Normally a public test of a much–anticipated update for Elder Scrolls Online is a happier occasion, but as readers know that’s not been the case with public testing of the Gold Road chapter a...
The last few weeks have been absolutely packed for MMO crowdfunding news. To wit: Legends of Aria aka Shards Online is back! The original developer, who’d sold the game to a crypto outfit, is r...
https://massivelyop.com/2024/04/27/make-my-mmo-crowdfunding-roundup-2024-april-27/
If the Don’t Starve soundtrack haunts your nightmares the way it does mine, then I have bad news for you: Klei Entertainment has another co-op title in the same spirit on deck. It’s called Ro...
For some reason we keep letting games enter early access, and this week saw two more hit that stage of release, with both Age of Water and Bellwright moving access to the “early” column. Befo...
https://massivelyop.com/2024/04/26/betawatch-age-of-water-and-bellwright-enter-early-access/
MOP’s Chris has come pretty far in his climb through Nightingale. After lots of crafting and hunting and trying to find one tree beast, he’s finally made it to an apex moment: entering the mu...
https://massivelyop.com/2024/04/26/the-stream-team-heading-into-nightingales-multiplayer-watch-hub/
It’s been almost another four years since Derek Smart last talked about his efforts to resurrect the MMO shooter Line of Defense, but this time is different and more substantial, at least in te...
While many of the reveals shared by Star Citizen for alpha 3.23 have been focused on the persistent universe portion of the game, the next update is going to be bringing new content to the isolat...
Fans of Funcom’s Conan Exiles will eagerly point to the game’s building as one of its strongest features, so it’s no surprise that the studio’s survival MMORPG Dune Awakening will likewis...
This is either a tale of two games that start with the letter V, two games that are working on new zones, or two tardy sandboxes as Bree succinctly put it. Either way, both V Rising and Valheim h...
ArcheAge isn’t the only MMORPG announcing a sunset this week: Kickstarter success Genfanad is apparently closing its doors too. Genfanad is a browser-based nostalgia-driven indie MMO that was f...
After a week-long false start, publisher Gaijin Entertainment and developer Three Whales Studio have brought Age of Water into the roiling and (arguably) crowded seas of multiplayer survival sand...
It’s been a busy time for the developing sandbox MMORPGs of Pax Dei and Abyss, as both games entered into their respective alphas this month and have been tackling a bunch of expected issues al...
You may or may not feel that The Wagadu Chronicles as it currently exists in its playable state is delivering on its premise. We’re not here to litigate that. But if you feel the game’s setti...
There was a bit of a hiccup in getting it off the ground this morning, but it’s here now: Albion Online’s Albion Europe server has officially entered its first phase of early access – yes, ...
Do you remember Vigor? It’s a multiplayer shooter from Bohemia Interactive set in a post-war 1991 Norway where players have to scrounge, survive, and… well, shoot at people. The game first ma...
Palia’s first beta update since its confusing Steam launch and the layoff of more than a third of its team is here today, complete with a springy theme and new content. “Starting today, Palia...
Will the second verse be different different from the first for developer Donkey Crew — and more importantly for those who buy in to its promises? We’re all going to find out as Bellwright, i...
It’s patch day for Nightingale: Tencent-owned Inflexion’s early access multiplayer survivalbox is rolling into Update 0.2 at noon EDT today following maintenance. While full patch notes won�...
Pocket Pair CEO Takuro Mizobe is seeing what having the shoe on the other foot feels like, as he has apparently taken notice of Auroria, an in-development survival sandbox from the Tencent-backed...
With Season 2 of pre-alpha for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen winding forward to its final weeks, the devs at Visionary Realms are now putting much of their attention into Season 3, so that’s nat...
After three years in early access and over a year since the update was first announced, the Viking costumed survival sandbox Valheim is finally seeing its new Ashlands biome and related content d...
Even those most tangentially aware of the Dune franchise are aware that everyone in that setting is pretty crazy about spice. This resource fuels the conflict between the major factions in the bo...
This past weekend, we reported on the news that Star Citizen had to delay the addition of personal hangars and other related gameplay elements from alpha 3.23, opting instead to add those long-aw...
While Victorian-era survivalbox Nightingale has mostly been focused on fixing things and adjusting features, the devs at Inflexion Games appear to be ready to deploy one of its more sizeable upda...
It might be by design that we’ve collectively forgotten about Atlas, the piratical survival sandbox MMO by Wildcard substudio Grapeshot Games that was at one point meant to offer 40,000-person ...
