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Mini MMO Farever’s second early access content update brings a heroic dungeon mode and epic gear
Farever’s second major early access update landed with a trumpet blast of triumph this week, bringing more challenges and loot into this mini-MMO (is…
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WoW Factor: Reacting to the rumors of new classes from the Blizzard survey
Blizzard seems quite determined to pique my interest with what’s going on with World of Warcraft Forever, and I’m not the only one. But things get…
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Final Fantasy XI raises its free trial to level 75 and unlocks the time limits
There’s a whole lot of stuff in Final Fantasy XI, even aside from all of the things that have been added to the game over the years when it has…
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MMO Business Roundup: Discord’s ad sales, GTA Online hacker’s arrest, and Xbox sale rumors
Welcome back to yet another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Want to hear about Discord ads? Maybe about rumors of Xbox planning to put itself on…
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EverQuest II announces the Descent to Val’zyroth expansion arriving later this year
Considering EverQuest announced its 2026 expansion earlier this week, reason would stand that its sequel EverQuest II would soon follow suit. And indeed it…
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Last Epoch brings new random encounters, a new boss fight, and new class skills in today’s Season 5 release
At long last, a fresh and crispy new season has landed to the multiplayer OARPG Last Epoch. Season 5: Rage of the Frostborn is officially live, with new…
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Throwback MMORPG Monsters & Memories enters early access while netting over 12K advance subs
Today is the day for the old school-styled MMORPG Monsters & Memories to officially wade into the waters of early access as its next milestone of…
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World of Warcraft Forever is highlighting its classes… including classes that don’t currently exist
Which classes should get the first spotlight in World of Warcraft Forever? All right, that’s an academic question, the first one was Paladin, but the…
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The Daily Grind: What’s your reason for not playing an MMO you want to like?
I was talking with a friend recently about the reason why she didn’t play Warframe and I found it interesting. The thing that she didn’t care for…
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The Stream team: Spelunking Project Gorgon’s red crystal cave
Massively OP’s MJ is on a roll! She’s been making some headway on various quests — and she finally found Marna!! Of course she has also been…
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Valve’s still-developing multiplayer shooter Deadlock drops a massive update and sees a swell of player activity
With all of the other games whirling around, it might be easy to have forgotten that Valve is working on another PvP shooter game, Deadlock. You’d also…
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Monster Hunter Wilds promises Ascendance’s difficulty will meet players where they are at master rank
You might be one of those sickos who felt like Monster Hunter Wilds was far, far too easy, which in some way is understandable considering the flexibility and…
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EVE Online is updating NPC ‘agents’ as part of wider tech upgrades, so make sure to contact your digital fellas
Fenris Creations has spilled an absolutely massive amount of digital ink to explain a tech upgrade coming for EVE Online. What it ultimately boils down to…
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PvPvE extraction shooter Synduality Echo of Ada goes offline May 2027, but will get a single-player mode
It’s been some time since we peered in to Synduality: Echo of Ada, the PvPvE mecha extraction shooter from publisher Bandai Namco and developer Game…
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Embers Adrift tweaks how its internal combat timer works to halt resource regen cheesing
Whether it’s PvP or PvE, if there is some cheesing to be done with an MMORPG’s systems, players will find it. That kind of shenaniganry appears to…
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Dungeons and Dragons Online continues to test Update 82 with UI scaling and ‘lucky loot’
While players check over their dice and character sheets, Standing Stone Games is crouched behind its dungeon master screen while furiously adjusting stats and…
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Aion 2 officially launches for those who bought in to founder’s packs
The time for launch scale testing is complete and the time for pre-order bonus play time is now. Aion 2 has officially opened its doors for real today for…
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Palia’s spook-filled Spiritfest returns in its latest update
Do you realize that it’s almost the end of September and some online games haven’t yet started their Halloween events? Frankly, it’s…
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DC Universe Online highlights new story arc and new ally for October 6’s Wrath of the Worldkillers update
We touched on it briefly yesterday as DC Universe Online was kicking off an event to wrap up its current story chapter, but now we’ve got a little more…
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Marvel Heroes rogue server Project TAHITI is taking a buffs-first approach to its upcoming hero balance tweaks
This past March, the MMO fans who held a candle for the sunsetted Marvel Heroes got to relive the game when the rogue server Project TAHITI went live, and…
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Marathon promises interconnected PvE and PvP, more ways to play, and more player customization
Old hands who had watched Bungie’s new Marathon develop were pretty critical of the game before it had even launched. An extraction shooter without…
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Ultima Online marks 29 years of operation with a livestream and New Legacy Season 2 details
To say that Ultima Online staying operational for 29 years is an achievement is… well, obvious. Most MMORPGs can only dream of such a long tail. So of…
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Arc Raiders is introducing a PvE queue test in mid-October
It turns out that players of Arc Raiders might like cooperating and fighting enemies more than they like fighting each other. And the designers are listening…
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The Daily Grind: What profession would you hold in your favorite MMORPG world?
