survival
The Soapbox: The ‘problem’ with MMO hoarding
I remember a number of years ago, in an article for a game I can't recall, an MMO developer discussed how an early build...
Z1 Battle Royale, formerly H1Z1, kicks back to a semi-charmed kind of life
Some failed online games die virtually overnight, while others linger on as shuffling zombies that refuse to quit moving. H1Z1 certainly isn't the former,...
The MOP Up: Warhammer Online’s Return of Reckoning ‘chickens out’
Return of Reckoning's rogue server changed how combat buffs worked and added a new level 40 quest that pays out in, er, a "Chicken...
Coreborn Nations of the Ultracore launches a holiday event as its studio reaffirms the game isn’t its sole focus
Good news! Coreborn: Nations of the Ultracore is still seeing updates! Bad news, the developer Blankhans is still repeating its earlier intention of focusing...
ARK Survival Ascended brings back the Winter Wonderland holiday event and Survival of the Fittest mode
ARK: Survival Ascended has brought back things that regular players of the dino survival sandbox are likely familiar with, but this time they're in...
Corepunk’s latest NDA-free test round sees mixed reviews, early game complaints, and survival annoyances
The latest NDA-free alpha test for OARPG Corepunk is almost wrapped up (it ends this Wednesday, December 20th), but already player impressions are a...
Funcom’s Dune Awakening is readying another closed beta test for early 2024
Funcom is continuing to inch along with playtests for the Dune Awakening survival MMO - in fact, the one it opened sign-ups for a...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2024
It's time once again for the MOP staff and readers to engage in our favorite end-of-the-year MMO: collectively guessing what's going to happen next...
Conan Exiles’s Age of War Chapter 3 is live with PvE sieges and player-run taverns
Conan Exiles fans better get their servers in order as Funcom just released chapter three of its Age of War season for all platforms,...
Post-apoc shooter Once Human aims for 20,000 players with this month’s closed beta
Not every magical door opens into Narnia; in fact, some portals should never be breached. Such is the premise of Once Human, a post-apocalyptic...
The Survivalist: A toast to Conan Exiles’ new taverns, launching this week’s Age of War Chapter III
You know that feeling when you get something you really want? Something you've been waiting for? Conan Exiles is giving that to me --...
Shit-stirring happens: DayZ and Icarus offer survival fans discount in cheeky ‘The Day After’ deal
Considering Fntastic's week of self-inflicted woes, we can't really blame the marketing departments of Bohemia Interactive and Rocketwerkz for taking advantage of the situation,...
LEGO Fortnite reels in over 2M concurrent players in its debut as Epic continues to evolve the shooter into a games platform
The evolution of Fortnite from a co-op wave survival shooter to a primary battle royale game to a full-blown games platform continues. Readers will...
‘Shit happens,’ The Day Before devs tell disgruntled players as mass-refunds continue
We're into day six of The Day Before drama, which certainly doesn't embroil any of you, as our readers were too clever to buy...
ARK Survival Ascended begins the Turkey Trial event and readies a Survival of the Fittest PC public test
Who says you can't enjoy a little Thanksgiving event in the Christmas season? Besides, roasted turkey is a perfectly cromulent holiday dish. However, the...
Conan Exiles promises PvE players ‘the joy of reducing structures to rubble’ with Age of War’s siege feature
Have you ever wanted to destroy an entire city to dust in Conan Exiles but didn't really follow through because you're not a PvP...
The Day Before dev studio announces its closure, claims the game ‘failed financially’
It hasn't even been a week between the early access release of The Day Before and today, but supposedly the game's launch has been...
The Day Before devs downplay original massively multiplayer pitch as playerbase and reviews plummet
When survival shooter The Day Before made its scheduled but disastrous early access launch, multiple players pointed out a wealth of issues with the...
The Stream Team: Playing a fantasy one-shot campaign with Conan Exiles mods
Now that he setting is complete and characters are made, it's time for Massively OP's MJ to play through the fantasy one-shot campaign that...
The Day Before actually launched – and it’s already being savaged in reviews
Does anything inspire faith in a game more than the developers coming out to specifically say that their game is not a scam or...
