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The Day Before Steam keys go for three figures on the grey market as Fntastic announces server closures
We all thought that news from The Day Before was going to end too, but the whole sordid story of this zombie extraction shooter...
Revelation Online will sunset on March 13, 2024
The year 2023 has a few more things to take from the MMO industry, apparently: Revelation Online is heading to sunset. MY.GAMES and NetEase...
Naughty Dog cancels The Last of Us Online owing to ‘the massive scope of [its] ambition’
Naughty Dog - a studio that's primarily known for its single-player titles - was looking to enter our sphere of the gaming world when...
Ubisoft’s 2014 racing game The Crew 1 is sunsetting in March 2024
2023 has one more thing to take away from the greater MMO genre: Ubisoft is sunsetting The Crew, the original game in the driving...
Team vs. team hero FPS Gundam Evolution has unfortunately sunsetted
Fans of the team vs. team hero shooter Gundam Evolution already knew that the game's closure was coming, but it doesn't make it any...
The Daily Grind: What departed and unplayable MMO do you most dearly miss?
There are eras of Final Fantasy XI's development which are gone now, but the game itself is still around. The official servers of City...
ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained officially merged this morning, sending Unchained into its last sunset
The great failed experiment that was ArcheAge Unchained is officially over. This week, Kakao merged the alternate business model version of the game into...
Nexon’s early access 5v5 action shooter Veiled Experts will sunset December 14
You may not have heard of Veiled Experts, a free-to-play 5v5 tactical action shooter from Nexon: The company billed it as a game that's...
CCP Games finally ends official support of the long-neglected EVE Portal mobile app
Longtime fans of EVE Online have likely noticed that the sandbox's official EVE Portal mobile app has been in decline for a number of...
One More Game ends dev on multiplayer battler Spellcraft after failing to find a ‘financially viable’ prototype
Things have been worryingly quiet over at developer One More Game and its self-described "real-time battler" Spellcraft. The multiplayer tactical title was first unveiled...
Cinderstone Online has apparently sunsetted after just two months as devs plan F2P relaunch
Over the last couple of years, we've kept an eye on Cinderstone Online aka Fioresia Online, a cutesy indie MMO that actually made it...
PvP MMO Gloria Victis has officially sunsetted as Siege Survival Gloria Victis marches on
Back in August, we relayed the unfortunate news that Polish indie studio Black Eye Games was sunsetting siege PvP MMORPG Gloria Victis after a...
Ubisoft and EA deprecate a dozen multiplayer games, including Star Wars Battlefront II of ‘pride and accomplishment’ fame
You can either chalk it up to the inescapable march of time and technology, shrug indifferently that older games are just dust in the...
Sega’s cancelled PvPvE shooter Hyenas was reportedly a doomed project from the very start
Have you heard about Hyenas? It's OK if you didn't, as this PvPvE shooter from developer Creative Assembly and publisher Sega had a pretty...
MMO Business Roundup: BioWare lawsuit, Nintendo multiplayer sunset, Twitch layoffs
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Numbers numbers numbers.
BioWare
Remember the hefty BioWare layoffs back in the summer? A group...
Star Trek Online is discontinuing its 3-D-printed ship partnership with Gameprint
There are a whole lot of different ships in Star Trek Online, and considering the customization and personal investment that a player can have...
Wildcard sunsets ARK Survival Evolved official servers, confirms no Steam cross-play at ARK Ascended’s launch
"We aren't meant to live forever," reasons the title of a video for ARK: Survival Evolved, which is part of a wider send-off for...
The Cycle Frontier sunsets today as studio YAGER says goodbye to players, literally
Back in June, we learned the sad news that Tencent-backed YAGER would be sunsetting its PvEvP shooter The Cycle Frontier, owing in part to...
Rumor: EA will stop supporting Wild Hearts just half a year after release
This past February saw Wild Hearts, a cross-platform multiplayer monster hunting game from developer Koei Tecmo and publisher Electronic Arts, make its debut to...
Tencent’s battle royale shooter Ring of Elysium will sunset in December
The battle royale bandwagon continues to prove its inability to bear the weight of too many games, it seems. Readers might recall the existence...
