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Not So Massively: Islands of Insight, Headbangers, 33 Immortals, & Baldur’s Gate 3

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Hopefully you were outside touching grass this weekend and not glued to your computer screen, and if so, you missed a few new game...

Roly-poly multiplayer brawler Party Animals aims to make you laugh yourself to death

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There is something about this game that makes our team act like goofy weirdos every time we see a trailer or get a press...

Return Alive is a multiplayer top-down PvPvE shooter planning an open beta on June 29

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Developer KOG Games is looking to entice people with a stew of PvPvE shooting, survival and RPG elements, and a post-apocalypse setting, all from...

Multiplayer sandbox RPG Tinkertown will exit early access on June 22

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Remember Tinkertown? It's a multiplayer building-focused sandbox RPG that we first reported on last July, with the promise of lots of exploration, building, and...

Cinderstone Online makes its early access debut, plans to share a roadmap soon

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A couple of weeks ago we checked back in on Cinderstone Online, aka The MMO Formerly Known as Fioresia Online, where we found the...

Vitae Aeternum: What Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO should (and shouldn’t) take from New World

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We've had one, yes, but what about second attempt by Amazon to deliver a Lord of the Rings MMO? During the last run at...

Drakensang Online’s Steam version moves out of early access into full launch along with a new server

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Last September, the classic isometric MMO Drakensang Online made a surprise early access arrival to Steam, with plans to be in early access for...

The Stream Team: Battling back the bug menace in Starship Troopers Extermination

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MOP's Chris is ready to do his part against the menacing alien bug hordes in the co-op multiplayer shooter Starship Troopers: Extermination, where he'll...

Pow Vista is an open beta mobile MMO that blends skateboarding, old-school combat, and creature collecting

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Skateboarding, mobile MMO gaming, combat reminiscent of Old School RuneScape, and Pokemon-like creature collecting mechanics is quite the ingredients list for a game stew,...

Cube World creator emerges from hibernation to announce Cube World Omega

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I admit I did a double-take last night when Wolfram von Funck aka Wollay's Twitter account whirred to life after nearly four years of...

Bungie makes the case for Marathon, its brand-new extraction shooter

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Yesterday we reported that Bungie was resurrecting a long-dormant shooter franchise with the announcement of its upcoming sci-fi PvP game, Marathon. While the original...

Bungie announces extraction shooter Marathon, brings back Nathan Fillion for Destiny 2’s The Final Shape

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Well well lookit Bungie, all grown up and taking its "next step in its evolution into a multi-game studio"! Yes, at the PlayStation showcase...

BattleBit Remastered is a low-poly large-scale team FPS headed to early access in June

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If you've ever dreamed of playing a large-scale warfare FPS like PlanetSide 2 but wanted to experience it in a low-poly boxy visual style...

Co-op survivalbox Coreborn Nations of the Ultracore launches in early access July 18

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This past February, we first reported on Coreborn: Nations of the Ultracore, a developing multiplayer survival sandbox that leaned heavily on players working together...

Not So Massively: Godsworn is Warcraft III meets Age of Mythology

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It's a testament to how far the RTS genre has fallen that Steam's recent Tacticon festival of strategy games featured almost no RTS titles,...

Bossa Games is back in the MMO space with Lost Skies, an obviously Worlds Adrift-inspired co-op title

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Stop me if you've heard this one: Bossa Games is working on a new multiplayer game with skyships and islands and gliding and rappelling!...

Colorful co-op multiplayer title Sky Children of the Light prepares for its cross-platform arrival on Steam

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Back in 2020 we reported on a very emotional-looking bit of multiplayer gaming in the form of Sky: Children of the Light, a game...

CD Projekt Red lays off employees working on a multiplayer version of The Witcher as a result of a ‘new framework’

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This story will need a bit of a primer before we get into the details of the headline, so let's review: Last October, CD...

Amazon has revived its Lord of the Rings MMORPG, now collaborating with Embracer

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Amazon and Embracer announced this morning that they're building a new MMORPG based on The Lord of the Rings. To understand what the heck is...

Peridot, Niantic’s newest Pokemon Go lookalike, is live on iOS and Android today

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A year ago, Pokemon Go and Ingress studio Niantic announced a new MMOARG not attached to an existing IP: Peridot. The pitch was that...

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