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The Daily Grind: What was the most painful MMO sunset of 2018?
I have a feeling I know what the answer to this question is going to be for a lot of folks - WildStar is...
Square-Enix pulls three mobile titles from Belgium over lockbox rules
Everyone's reacting to the lockbox laws in Belgium in different ways, but Square-Enix has apparently decided that it's easiest to just peace out of...
Golf MMO Winning Putt is closing down for good in December
Another bummer announcement for MMO players, or at least for MMO players who also like golf: Winning Putt is sunsetting on December 14th. Webzen and...
Nexon is sunsetting Hyper Universe’s western PC version now too, but the XBox One version will continue
A week ago, Nexon announced that it was shutting down its MOBA Hyper Universe in Korea, citing poor player turnout. At the time, we...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Conquest Resurgence Within, Rohan Mobile, Drawn to Death, El Somni Quas
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you’ve (probably) never heard of! Let’s run down a few more that crossed...
The last remnants of Club Penguin are sunsetting, again, as Disney lays off Club Penguin Island staff
Back in 2017, Disney announced that it was shutting down kid-friendly MMO Club Penguin after 12 years of play, replacing it with a new...
NCsoft’s picked a date for WildStar’s sunset: November 28
When NCsoft announced earlier this month that WildStar would be sunsetting, most MMO players were upset, but not surprised, except about one little detail:...
Players are apparently trying to save Pirates of the Burning Sea, so Portalus delayed its sunset
Earlier this month, we delivered the sad news that Portalus Games' Pirates of the Burning Sea was due to sunset at the end of...
WildStar is probably not sunsetting until at least the end of the year
When NCsoft announced it was closing Carbine and sunsetting WildStar, it didn't include one key detail: when that sunset will occur. In fact, it...
Bless Online’s last remaining Korean servers are shutting down
Bad news for players of Bless Online in Korea: Neowiz announced today that the game is shutting down in that region as its last...
LawBreakers has formally shut down
It doesn't come as a surprise, but LawBreakers has officially gone dark now with the shutdown of its servers. This follows the timeline originally...
The Daily Grind: Do you still log in to play MMOs that are scheduled to sunset?
Last night, I saw a tweet go out from the WildStar account that made me super sad. "It’s show time!" Carbine said. "Sara Conavius...
A eulogy for WildStar – a marvelous MMORPG and avoidable tragedy
Friends, readers, genre fans, lend me your eyes; I come to bury WildStar, not to praise it. But just like Marc Antony, I'm going...
WildStar and Carbine are shutting down
NCsoft is axing Carbine, Kotaku reported this afternoon, which means the end of MMORPG WildStar. Here's the statement NCsoft gave to Kotaku.
"Today, we are...
Pirates of the Burning Sea is closing down, but the community might be able to save it
Bad news, but maybe also a tiny bit of good news too, for Pirates of the Burning Sea: Over the weekend, Portalus Games announced...
The Daily Grind: Are free-to-play MMO conversions saviors or signs of doom in your eyes?
When Dungeons & Dragons Online converted to a free-to-play business model, it was back when I was first working as a writer in the...
Gigantic’s last matches are now playing out ahead of tomorrow’s sunset
There will be no stay of execution for the gorgeous MOBA Gigantic, as PWE has put up a countdown clock for the game's final...
God Eater Online is shutting down in September
Sadly, it does not seem that God Eater Online really talks much about the experience of turning deific entities into snacks. If you were...
Titanfall Online is over before it had even begun
Korean website Game Focus is reporting today that Titanfall Online has effectively been canceled.
As Kotaku notes, EA and Nexon have been working on the...
Scrolls is reborn as a free title, Caller’s Bane
It was back in February when Mojang's - you surely remember it from Minecraft - online card game Scrolls was pronounced dead, but it...
