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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...
LawBreakers is free-to-play for now, then gone in September
We all knew it was coming, but now it's official:Â LawBreakers is now free-to-play on Steam, so you can dive right in and play if...
The Crew 2 is getting an open beta while the original The Crew goes into maintenance
It's probably not much of a surprise to hear that The Crew is slipping into maintenance mode, as patches had been quiet for a...
Hi-Rez is basically maintenance-moding Hand of the Gods
Back in May, we covered the bizarre silence surrounding Hi-Rez's SMITE-infused free-to-play online card game Hand of the Gods. At the time, the information...
RuneScape Classic is sunsetting this August thanks to instability, bots, and bugs
RuneScape has wound its way through many revisions and editions over the years, but Jagex usually left the original versions standing - or in...
Echo of Soul classic servers end their western run Wednesday, but you can still play the game
Hope you got everything done you wanted to in Echo of Soul because the fantasy MMORPG is winding down its classic servers this Wednesday, May 23rd.
According...
Jagex shutters Chronicles: RuneScape Legends, Ace of Spades, and its FunOrb portal
The developer Jagex is best known for various versions of RuneScape and shuttering any project that isn't RuneScape. Ace of Spades is shutting down...
Perfect World is sunsetting Swordsman Online and Jade Dynasty as teams move on to ‘bigger and better things’
Perfect World announced two sunsets yesterday: Four-year-old Swordsman Online and nine-year-old Jade Dynasty will close down in June. Here's the official announcement for Swordsman...
Elite: Dangerous is discontinuing support for the Mac [Updated]
We're sorry to inform fans of Elite: Dangerous on Apple computers that they're soon going to be forced to choose between the platform and...
Echo of Soul closes its Classic servers on May 23
It's been a while since we've talked about Echo of Soul, but it turns out that a lot has been happening with the game...
The Daily Grind: Has the MOBA bubble burst?
The past few weeks have not been kind for fans of MOBAs. In a short span of time we've lost Paragon, Master x Master,...
Epic shutters Paragon over playerbase size woes, declaring it ‘unsustainable’
When Epic Games admitted last week that Paragon's playerbase just couldn't seem to push past its core, many fans all but expected this announcement,...
PWE is sunsetting both Battle of the Immortals and War of the Immortals next week
Add two more to the sunset list: Perfect World announced last month that it will sunset the international versions of six-year-old War of the...
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2017
It's true that we lost a lot of MMOs in 2016 -- bigger and more important ones than in 2014 and 2015. 2017, however, has...
RIP Marvel Heroes
It's gone, gang, and I'm so sorry.
Following the disastrous silences and accusations that unfolded over October and November, Marvel announced that it had terminated...
Gazillion is dead and Marvel Heroes is shutting down Friday, NOT at the end of the year
Massively OP has received a credible tip from a former Gazillion employee who told us under condition of anonymity that Marvel Heroes will be...