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Lord of the Rings Online promises its new neighbour system won’t use AI/LLMs to generate conversations
There’s a whole lot of back-and-forth chatter between Lord of the Rings Online’s community and the dev team at SSG over the upcoming neighbour…
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World of Warcraft’s Chinese version plans a big ‘X Party’ to celebrate 21 years of the game
It’s amazing to think that World of Warcraft has been running in China for 21 years, isn’t it? Less time than its native country, sure, but a long…
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The Daily Grind: What sort of body do you prefer to give your characters in MMOs?
Body sliders in MMORPGs should be more of a thing, but even when they do exist, most of them aren’t really all that great. In games that have them what…
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The Stream Team: The brain of Project Gorgon’s brain bugs
One of the missions Massively OP’s MJ has had since leaving the newbie isle in Project: Gorgon is to find someone knowledgeable about the brain bugs…
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Warframe’s Dog Days arrives once more with new community glyphs and cosmetics
It is hot outside, but there’s no need to sit around with a hangdog expression at the dog days of summer, because the dog days are here in Warframe too…
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Marvel Rivals introduces the Hood with its Season 9.5 update August 7, releases new roadmap
If you’re a fan of Marvel comics, Marvel Rivals continually does a good job of serving you not just the characters that you’ve seen in dozens of…
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MMO Business Roundup: Roblox claims it’s safe, dev charity bundle, and Xbox 360 games on PC
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news. We’ve got a whole lot to get through today, so it’s time to skip the usual…
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Boil Cabbage Make Soup is a new cozy multiplayer idler where you dress up your onion cook
When the press release for this “game” hit my inbox, I actually stuck it in MOP’s work chat as a joke because haha look it’s about an…
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Diablo IV opens up the 3.2 test server with soul splinters as leaks indicate an impending Switch 2 launch
Diablo IV has a patch up on the test server, but that patch is perhaps not indicative of what the full patch will look like. See, there are elements of Season…
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Blade & Soul Neo’s Reignited update includes the Warden and a boosted server, and it launches August 18
Last week, we poked our heads in on OG Blade and Soul and Blade and Soul NEO because it had been a while since we’d heard anything big out of the…
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Black Desert Mobile continues content streamlining by removing instances and rescheduling PvP activities
Black Desert Mobile started efforts to streamline content with last week’s patch, and this week that work continues by removing a selection of various…
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Eterspire releases roadmap for the rest of 2026 with overhauls of social and combat systems
Last week, as Eterspire studio Stonehollow Workshop was rolling out a new update and preparing its rollout on Apple TV (yes), it was also resetting…
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Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds returns August 11 with new rewards
Guild Wars 2 fans who aren’t all wrapped up in the MMORPG’s housing scene right now will be overjoyed to know that they’re about to get a new…
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RuneScape hypes plugins and upcoming league, OSRS tweaks Wyrmscraig and Sailing
The month of August is, for the most part, going to be dominated by the Equilibrium league arriving to RuneScape. And if you don’t believe us, we have…
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Perfect Ten: All of the MMORPG expansions from 2003
The year 2003 witnessed a huge boom in the MMORPG genre. It was the year of Star Wars Galaxies, EverQuest Online Adventures, PlanetSide, EVE Online, and…
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Phantasy Star Online 2 NGS preps new main story, more missions, and the Super Phantasy Festival event
We’re just into the new month and that means there’s a selection of updates planned for Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis, which include a fresh…
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Lord of the Rings Online’s latest update adjusts the Angmarim Sorceress and the Pelennor instance cluster
Our Lord of the Rings Online fans may already be dreaming of Wolves of Mordor, but Standing Stone Games is in the here and now with this week’s update as…
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Guild Wars 3 confirms Humans, Asura, and Kodan, plus a mystery species, will be playable at launch
Ever since the first Guild Wars 3 announcement and video dropped, there’s been no end to the speculation on what the races will be. Like, we’re…
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Electronic Arts’ $55B buyout has officially completed – and the company is already plotting layoffs
Gamers who have been following along already knew that this whole thing was academic, but now it is official: Electronic Arts has been bought out for $55B…
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Monsters & Memories delivers a deep dive on its Cleric, Fighter, and Monk classes
As August rolls into town, looking all squinty and steely eyed, indie MMO Monsters & Memories proves that it’s not afraid to stare it down and then…
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26-year-old social sandbox MMORPG Prison Legacy shares its first look at revived gameplay footage
Last month, we were aimed in the direction of an official revival attempt of the Spanish-only social sandbox MMORPG The Prison, which original developer…
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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Mogul Life, PvP.Farm, and VoxelMancy
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you’ve never heard of! Today we’ve got a little something for everyone…
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SpiritVale opens a PTR to test item trading, guild storage, and its still-broken auction house
Last week we reported on the rather bumpy early access release of indie MMORPG SpiritVale, which devs at Baikun Interactive acknowledged and explained to its…
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One Shots: It brings the whole room together
If you inherit a giant gaudy statue that’s not going to disappear into the corner of the garden or fit into the keepsake cabinet, you might as well slap…
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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG do you feel like you missed out on?
