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Seafaring MMO Rulers of the Sea and its development studio announce their closure
Back in 2019 we highlighted Rulers of the Sea, an MMO in development by Dutch studio Deadeye Games set in the seafaring real world,...
Vampire battle royale Bloodhunt confirms it’s entering maintenance mode because of a lack of players
It looks like the battle royale genre didn't have enough blood in it to sustain more than a couple of titles: Bloodhunt, Sharkmob's vampiric...
Valofe shuts down free-to-play econ and politics-focused MMO Luminary Rise of the GoonZu
This past week saw another MMORPG go quietly in to that good night. Luminary Online: Rise of the GoonZu announced in April that it...
LOTRO’s Shadowfax server nears the end of its run, offers free character transfers
The last bell has been rung, the floor swept clean, and tipsy hobbits ushered to the door for Lord of the Rings Online's fastest...
CCP Games is already sunsetting EVE Anywhere after just a year in the wild
Back in 2021, CCP Games made a big to-do over a browser client for EVE Online called EVE Anywhere - essentially a cloud-hosted version...
Early access retro PvP MMORPG Leafling Online has sunsetted over waning interest
Hey, remember Leafling Online? It first scooted onto our radar about two years ago as a free-to-play retro 2-D, nostalgia-driven open PvP sandbox; players...
EA is sunsetting another trio of online games from the Battlefield IP
Prepare to say farewell to a whole 'nother slew of online games and a whole 'nother reason to support widespread game preservation.
Though technically these...
Multiplayer time-looping strategy FPS Lemnis Gate announces its July 11 sunset
You would be forgiven for not realizing Lemnis Gate was a thing. The title was first announced in August 2020 as one of two...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs you regret not playing again when you could?
Game shut down. It's sad, but it happens. And more often than not when I can see an MMO is going to wave farewell,...
After 14 years, Enjin drops guild site building tools in favor of blockchain and NFT tech
It has been a very long time since the name of Enjin crossed our minds. Long-time MMORPG gamers will recognize it as a service...
Kakao’s mobile MMO Moonlight Sculptor is closing down in May after less than two years online
At 4:20 a.m. EST this morning, Kakao and XL Games announced that Moonlight Sculptor's global servers are set for demolition in multiple regions just...
Square-Enix’s Babylon’s Fall went out with the wimpiest of whimpers
How do you imagine your favorite online service game going dark? Hopefully it's with bittersweet parties among the faithful community and massive end-of-game events...
RF Online’s western version has been sunsetted thanks to an apparent contract issue
News coming out of the sci-fi MMO RF Online has mostly been a trickle of headlines - the last report involved Korean developer CCR...
Natural Selection 2 enters maintenance mode, Spellbreak returns as an official ‘community version’
We once more have to report on some semi-sunsets in our corner of the gaming sphere, although as the headline suggests, it's not all...
Mobile co-op multiplayer RPG Echoes of Mana announces a May 15 sunset
Echoes of Mana is not a game that we've really touched on here but it does fall within our sphere of interest: The mobile...
Hearthstone’s Mercenaries mode will get one last major patch that adds new mercs, mechanics, and endgame
If you're a regular player of the Mercenaries game mode in Hearthstone, then we have good news and bad news: The game is going...
World of Warcraft is shutting down its integrated Twitter posting feature
One of the very first stories we covered when Old Massively became Overpowered was World of Warcraft's Twitter integration implementation. It seems like yesterday,...
Rumbleverse and Knockout City announce sunsets, Back 4 Blood announces maintenance mode
We have an unfortunate trifecta of bad multiplayer gaming news, especially for fans of the battle royale title Rumbleverse, the team-based dodgeball battler Knockout...
EA is sunsetting Apex Legends Mobile, canceling Battlefield mobile game
Electronic Arts delivered its Q3FY23Â investor report this afternoon, and it wasn't a bad one; the company saw net revenues up for the quarter and...
Square Enix-published Marvel’s Avengers is ending official support this fall
Even the force of one of the mightiest IPs of the world couldn't save Marvel's Avengers from a disappointing turnout and underwhelming reception. On...
