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The First Descendant unveils Ultimate Luna, a...

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2025/08/29

This upcoming month will offer up lots more for players of The First Descendant, as the September updates lined up for Season 3 of the shooty with the booty were laid out by Nexon in a developer livestream to help fans get prepared. At the top of the list is Ultimate Luna, who will bring […]

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Blade and Soul opens the Extreme Dreamsong Theater...

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2025/08/29

You would be forgiven for thinking that Extreme Dreamsong Theater is some prog metal band (you’re probably thinking Dream Theater), but it’s not; it’s the newest dungeon available this week in the latest patch for Original Flavor Blade & Soul. This new cross-server dungeon is a demonsbane encounter, which means that there will be weekly […]

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Paragon spin-off Predecessor launches in Japan with a...

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2025/08/29

The future of Epic’s long-closed MOBA Paragon marches on in its spinoffs, including Omeda Studios’ Predecessor, which today has announced that its 1.8 update arrives next week. “Omeda Studios has officially announced the highly anticipated 1.8 update for its flagship free-to-play, third-person MOBA, Predecessor,” the studio says today. “The update will be available to players […]

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The Stream Team: The search for more money and...

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2025/08/29

MOP’s Chris and his friend have a long way to go before they can afford the squadron carrier they want in Elite: Dangerous, but every journey begins with a first step, and they’ll be taking some of those steps today. Whether it’s getting some fat piles of credits or bunches of materials for other progress, […]

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Pax Dei’s post-launch PvP overhaul plans kinda sound...

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2025/08/29

Pax Dei is still preparing for an undated fall launch out of early access, but as we march toward that day, Mainframe Industries is continuing to lay out what players of the MMORPG sandbox can expect. Today, the team is talking all things PvP and what specifically is changing in Verse 4 and beyond. “We […]

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Witchspire is an upcoming co-op survival game in...

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2025/08/29

Want to play a co-op survival game in which the focus is less upon blowing up monsters and more upon discovering magical creatures? Want to play a co-op survival game in which you can blow up monsters with magical powers as well as conjure yourself a new home? Want to play a co-op survival game in […]

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Once Human adds a scenario honor system, launches...

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2025/08/29

The latest update for Once Human has got it all: new events, an all-new system, and chairs that are able to hold character butts in new ways. That’s right, Version 2.1.2 has got plenty going on for those who are deep into the multiplayer survival shooter. The tentpole feature for this update is a new […]

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Design Mockument: How could we make a World of...

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2025/08/29

So Vampire: the Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 appears to be actually a real game? Like, it is going to be released? That strikes me as a bit insane and definitely not a thing I had ever expected to happen, and yet it is going to happen. And of course, it makes me think of the time when […]

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NetEase has apparently dropped Rich Vogel’s T-Minus...

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2025/08/29

Two years ago, we were getting another article every week about how Chinese and Korean game companies were pouring money into the west and setting up shop for expansion. But over the last year, it’s been the opposite, as companies like NetEase and Tencent contract that expansion instead. NetEase alone has killed off several multiplayer […]

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The Soapbox: What Mists of Pandaria Classic’s Warlock...

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2025/08/29

I’ve been doing a lot of harping on the current state of World of Warcraft‘s class design these days. I find most specs feel bloated, with too many filler abilities that don’t really offer interesting decisions or fun gameplay. More recently I’ve had the opportunity to compare and contrast to an earlier version of the […]

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EVE Vanguard devs talk about lessons learned from the...

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2025/08/29

Veteran EVE Online players certainly have not forgotten DUST 514, the first time that CCP attempted to create an integrated first-person shooter into the EVE universe. And while this 2013 title only lasted a few short years until 2016, the lessons that this PlayStation 3 title taught the studio are helping the devs of the […]

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World of Warcraft remixes Legion Remix after...

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2025/08/29

While there are plenty of World of Warcraft fans looking forward to the upcoming Legion Remix in Patch 11.2.5, the actual public test proved rather contentious with time gating and slower pacing cited as issues compared to last year’s Pandaria Remix. In response, Blizzard announced that it will be extending the test and performing changes […]

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Hello Games’ Sean Murray promises ships with...

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2025/08/29

The latest big update to No Man’s Sky has a secret tease for the next big Hello Games project, as it turns out. Sean Murray has mentioned that some of the technology that has been used for this particular update will also go into Light No Fire, giving players the opportunity to work together to build multi-player […]

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The Diablo team becomes the latest part of Blizzard...

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2025/08/29

With Microsoft’s penchant for layoffs this year, it shouldn’t be surprising that another team working under the corporate behemoth has opted for unionization. The team behind the Diablo franchise is the latest branch of Blizzard to unionize, following the World of Warcraft team, the Overwatch team, and other branches of Blizzard. All of these unions are working with […]

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The Daily Grind: Are you looking to play hotties in...

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2025/08/29

A while back, MOP’s Carlo clipped an MMO conversation about the perceived problem with New World: “I think the problem with New World is the characters aren’t hot,” this player opined. I have so many thoughts, starting with agreement that New World’s characters aren’t hot – he’s right about that. I just hated how my […]

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Massively Overthinking: What’s the ideal way to...

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2025/08/29

Earlier this month, I stumbled into a dev blog from the World War 2 Online devs – yes, WW2O is still alive and cooking. What caught my attention is the detail with which the devs at Cornered Rat are addressing the faction imbalance in the PvP MMORPG. “For way too long, one side was rolling […]

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Elite Dangerous shifts its monthly update reveals...

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2025/08/28

Over the past few months, some of the bigger news drops from Elite: Dangerous have been folded into a wider livestream from Frontier Developments that covers all of its different games – and often those details would be the last segment of the show. That changes next month, however, as the studio has announced that […]

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EverQuest chills out with its Stone Cold Summer event

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2025/08/28

You might want to put away your swimmies and break out your snowpants, because EverQuest is being all contrarian with the return of its Stone Cold Summer. This event, which started back in 2011, should keep players busy through September 23rd. “Stone Cold Summer is back with vengeance,” Daybreak intoned. “Arima and Helagan are waiting […]

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Starlight Re:Volver has officially launched into...

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2025/08/28

It’s shiny, it’s starlit, it’s active, it’s Starlight Re:Volver, and it’s now out in early access. Yes, after an early demo during Steam Next Fest, the game is both out on Steam and available for just $20 through September 10th (at which point the price bumps back up to $25). If you’ve got a hankering for […]

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Helldivers 2’s Xbox launch sees player pop spike and...

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2025/08/28

This is arguably a bit of “water is wet” news, but it’s still noteworthy considering the vaunted heights that Helldivers 2 has hit in terms of player concurrency previously: The release of the co-op shooter to the Xbox X|S consoles earlier this week has once again seen the number of players shoot upward, along with […]

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