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Here’s how Stars Reach Kickstarter backers can get their Steam keys and cosmetic goodies
So, just how will those who backed Stars Reach on Kickstarter get to access the game on Steam when it enters early access next week? Luckily for you, Playable…
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Throne & Liberty buffs party play and player housing in today’s 4.7.0 update
If yesterday’s news that Amazon is handing global publishing rights for Throne and Liberty back to NCsoft didn’t rattle you, perhaps you’ll…
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Twitch finally allows users to opt out of Amazon AI training after years of silently farming streams
If you’ve been near any social media platform in the past few hours, you’ve likely already heard this news, but just in case you haven’t (or…
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Where Winds Meet takes players to Heaven’s Threshold next week – once the community unlocks the way
Last month’s Hidden Mountain release was only the first part of Where Winds Meet’s hefty summer expansion rollout. The second part, Heaven’s…
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The Daily Grind: Do you consider yourself tuned in to your MMO’s fandom?
You could argue that being part of an MMO’s fandom isn’t really a voluntary thing most of the time, and broadly speaking that’s true. On an…
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The Stream Team: Making monuments and talking to traders in Return to Moria
Now that Massively OP’s MJ and Larry have started the Durin’s Folk expansion, they have a variety of things to do, from building monuments to…
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Star Trek Online gives a 2015-era Romulan warbird the ‘remastered’ treatment
A creaky Romulan starship released all the way back in April 2015 just got the “remastered” treatment in Star Trek Online. Owners of the…
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Old School RuneScape continues to refine Agility as one player achieves 99 Fishing with shrimp
Yes, that headline really only has the binding tie of “things that can only happen within Old School RuneScape,” but then that’s sort of the…
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Diablo Immortal brings the Lord of Destruction back for its anniversary celebration
The 30 year anniversary for the Diablo franchise rolls on, and so Diablo Immortal wants you to have a Baal. Yes, that’s a pun, but it’s also…
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‘This is not what you signed up for’: Ashes of Creation boss, sued by his own counsel, issues warning to industry
The Ashes of Creation saga of 2026 continues today with a couple of weird twists, starting with news that former Intrepid boss Steven Sharif is being sued by…
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Legends of Aria’s Derek Brinkmann is working on a new co-op survival horror title called Voidwood
So do you remember when we got some fresh word out of the rebooted Shards Online aka Legends of Aria Eternal after we were marking some pretty notable silence?…
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Cozy mini-MMO Palia celebrates its third birthday with free plushies
There’s a caveat attached to this happy birthday memo, and it’s that technically, Palia still hasn’t left beta and probably never will…
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The Division 2 opens a new incursion in latest update, confirms permanent PvE dark zones for next season
If you’re the kind of player who likes some hard-bitten PvE challenges in The Division 2, then this week’s patch is pretty much right up your…
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Daybreak and Cold Iron will discount Aliens Fireteam Elite 2 for prequel players following Switch sunset
On Monday, we covered the news that original-flavor Aliens Fireteam Elite players – specifically, folks who played the cloud version on the Switch…
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Roll for initiative: Warframe’s Amir’s Shockwave event is live today with Fables & Frontiers
It’s time for a shock to the system, and in this case that means a whole shockwave thanks to Warframe’s very own hyperspeed operator Amir. Yes…
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Casually Classic: Will the WoW Classic Plus announcement anger the community no matter what?
When we hit BlizzCon next month, two events are almost sure to happen. First, Blizzard will reveal some sort of WoW Classic project, presumably an ongoing…
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Bethsoft devs roast Microsoft with a giant inflatable rat as unions plan huge rallies next week
By random chance, yesterday I happened to drive past a mechanical plant where union workers were stationed outside with a giant inflatable rat to call…
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Perfect Ten: Looking back at the absurdly stacked MMO year of 2010
I can say that 2010 was a pretty significant year to me because it was the first time I had started off a year as a writer. I wrote about MMORPGs, see. I had…
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Stop Killing Games joins Dutch consumer rights lawsuit as its founder talks about its mission in an interview
You might recall last month when we reported on a lawsuit filed by a Dutch consumer rights group against Sony, which argued that Sony’s decision to stop…
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Lost Ark’s The Bitter Cold update is live with a new extreme raid and a hat-wearing panda rickshaw
As of this morning, there are two big pieces of news for Lost Ark players. The first is that Amazon is unhooking its claws from the game and sending it back to…
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SEED’s early access adds territory claiming, kicks off an event, and wrestles with market issues
It’s been almost 10 years since the colony-building MMO SEED decided to wrap up closed development and enter into early access, and so naturally…
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RIFT brings back the Legion of Corpses battle pass for a ‘rerun’
The bar for movement in RIFT is so low these days that even a reheated battle pass might be a reason to celebrate — depending on your point of view. So…
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Amazon will cease publishing Lost Ark and Throne & Liberty, sending them back to Smilegate and NCsoft
Nobody’s going to be surprised to hear any of this, least of all the people who’ve been watching Amazon lay off all the community teams here in the…
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The Daily Grind: What sparked an MMO gaming renaissance for you?
