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The latest Embers Adrift update will help your...

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2025/08/28

Let’s learn about GEL! No, not the goopy substance you spread on things, but Embers Adrift’s system of Group Elevated Level adjustments. The idea of the system was that your character’s level is adjusted to that of the the highest level companion up to +5. Previously, the system would award experience based on your normal […]

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RuneScape explains Leagues and offers chunky bees,...

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2025/08/28

If you’re a regular player of Old School RuneScape, you might already be familiar with what Leagues are in the MMORPG, but since these new server types will be making their way to RuneScape for the first time in September, Jagex feels the need to explain itself in a video digest. Just in case. As […]

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The Stream Team: Taking a final look into Skyforge...

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2025/08/28

Nobody likes to see an MMORPG shut down, generally speaking, even if it’s not one that features frequently on OPTV. But that’s just what’s happening to Skyforge as it moves to its closure soon, so MOP’s Chris will take a moment to peek in and mark what’s certainly an unfortunate milestone. Join him today at […]

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Lord of the Rings Online is giving away more content,...

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2025/08/28

Since the start of the pandemic all the way back in 2020, Standing Stone Games has addressed criticism over Lord of the Rings Online’s antiquated business model in at least the second-best possible way: showering us with freebies. So it goes again this week as the studio has released a new code that unlocks a […]

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Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Max Finale...

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2025/08/28

Pokemon Go’s Darkest Day Go Fest Finale showed not just the potential future of the game but where gaming may end. The official infograph lacked any hard information, and the announcement of 100 player lobbies scattered smaller communities to the winds as the fear of missing out continued to be a deathblow for casual, small-scale drop-in […]

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NetEase has officially launched the Destiny Rising...

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2025/08/28

Destiny fans who wouldn’t mind a fresh take on the franchise that just so happens to fit in the palm of their hands can celebrate today as NetEase has officially launched Destiny Rising globally on Android and iOS devices with full crossplay on four regional servers around the world. “Developed and published by NetEase Games, […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The struggle to recapture a moment...

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2025/08/28

Do you think about Mad World? I really don’t. It didn’t look particularly interesting to me before it came out, but let’s be real here, that was not helped substantially by the fact that it spent something like five years in development and re-development before it finally launched. And then it made it 15 months being […]

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LOTRO prepares players for the end of the (32-bit)...

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2025/08/28

It’s about the end of the line for Lord of the Rings Online’s long-running and -suffering 32-bit game worlds, and SSG posted additional information about the timing of this shutdown. “Free transfers from our 32-bit to our 64-bit game worlds will be temporarily disabled at 11:59:59 PM Eastern (-4 GMT) on Tuesday, September 2nd,” the […]

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Following Final Fantasy XIV’s mod dust-up, Naoki...

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2025/08/28

With the recent kerfuffle among the Final Fantasy XIV playerbase surrounding the shutdown of the Mare Synchronos mod that let players share their modified appearances among each other, the time has come for producer and director Naoki Yoshida to step forward with a lengthy explainer post about his stance on mods, where the lines are […]

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Dune Awakening pauses new salvage event over...

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2025/08/28

The Choam salvage rights event is live! Well, it was live for a bit this week in Dune Awakening before Funcom had to pull it down temporarily yesterday. As originally planned, the event sends players into the desert to salvage CHOAM freighters being shot down over Hagga Basin. “Pick up new contracts from the CHOAM […]

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MMO Week in Review: Gamescom, Midnight, and Visions...

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2025/08/25

Gamescom came crashing down on the games industry, and therefore the MMO genre, this week, with more multiplayer games than we could reasonably cover – and some specific MMORPG announcements too. Chief among them, World of Warcraft Midnight announced a first-half-of-2026 launch window and preorders, NCsoft revealed Cinder City, and Where Winds Meet got a […]

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Adorable desktop widget Bongo Cat introduces ‘co-op...

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2025/08/24

File this one under “things we didn’t expect to get large-scale multiplayer functionality”: Last March saw Steam get taken by storm with the release of Bongo Cat, a cute little free desktop widget that lets users have a silly little guy bap away as they type on their keyboard. The app has gotten itself an […]

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The MOP Up: Ragnarok M pumps out its global version...

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2025/08/24

Ragnarok M: Classic Global announced this week that it’s launching worldwide on September 3rd: “The beloved MMORPG that reignites the magic of the original Ragnarok Online has already captivated millions of players across Asia, and the global version will soon be ready to welcome adventurers everywhere for a true return-to-roots experience.” And this is just […]

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The Stream Team: Sowing some chaos among family and...

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2025/08/24

MOP’s Chris and his Sunday crew are feeling the need for a little chaos among themselves, and few games bring it quite like R.E.P.O.! Join them for the spooky madness and fun as they head back into the haunts today at 2:00 p.m. EDT! What: R.E.P.O. Who: Chris Neal When: 2:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday, […]

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Gamescom 2025: Jump Ship, 33 Immortals, and King of Meat

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2025/08/24

We’re back for yet another collection of headlines and announcements from the floor of Gamescom 2025 – specifically, reveals that have been made from some of the littler guys attending the event. That’s not suggest that they’re less important, of course. We stan short kings here at MOP. Jump Space Heading off the pack is […]

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EVE Online talks about recent VFX updates as CCP’s...

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2025/08/24

The madness of this past week almost smokescreened some headlines out of the EVE Online titles, but we’re too clever for that. Too keen. Too well-trained in the art of gamesjutsu. Even so, these are some comparatively smaller things of note, but we shall note them. Again, we practice the art of gamesjutsu. Leading things […]

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One Shots: Feel the power of the foot

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2025/08/24

If you didn’t have a foot fetish before the current World of Warcraft expansion, there’s a good chance that you might by now thanks to certain floating tootsies in many cutscenes. And of course our army of One Shotters are on the scene to make sure that every last digit is accounted for and catalogued. […]

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The Daily Grind: What MMO is made better through jank?

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2025/08/24

City of Heroes looks so darn janky, folks. You’ve got mitten hands on every other character. It has a dozen or so power animations for models that get recycled endlessly. The faces are a tiny bit of polygon sculpting and sliding plus a JPG layered on top. There are so many pieces of jank there… […]

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‘We want to protect what we have’: Blizzard...

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2025/08/24

The growing formation of unions across Microsoft’s game studios, particularly at Blizzard, has been something we’ve been keeping a track of for some time, and that of course includes the one just recently created among employees at the developer’s story and franchise (SFD) team. The reasons for this widespread effort shouldn’t be too surprising to […]

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Peaceful MMO Spirit Crossing shares lessons from its...

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2025/08/23

Anyone looking for a break from the combat-centric MMO design should have at least one eye on the upcoming Spirit Crossing, a violence-free RPG in development by Spry Fox. Recently, the studio posted a dev blog that talked about some of the lessons that the team pulled from its ongoing playtesting. The devs said that […]

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