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PvP MMO Warborne Above Ashes posts gameplay trailer...

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2025/09/12

We’re just a week away from the launch of a new MMO that’s aiming to draw in PVP-minded players. Warborne Above Ashes has its sights set on September 19th with pre-loading available two days earlier on September 17th. To drum up excitement for this MOBA-styled “24/7 real-time PvP MMO,” Pumpkin Studio posted a short “Welcome […]

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Squadron 42 won’t be at this year’s CitizenCon...

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2025/09/12

Ostensibly, this week’s livestream from Star Citizen was primarily focused on another round of tech talk about the game’s backend tech, server meshing, and so forth. Instead what most are focusing on is a statement made by content director Jared Huckaby about Squadron 42, which has thrown some portions of the playerbase into a fury. […]

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Aion 2 is launching this very November… for MMO fans...

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2025/09/12

Aion 2 may not be an MMO that’s on your radar, but that doesn’t mean it’s not on its way even still. In fact, NCsoft just announced that it’s going to be launching the title in South Korea and Taiwan in a little over two months on November 19th. The title, which is destined for […]

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Throwback MMORPG Monsters & Memories saw over 7700...

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2025/09/12

Throwback-styled MMO Monsters & Memories posted its late-summer development report on Friday, and settle in because this one’s a doozy. Niche Worlds Cult recently wrapped up a week-long playtest for Monsters & Memories, reporting that 7,713 players tried it out, spending an average of 16.6 hours per account during the run. “The playtest went very […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s the ideal rotation length in...

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2025/09/12

Back in July, in the comments of the argument over World of Warcraft’s rotation assist button, MOP reader Greaterdivinity linked the classic Cat Raid DPS Flowchart meme, and I was so grateful because it was the perfect way to illustrate the extremes that have everyone so upset. Even if it works well, the idea of […]

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The Stream Team: In Dungeons & Dragons Online, love...

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2025/09/11

Remember back in Dungeons & Dragons Online when the drunken apprentice mage Rorry Malcanus opened a portal to Xoriat while trying to impress barmaid Verona Jethro in the Sleeping Spell Inn? Then the guy lost the Scepter of Belashyrra in the inn, thereby opening even more portals and letting the Lord of Eyes escape his […]

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Massively Overthinking: Is the era of the survivalbox...

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2025/09/11

Last week, I was doing some digging into a couple of the newer survivalboxes we’ve been covering this year, and I was kind of surprised to see how much they’ve shrunk. Lynked and Towers of Aghasba average under 100 players; Aloft is under 200. Lost Skies, also under 100, is struggling so much its devs […]

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Neverwinter patches its Slaughterhouse Arena event to...

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2025/09/11

It is very funny to walk past a sealed arena and see the boss sticking halfway out of the arena due to a clipping issue. Neverwinter acknowledges that this is, in fact, deeply funny. However, the game’s new arena fighting event is not supposed to include that, and the patch that just released is meant to fix […]

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Villagers and Heroes opens up its newest Halloweenish...

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2025/09/11

Fans of Villagers and Heroes who are of the mind that the first of September is a perfect time to start celebrating Halloween will be happy to know that the game’s newest update agrees with you. The game’s latest update has its patch notes, and one of the central features is the addition of the Haunted […]

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Solo MMO (yes) Erenshor is due for a major overhaul...

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2025/09/11

If you ever wanted to play EverQuest without all those pesky humans, then… well, you probably wouldn’t be reading an MMORPG site. However, that world exists in the form of Erenshor, a single-player MMO that faithfully recreates the vibe of playing EverQuest and other old-school MMOs, down to fake AI players who sound creepily real. […]

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Camelot Unchained is hoping for an early access...

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2025/09/11

(The stream is now over and we’ve updated with the big news at the end and in the title.) Yesterday, we learned the unfortunate news that Unchained Games is officially shuttering Final Stand Ragnarok, the multiplayer tower defense-esque game it was controversially building alongside Kickstarted MMORPG Camelot Unchained. Today, we’re getting another look at where […]

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Gamigo addresses Trove’s development priorities as...

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2025/09/11

As Gamigo fiddles around with whatever it’s cooking in former Trion MMORPG RIFT, it’s also still maintaining former Trion MMORPG Trove, and this week we’ve had several bits to nibble on. For starters, Gamigo released its September community letter, complete with an anniversary infographic that gives a few clues about the state of the game: […]

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Necesse becomes the latest game to cede space to...

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2025/09/11

We’ve been covering upcoming survival sandbox Necesse pretty steadily here in recent months, but it’s worth noting that the game’s 1.0 launch has been officially delayed… very slightly. Originally the game was going to hit its 1.0 launch on October 9th, but now it’s slated for October 16th. Literally one week later, yes. And the […]

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The US government once again resolves to investigate...

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2025/09/11

For gamers of a certain vintage, the idea that video games lead to violent crimes and mass shootings is a tale as old as the founding of the ESRB. Yet despite plenty of scientific studies finding otherwise, it’s not stopping the current administration’s leadership of the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) and members of […]

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RIFT continues its 2025 small patch parade with...

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2025/09/11

The curious status of RIFT continues to fluctuate in and out of limbo, with Gamigo seemingly taking enough of an interest in this fantasy MMO to trot out several small patches this year to date and even showing up at Gamescom to represent the title. Now it looks as though there’s another update on the […]

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World of Warcraft makes even more power improvements...

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2025/09/11

The extended testing for World of Warcraft’s upcoming Legion Remix continues apace as Blizzard made even more changes this week to improve the power and pacing of this special game mode. Yesterday, the studio posted notes for the latest build of Update 11.2.5. Most notably, this build increases the maximum ilevel cap to 740 in […]

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Perfect Ten: 10 reasons to still love Star Trek Online

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2025/09/11

Let me be clear about something: Star Trek Online is not, to the best of our knowledge, about to sunset. But it’s clearly not in a great place. Some of that is because DECA clearly does not know how to handle the game after Cryptic was shot out of a cannon, even if we don’t know […]

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2025/09/11

If you were among those who were astonished and confounded by the fact that Nintendo locked down a patent in the U.S. for the ability to summon things to fight enemies in a video game, it’s probably comforting that a lawyer whose entire practice is focused on IP and patent protection is just as confused […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The Kickstarter MMO boom went...

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2025/09/11

This week, we got news of the final, formal shutdown of Final Stand: Ragnarok, which is a game that you were probably surprised to learn hadn’t already shut down, if you even remembered it existed in the first place. It wasn’t surprising. The game was a spinoff of Camelot Unchained, an MMORPG that has been […]

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Pantheon’s newly released Black Rose Keep dungeon...

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2025/09/11

Yesterday saw the new Black Rose Keep dungeon arrive to Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, and while the new POI didn’t appear to draw in too many new or returning faces, it does appear to have gone over pretty well with the playerbase that has stuck around. Much of the happy sounds are found within […]

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