Gaming has its highs and lows, especially if you’re playing in the same genre — or even the same titles — for a long period of time…
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The Stream Team: Shattering evil dragons in Guild Wars 2
Massively OP’s MJ has been in Thunderhead Peaks making weapons to use against Guild Wars 2’s Kralkatorrik. But a new plan has presented itself…
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Nexon will host MapleStory Fest 2026 in LA on October 17 – tix go on sale Thursday
Most MMORPGs can’t muster their very own live community events, but MapleStory is one of the few that can and does, and if you’re a Mapler, best…
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AdventureQuest 3D’s latest questline tries to cure vampires and werewolves
If you can pause long enough from singing the praises of Jimothy in AdventureQuest 3D, the game has a serious job for you to do. We all know that vampires suck…
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World of Tanks is celebrating its 16-year anniversary with heaps of presents for players
Can you believe that World of Tanks – a game we all made fun of when it was first announced – has been running for 16 years now? Truly, we are…
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DC Universe Online’s new ally feats system lets players strengthen ally characters and earn account unlocks
DC Universe Online players might recall that back in July, executive producer Andrew Emerson referenced an ally feats system that would make ranking up ally…
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Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds is live, and so is Jimothy
As promised, Guild Wars 2’s big summer festival, the Festival of the Four Winds, has arrived this afternoon, sending you back to the Crown Pavilion and…
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RuneScape offers a closer look at API progress and several new plugins including a quest helper
Having a quest helper in a game as vast as RuneScape can definitely feel like a godsend, but anyone who was hoping for guidance basically had to have some of…
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Sea of Thieves decouples feature sets from seasons to make sure new ideas are finished before release
Sea of Thieves’ team is trying a new thing where it’s holding back on its dev videos until a couple weeks after an update, so that there’s…
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Mecha MMO RF Online Next readies Core World, a new large-scale cross-server PvPvE mode
As it approaches its two-month mark, relaunched RF Online Next doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. Netmarble’s cross-platform mecha MMO has a…
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Final Fantasy XIV preps for the Moonfire Faire while addressing load times on the Switch 2 version
How many times has Final Fantasy XIV celebrated summer with the Moonfire Faire? The answer is “once a year, every year, since launch,” and that is…
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MMO Jukebox Song of the Week: ‘Zento’ from Ultima Online
This week’s MMO Jukebox pick is from Bree, who takes us way back to the past — and to another continent: “Justin got me missing Ultima…
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Smed’s Reaper Actual corrects display setting bugs and other issues in the wake of its free weekend
Last week, John Smedley’s Reaper Actual threw open the doors and invited everyone to come into the game and see how the game was developing with a…
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Warframe of Mind: The problem with Warframe’s Dog Days of summer
Dog Days are here again, and I didn’t really care when they arrived back in Warframe. That’s not to say I dislike the time-limited water park mode…
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Fenris Creations recaps EVE Online and EVE Vanguard’s Operation Avalon, hires Icelandic politician for ‘AI alignment’
A month ago, Fenris Creations fka CCP Games launched Operation Avalon, an event that bound EVE Online players up with EVE Vanguard testers in a massive…
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Not So Massively: The Division Resurgence’s PC version is a very solid port
I haven’t really been following The Division: Resurgence, the mobile-first entry into Ubisoft‘s cover shooter franchise. I didn’t even…
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Elite Dangerous unveils the Rhino mining buggy and hints at new surface mining gameplay
Elite Dangerous fans who suspected that Frontier Developments’ tease for its next vehicle would be for a mining-based car were right on the money. The…
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Fans call out Star Citizen’s live preview of Siege of Orison as a bug-riddled and cringe-inducing mess
It would be easy to assume that headline is being acerbic simply because we want to dunk on Star Citizen, but in this case it’s an opinion widely held…
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Overwatch’s newest tank D.Mon gets an action-packed anime trailer
There’s always room on every team for a good tank, they say. So scootch over for D.Mon, the 53rd hero and latest tank character to come to Overwatch when…
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Camelot Unchained teases its latest patch with class progression revamps, quests, and spiders
According to the trailer for Camelot Unchained’s latest early access update, 0.46, this patch is bursting with new content. Of all the verbs you could…
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The Daily Grind: How many MMORPGs have you played to date?
