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ARC Raiders cuts its cadence down to two major...

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2026/05/14

Have you noticed a pattern with new online games that promise monthly updates only to find out that after a year or so, that wasn’t a great plan? It’s happened to ARC Raiders too now, as the developers have announced that the game’s development cadence is shifting to two major updates per year. The reasons are […]

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Skull and Bones answers questions about multiplayer,...

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2026/05/14

Even as the new year’s worth of content has officially kicked off in Skull and Bones, players primarily had questions about what’s happening next for the multiplayer pirating playground judging by an AMA held with Ubisoft Singapore. Here are some of the highlights from the official summary. Many players had questions about whether there would be […]

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Mini MMO Palia sees Steam concurrency soar...

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2026/05/14

It’s been barely two full days since Palia formally launched its Royal Highlands expansion and set players loose on a new map while riding their brand-new horses. And yet Daybreak-owned Singularity 6 has already popped out a new dev blog talking about what comes next. Apparently, it’s a wave of updates bundled up in what […]

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Pearl Abyss Q1 2026: Black Desert and Crimson Desert...

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2026/05/14

I have to admit that when I sat down this morning to analyze the Pearl Abyss Q1 financial call, I was surprised… because there is no call. For the first time that I can recall, the company has apparently shifted to doing just an “earnings letter” instead of a presentation and investor call. The Korean […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The late-game paradox in MMORPGs

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2026/05/14

I’ve been going back through a bunch of my older games lately, finishing titles I hadn’t before, giving a second look to games I beat ages ago. For example, I’ve been told time and again I should really replay Cyberpunk 2077 again from the beginning to properly appreciate the system changes and the Phantom Liberty DLC […]

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Buddies and better base building: Previewing...

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2026/05/14

Survival. Subnautica is certainly about survival. However, that is just the surface; survival supports and enhances the true core of the game, exploration. The tension of what could be around the next corner (terror? treasure?) made the game exciting. Unfortunately, Subnautica was still missing something: companions. Now, Subnautica 2 is remedying that flaw. In a […]

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Casually Classic: Should Blizzard roll out WoW...

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2026/05/14

Last November, Blizzard launched a new WoW Classic experience with a type of server that we’d never seen before. It was daring, it was interesting, it was fresh — and it was unattainable to most of us, as it was a China-only offering. The Titan Reforged servers became slightly controversial for their region-exclusive status, although […]

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Throne and Liberty adds ‘cumulative growth content,’...

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2026/05/14

Would you like to see your Throne and Liberty character grow cumulatively? Then you’re in luck because “cumulative growth content” has officially arrived with the MMORPG’s latest patch, which is a catch-all term for a system that can beef up your character. It’s like bulking up with protein powder but with fancier words. The system in question […]

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Spirit Crossing’s Big Housing Update lets players...

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2026/05/14

Technically speaking, the latest patch for cozy MMO Spirit Crossing isn’t called the Big Housing Update; it’s called version 15.0. That said, housing features are indeed a major part of the patch itself. Also the patch notes call it a Big Housing Update directly, so we’re running with it. The changes in question are pretty significant all […]

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NCsoft Q1 2026: Aion 2 made heaps of money, Guild...

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2026/05/14

NCsoft turned in one hell of a Q1 financial report this week, and a large chunk of it comes from MMORPGs. Unsurprisingly, kind of a lot of the company’s current success comes from Aion 2, which is fully reflected in the quarter. Revenues for the Korean gaming giant are up 38% quarter over quarter and 55% […]

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MMO Week in Review: The big rebranding of CCP Games

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2026/05/11

EVE Online studio CCP Games capped off the week of MMORPG news by not just confirming the buyout but announcing a major rebrand to Fenris Creations, largely to avoid the long-running ambiguity with Chinese politics, and then also whispering that one of its big investors is Google DeepMind, which has partnered with the studio for […]

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Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era publisher starts...

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2026/05/10

With over 500,000 copies sold to date that propelled it to the Steam top sellers chart, the early access of Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a huge success for studio Unfrozen and its co-publisher Hooded Horse. And since a lot more eyes are on Hooded Horse right now, the company used this […]

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The MOP Up: V Rising mulls over a new patch

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2026/05/10

Could the maintenance moded V Rising put out another patch? It could happen: “Here in the Stunlock Studios crypts, we’ve been carefully gathering your feedback and wishes for an upcoming balance and bug-fix patch. There’s been a tremendous volume, about three times as much as our last feedback form, and it’s given us a lot […]

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Final Fantasy XI preps for the Nomad Moogle Bonanza...

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2026/05/10

Did you know that you’re allow to gamble in Final Fantasy XI? No, not by playing Corsair. You can still play Corsair, that’s also gambling, but… let’s get back on track. FFXI is kicking off the Nomad Moogle Bonanza event once again, and that encourages you to go all-in and gamble away to see if one of your nomad […]

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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Torebia Island Odyssey,...

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2026/05/10

Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you’ve never heard of! Well, technically speaking, we’ve reported on a couple of these games in this news digest previously, but there are updates to share! EmberQuest We’ll begin with the one that you’ve almost certainly never heard of, EmberQuest, a browser-based MMORPG described by […]

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Early access MMORPG Pantheon Rise of the Fallen...

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2026/05/10

Apparently, Visionary Realms wants players heading into the recently opened public test realm for still-developing early access MMORPG Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is a test realm. This is an unfinished version of an unfinished game that itself is in a form of testing. You are testing a test. The post gets even more granular about what is […]

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One Shots: Swiping right at the end of the world

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2026/05/10

After a week off, One Shots is back — and it’s weirder than ever, thanks to this sordid tableau in Fallout 76 that Greaterdivinity discovered. “There’s a lot of unexpected romance that I’d totally forgotten about in-game. Taking lots of screenshots of these little romantic scenes and other oddities/curiosities as I re-explore. Here, someone’s getting […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO crowdfunding do you most...

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2026/05/10

Let’s be real here, most of the people on this site have backed at least one Kickstarter MMO over the past several years, and unless you backed exactly one and it was somehow one of the two crowdfunded games that worked out well, you have been disappointed. That’s all right. This can be a safe […]

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Yes, Conan Exiles Enhanced did indeed improve its...

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2026/05/10

When Conan Exiles first made its early access arrival all the way back in 2017, we were amused by the endowment slider option for both male and female characters in the game. And we clearly weren’t alone because sometimes you just have to be a puerile little gremlin even when you’re an adult. With the rip-roaring success […]

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Halo Infinite gets a surprise new update to introduce...

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2026/05/09

We all had a mild laugh over the fact that Halo: Infinite finally got its last update. It wasn’t exactly unexpected or unfair, but it did put the lie to the idea that the game was somehow infinite. Except… now the game has had another update introducing the new Firefight: Gauntlet mode. This raises an important question: […]

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