We all have to work to make a living, and that still can hold true for the regular Joe Schmoes in our MMORPG worlds. Sure, we’re the valiant heroes…
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The Stream Team: Bring on the bears in Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Thorn & Paw
Are druids good? It depends on whom you ask; the answer can vary between people and animals. Take for instance the traveller Kirinel Za: He suspects that the…
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Massively Overthinking: Does action combat have too much of a negative effect on MMORPG scales?
A couple of weeks ago, the devs of Guild Wars 3 talked up the MMORPG’s combat model and how its design pretty much necessitated smaller MMO group sizes…
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Mortal Online 2 heralds ‘the Era of Refinement’ as it shifts its patch cadence and focus
Don’t call the next series of patches to Mortal Online 2 simple fixer-uppers or small updates; call them part of “the Era of Refinement.” Or…
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Colorful co-op shooter Mycopunk confirms its 1.0 release date of October 20
Last year, one of the multiplayer demos that we poked at during a Steam Next Fest was for Mycopunk, a brightly colored and distinct if somewhat confounding…
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ARC Raiders shows off the content coming in its Frozen Trail update for October 8
You know October is coming because no game can resist shoving winter updates or spooky updates in your face, and ARC Raiders is not an exception with the…
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Quake Champions eliminates its free-to-play monetization elements in favor of a $10 box price
You would be forgiven for letting Quake Champions, the free-to-play PvP arena shooter from id Software that released in 2022, slip through the mental cracks…
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Dungeons and Dragons Online welcomes you into the Court of Strahd next month
Spooky season is practically upon us, so do you begrudge Dungeons and Dragons Online for jumping the scythe a bit with the announcement of a creepy event for…
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MMO Business Roundup: New VR glasses, Microsoft kills a game, and controllers that can read credit cards
Welcome back to yet another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Today’s headlines feature a couple of pieces of gadget news, and yes, both of…
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The Division 2’s Echoes of Central Park DLC gets a release date of November 3
That’s right, The Division 2 is once again tasking players with taking care of a threat in New York City, but then players already knew that when the…
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Black Desert Mobile celebrates a Moonlight Festival to ring in the autumn season
Most of us here in the northern hemisphere associated autumn with colder days, falling leaves, and all of the spooky scary skeletons imaginable. Black Desert…
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Lord of the Rings Online prepares to put you in the friend zone with its Neighbour system
One of the two major new systems from Lord of the Rings Online: Wolves of Mordor is coming sooner than the expansion itself, and Standing Stone Games is taking…
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Vague Patch Notes: How do you know you’re done with an MMORPG?
We talk a lot about how designers need to be ready for the reality that every MMORPG is going to die eventually. You run out of new things to do. It is a good…
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Throne and Liberty adds a new colossus to fight and new upgrades for heroic weapons
What makes a weapon heroic? Who knows, but thanks to Throne and Liberty, players can now take their heroic weapons to new heights thanks to the latest update…
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Interview: Elder Scrolls Online on Update 51’s experimental features and shaking up the MMO’s formula
Sometimes in MMORPGs, you’ve just got to take some swings. Try something that’s new and unknown to your players. Get a little bit experimental, or…
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RuneScape outlines plans to revise, retain, or remove microtransaction items November 23
Readers might recall how RuneScape was plotting to overhaul its monetization, which began at the top of this year with the end of its Treasure Hunter…
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World of Warcraft Forever shows off the Legacy system
When you’re playing World of Warcraft Forever, you are building a legacy. Part of that is because you will theoretically be forging new friendships and…
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Warframe’s Iceblade of Narin is live now
Attention, Tenno: Warframe insists that you chill. No, really. The latest update, Iceblade of Narin, brings the newest eponymous Warframe to the game. How do…
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Elder Scrolls Online briefs players on September 30’s High Seas of Tamriel event
Elder Scrolls Online fans have already learned about how Update 51 is changing things around with its Nowhere Vault and Rumors features, but there’s one…
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The Daily Grind: What’s an MMORPG challenge that you took on in the most no-life fashion?
