survival
New World acknowledges survival game ‘friction’ in its travel, storage, and other systems
Telling players it's received "over a million" pieces of feedback on the game so far, Amazon has a new dev video and blog up...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 361: A disturbance in the Force
Justin and Larry discuss SWTOR's Legacy of the Sith, Palia's business model, LOTRO's Rangers and Ruins, DDO's new producer, and FFXIV's 2022 roadmap, with adventures in SWTOR, LOTRO, Conan Exiles, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus mailbag topics on getting back into MMOs and favorite NPCs.
World of Warcraft: Eternity’s End is live today
Well, let's see how Shadowlands is going to wrap up, huh? World of Warcraft is receiving its second and final major patch for the...
Nightingale studio Inflexion has been sold to Tencent – and it’s still launching this year
Tencent is apparently continuing its gobbling-up of all the games and studios you're interested in: Improbable just announced it's sold Inflexion Games to Tencent...
Post-apoc survival FPS Survarium will sunset in May after seven years in early access
Early access doesn't always mean a game will launch, especially if it doesn't build up a captive audience during that access period. That would...
Conan Exiles will reduce the number of official servers on PC and PlayStation in favor of private servers
Most of the time, when there's an announcement of a game shrinking its servers, it's often taken as a sign of bad news. In...
Jagex posts job openings for a new open-world survival crafting title
Most people are familiar with Jagex as the company that does RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, but sometime in the future we all might...
Survival MMO Frozen Flame updates closed beta crafting, targets Q1 2022 early access
We've had our eye on crowdfunded survival MMO Frozen Flame since 2020, and it's been poking along in closed beta ever since. At the...
Xsyon is not dead – in fact, devs are working on UI, maps, and the war system
We haven't poked our nose into post-apoc MMO Xsyon since the middle of last year, back when studio Notorious Games said the 2011 game...
The Daily Grind: What are your comfort MMOs?
I long ago figured that it was not just OK but actually helpful to have a stable of "comfort" movies and books and games....
Global Chat: Is free-to-play in MMOs universally awful?
I think a lot of us sport a wide range of opinions on free-to-play business models, particularly depending on the way it's applied to...
Conan Exiles promises better modder and live game support, more in-game events in the future
It would appear that Funcom is very pleased indeed with how Conan Exiles performed in 2021. A retrospective producer's letter pats itself on the...
Myth of Empires dev appeals Steam ban in court as infringement case seeks source code expert
The legal drama spawned by multiplayer strategy survivalbox Myth of Empires has once more taken a laborious, plodding step forward. Readers will recall that...
The Daily Grind: Do MMO resources regenerate too quickly these days?
You may have to bear with me on this one, but lately I've started to suspect that the pendulum of MMO development has swung...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Eterspire, Dead Event, and Archewood
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs you've (probably) never heard of before. And if you've heard of them, awesome - here's what they're...
The Daily Grind: Do you even want a survival game from Blizzard?
Last week, amid the Microsoft buyout and unionization/unionbusting within Activision, Blizzard boldly, absurdly stepped forward and announced that it was hiring for a survival...
Funcom enlists the help of another co-developer to bring the DUNE multiplayer survival title to life
Back in December of last year, a press release from Funcom announced that the developing multiplayer survival sandbox based on the DUNE IP was...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 358: High Isle thing, you make my heart sing
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online's High Isle, Blizzard's new survival game, Global Agenda's return from the dead, PlanetSide 2's Oshur, Broken Ranks, Mortal Online 2, Zenith, and Swords of Legends Online's F2P switch, with adventures in LOTRO and ESO, plus mailbag topics on MMO lingo and The Black Death.
Blizzard’s recently announced survival title has been developing for just over four years
Blizzard's "unannounced survival game," which recently started seeking new roles to flesh out its dev team, certainly came as a surprise to many fans,...
Conan Exiles gets a server queue feature and emoting followers in latest update
Previously in Conan Exiles, if you told your followers to "dance, by Crom", they could just simply ignore you, probably with an indignant smirk...
