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Pax Dei says it’s ‘seen more than 90,000 active...

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2025/10/23

When Pax Dei announced early access and then launch, I have to admit I was more worried for the game than excited. But I’m happy that at least so far, I’ve been wrong, and the game is actually holding a significant number of players since its release earlier this month – a situation that Mainframe […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The third place that MMORPGs were...

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2025/10/23

So anyone who has read anything that I’ve written in the past several years know that while I don’t have any issue with nostalgia as a concept, the fact of the matter remains that there’s a lot of nostalgia for periods of time that did not exist. No, you did not originally know everyone on […]

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Project Gorgon kicks off Halloween, acknowledges...

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2025/10/23

Does your MMORPG of choice have a public nerf policy? Project Gorgon does, or at least it does now. In the patch notes that dropped last night, studio Elder Game admitted to a round of nerfs to “some systems and treasure effects that are too problematic to work around” – the last round of nerfs […]

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Genshin Impact adds new character, new weapons, new...

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2025/10/23

This week has brought on another major update to the gacha RPG Genshin Impact, and if you’re the sort of person who likes new story, another new character to roll for, or a UGC portal that’s built within the game, then you are going to be pretty pleased with what’s available. And if you’re not […]

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Lost Ark’s American region merge has already dragged...

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2025/10/23

What’s worse than a 20-hour downtime for a region merge? A 20-hour downtime for a region merge that stretches into 30 hours and counting. That’s the situation Lost Ark is currently faced with; the American regions were supposed to go offline at 3 a.m. yesterday morning and should’ve been back up late last night, but […]

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Nightholme is a new horror-themed PvPvE extraction...

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2025/10/23

Did you need another extraction game? Maybe not, but announcing a horror-themed one the week before Halloween is pretty smart all the same. We’re talking here about Nightholme, a newly unveiled PvPvE extraction RPG from Studio Ellipsis, a group led by former Assassin’s Creed Revelations/Unity creative director Alexandre Amancio. “Set in a corrupted fantasy world infested […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG zone has the biggest...

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2025/10/23

There are MMORPG zones that look absolutely gorgeous and those that look like someone had to texture the entire zone in the time between breakfast and lunch to make launch. Or the texture work is technically competent but it just looks ugly or repetitive or somehow off. There are a lot of possibilities. Which makes it […]

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‘Science-driven’ co-op survivalbox Astrobotanica...

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2025/10/23

Last month, developer Space Goblin Studio confirmed that its ‘science-driven’ co-op survival RPG Astrobotanica would be heading for early access sometime this winter. We now know precisely when in winter that will be, as the game nailed down a calendar date of Monday, February 16th. The early access launch date was heralded with a new […]

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Trove revives Shadow’s Eve with new mount rewards as...

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2025/10/22

One of the most amusing Halloween events of the MMO fall season is Shadow’s Eve in Trove, and it officially kicked off last night. “Shadow’s Eve is back!” Gamigo intones. “The veil between living and the dead is lifting, and it’s getting Lost Souls tangled up in the living’s business. In this year’s event, Shadow’s […]

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Sky Children of the Light starts its Season of...

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2025/10/22

With everything that’s going on, we’d be remiss if we didn’t peek in on Sky: Children of the Light, particularly since it’s having a busy October with updates that are either out now or just on the horizon. Leading things off is this week’s Season of Migration, which tasks players with guiding migrating animals along […]

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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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