MMOs, unfortunately, do not last forever. When they sunset and close down for good, the whole genre mourns.
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Nexon’s early access 5v5 action shooter Veiled Experts will sunset December 14
You may not have heard of Veiled Experts, a free-to-play 5v5 tactical action shooter from Nexon: The company billed it as a game that's...
CCP Games finally ends official support of the long-neglected EVE Portal mobile app
Longtime fans of EVE Online have likely noticed that the sandbox's official EVE Portal mobile app has been in decline for a number of...
One More Game ends dev on multiplayer battler Spellcraft after failing to find a ‘financially viable’ prototype
Things have been worryingly quiet over at developer One More Game and its self-described "real-time battler" Spellcraft. The multiplayer tactical title was first unveiled...
Cinderstone Online has apparently sunsetted after just two months as devs plan F2P relaunch
Over the last couple of years, we've kept an eye on Cinderstone Online aka Fioresia Online, a cutesy indie MMO that actually made it...
PvP MMO Gloria Victis has officially sunsetted as Siege Survival Gloria Victis marches on
Back in August, we relayed the unfortunate news that Polish indie studio Black Eye Games was sunsetting siege PvP MMORPG Gloria Victis after a...
Ubisoft and EA deprecate a dozen multiplayer games, including Star Wars Battlefront II of ‘pride and accomplishment’ fame
You can either chalk it up to the inescapable march of time and technology, shrug indifferently that older games are just dust in the...
Sega’s cancelled PvPvE shooter Hyenas was reportedly a doomed project from the very start
Have you heard about Hyenas? It's OK if you didn't, as this PvPvE shooter from developer Creative Assembly and publisher Sega had a pretty...
MMO Business Roundup: BioWare lawsuit, Nintendo multiplayer sunset, Twitch layoffs
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Numbers numbers numbers.
BioWare
Remember the hefty BioWare layoffs back in the summer? A group...
Star Trek Online is discontinuing its 3-D-printed ship partnership with Gameprint
There are a whole lot of different ships in Star Trek Online, and considering the customization and personal investment that a player can have...
Wildcard sunsets ARK Survival Evolved official servers, confirms no Steam cross-play at ARK Ascended’s launch
"We aren't meant to live forever," reasons the title of a video for ARK: Survival Evolved, which is part of a wider send-off for...
The Cycle Frontier sunsets today as studio YAGER says goodbye to players, literally
Back in June, we learned the sad news that Tencent-backed YAGER would be sunsetting its PvEvP shooter The Cycle Frontier, owing in part to...
Rumor: EA will stop supporting Wild Hearts just half a year after release
This past February saw Wild Hearts, a cross-platform multiplayer monster hunting game from developer Koei Tecmo and publisher Electronic Arts, make its debut to...
Tencent’s battle royale shooter Ring of Elysium will sunset in December
The battle royale bandwagon continues to prove its inability to bear the weight of too many games, it seems. Readers might recall the existence...
Embracer Group is killing off Flying Wild Hog’s Jagex-pubbed Space Punks
The Embracer Group financing catastrophe and failed Saudi investment are continuing to have ripple effects in the MMO and multiplayer genres as now, the...
Evercore Heroes shutters North American server after cutting team and entering maintenance mode
The shakeups surrounding fusion MMO/MOBA Evercore Heroes continues -- and not for the better. This title went into a paid closed beta this past...
The Daily Grind: When has an MMO shutdown notice truly shocked you?
There are a lot of games that we cover that shut down. The majority of those we see coming a mile away, whether or...
Veteran games studio Volition is shuttered as part of Embracer’s restructuring
It's not an MMO studio, but it's still a significant loss for gaming that Volition is being shut down. The studio was owned by...
Indie MMO Gloria Victis and its studio are shutting down on Halloween after a decade online
I'm sorry to report this afternoon that the long-running siege PvP MMORPG Gloria Victis is sunsetting. Polish indie studio Black Eye Games made the...
Albion Online is killing off its Crystal League Championship PvP tournaments in spite of 300K daily players
So Albion Online has some bad news this week: Sandbox Interactive is bringing its long-running Crystal League Championship PvP tournaments to an end, with...
Kakao is effectively sunsetting ArcheAge Unchained, merging it into two remaining western ArcheAge servers
The age of ArcheAge Unchained is over: Kakao and XLGAMES have apparently decided to merge the Unchained servers back into the regular ArcheAge production...
