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Roblox unveils upcoming AI tools for players, a...

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2025/09/13

What does the future hold for Roblox? More AI-powered force feeding, a copycat of a much larger video platform, and a world where game makers will further chase the dragon of wringing money out of a hobby at all costs. That’s the general summary of what the UGC platform unveiled at its bespoke Roblox Developers […]

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The Stream Team: Felling the bosses of V Rising’s Act IV

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2025/09/13

With both Acts II and III now out of the way (again), Massively OP’s MJ just needs to finish felling some bosses of V Rising’s Act IV to catch back up to where she was before the restart. Then she can finally explore Oakveil Forest and face those new foes as well. Join us live […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: Six wardrobe tips for the...

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2025/09/13

The joke goes that there is no threat to Middle-earth that’s so pressing and dire that a player can’t call a time-out to put together a new outfit. Fashion wars are as strong in Lord of the Rings Online as they are in most other MMOs, and any opportunity to pause and whip together a […]

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Ship of Heroes clears Steam’s sniff test and confirms...

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2025/09/13

If Steam approval was a fighting game match, then Ship of Heroes was basically that player who keeps getting knocked out but requesting a rematch over and over until he secures a win. As we’ve been covering, Heroic Games has had to delay the launch of its superheroic MMORPG multiple times as a result of […]

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WRUP: Oh now you want to talk about Screamin’ Joe...

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2025/09/13

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about museums we love.

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The Daily Grind: Which annoying MMO NPC needs to be...

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2025/09/13

I’m of a divided mind when it comes to truly annoying computer characters in video games. On one hand, they can serve a storytelling purpose as a semi-antagonist and give the community a shared experience as we band together to hate them. On the other hand, they need to die in a fire. Or, y’know, […]

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The Stream Team: First day on the Totally Reliable...

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2025/09/12

Massively OP’s MJ has been excitedly collecting a plethora of cute, silly, and funky games for Friday nights. Unfortunately, she has discovered that most of them are all singleplayer! *sobs* But one has delivered on the multiplayer promise; today, MJ starts her first day on the job of Totally Reliable Delivery Service. With a name […]

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Betawatch: Camelot Unchained looks to early access by...

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2025/09/12

We will forgive anyone who reads this week’s headline and feels a twitch of doubt about Camelot Unchained, but the fact remains that its studio says it’s hoping to get to early access by the end of this year. That is really the plan in the wake of having shut down its spinoff game, and you […]

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Juvty Worlds’ co-op roguelike shooter Ammo and Oxygen...

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2025/09/12

Last year (we know, it felt like ten) was when we reported on Ammo and Oxygen, a co-op roguelike shooter from developer Juvty Worlds, which is known ’round these parts for the MMO Wild Terra 2. The game was anticipating an early access release for November 7th of that year, as well as its gameplay […]

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Salt 2 Shores of Gold is an open-world pirate...

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2025/09/12

If you’re looking for some 3-D multiplayer sandbox piracy adventure, your choices have mostly been Sea of Thieves and Skull and Bones, but we’re here to report on a new option for those seeking that kind of vibe in the form of Salt 2: Shores of Gold, a PvE RPG set in a piratical open world […]

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Sea of Thieves details its September 18 heist event,...

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2025/09/12

Piracy in Sea of Thieves is about the more romantic side of stealing booty, as in haunted relics or chests of gold coins or high-value trinkets. Come Thursday, September 18th, that fantastical side of stealing will be a bit more mundane, as players will be tasked with stealing a painting. Except its from a long-dead […]

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Kickstarted cozy MMORPG Loftia talks UI design,...

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2025/09/12

Kickstarted MMORPG Loftia is having a great summer: First it announced full alignment with the game preservation movement, then it snagged another $5M in outside investment, paving the way from alpha to launch. Now it’s just released its latest dev blog, which recaps all of that plus a collaboration before moving on to newer content. […]

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The Elder Scrolls Online invites players to take on...

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2025/09/12

Some days you just feel relatively daunted. You wake up, you brush your teeth, and you can tell you’re downright daunted. But The Elder Scrolls Online is encouraging you to celebrate the days when you look at daunting and think “nah, none of that for me” with the Undaunted Celebration. And how do you show […]

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The Stream Team: Crunching more Terminid bug hives in...

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2025/09/12

MOP’s Chris isn’t done with poking giant alien bug hives! And while that sounds like a dangerous idea, it’s also a fun one when it comes to Helldivers 2. Also, he’s bringing Britarnya along, who is almost always the ace in the hole. Join them for more bug crunching today at 2:00 p.m. EDT! What: […]

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The Division 2 brings a new endgame activity and...

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2025/09/12

This story is going to be filled to the rafters with the definite article “the.” That’s because The Division 2 has released the new season The Pact this week, which has some new activities for the looter shooter. The things are happening. And now that word just sounds weird in your head, doesn’t it? The […]

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EVE Vanguard consolidates features and talks early...

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2025/09/12

Over the past couple of weeks, CCP Games has been talking up the next open test for its MMOFPS mode EVE Vanguard, from general gameplay updates to lessons from its shuttered FPS title to activities that go beyond shooting other players in-game. Obviously, there’s a lot to follow, so to tie it all together (and […]

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RuneScape Dragonwilds patch 0.9 is live now with...

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2025/09/12

Maybe the real Ranged Skill in RuneScape Dragonwilds was the friends we shouted at along the way? No, wait, that makes no sense and it’s also wrong. The real Ranged Skill is what just got added with patch 0.9, which was slightly delayed, but it’s now available for players. It features a full 50 levels of […]

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Design Mockument: How can MMO relaunches actually work?

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2025/09/12

Nobody needs to be told at this point that Secret World Legends was not a successful relaunch. It also was not a very good game. In terms of absolute number of changes from the original The Secret World, it had several; in terms of actual improvements to the original game’s problems, it fixed almost none of them […]

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The Quinfall resurfaces after a patch delay with an...

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2025/09/12

It’s been a while since we heard much out of early access MMORPG The Quinfall, but that’s largely owing to the fact that its latest patch was heavily delayed. The last big news we got from studio Vawraek Technology was back in July, when the team laid out its roadmap through November. Last week, however, […]

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Casually Classic: The quest design that World of...

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2025/09/12

Out of all of the factors that made World of Warcraft an instant juggernaut in 2004, the quest system was — by far — the most significant. It honed and refined the questing experience in RPGs and MMOs to the point that it was intuitive, addicting, and an industry trendsetter. Even Blizzard was taken aback […]

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