These indie RPGs offer plenty of exploration that takes Skyrim and adds to this gold standard with new, creative ideas.

Raph Koster, the game developer best known for his work on influential MMOs like Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, has unveiled his next game. It's a sci-fi sandbox MMORPG titled Stars Reach, and ...

The only thing harder than launching a live-service shooter in the current gaming industry ecosystem might be sustaining a brand-new massively multiplayer online game. Outside a select few mainstays, ...

Fujito didn’t offer exact details regarding what will change in the Final Fantasy XI tutorial, but it did mention there will be a quest going over Records of Eminence. When the game launched in 2002 ...

Final Fantasy XI Producer and Director Yoji Fujito announced that the MMORPG will get an updated tutorial for new players when the FFXI April 2026 Version Update arrives. This will appear alongside a ...

The year is 2033, and a devastating virus and rogue AI have combined to bring Earth to the brink of collapse. To find a new home and save humanity, a group of people follow a superintelligent AI ...

Prism 2033 is a next-generation futuristic parallel-universe MMORPG built with Unreal Engine 5. Travel across parallel worlds, take on new challenges, and shape the future of the Parallverse. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Jagneaux is a writer and analyst, covering MMOs and retro games. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

MMORPG of the Year. This is our equivalent award for other sites' Game of the Year honors, and we typically award it to whichever MMO or MMORPG we felt had the best overall year, whether it's because ...

Game development on the most basic of titles is tricky enough, but massively multiplayer online role-playing games are a different beast entirely. MMORPGs have to be a big enough world to justify a ...

Beyond a big dinner plate and presents in the vicinity of a sporadically lit fake tree, if there's one holiday tradition I can't let go of, it's settling down with one of the best MMORPGs when there's ...