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Changyou is sunsetting its global Shadowbane revival in May over ‘business adjustments’
So, remember back in 2021 when Shadowbane came back from the dead? I'm now sorry to report it's dying. Again.
Longtime MMORPG fans will remember...
Skull and Bones hauls Season 1: Raging Tides to the surface
When you think about it, "Raging Tides" is an apt description of the unstable flow of Skull and Bones' gameplay these days. Ubisoft's pirate...
Age of Water provides a brief peek at its crew management features
No ship sails with one person at the helm, or at least it doesn't in Age of Water, which means that while players will...
Skull and Bones’ first season arrives next week – here’s the trailer
Weathering a fierce barrage of mixed and negative reviews, Ubisoft's Skull and Bones is hoping to sail into more favorable waters next week when...
Skull & Bones offers free trial as its middling reviews tread water
Even though the swashbuckling era of Skull & Bones is finally among us after numerous delays doesn't mean that it's smooth sailing for Ubisoft's...
The MOP Up: Undecember creates one-player raids
Just because you're a social pariah doesn't mean that you can't raid in Undecember! The hack-and-slash multiplayer RPG pumped out a new patch that...
The Daily Grind: Are there any quadruple-A MMOs?
Ubisoft made headlines earlier this week for claiming to investors that the high pricetag for Skull & Bones was justified because it's a vast,...
The Stream Team: Sailing the open beta seas of Skull and Bones
After seven worrisome delays, it's finally time for MOP's Chris to get his hands on the open beta of Skull and Bones! Will this...
Skull & Bones’ soft launch is underway for preorder players ahead of next week’s formal release
Ubisoft's long, long delayed pirate "co-op pirate open world action RPG" MMO Skull & Bones has finally set sail with a soft launch into...
Actress Michelle Rodriguez demos Skull and Bones’ intro and events in latest video
Earlier Skull and Bones offered up a look at what general gameplay and endgame looks like in its last video preview, but now we're...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Sneak Out, ManaSoul, Rise of Mythos aka Kings Call
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs you've probably never heard of (but we'll be impressed if you have).
Sneak Out
Sneak Out is for some...
Skull & Bones’ free open beta begins February 7 – here’s the new trailer and season preview
Ubisoft is hyping up the free open beta for Skull and Bones, and we have to note right up front that while the devs...
Bungie announces genius Destiny 2 collab with BioWare’s Mass Effect franchise
This week in transmedia synergy crosspromos that will break your brain along with the sanctity of whatever canon is left to us in MMOs...
Skull and Bones previews its endgame takeovers, heists, bosses, and ship combat
If there's a genre of dev blog I like least, it's the one where studio staffers pretend to offer an unbiased blog post or...
Ubisoft’s Echoes of History podcast focuses in on the historical figures of Skull and Bones’ setting
Ubisoft's upcoming Skull and Bones is inspired by and set in a time period widely known as the Golden Age of Piracy, specifically the...
Baldur’s Gate 3 boss pushes back against the industry’s renewed ambition over games subscription models
This week offered another example of executive foot-in-mouth disorder when Ubisoft director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay suggested in an interview that games subscription business...
Ubisoft talks up its subscription services and making gamers ‘comfortable’ with not owning titles
Allow us a moment to lean back in our rocking chair, coddle a cup of sarsaparilla, and look up at the sky as we...
Skull and Bones celebrates ‘hundreds of thousands of players’ in closed beta, teases open beta soon
Whether you believe Ubisoft Singapore or not, the studio is more than happy to toot its horn over Skull and Bones' successful December closed...
The MOP Up: Magic Awakened deepens the mystery of Hogsmeade
Harry Potter: Magic Awakened rolled out its January patch with a new seasonal chapter, Luna Lovegood card, and a gauntlet mode to try.
"Continue the...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v7.0
Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...
