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MMO Week in Review: New World is having a moment

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2025/10/20

New World’s Nighthaven was the star of the MMORPG week, in spite of a rocky start and some server issues: The spoopy-themed update brought back thousands of players (over 50,000 concurrent this weekend), owing in part to Amazon’s long-delayed but most-welcome decision to bake Rise of the Angry Earth into the base game, essentially making […]

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Join Us is an irreverent co-op RPG where players...

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2025/10/19

It must be said that, as elevator pitches for multiplayer co-op games go, the one offered by the in-development RPG Join Us seems pretty distinct: It’s a blend of management game, co-op survival RPG, apocalyptic events, and some rather dry-looking humor that feels right at home in the best schlocky horror fiction you could think […]

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The MOP Up: Star Trek Online touts its ‘different and...

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2025/10/19

Star Trek Online’s devs talked more this week about the creation of its Best Laid Plans episode, saying, “The gameplay is different and interesting, we have a lot of custom dialogs related to Romulans, Klingons, or Fed – we even have custom dialogs for Liberated Borgs. We also have mini-games, optional objects, and much more.” And […]

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The Stream Team: A first time dive into Final Fantasy...

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2025/10/19

It’s time once again for MOP’s Chris and his Sunday crew to try to climb some deep dungeon floors! That’s right, today the group will be taking their first steps into the Pilgrims Traverse, the recently added multi-floor encounter of Final Fantasy XIV. How far can they get? Tune in today at 2:00 p.m. EDT […]

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MMO Burnout: Lord of the Rings Living Card Game is my...

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2025/10/19

A few years back, I sung the praises of Arkham Horror: The Card Game and its vaguely Secret World-esque vibes. While it left a strong first impression and retains many virtues, the growing complexity of its scenario design ultimately led me to start spending more time on other solo card games, and Lord of the […]

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Skull and Bones breaks down how October 21’s faction...

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2025/10/19

Apparently, taking part in the faction war activity that will headline Skull and Bones’ October 21st Guts and Glory season isn’t as simple as hopping into your boat and firing your cannons at the right enemies. There’s prep work, prerequisites, and mechanics to bear in mind according to an explainer dev blog from Ubisoft Singapore. […]

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One Shots: Ye olde one shots

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2025/10/19

What did people do to record their gameplay progress before computers? The fact is that they spent weeks meticulously carving and painting murals on stone walls to document their progress as a Level 15 Damsel in Distress. Minimalistway forges into a new frontier here, saying, “I’m finally playing Soulframe. The game feels so good, the […]

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The Daily Grind: What MMO system strikes you as...

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2025/10/19

One of the things I’ve brought up before is that MMOs get complicated for a lot of reasons and usually they’re understandable and good reasons. Often the stuff that seems unnecessarily complicated is there for a reason, and if you sit down and really think about it they make perfect sense. But you are not […]

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Ship of Heroes is ‘soldiering on’ with a Halloween...

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2025/10/19

Just because you’re in a spaceship traveling across the stars without any sort of terrestrial calendar doesn’t mean you can’t mark the season of spooky. That’s most certainly the case for the superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes, which has kicked off its first Halloween event. The seasonal event offers trick-or-treating at building doors in the […]

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Star Wars The Old Republic shows off a new...

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2025/10/18

Dynamic events have done a fair bit to inject a sense of activity into the zones of Star Wars: The Old Republic, but when the MMORPG’s game update 7.8 goes live, it’s going to be bringing another layer of that kind of activity in the form of a new encounter on the planet Dantooine. The […]

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Sea of Thieves adds Reaper Fortresses, performance...

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2025/10/18

Being a pirate in Sea of Thieves does not necessarily give you carte blanche to also be a jerkass to other players, but apparently Rare Ltd. has decided that this week’s release of the third act to Season 17 will also be the time when the studio extends an olive branch to some of those […]

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Guild Wars 2 discusses how it tackled server crashes...

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2025/10/18

Those who joined in on the Guild Wars 2 elite specialization beta for Visions of Eternity know that things were off to a very bumpy start as the devs at ArenaNet had to pause and unpause the test a few different times. If you were curious to learn the full skinny about what happened and […]

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The Soapbox: I ignore MMO betas – and I’m happier for it

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2025/10/18

When I first began covering MMORPGs professionally back in 2010, I was all about what I imagined were the grand prestige and perks of the job. OK, MMOs were a hotter thing back then, but I was still getting carried away. I couldn’t wait to be an “official” media representative at conventions and eagerly gobbled […]

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Marvel Rivals announces its new zombie horde PvE mode...

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2025/10/18

Dressing up in costume and facing off against zombies sounds pretty Halloween adjacent to us, which is pretty much what Marvel Rivals is going to be offering when Marvel Zombies, its first ever PvE mode, arrives to the shooter on Thursday, October 23rd. The new mode was introduced in a trailer that effectively performed double […]

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WRUP: Places where Cat Stevens is not allowed to cook...

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2025/10/18

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about the weirdest injuries we've managed to sustain. So far.

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO would you like to spend...

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2025/10/18

The thought of hitting that magical day of retirement where we cease to work and can enjoy rest, chocolate pudding, and a lot more free time is certainly appealing. Yet I’ve seen enough people retire to know that if you don’t fill your life with something (perhaps many things) purposeful, you’ll kind of shrivel up […]

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The Stream Team: Mogloween mischief in AdventureQuest 3D

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2025/10/17

It’s that most beautiful time of the year when spooky takes over! Mogloween is in full swing in AD3D, and Massively OP’s MJ is ready for some mischief! Speaking of mischief, there’s also a Mogloween gnome named Tricksy to give out treats treats which MJ obviously needs. There is also a new emotes update so […]

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Betawatch: Pax Dei and Necesse both enter the waters...

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2025/10/17

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye goes out to both Pax Dei and Necesse this week, as both games have officially entered a launch state. I’ll always remember when you were in early access, and if I am pressed on it, I might remember that the former title actually exists. Yeah, it turns out quirky pixel art […]

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Villagers and Heroes opens the third part of the Crux...

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2025/10/17

If you’re able to count you know that hitting level 99 isn’t as impressive as level 100, but if you got used to a certain generation of video games level 99 just feels very natural as a level cap. And Villagers and Heroes appears to know that, as its newest patch raises the level cap to […]

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Dark Age of Camelot brings three weeks of demonic...

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2025/10/17

Those pesky demons. Opening up rifts, invading realms, and just making things all around unpleasant and… well, demonic. It’s an infestation that’s going to have to be solved by players of Dark Age of Camelot as the elder sandbox MMORPG tears open demon-spewing breaches across the game world. For the next three weeks, players will […]

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