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Embracer Group is killing off Flying Wild Hog’s Jagex-pubbed Space Punks
The Embracer Group financing catastrophe and failed Saudi investment are continuing to have ripple effects in the MMO and multiplayer genres as now, the...
Veteran games studio Volition is shuttered as part of Embracer’s restructuring
It's not an MMO studio, but it's still a significant loss for gaming that Volition is being shut down. The studio was owned by...
Indie MMO Gloria Victis and its studio are shutting down on Halloween after a decade online
I'm sorry to report this afternoon that the long-running siege PvP MMORPG Gloria Victis is sunsetting. Polish indie studio Black Eye Games made the...
Albion Online is killing off its Crystal League Championship PvP tournaments in spite of 300K daily players
So Albion Online has some bad news this week: Sandbox Interactive is bringing its long-running Crystal League Championship PvP tournaments to an end, with...
Kakao is effectively sunsetting ArcheAge Unchained, merging it into two remaining western ArcheAge servers
The age of ArcheAge Unchained is over: Kakao and XLGAMES have apparently decided to merge the Unchained servers back into the regular ArcheAge production...
Electronic Arts announces online server shutdowns for three more of its games
It's really hard to know how many people were using online multiplayer or accessing online servers for Dead Space 2, Crysis 3, or Dante's...
Iron Realms puts two of its MUDs into maintenance mode including Starmourn
Those who have dabbled or gone hardcore into the world of multi-user dungeons (MUDs) and text-based MMOs will no doubt recognize the name of...
Kakao partially denies report that ArcheAge will sunset following XLGAMES restructure
Korea's Money Today News has a disturbing scoop on turmoil at XLGAMES that appears to mean layoffs inside the studio - and a closure...
Bandai-Namco will sunset Gundam Evolution after barely a year
We've got some bad news for fans of Gundam Evolution: Bandai Namco is already shutting it down, and though the company doesn't give a...
The Soapbox: Why The Secret World really failed
We're back with part two of my long-overdue post-mortem of The Secret World, my favourite MMORPG of all time. In the first part I...
Niantic is sunsetting Marvel World of Heroes after all – tomorrow, in fact
At the end of June, Pokemon Go company Niantic announced a restructure of its entire business, a closure of its LA studio, the layoff...
The Realm Online’s corporate buyer surfaces with a bizarre website and studio partner
Over the course of June, we learned the sad news that player-led developer Realm Worlds would be shutting down the current version of The...
Call of Duty: Warzone 1.0, Forza Horizon 1, and Forza Horizon 2 all receive their execution notices
It's that sad time of year when the herd is rounded up and stragglers are culled and designated for the virtual slaughterhouse. And so...
So now The Realm Online is apparently being sold to an undisclosed new studio
Last week, player-led developer Realm Worlds announced a shutdown for the current version of The Realm Online, owing to the fact that the game...
Niantic lays off 230 workers, affecting Pokemon Go, in cost-slashing reorganization
The beleaguered Pokemon Go company Niantic has been under fire all year from unhappy players, and now, the company itself is undergoing a restructure...
The Cycle Frontier will sunset in September owing to financial inviability
Five years ago next month, we learned about a new PvEvP "shooter with a twist" that was supposed to incorporate battle royale elements without...
The Realm Online is shuttering its rebooted version at the end of June
Five years ago, a group of enterprising fans banded together to assemble and run an improved version of the classic MMORPG The Realm Online...
Funcom has unceremoniously axed Advisors of Rubi-Ka, Anarchy Online’s player volunteer program
Unfortunately, we've got another blast of bad news out of Funcom this afternoon - a studio not exactly known for properly maintaining its old...
Marvel’s Avengers coasts toward its end with a final patch that unlocks everything
Missing Marvel Heroes on its 10th anniversary? Your inclination may be to look for an acceptable substitute -- but keep looking beyond Marvel's Avengers...
Gameforge is sunsetting Swords of Legends Online not quite two years after launch
I wish I could say nobody saw this coming, but unfortunately, the writing has been on the wall for a while: Gameforge announced this...