A while back, when I was doing the Choose My Adventure column, I went into Ultima Online. I didn’t really have a great time, but part of the reason was…
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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Nin Online, Velderis, and War of Continents
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you’ve never heard of! Though if you’re a regular reader of this semi-regular…
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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen is apparently polishing its tropical zone and improving performance
It’s been a wild trip through early access for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen players — and that journey ain’t done yet. Visionary…
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Pet-collecting MMO Blubbi is the cutest thing you’re going to see all day
Here I am, ostensibly a manly man with the chest hair to prove it, covering a game called Blubbi featuring grinning slimes who look like something Hello Kitty…
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The Stream Team: Making a Dinkum museum
It has been far too long since Massively OP’s MJ played in the outback of Dinkum. So long, in fact, that she even forgot what she was building for a…
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LOTRO Legendarium: The pros and cons of home ownership in LOTRO in 2026
Over the past week or so, I’ve buried myself in the joy of creating and playing a new River Hobbit Minstrel. Early on, I funneled all sorts of goodies…
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MMO Business Roundup: EA’s buyout date, Roblox’s Q2 earnings, and PlayStation’s discs will (still) die
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news. Today we continue to look at a couple of developing stories and move on with the…
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WRUP: Under no circumstances can Kenneth be allowed to have a second magic hat edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about pudding.
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The Daily Grind: Have you ever played a ‘greenskin’ race in an MMO?
Back when Warhammer Online was all the rage, I was actually tempted for the first time in my MMORPG career to roll a goblin, thanks to the Squig Herder class…
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The Stream Team: Carousing in AQ3D’s Crystal Clear Lake
So very much is going on in AdventureQuest 3D this week that Massively OP’s MJ can hardly decide what to focus on. A new area off Amityvale called…
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Betawatch: Stars Reach sets course for early access, EverQuest Legends successfully launches
With Stars Reach having announced that its paid early access is starting in just a couple of weeks on August 18th, I am eventually going to need to make a…
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Does crime pay? It does in GTA Online’s new summer heist event
Grand Theft Auto Online is going to celebrate its summer, and it is doing so by asking why you don’t perform some extra additional theft on top of all…
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Genshin Impact releases a new trailer to herald the opening of Snezhnaya on August 12
Long-time Genshin Impact players have likely been eagerly awaiting their opportunity to visit the frosty land of Snezhnaya on Wednesday, August 12th — an…
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Whatever happened to NCsoft’s MMORPGs Blade & Soul and Blade & Soul NEO?
