2016, Ubisoft's The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot finished a somewhat lackluster two-year run... and that was that. Or so we thought....
After suggesting it’d save Player Studio, Daybreak has quietly shuttered it for EverQuest instead
Back in March, Daybreak appointed a new Producer for its long-running Player Studio program - that's the system that allowed players to create and...
Farewell, Atlas Reactor: Gamigo has officially sunsetted the first of its Trion MMOs
Just two and and half years after its official launch, Atlas Reactor has officially sunsetted.
After buying up Trion's assets and games last year, Gamigo...
Perfect Ten: The most poorly managed MMO sunsets of all time
MMOs shut down. This is just kind of a reality. It's an unpleasant one, but we also are collectively aware that it happens and...
The Daily Grind: Do you check out sunsetting MMOs on their last days of operation?
I've never played Worlds Adrift, and in the near future I will never be able to do so. Despite this fact, I'm in no particular...
Amazon Game Studios is apparently suffering layoffs and game cancelations
Next week, we've got a piece coming in which one of my colleagues remarks that Amazon Game Studios' greatest claim to fame right now...
E3 2019: Terraria: Journey’s End will be the game’s final update before entering maintenance mode
It's been a long trip for the 2-D multiplayer side-scrolling exploration title Terraria, and while we don't cover this one particularly closely, the upcoming...
ELOA aka Warlords Awakening suffers the indignity of a triple shutdown
Here's a hat trick that no MMORPG ever wants to earn: being closed three times in a row. For Elite Lord of Alliance (ELOA),...
Bless Online’s western version will sunset on September 9
Yesterday, we covered the news that Bless Online was sunsetting in Japan, leading many of us to wonder whether the Steam version live in...
Bless Online’s Japanese server is sunsetting in August
It looks like yet another version of Bless Online is calling it quits, as the Japanese server admins announced yesterday it'll close down that...
Worlds Adrift to close in July with ‘End of the World Party’
Say farewell to grappling hooks, sky piracy, endless exploration, and one promising SpatialOS MMORPG, because Worlds Adrift has announced that it is closing its...
The sad remains of the Ouya console will finally sunset on June 25
About six years ago, a writer named Justin Olivetti on some site called Massively got an Ouya for his birthday and pitched a story...