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Vague Patch Notes: Procedural generation is the...

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2025/09/18

A couple years back, I did a column about why procedural generation does not solve the content problems in MMOs. This remains a true statement. You cannot fix the fact that MMOs have a limited amount of content with the fact that procedural generation can produce a seemingly endless series of strictly unique bits of […]

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World of Warcraft is starting the Legion Remix on...

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2025/09/18

The next content drop for World of Warcraft is scheduled for October 8th, but if you’ve been playing the game for a while, it’s all going to feel very familiar. Why? Because it’s the Legion Remix event, and just like the Mists of Pandaria Remix before, it’s like a clip show you can level up through. It’s a […]

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Progress Bar: Jump Space feels like a fully finished...

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2025/09/18

I make it no secret that I am a big fan of Jump Space. I was immediately intrigued when we started first charting its development back when it was called Hyperspace, and my interest only deepened as I streamed its demo a couple of times on OPTV when it named itself Jump Ship. Now, with […]

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Arkheron, Rob Pardo’s multiplayer PvP tower climb,...

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2025/09/18

So who wants to climb a tower by playing musical chairs? That’s not the explicit inspiration behind the Arkheron, a multiplayer PvP tower climber from Bonfire Studios, but it is a core part of the game’s mechanics. Readers will remember this is Rob Pardo’s upcoming game, and it was announced back in January as a […]

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Today’s Throne & Liberty housing update, Solisium’s...

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2025/09/18

Y’all, it’s happening: The biggest thing in Throne and Liberty since last year’s launch is rolling out today. It’s called Solisium’s Awakening, and it is an absolutely massive patch that just so happens to include player housing. “The Housing system, a lifestyle content feature, has been added – allowing you to acquire and manage your […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s the worst name you’ve ever...

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2025/09/18

There is a character on my World of Warcraft account I have basically never played and yet refuse to delete. Why? Because his name is Grignr. If you don’t understand why that matters, just be assured that people who do understand why that matters no doubt agree that you can’t get rid of him because his name is […]

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The Stream Team: Strapping in for some rough...

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2025/09/17

MOP’s Chris and MJ are once again pulling into the Backseat Streaming drive-in for some vehicular mayhem! They say that rubbin’ is racin’, and that’s definitely the case for the racing title Wreckfest 2, and you’re invited to watch with them as the pair take in someone else’s time roughhousing in cars tonight at 8:00 […]

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MMOFPS Pioner preps open beta for October, details...

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2025/09/17

Do you remember Pioner? It’s easy to have perhaps forgotten about this one, especially if post-apocalyptic MMOFPS titles blend into the furniture for you. We first started following this one back in 2024, when Serbia-based GFA Games talked up the shooter’s grim open world of survival, exploration, crafting, and PvPvE FPS combat. The game offered […]

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Crystal of Atlan launches on Steam October 30 along...

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2025/09/17

Back in May, the Skystone-published ByteDance MMO Crystal of Atlan officially launched on PC, PS5, and mobile after a whirlwind reveal in March. As we noted at the time, it’s an anime action MMO whose devs insist it is not a gacha MMO, but in fact the gacha components have just been moved away from […]

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Subnautica 2 fans use the game’s latest video preview...

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2025/09/17

If there remained any belief that a video preview provided by the in-development multiplayer survivalbox Subnautica 2 would distract fans from the ongoing legal fracas between publisher Krafton and developer Unknown Worlds, it’s been shattered now, as the YouTube video’s comment box is loaded with lancing snark about Krafton’s alleged behavior. The video itself was […]

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MMO Week in Review: Camelot, Nintendo, and moral...

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2025/09/15

If you’re one of those “keep politics out of gaming” people, you’re having a bad week because politics, economics, and law just keep on mattering in games because that is how the world works. EVE Online players raised an understandable ruckus over CCP Games’ apparent collaboration with an unsavory oligarch, the US government is playing […]

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Lynked Banner of the Sparked releases for Nintendo...

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2025/09/14

If your gaming diet on Nintendo’s Switch and Switch 2 consoles is lacking in “rogue-life” RPG gaming, then you’re in luck because Dreamhaven and FuzzyBot’s Lynked: Banner of the Sparked has officially released for both systems. As in it’s available right the heck now. Both versions of the game will obviously be no different from […]

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The MOP Up: Dungeons and Dragons Online does...

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2025/09/14

Dungeons and Dragons Online’s war against server lag is waging on the actual landscape itself, as this past week’s Update 75.3 made changes to the scenery in the name of performance improvements. (Thanks Mick!) “Extensive work has been done to clean up incorrectly flagged decorative objects which were being tracked by the server and causing […]

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The Stream Team: More modded R.E.P.O. but now with a...

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2025/09/14

Last week, MOP’s Chris had a great time discovering the collection of mods that were gathered up by his friend for R.E.P.O. So naturally, he had to bring MJ along for another run of the game! Join them both as the crew expands and the creepy and wacky exploration continues today at 2:00 p.m. EDT! […]

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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Astrobotanica, Swapmeat,...

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2025/09/14

Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you’ve never heard of! Technically speaking, anyway; we’ve reported on a couple of these titles before, but there have been some developments on those fronts. So maybe call this MMOs and multiplayer games you’ve probably heard of once before but kind of forgot they’re […]

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BitCraft outlines plans to make goods transport more...

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2025/09/14

Whether it’s space truckin’ or caravan runs, MMORPG players of a certain stripe do enjoy the act of moving materials and items from one place to another (aka logistics), but that task should also come with a sense of worth and reward. By BitCraft’s own admission, that doesn’t seem to be the case right now, […]

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One Shots: Giggling gaggle of Gibberlings

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2025/09/14

When the trumpet sounds over the hills and the messenger comes running into town breathlessly clanging a bell, you know the time has come once more… to roll an alt. It must be done! For the prophecy hath foretold the day of destiny! “I couldn’t help myself and rolled a new alt on Allods Online,” […]

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The Daily Grind: Do you follow world first races in...

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2025/09/14

For the life of me, I have never personally understood caring about progression groups racing to see who gets the first clear on difficult content. It has never been interesting to me. I do not care which group of people I wouldn’t really like in person manages to hit a milestone that I do not […]

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Stars Reach previews in-development turrets, updates...

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2025/09/14

The latest weekly newsletter from Stars Reach is another grab bag of different updates, but the headline feature is once again primarily in video form, which manages the feat of spending eight minutes talking about the upcoming arrival of deployable turrets. These ambulatory little shooty bois are primarily defense focused, with the intention of being […]

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EVE Online announces tweaks to its economic report,...

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2025/09/13

It’s not a surprise that most fans of EVE Online and our readers were less interested in the major Legion update released this week and more focused on the possibility of a partnership between CCP Games and Elon Musk. So it’s perhaps also not too big of a surprise to learn that the development studio […]

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