MMOs, unfortunately, do not last forever. When they sunset and close down for good, the whole genre mourns.
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Amazon may have already canceled Breakaway
Kotaku is reporting that Amazon has "basically canceled" Breakaway, with two sources confirming that the game is over - on "indefinite hiatus," one said,...
Digital Extremes halts development on The Amazing Eternals
Digital Extremes announced this morning that it's halting development on The Amazing Eternals.
"After many discussions internally on the state of The Amazing Eternals, we...
Uncharted Waters Online relaunches today
Uncharted Waters Online is dead, long live Uncharted Waters Online!
For the past few weeks, the old version of UWO has been offline following the...
Farewell to My.com MOBA Cloud Pirates, which sunsetted over the weekend
If you blinked, you missed it: Cloud Pirates shut down over the weekend.
My.com announced that it was giving up on its Allods-themed Cloud Pirates...
Hawken will sunset its PC Steam servers in January 2018, but not console servers
Free-to-play online shooter Hawken is sunsetting its Steam servers for PC users, Reloaded Games announced today, causing reviews of the game to tank.
"After 3...
SkySaga locks down official site following development halt, posts ‘nothing can be said for certain’
Just in case you were wondering, it's still a puddle of sadness and despair over at SkySaga. Following the online game's abrupt development halt...
Battleborn’s updates come to an end after its next patch
The only really good news for Battleborn fans is that the end of updates does not mean the end of everything for the game....
EverQuest II fan news site EQ2Wire is closing its doors
If you've been even remotely active online about EverQuest II over the past nine years, you probably know EQ2Wire. It's been a long-running and...
Raptr is shutting down on September 30th
Do you remember Raptr? You can see a screenshot from our own memories of it right there in the header. Yes, there was a...
Dragon Nest NA operator takes over SEA branch
If you've followed its history over the past half-decade or so, you might have noticed that the action-MMO Dragon Nest hasn't had the easiest...
Exploration MMO Wander quietly died and almost no one noticed
Cast your mind back to 2015 and see if you can recall an odd MMO launching on PC and PlayStation 4 called Wander. It...
Perpetuum ends active development, eyes private servers
It's both an end and a beginning for Perpetuum Online.
The team announced on September 3rd that it is no longer actively developing for the...
Cloud Pirates is sunsetting at the end of September
Aw, damnit. My.com is giving up on its Allods-themed Cloud Pirates MOBA already. The company doesn't say why, but given the successes of its...
Why you should care that Nintendo’s social network Miiverse sunsets in November
We've known for a while that social network Miiverse would eventually be closing, but Nintendo confirmed the news and the official death date yesterday...
Ghost in the Shell Online will close on December 6 in North America
So, remember how Ghost in the Shell Online announced it was shuttering in Japan without announcing that it was also shuttering in North America?...
SkySaga shuts down production and goes on hold indefinitely
Very sad news today out of Radiant Worlds, which announced that Smilegate, its publishing partner, ordered that SkySaga's development be shut down immediately and pulled...
Otherland is revived on Steam as Drago takes over publishing duties
Over this summer, we've been getting tips suggesting that the Tad Williams Otherland MMORPG was in serious trouble, as first it went dark on...
Ghost in the Shell Online services to close in Japan
The bright side of the news that Ghost in the Shell Online will be shutting down service in Japan is that this is not,...
GTA-esque MMO CrimeCraft will sunset at the end of August
Hey, remember CrimeCraft? I had forgotten all about it, but we covered the Vogster-designed MMO from 2008 onward on Old Massively through its 2009...
Nexon kills top-secret Nebula project, closes studio
What might be worse than having an interesting-looking MMORPG in development shut down before it reaches launch is having one cloaked under the veil...
