Roguelite clone-stabber (and upsettingly effective paranoia generator) It Has My Face is skulking out of early access this month, a Steam news update confirming its 1.0 release for April 3rd 2026. Hooray, and also, arrrrrrgh. I’ve been following IHMF since its impressive first demo under the name DoubleWe, and its short, highly-strung bursts of deduction and one-hit-kill violence are as cleverly staged as they are stressful.

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It’s time for Mortal Online 2 to discuss things that are coming in THE FUTURE. Flying cars! Linoleum countertops! Double ovens in the wall! OK, so maybe not all of that is coming to the PvP sandbox, but there are new developments to talk about all the same. First off, the results from player polling about the […]

Albion Online players are probably pretty familiar with the Rites of Spring seasonal event that happens every year. What they’re perhaps not familiar with, however, is that this year’s event features something truly important. Truly magical. Truly springlike. A giatn bunny mount. Yes, the seasonal event will once again see colorful eggs sprout all across the […]

As promised, RuneScape Dragonwilds’ 0.11 patch has entered the survival sandbox’s early access chat today, bearing the uncomfortable name Dowdun Reach, which either sounds like “dowdy” or reminds me of Downton Abbey every single time I see it. The patch itself is anything but dowdy, however, as players are looking at new quests, new building […]

I am not a huge fan of fishing, but somehow in World of Warcraft, it became a thing I did kind of a lot back when I still played. And I love the idea that a really solid implementation of a game mechanic can turn a hater into a fan. For example: I don’t enjoy […]

Some days are just a grind. When her initial confidence in conquering the spider cave in Project Gorgon was beaten to death, Massively OP’s MJ knew she needed to get her other skills to level 10. So now she’s back in the dungeon to grind up her sword and unarmed skills just so she can […]

Sure, we’ve seen a couple of games that combine creature collecting and survival sandbox mechanics before, but what if that game format were more about ARPG combat and also let players directly control the companions they capture? That seems to be the elevator pitch of Never Wither, a developing multiplayer survival crafting ARPG from studio […]

How about we move over to the other desert that Pearl Abyss makes for a little while, shall we? You know, the MMORPG one? We’re talking Black Desert on PC, obviously, which is in the headlines for some PvE-centric updates available in its Global Lab public test server. As is very often the case for Global […]

We’ve already been informed about how Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen will change attributes and damage mitigation with its big beefy combat update coming down the pike, but now it looks as if Visionary Realms is looking to get hyper-granular, as its latest dev blog is outlining how these changes will affect the Warrior class. “Not everything is going […]

Project Gorgon always has been quite the social MMORPG, but now it’s going to have more structure to back that up thanks to the debut of its guild system. Players can form a guild for 200 ancient coins and five members, and they can share a bank and a special guild chat channel. “Please note […]

In the long long ago, rollback in MMOs were pretty common. Because of Ultima Online’s infrastructure, we saw rollbacks that first year of play weekly – more if you count the daily server reboot that always lost a few minutes (and became a free-for-all once players figured it out. But over time, rollbacks became so […]

Ready to take out your grudges one by one on the dueling field? Then jump right into Pax Dei, because the sandbox MMORPG’s minor spring update arrived on Monday, March 30th with its dueling system following a few weeks of testing. “Players can now challenge each other to friendly duels, allowing consensual PvP combat anywhere […]

A few weeks back, there was an article on PC Gamer that actually made me laugh out loud. “I’m sick of the survival crafting ‘Cube’ and calling the gamer HOA on all of you,” author Andrea Shearon declared. I feel extremely called out because I literally have one of these in Palia; I bought a […]

This week’s Massively Overthinking is inspired directly by something MOP reader Zulika said last month in comments about Smed’s new MMOFPS. “More and more I am just glad past me was around to experience MMOs starting in 2000.” OK, obviously Zulika was throwing deserved shade on some of 2025’s excesses, but let’s talk about more […]

Way back in April, Astroneer studio System Era Softworks announced a spinoff of its OG multiplayer space sandbox, but still set in the Astroneer universe. Called Starseeker, the new game sounded even more multiplayer-oriented than its predecessor. Now, System Era has gone into more detail on what to expect, courtesy of this week’s gameplay reveal […]

It floors me to realize how very long MMORPG players have been snooping each others’ profiles in games. In Ultima Online, you had to be careful because a double-click could sometimes turn into an attack and not just a way to check out someone’s paperdoll drip. In EverQuest, it was even considered impolite to check […]

As we like to remind people around here, EVE Frontier is a blockchain MMO despite CCP Games going on record as not wanting people to call it a blockchain MMO. Now it would seem as if the studio is deciding to shrug off this request itself, as it announced a partnership with the Sui blockchain […]

This week saw the first season arrive to the early access mulitplayer sandbox of Skate, and like all games that run a seasonal model, this one is once again making sure that players are made aware that it has a battle pass – sorry, skate pass – that offers up cosmetic goodies to earn. The […]