survival
SGF 2024: Hands-on with NCsoft’s long-awaited Throne and Liberty, launching September 17
Most of the games I played at Summer Game Fest were more enjoyable than I expected - including Throne and Liberty, which was probably...
Conan Exiles slows down its update cadence for chapters and puts the kibosh on battle passes in its next Age
"Conan Exiles is always evolving, and so is the way our team develops it," opens Funcom's latest update post, and sure enough the cadence...
Sandbox MMO Pax Dei has officially entered early access for at least the next year
If you're a Pax Dei founder pack owner, you're about to have a fun Tuesday, as Mainframe Industries has officially launched the survival-tinged sandbox...
One Shots: When the cuteness dug too deep
In this past week's adventures, Utakata claimed to have plumbed the great depths and mysteries of Khazad-dûm... with a mouse-person. I don't remember that...
Space survival sim Planet Crafter crosses one million units sold
Following its launch in early April, indie survival sim Planet Crafter announced that it's just crossed one million units sold to date.
"Today we are...
Pax Dei bluntly outlines what it is – and is not – ahead of next week’s early access release
In a world where games have waffled about their MMO-ness, the devs at Mainframe Industries have made it very clear what kind of gameplay...
SGF 2024: Hands-on with PvE-centric sci-fi horror survival shooter MMO Once Human
For those who saw Once Human and thought, "Gee, that kind of looks like a mix of H1Z1 and The Secret World," you're not wrong based on...
Fight or Kite: 33 Immortals continues the trend of pseudo-MMO gaming
Even given the general pullback in the games industry from using the term MMO, I sure am noticing a bunch of other games that...
Valheim launches to Mac players, V Rising arrives to PlayStation 5
This week is all about proliferation of Iron Gate's and Stunlock Studios' survival sandboxes, as both Valheim and V Rising have expanded to new...
SGF 2024: Aloft is a cozy Ghibli-inspired PvE-centric survival sandbox in the sky
When I first heard about Aloft while planning for Summer Games Fest 2024, I figured it would just be a cute multiplayer survival game;...
Stormforge is a new multiplayer survival sandbox inspired by D&D and The Stormlight Archive
Among the new multiplayer games announced this weekend during not-E3 is a fresh "open-world fantasy survival crafting game" called Stormforge (you might have heard...
BitCraft delays its second closed alpha test to July 8
The second closed alpha test for social-focused survival sandbox BitCraft has changed a couple of times before, as studio Clockwork Labs first stated it...
Black Desert simplifies gathering and fishing on PC, brings a plant centaur boss fight to mobile
If you're all about those life skills in Black Desert on PC, or if you've never thought to try them out, then you're likely...
ARK Survival Ascended adds The Center map, paid critter DLC, and premium mods on console
ARK Survival Evolved reboot/rebrand ARK Survival Ascended is doing something new this week: It's launching a new paid DLC series focused on new tamed...
Persist Online interview: CipSoft explains why Persist is an MMORPG, not a survival shooter
Earlier this week, we covered the surprising news that Tibia developer CipSoft has a new MMORPG on the way. At least, the studio is...
Survival sandbox Valheim expands its early access to Mac gamers next week
Before you ask, no, Valheim has still not emerged from early access. But it did just roll out its massive Ashlands expansion back in...
Sandbox MMORPG Pax Dei opens preorders for its newly announced June 18 early access
Is it too soon for Pax Dei to be hitting early access? We're about to find out, as Mainframe Industries announced this morning that...
Multiplayer survival sandbox Aloft opens Steam demo for the Open World Survival Crafting Fest
Among the many multiplayer survival sandbox titles being promoted on Steam this week as part of the Steam Open World Survival Crafting Fest is...
No Man’s Sky’s Adrift expedition offers a lonely and hostile ‘alternative universe’
No Man's Sky has spent years shoring up its MMO bona fides, and now, it's doing the opposite with today's Adrift update, which shrinks...
The Stream Team: A night of Nightwave in Warframe
A new Nightwave mini-season has started in Warframe, and this time Massively OP's MJ is getting in on at the beginning! How can she...
