This past November, Frontier Developments provided a general outline of updates coming through December 2025 and into early 2026 for Elite: Dangerous, including the intriguing arrival of operations, a repeatable multi-step encounter for up to four players that blends ship combat and FPS combat that’s slated to arrive early this year. We now have a […]

If you can’t possibly get enough of zombie apocalypses and survival sandboxes made by small developers, then you’re in luck because we’ve found another one of ’em for you. Say hello to VEIN, a new early access title being developed by Ramjet Studios that doesn’t appear to rock the boat but seems to have been […]

The informational hits keep on coming for Elder Scrolls Online’s big ol’ March content patch, and while most of the attention has been centered on its seasons and monetization reshuffling, there’s a variety of things also landing in Update 49, namely a refresh of the Dragonknight class. The tweaks to the Dragonknight primarily focus on […]

Yesterday was the official start of 10th anniversary celebrations for Blade & Soul here in our corner of the world, and NCsoft marked the occasion with a celebratory livestream that primarily focused on looking back at the game’s decade of operation with various devs and its players but also looked forward to a couple of […]

We’re not usually in the business of promoting cash shop anything – if you spend in an MMORPG, that’s your call – but we also would be remiss if we didn’t call attention to an opportunity to get free cash shop currency for simply logging in to a game too. That’s just what’s being offered […]

Over the past couple of months we’ve kept an eye on Soloria, a self-described “fake massively multiplayer offline roleplaying game” being created by a former Dungeons & Dragons Online developer, though news has been extremely sporadic, with the latest peep being a teaser trailer posted earlier this month. Well, there’s since been a bigger peep. […]

Who’s ready for a big chonky pile of Not-So-Massively game news pieces? You must be since you clicked here, so welcome! Pull up a chair. Read through about some of the most recent updates to the smaller scale multiplayer games in our orbit. Have a cranberry scone and maybe some of this chai. It’s pretty […]

It’s never the kind of stream we like to do at OPTV, but as part of our coverage of the highs and the lows of our genre, MOP’s Chris will be live this afternoon for part of the final weekend of Anthem before it goes offline for good. Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EST […]

Last year we started peeking in on Towerborne, a side-scrolling multiplayer online “looter brawler” from developer Stoic Games and published by Xbox Game Studios. The game started life in paid-for early access and was angling for a free-to-play release. MOP’s Sam found the game to be right up his arcade-loving alley, and we even streamed […]

As fans of Elder Scrolls Online already know by now, this year is bringing a shift to a seasonal content release model for the MMORPG, including new events, an eventual enfolding of DLC into the game for free, and a business model update that centers on a battle pass system. But what about the benefits […]

The post-holiday portion of the winter season can often feel like a moment of hibernation and calm, and that appears to be what Palia is going to be leaning in to when it puts forth its Winter’s Wonder: Snowbound Sanctuary content patch on Tuesday, January 13th. At least that’s part of the vibe exuded by […]

BitCraft, our winner for Best MMO Crafting of 2025, is focusing on communication among players in its first patch of this year, as the crafting-centric sandbox MMORPG has added support for several languages and added hyperlinking functionality, just in case you’re the sort of person who can’t help but communicate your in-game material desires through […]

Last spring, we started reporting on Eldramoor, an upcoming VR MMORPG from developer Resolute Games that brought to mind OrbusVR – a comparison that apparently wasn’t by accident, according to studio CEO Lynn Souza. The last major headline out of the game was a Kickstarter drive that immediately met its $20K to a funding total […]

Back in 2024 we first started reporting on Starship Simulator, an in-development multiplayer spaceship sim from indie Fleetyard Studios that pretty much offers precisely what a game of its name suggests. The title had a pretty successful Kickstarter round, raising nearly $500K, while development updates have been offered since, along with the release of a […]

What would it take for you to check out Black Desert on the PlayStation 5 system? Maybe a lady knight who swishes a big ol’ sword around? Or perhaps you’d prefer to play for free? Well for a limited time, you’re getting both of those things, as the sandbox MMORPG is indeed completely free-to-play on […]

The fact that ARC Raiders’ use of generative AI development tools for its creation, particularly for its voice work, is a sticky wicket for many shouldn’t come as a surprise in the age of rising slop tides. Still, Embark Studios CEO Patrick Soderlund is not backing down and continues to defend the decision in an […]

If you were among those hoping for the tidal shift of the games industry to move in favor of workers, this news is not exactly something that will fill you with confidence in that hope. Ubisoft Halifax, the studio that developed titles like Assassin’s Creed Rebellion and Rainbow Six Mobile, officially formed a union in […]

We have some unfortunate news to share for any Japanese fans of NCsoft’s MMORPG Blade & Soul: The studio has officially confirmed that both Blade & Soul and its Blade & Soul NEO server are sunsetting in Japan this March. “[W]e have come to the conclusion that it has become difficult to provide a stable […]

In the middle of last year we first started reporting on Sea of Remnants, an upcoming Age of Sail-styled RPG promising “vibrant graffiti energy” from developer Joker Studio and publisher NetEase that casts players as a wooden puppet-like wanderer who awakes with no memories in the piratical island of Orbopia. Indeed, in our own early […]

Yesterday was the starting gun’s firing for Past Fate’s early access, and it looks as if the sandbox MMORPG’s first steps were pretty stumbling indeed, as the game has been beset by a wide assortment of bugs, some of which are literally causing new arrivals to not progress whatsoever. Both the game’s bug reporting Discord […]