We all know that there are certain people who play far, far too much of a given MMO. As a general rule, those people are also the people who have the spare…
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Crystal of Atlan has unleashed a neon karate DJ class and collaborated with King of Fighters
We once again find ourselves realizing that it’s been a little while since we peeked in on Crystal of Atlan, the magipunk anime MMO that marked its first…
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Counter-Strike 2 gets a new 3v3 game mode and stealth-adds chicken eggs in latest update
We’re just as surprised as you are to learn that Counter-Strike 2 got a new content update of all things, but an update has indeed landed that brought…
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Diablo V touches on caravan mechanics, its multitude of classes, and character level scaling
Before we all know it, 2029 and Diablo V will be upon us to shove the previous game out of the way like a slightly less-cute lamb. Until then, the drip-feed of…
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EVE Online’s GM Week promises spaceship loot pinatas and more starting September 28
We have to believe that working among the support staff of EVE Online is pretty rough and thankless work. These Game Masters are, as Fenris Creations points…
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Multiplayer OARPG Titan Quest II announces a January 19 departure from early access
After a year and change of open development, the time is soon coming for the optionally multiplayer OARPG Titan Quest II to take its first steps into full…
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Neverness to Everness adds a theme park, a ghost bus, and more Porsche stuff September 30
We admit that the list of features coming to multiplayer gacha RPG Neverness to Everness sounds a little catawampus, but then this is a game set in a modern…
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ARC Raiders promises more PvP and repeatable content as it previews October’s Frozen Trail update
Life in ARC Raiders is probably feeling a bit weird right now. With the game’s next update coming on October 8th and much about the game’s…
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World of Warcraft Forever continues to delve into character creation while players discover crazy items in the beta
It’s a good week to drink deep and full of World of Warcraft Forever developer diaries, as Blizzard released yet another pair of them yesterday. Both of…
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RuneScape previews the second half of Havenhythe Island
The next big content update for RuneScape is on the way, and when it arrives, the second half of Havenhythe Island will be open for business. Jagex posted a…
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Trove’s Rematch update revamps PvP in the game’s new Battle Mode
Look, we all know that Trove is a very silly game, and we say that with affection. But that doesn’t mean you want the game’s PvP to be all messy…
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Hoyoverse’s upcoming Nodusfall provides a hands-on preview, answers questions about gameplay and gacha
There are not many choices for games whose whole purpose is to team up with other players and take down massive boss-like beasts (still pouring one out for…
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Casually Classic: World of Warcraft Forever aims to be a most epic do-over
The world can completely change in the span of a week — especially if that world is Azeroth. In seven days, we got the jaw-dropping announcement of World…
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Undead Labs confirms indie status, developer layoffs, and continued State of Decay 3 development
You might recall that when Microsoft was hacking apart Xbox this past July, one of the studios that it was looking to sell off was Undead Labs, developers of…
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Perfect Ten: The MMOs that paved the path for console MMOs
Once upon a time, there were no real MMORPGs on video game consoles. This makes a certain amount of sense, really. MMORPGs are big, complicated games, and we…
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Discord is officially rolling out its retooled and ‘privacy-preserving’ age verification starting today
Back in February, Discord unveiled plans to verify the age of its users that would roll out in March. Everyone hated it and its deeply intrusive nature, and…
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Guild Wars 2 prepares WvW players to pummel each other in a new borderlands map beta November 10
If you’ve got Strong Opinions about world vs. world PvP in Guild Wars 2 and don’t mind seeing a somewhat incomplete map to brawl on, then ArenaNet…
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‘Holy cow. My flabbers are gasted’: Destiny 2 fans celebrate news of the shooter’s return
Earlier this week saw a surprise drop into the laps of Destiny 2 fans, as Bungie announced that it would circle back to the shooter MMO, starting first by…