Getting to command, tinker, fix, explore, decorate, and control your own detailed virtual spaceship looks even more promising with the recent news that FleetYard Studios’ Starship Simulator suc...
Do you wish to pre-order Tarisland on the Windows? No, we’re not making a joke or a typo, that’s what the official dedicated pre-registration website says. It asks you to pre-order on the Win...
Like Oscar Isaac folding his arms and lowering his head with an exasperated sigh, we must report to you that somehow, World of Warcraft testing has returned. If you consider testing for the next ...
Currently, the sandbox MMORPG Past Fate is in a closed alpha state (except for when it deigns to run open alpha tests). It would appear that developer Icy North is ready to move to its next step ...
What does a nuclear apocalypse do to a place like Shenandoah National Park? Fallout 76 players are now able to find out — at least in part — with the first portion of the Skyline Valley updat...
For the past several weeks, Star Citizen has been talking up the features of its upcoming alpha 3.23, often calling it one of the sandbox’s largest content updates yet. However, it looks as tho...
The time has come for those who signed up or bought in to test the next expansion of World of Warcraft: The self-described “public alpha one” version of The War Within has opened up to tester...
The name of Brian Holinka will very likely be familiar to MMORPG fans, primarily for his work as lead combat designer for World of Warcraft, so naturally it stands to reason that combat design wo...
https://massivelyop.com/2024/04/19/ghost-dev-brian-holinka-broadly-discusses-the-mmos-combat-model/
Vampire survival sandbox V Rising continues its efforts to drum up hype as it seems certain to lap Valheim when it fully releases on May 8th, and the latest comes in the form of a new trailer for...
We’ve all been figuratively holding our breaths to see what would happen with Palia after the last month of mess, and now the game is taking a few tentative steps forward – but maybe not the ...
I’m pretty blasé about most monetization in games, but there are a few things that I don’t like, and charging for early access is near the top of the list. I don’t like the idea of paying ...
https://massivelyop.com/2024/04/18/not-so-massively-godsworn-made-me-break-my-no-early-access-rule/
Dynamight Studios formally announced Fractured Online’s next patch last night: Dubbed The Invasion, it heralds the arrival of two new player demon races, specifically blood demons (vampires) an...
When last we looked in on Legends of Aria, it was fading fast into unfortunate obscurity. The Kickstarted MMORPG – originally known as Shards Online – had been one of many crowdfunded throwba...
Gameplay videos are continuing to spill out from Quinfall, this time granting curious players a look at the current pet and mount systems that will be in the MMORPG. The footage begins with a pee...
Last Oasis has been a side-eye magnet in the MMO world for a few years now. The “woodpunk” survival MMORPG had the misfortune to launch into early access in March 2020, right as the west was ...
Gaijin’s seafaring survival MMO Age of Water was intended to rolled into the smooth ocean of early access tomorrow, but it’s choppy waters instead, as the publisher and studio Three Whales ha...
Jeromy Walsh, the remaining developer on the multiple pieces of Chronicles of Elyria, is continuing to use his Discord server as a place to talk up plans and ideas, this time holding a “firesid...
One of the top multiplayer Kickstarters of 2023 was for Solarpunk, when indie outfit Cyberwave Games and Rokaplay pulled in $330,000 US on a crowdfund campaign that sought only a tenth that amoun...
It wasn’t all that long ago that the PvP MMORPG Abyss promised it was going to open testing for free ahead of the game’s actual early access launch. Well, the game is opened up for testing no...
Foxhole studio Siege Camp is gearing up for another major test for its sandbox MMORPG Anvil Empires (as compared to all of its minor tests from the past few months) this week starting on April 18...
Depending on one’s point of view, this news is either the next step forward for Jeffrey Butler’s gestating MMO Avalon or proof that investors will throw money at anything if the right buzzwor...
The hour of testing has arrived for World of Warcraft’s next expansion… well, sort of. The hour of signing up for the hour of testing has arrived. More accurately the hours of testing, but…...
https://massivelyop.com/2024/04/15/world-of-warcraft-opens-beta-signups-for-the-war-within/
Do you miss Boss Key Productions’ team vs. team FPS LawBreakers? If you’re among those who were left twisting in the wind after its 2018 shutdown, then you’ll perhaps be delighted to learn ...
Momentum is gathering behind SMITE 2, Hi-Rez’s next entry in its hit MOBA franchise. One sign of this is the sale of Founder’s Editions, which went live on Monday and offer benefits for both ...
Do you really want a survival sandbox to play but insist that you must be allowed to build vehicles for navigating the sky while doing so? And do you further insist that those vehicles cannot be ...