Blink and you probably missed it considering everything else happening in gaming and in our corner of it, but we’ve come to realize that Blade and Soul…
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Post-apocalyptic MMO Afterglow globally launches on iOS and Android
Just because the world ends doesn’t mean that you’ll automatically have a lot of extra time on your hands. What with fending off the raiding mutant…
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ARC Raiders improves its matchmaking system to protect carebears from the horrors of PvP slaughter floors
Will Embark ever stop monkeying around with ARC Raiders’ matchmaking system? Maybe not in our lifetime, because both the studio and playerbase of this…
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NCsoft’s shooter MMO Cinder City schedules a pre-alpha weekend test for August 14, with sign-ups now open
At the end of last month, we got new word about Cinder City, the post-apoc sci-fi shooter MMO from NCsoft and developer BigFire Games that started life as…
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Mobile looter shooter The Division Resurgence locks down a full PC release date of August 5
Have you been curious about playing The Division Resurgence but are not exactly delighted by the idea of playing a cover shooter on a mobile device? Would you…
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TERA Console opened a competitive dungeon and 5v5 battleground in its most recent update
Krafton decided that the end of this month would be a great time to alert the public about the fact that a major update was applied mid-July to TERA Console…
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Pixel sandbox Necesse’s Rust & Romance update is live with NPC relationships and better biomes
As promised – and I know you were all waiting for this one – and that’s only a gentle joke because I know we have a bunch of Necesse fans and…
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Warframe of Mind: The big guide to picking a frame – Mesa, Chroma, Equinox
There’s a big gap in today’s entries. That’s not exactly unusual, but I think it’s worth noting up front. It’s also surprising to…
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SWTOR’s GU 8.0 has hit the PTS as Broadsword talks overworld difficulty toggles and the new operation
Last night’s Star Wars The Old Republic stream saw Broadsword introducing the highlights of 7.9.1, the first content addition since June’s 7.9…
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MMO Hype Train: Why I’m really rooting for Fallen Earth’s Unity remake
It took a few runs at Fallen Earth to get into this odd post-apocalyptic MMO in 2010 for me. It was an awkward and confusing game to grasp, and it was only the…
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Project Gorgon’s latest update adds Situational Awareness and a huge visual boost to animals
If you noticed your Steam downloading Project Gorgon all over again, that’s working as intended. Elder Game’s latest patch does require an…
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John Smedley’s Reaper Actual kicks off a free play weekend through August 3
Reaper Actual would like you to actually play for free and then hopefully continue playing after that, actually. This is being accomplished via a free play…
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Star Citizen kicks off a week-long free fly referral event, confirms new gear coming in alpha 4.10
Star Citizen appears to be yet again fishing for fresh fresh wallets to hook in and keep the fires of its years-long alpha development burning bright. The…
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Dungeons & Dragons officially announces a World of Warcraft campaign for 2026
The leak is confirmed: You should expect to see an official World of Warcraft campaign for pen-and-paper Dungeons & Dragons by the end of 2026. This is…
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The Daily Grind: What are some weird objects in MMORPGs that we’ve normalized?
A while back, I was writing up RuneScape Dragonwilds’ June patch – which is already out now, of course – but at the time, it was about a…
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The Stream Team: Dungeons & Dragons Online’s The Deal and the Demon
After securing one of the orbs containing the Thread of the Weave’s power in Dungeons & Dragons Online, Massively OP’s MJ is ready to dance…
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Massively Overthinking: Are there any MMORPGs or MMO features that are good kinda by accident?
A snarky gamer by the name of Hank Steel inspired this week’s Massively Overthinking, when he replied to the Helldivers 2 account with this note…
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PvP tank shooter Tyr opens its playtest to everyone on Steam until August 2
Do you find yourself plagued by a surfeit of shooters at the moment, but have you found that the capering and cavorting of human characters delights you not?…
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Wizard101 challenges its community to unlock four waves of rewards through August
Instead of it being every mage for him or herself, Wizard101’s latest event aims to draw together the whole community for a productive and rewarding…
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ArcheAge Chronicles previews the Ranger, Warrior, and player housing in new dev blogs
If ArcheAge Chronicles has slipped away from the front of your mind, forgive yourself: That game has been delayed so many times that you might be better off if…
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Guild Wars Reforged has added new loot and minis to Underworld and Fissure of Woe
This week’s Guild Wars Reforged patch isn’t huge and also isn’t a huge surprise, given that ArenaNet teased it more than a little last week…
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Xbox revenue dropped in Q4, but CEO Asha Sharma keeps promising that growth is coming
Considering the axe falling across the Xbox division of Microsoft, you might think it comes as no surprise that the company’s latest financial news would…
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Path of Exile 2 declares victory over long-standing shader issues thanks to a new Nvidia patch
Have you been experiencing problems with shaders and the “device removed” error in Path of Exile 2? Has it happened frequently enough and long…