survival
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Second Extinction, State of Survival, and Path of Titans
Welcome to a quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent titles that have been hanging out in our newsroom waiting for someone to write...
The MOP Up: Valheim comes to Microsoft’s store this month
That kooky Norse survival sim Valheim is sending a raiding party to new shores -- in this case, to Microsoft itself. The company announced...
Massively on the Go: Splatoon 3 is dividing players in fantastic ways
I feel like Splatoon 3's release has been oddly quiet, though it's doing quite well in Japan. Selling over 3.45 million copies in 3...
Get ready for Wrath Classic with global release schedule, survival guide
Crazy queues and jam-packed servers or no, Wrath Classic will hit our world (of warcraft) in a little over a week from now. The...
Valheim teases Mistland bosses and high hair fashion
Valheim is a game that is lauded in many areas, but high fidelity character visuals is never one of them. The deliberately low-resolution Vikings...
The MOP Up: New World and Book of Travels put out fresh soundtracks
MMO music lovers -- we crazy few -- have a couple new albums to explore this month. Well, the New World soundtrack has been...
Vague Patch Notes: The MMORPG industry shockwaves that still reverberate
A thought occurred to me the other day regarding World of Warcraft and the way that it deformed the MMO industry: People who are...
Perfect Ten: Recent promising MMOs that died before they were born
Is there anything more agonizing to an MMO fan than to get excited about a promising title and then see that title cancelled before...
Modders are transforming Mordhau into an open world multiplayer survival sandbox
Most are familiar with Mordhau as a "multiplayer medieval slasher" that pits teams of players against one another in first-person or third-person melee combat;...
Chimeraland promises to improve localization, smooth its power level curve, and add cross-server matching
Our time in Chimeraland for Choose My Adventure was wild and wooly indeed, but also one that could benefit from a lot of refinement....
Fight or Kite: First impressions of Dysterra, a cybernetic post-apoc survival sandbox
In the future, our home Earth is beset by a host of economic and environmental disasters. It got so bad that people with resources...
The Stream Team: Dipping a toe into Conan Exiles’ big Age of Sorcery update
Massively OP's MJ has waited a long, long time for Conan Exiles to finally implement sorcery. And now that it has, she's eager to...
Massively Overthinking: Who’s really paying for MMOs?
Two years ago, we did a piece on dark patterns in MMO design, and in the comments, a reader named Shadex De'Marr penned a...
Multiplayer survival sandbox Earth: Revival plans closed beta this weekend
If you just can't get enough survival sandbox, Chinese studio Nuverse has another one for you to die in. It's called Earth: Revival, and...
NetEase’s free-to-play survival shooter Lost Light makes its global debut on PC and mobile
Lost Light, the mobile and PC survival shooter from NetEase that we first reported on last year and checked in on last month, is...
V Rising delays its first major content patch into 2023
Vampire survival MMO V Rising dominated the gaming landscape back in early summer, with 2.5M copies sold and 150,000 peak players. So you might...
Conan Exiles enters the Age of Sorcery and launches battlepass seasons with today’s release
"The Age of Sorcery update is now available for download on PC." So sayeth Funcom, which has launched the 3.0 update for Conan Exiles...
The Daily Grind: Are ‘survival MMOs’ just MMOs with busywork attached?
I as much as any other fan of this industry was pleased to hear that Funcom seemingly promoted Dune Awakening to full MMO status....
Hell is Others is a top-down online multiplayer survival horror shooter launching October 20
What if you lived in a city that was full of shadowy monsters and you had to roam into its streets every night to...
Sci-fi FPS survival title Dysterra begins an open beta testing round on Steam
We've been following the development track of Kakao Games' Dysterra for some time now, from its alpha beginnings in March 2021 to its closed...
