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The Stream Team: Joining in on the live return of sci-fi shooter MMO Defiance
Defiance? In 2025? It's more likely than you think! MOP's Chris is going to be boots-on-the-ground during Fawkes Games' revival of the previously sunsetted...
Fawkes has officially relaunched Defiance four years after Gamigo killed it
As promised, Defiance officially launched at 6 a.m. EDT this morning. If you got up at 6 a.m. to play this, you can officially...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 514: Elder Seasons Online
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online, Classic Guild Wars, LOTRO, abd Defiance, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Diablo III, plus a mailbag topic on advice for MMO sequels.
Fawkes’ Defiance calls all players to assemble for this week’s relaunch
Fans of Defiance and MMO revivals in general probably have this Friday, April 18th highlighted on their calendars, for that's the day that the...
Ubisoft’s legal response to The Crew class action argues players don’t own the games they buy
Readers may remember that a pair of gamers have been pursuing Ubisoft to court via a class action lawsuit over The Crew's sunset and...
Fawkes is running another Defiance stress test April 11, having rebalanced the cash shop ‘pain points’
So, how did the Defiance stress test last weekend go? Well enough that Fawkes Games, which picked up the game from Gamigo to open...
Bungie promises a gameplay reveal trailer for its extraction shooter Marathon this weekend
If anyone has the muscle and marketing to pull off a successful team extraction shooter in 2025, it might as well be Destiny 2's...
Astroneer studio announces Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions, coming in 2026
Astroneer fans, a whole new galaxy is about to open up to you, as System Era Softworks has officially announced the next game in...
Destiny 2 opens new Court of Blades layer, readies Rite of the Nine activity and PvP modes in Heresy Act III
This week has kicked off the final act of Heresy in Destiny 2 as the latest patch has brought the final major pieces of...
‘Less AI more game content’: Defiance’s new operators prep a new video and Saturday stress test
Last week, Fawkes Games put out a trailer for Defiance hyping up its return. When we ran it, you may have noticed the trailer...
The MOP Up: Final Fantasy XI is worth a second look after two decades
The second part of an interview with famed manga artist Mamoru Nagano is out, in which he talks about what he likes about Final...
Who is Fawkes Games, Defiance’s new operator, and what other titles are under its care?
With Gamigo reviving and offloading sci-fi MMO Defiance to Fawkes Games for a relaunch next month, there's some question about who this Fawkes is...
Destiny 2 prepares for Heresy’s next act, collabs with Sea of Thieves, and discusses efforts to retain players
Even though this year's Game Developers Conference is long gone, we're still getting peeks at how the gaming sausages are made in many respects,...
‘It’s all coming back, just as you left it’: Fawkes hypes the return of Defiance with a new teaser video
Last week, we got the surprising but welcome news that Fawkes Games is unsunsetting Defiance, Trion Worlds' old "transmedia synergy MMO, come April 18th....
Warframe of Mind: First impressions of Techrot Encore
Here is the initial column I wrote about the most recent Warframe patch in its totality: On Tuesday, I did not have Secondary Merciless...
Perfect Ten: Short but mighty playable MMO races
I like short races in MMOs. Not exclusively, but if there is an option to go small or go home, you can bet that...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 510: Defiance defies the odds
Justin and Bree discuss the return of Defiance, the sale of Pokemon Go, World of Warcraft's housing, BlizzCon 2026, and Pantheon's PvP, with adventures in WoW and LOTRO, plus a mailbag topic on Dungeon Fighter Online and other deep-cut MMOs.
Defiance’s revival team didn’t get the database, will start with the final patch, and can’t commit to major updates yet
Back on Tuesday, we reported on the news that Fawkes Games - which in the past has picked up multiple discarded Gamigo MMORPGs -...
Destiny 2 opens the Court of Blades and the Guardian Games’ return in Heresy act two
It's time for some more heresy in Destiny 2! All right, maybe not specifically heretical acts - the guardians are still valiant folks after...
Trion’s 2013 transmedia synergy MMO Defiance is being revived by Fawkes Games
Two days ago I was explaining to my gen alpha children the origins of Trove's Heckbugs event and how the whole game was a...
