epicgames4u

News

MMO Gaming News

All 159 MMO 20 RPG 26 Live service 42 PC gaming 52 Console 11 Indie 13 Industry 54 Community 29
MassivelyOP / Aug 17, 2026

Ragnarok Online-inspired MMO Torebia is taking requests for its ‘biggest playtest yet’ on August 21

Torebia: Island Odyssey, the indie MMORPG from developer Twin Studios that we’ve been peeking in on since this past March, is primed and ready to kick off yet another testing round, and this one promises to be “[its] biggest playtest yet” as heralded by the devs. Twin Studios is pushing for this test to stress its […]

Worth tracking for players who follow long-running online games, seasonal updates, private server trends, and community migration between servers.

MMO RPG Indie Industry
Read summary
MassivelyOP / Aug 17, 2026

Old School RuneScape highlights PvP boot camp and LAN party, talks up its origins and writing

This week in Old School RuneScape appears to be primarily fixated on its partnered livestreamers, so if you’re looking for some more update-centric news, you kinda clicked on the wrong link. Otherwise, here are some influencer-led community events that might be of interest to you. First is the PvP Bootcamp that’s running between now and September 26th, […]

MMO Live service
MassivelyOP / Aug 17, 2026

Leakers suggest Chronicles of Elyria boss is working on ElyriaMUD and income generation

Yes, dear readers, Chronicles of Elyria is back in our headlines again, and no, it’s not for any particularly heartening reasons. Since it has been awhile, a refresher: COE is the Kickstarter-funded sandbox MMORPG that has been a slow-moving train wreck ever since, with an abrupt cancellation of development, an unsuccessful lawsuit lodged against the studio by […]

MMO RPG Industry
MassivelyOP / Aug 17, 2026

MapleStory collabs with Frieren, MapleStory Idle RPG adds an XP system, and MapleStory Worlds highlights a new game

Yep, just as with other games in our genre, we’re finding out that we’ll have to report on multiple versions and forks of the same MMO, specifically MapleStory, which has headlines for the primary 2-D title as well as its multiplayer idle game MapleStory: Idle RPG and UGC platform MapleStory Worlds. We’ll begin with Idle RPG’s most recent patch, […]

MMO RPG Live service
PC Gamer / Aug 16, 2026

League of Legends YouTuber unearths the original investor pitch from when the game was called Onslaught: War of the Immortals

"Built like a brick wall on roids." That's the passive ability Lee Sin—err, Xizun, the blind monk, used to have in League of Legends, which itself used to be a very different-looking game called Onslaught: War of the Immortals. It certainly looks like a game that was pitched the same year Finger Eleven's "Paralyzer" was a charting single, and now we can take a closer look at it than ever thanks to League 'tuber Nec

MMO PC gaming
Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 14, 2026

I love the Dark Soulful architecture of The Canon of Balls, a rolling open world game inspired by Sega, Fumito Ueda and Minecraft parkour

What do Dark Souls, Super Monkey Ball, Shadow of the Colossus, and Minecraft have in common? They are all explicit inspirations for The Canon of Balls, a spooky and unforgiving new open world platformer in which you are a horrified statue's face with a fleshy pink tongue, floating inside a rolling cage. You can use your tongue as a springboard. Look, stay with me on this. I think The Canon of Balls could be good. Yes

MMO
Rock Paper Shotgun / Aug 13, 2026

Phasmophobia devs Kinetic Games mosey into publishing with a witchy delivery game, a parasitic Metroidvania, and more

Kinetic Games are keeping busy! You may have heard yesterday that the Phasmophobia developer is publishing the next game from Her Story and Immortality's Sam Barlow (who's roped in Brandon Cronenberg this time around). That's not all that was announced however, as there's a bevy of other, not even scary at all, actually, games that are coming up from the new publisher. Read more

MMO Indie Industry