survival
The Stream Team: Mini Mo Mania for the 9th MOPiversary
How long is nine years? Measured from your Daily Grind wishes to a pirate's week in review, it's how long Massively OP has been...
Multiplayer survival sandbox Smalland exits early access February 15 with new content and features
Back in March 2018, we first caught wind of Smalland, a multiplayer survival sandbox that sees players as itty-bitty sprites surviving in the scaled-up...
First Impressions: Nightingale’s survival and realmwalking blend could make it a stand-out in the sub-genre
Our regular readers know that the survival sandbox sub-genre is suddenly getting very crowded in very short order, which means that the upcoming gaslamp...
ARK Survival Ascended rolls back latest update, which was eating players items on official servers
When you're playing ARK: Survival Ascended, you expect things to be hungry: your tamed pets, the dinosaurs roaming the wilds, your character - you...
The Stream Team: Just grin and bear it in ICARUS
Last time when Massively OP's MJ tried to explore ICARUS via horseback, she was waylaid by a bear. Not willing to have her plans...
Two weeks into early access, Kickstarted survivalbox Fractured Veil patches up and merges servers
While server merges are sometimes necessary and healthy, they're not the best optics when they happen mere weeks after a game's early access release....
Enshrouded offers up some beginner’s tips in its latest video
Enshrouded might be familiar to survival sandbox vets, but it's also possible that some of its systems are unique to those players, or that...
Dune Awakening’s latest video snippet is all about playing both solo and with friends
Who here would like another vertically oriented video snippet out of Dune: Awakening? If you raised your hand, then you're probably reading this on...
Enshrouded’s first major patch addresses bugs, crashes, multiplayer stability, and world reset timing
It's been a couple of weeks since the survival sandbox Enshrouded made its early access debut, and while the game has received several hotfixes...
Nightingale, counting nearly 50K testers, is launching early access two days earlier than originally planned
Hope you didn't take the original launch date off because Nightingale's early access release has been pushed up two days.
"Inflexion Games announced the launch...
Astroneer is running a multi-stage Breakdown event running until April 7
Do you need something to pass the time in the adorable little survival sandbox of Astroneer? Then you're in luck because the Breakdown event...
Palworld vows to keep servers online ‘without regard to cost’ (despite monthly cost of nearly half a million dollars)
Getting professional server hosting for an online multiplayer title ain't cheap, and that holds true for Palworld developer Pocketpair, which is paying out the...
Voxlands is a multiplayer boxy blend of FPS, RPG, and survival coming to February’s Steam Next Fest
It's time once again to take up several sub-genres, toss them in a pot, and whisk until they smooth into a new title. This...
‘Supermax open world survival’ title SCUM removes garage locks, releases vehicle skins, and seeks player opinons
One of the things we always ask for in our Betawatch column is for readers to let us know if a game in testing...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Under A Rock, Farworld Pioneers, Cyborg Immortal
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs you've probably never heard of (but if you have, awesome!).
Under a Rock
If you're not living under a...
The Stream Team: Joining in on the Nightingale stress test
MOP's Chris is going to add his weight to the one-day stress test of Nightingale today, and at the same time he's going to...
Minecraft claps hands with H&R Block to premiere a ‘tax-themed gaming experience’ February 3
Nobody likes doing taxes - heck, we're pretty sure that CPAs don't like doing taxes and it's their literal job - so it's really...
First Impressions: Palworld copied all the right homework to graduate as its own enjoyable game
You know how the back of a box of Hamburger Helper or other boxed dinner mixes encourage you to toss in extra ingredients to...
ARK Survival Ascended is launching a streamlined way to get player-made items in February and April
Mod support is already a thing in ARK: Survival Ascended, but the survival sandbox is bringing a little bit more streamlining to the custom...
V Rising will make its full 1.0 release to PlayStation 5 and bring controller support to Steam
The vampiric player characters of V Rising - and by extension developer Stunlock Studios - are setting forth for brand-new lands, as the studio...
