Albion Online News

Last month’s massive Albion Online “Queen” update has apparently enticed a horde of new players to try out the Sandbox Interactive’s cross-platform sandbox MMORPG. According to a recent forum post, player numbers have surged by as much as 40% and monthly active users are up to over 350,000 players for the first time since the game’s free-to-play launch. The developers [...]

Sandbox Interactive brings a number of big changes to Albion Online with the launch of the Queen update today. Queen is the fantasy MMORPG's “biggest-ever” update and features major changes to the Outlands, the new Hideout System, along with a powerful new faction called the Avalonians. “This update brings a complete rework of the Outlands continent along with fully revamped [...]

Albion Online's upcoming update, titled Queen, will be the game's largest update since 2017. The key feature of the update is the new Hideout system which are underground bases for guilds to operate in the Outlands. Outlands have also been reworked so the higher tier maps (the ones with higher tier resources) are at the center and lower tier ones [...]

Halloween celebrations are afoot in Albion Online with the arrival of Allhallows. The three-week event will run from now until November 13th bringing with it a number of eerie Halloween rewards and surprises including a new limited-time dungeon called Hallowed Ground. “This limited-time, Halloween-themed group dungeon features eerie pumpkin-lined corridors and a cornucopia of creepy-crawly critters, plus the mysterious new [...]

Sandbox Interactive CEO and Game Director Robin Henkys along with Level Designer Dominik Müller talks about the new Outlands PvP map coming to Albion Online in a new developer video. The new map will replace the old Outland map and will come with significant changes in preparation for Hideout and Open World Territory Conquest. The new Outland map will also [...]

Season 7 of the Guild vs Guild competition has officially kicked off in Albion Online. As we previously covered in last week’s article, the new season brings with it a number of changes that will drastically change how the competition plays out. Unlike previous seasons, more guilds will be given the chance to make their mark in the rankings with [...]

Guilds who have been dominating the last couple of Albion Online Guild vs. Guild seasons will be hard-pressed to defend their crowns in Season 7 thanks to a number of updates designed to even out the playing field. Sandbox Interactive talks about the updates in a new dev video which you’ll find below. Smaller guilds and less competitive ones will [...]

Last week, we reported that Albion Online was once experiencing repeated DDOS attacks presumably by banned illegal gold sellers. While Sandbox Interactive was able to defend against the attacks, this resulted in unavoidable performance and latency issues that are still plaguing the fantasy sandbox MMORPG as of today. Game Director Robin “Eltharyon” Henkys reports on the state of the game [...]

Ever since Albion Online launched in 2017, it’s been the target of a series of nasty Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks that have caused numerous server crashes and performance issues. This was then followed by a ransom demand attempting to extort money from the studio in exchange for stopping the attacks. Sandbox Interactive has since shored up their defenses [...]

Albion Online is getting a midseason patch that will introduce new Outland zones for players to explore, capture, and loot. The upcoming Oberon Midseason Patch will add three new Outland regions: Siluria, East Glouvia, and West Glouvia. “Three major new Outland regions have been added to the world of Albion: Siluria (equivalent in size and value to Cumbria) and West [...]