A while back, a poster on the MMORPG Reddit put out a question lamenting that he’d “played MMOs for 13 years and [had] never once known who made…
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The Stream Team: Controlling the Chaos in Wayfinder
Massively OP’s MJ’s first foray in Wayfinder went pretty well. She selected her character (in record time!), started the story, tested out a…
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Massively Overthinking: What year of MMOs would you pick to repeat forever?
A while back on the podcast, Justin joked that if he could pick one year to lock in and live in forever, it would be 2010 – at least as far as MMOs were…
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Fantasy Online 2 is an early access pixel art MMO for Steam, browser, and Android
No, that’s not a typo: This game really is called Fantasy Online 2, and you’re unlikely to mistake it for Phantasy Star Online 2 in any case…
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Path of Exile 1 makes a list of adjustments to its leagues in its latest patch
It’s a patch-filled jamboree for both versions of Path of Exile, friends! Yes, whether you’re into the early access MMOARPG or the already released…
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Overwatch and World of Warcraft composer Adam Burgess departs Blizzard after 11 years
Adam Burgess may not be a name you’ve heard that often, but if you’ve played Blizzard’s games, you’ve no doubt listened to his music at…
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Brighter Shores lead dev Andrew Gower talks with players in-game about combat update plans
Normally an AMA or Q&A session would happen on platforms like Reddit, Twitch, or Discord instead of within the global chat channel of the MMORPG…
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Black Desert launches the guild fame system on PC, brings the Agent and Hyperboost to console
Fame! I wanna guild forever! I wanna grind to the sky! Hiiiigh! Ahem, sorry for the song interlude, but it kind of fits because Black Desert has brought guild…
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EverQuest II will open the GU132 Revelations of Malice beta next week
As promised, EverQuest II players are about to get a lil taste of the MMORPG’s next update as GU132 Revelations of Malice is preparing to enter beta next…
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Fellowship shifts away from new seasons to focus on bug fixing and improving its core for 1.0
During a rather candid and off-the-cuff livestream, developers for the multiplayer early access dungeon runner Fellowship admitted that the game’s focus…
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Neverwinter opens the test server for the Monoliths of Madness campaign
Module 33.5, the Monoliths of Madness, is approaching fast for Neverwinter. It’s meant to be released in mid-September, and that means the developers…
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Roblox stonks plummeted as its shift toward ‘long-term retention’ sees kids spending less money
I actually did a double-take when reading the news reports on Roblox this morning, thinking surely that the “stonks down 70%!!!” headlines must be…
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Casually Classic: Are you prepared for WoW Classic Plus if it launches next month?
It’s been a long wait to BlizzCon since the studio teased us with a big WoW Classic reveal earlier this year, but now it’s actually August, and…
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MapleStory cracks down on cheaters as MapleStory Classic World test keys pop up on Ebay for over $300
Another day, another round of cheating and exploiting here in the MMORPG genre, this time in MapleStory. “We would like to address the recent cases of…
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Vague Patch Notes: The challenge of staying in an MMO
Lately, I’ve been getting served ads to play Final Fantasy XIV on YouTube. This is, in fact, very funny. Not just because of the ads as a concept, but…
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Hytale shows off WorldGen V2 worldbuilding and explains how the game will shift from V1 to V2 at launch
If you just skim the very beginning of Hytale’s latest blog, you might think it’s just a list of spectacular images from player WorldGen V2…
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Dungeons and Dragons Online added Jimothy as a hidden quest, and players already found him
Have you had your fill of Jimothy yet? We sure hope not because still more MMORPGs are adding him. The latest is Dungeons and Dragons Online, whose 81.1 patch…