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Gamescom 2025: Hyper Light Breaker, Active Matter,...

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2025/08/23

We’re in the final legs of E3 with a German Accent, aka Gamescom 2025, and that means we’re at the point when we’re collectively extremely exhausted but also at a point when it’s time to rake in some of the comparatively smaller headlines from the games within our sphere of interest. In other words, it’s […]

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The Stream Team: Taking a quick return trip through...

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2025/08/23

MOP’s Chris has been out of the gaslamp survivalbox Nightingale for a bit, but since today is his turn with Sandbox Saturday, it’s the perfect chance to take a peek back in! Will he remember where he left off? Or remember any of his buttons? Probably not, but there will be some adventuring to do […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: Which LOTRO zones are in most need...

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2025/08/23

Listen, I have no doubt that the Lord of the Rings Online devs have their project lists stacked to the ceiling, especially considering that they like to tell us this, repeatedly, on the forums. There’s so much they’d like to do and only so many developer hours and resources to make it happen. So while […]

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New reporting suggests trouble for Dreamhaven’s games...

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2025/08/23

There are a couple of worrying developments surfacing this week thanks to a Bloomberg report about both Mike Morhaime’s Dreamhaven and Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street’s Fantastic Pixel Castle, as both studios are apparently under some financial thumbscrews. The report first highlights an internal memo from Dreamhaven, which points out that the publisher’s sci-fi spaceship extraction title […]

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WRUP: Ra has cursed me to write this entry with...

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2025/08/23

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about books we were forced to read but then they turned out to be good.

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO theme song is still stuck...

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2025/08/23

An effective earworm is an insidious critter. It hooks you with delightful melodies and tribal beats upon first listen, encourages you to hear it a hundred times more, and then sets up shop in the part of your brain that used to remember important things but now only encourages you to hum this tune over […]

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Betawatch: Blue Protocol Star Resonance plans launch,...

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2025/08/23

As happens every year, Gamescom brought with it a slew of announcements including the announcement that Blue Protocol: Star Resonance will launch for both desktop and mobile in October. Closed beta has already begun, in fact. It’s finally happening, albeit one full reboot later than the original game’s launch. Meanwhile, Interstellar Utopia got announced as a new […]

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Valheim issues a Call to Arms with its combat-centric...

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2025/08/22

Of course you’d expect that Vikings, even virtual ones, would be all about the combat, and so it is with Valheim’s latest update, Call to Arms. The patch, which is currently in public testing, offers new tools and tricks to win your many clashes. “In our Call to Arms, you can also find a brand […]

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Ethyrial Echoes of Yore plots endgame activities,...

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2025/08/22

We’ve been periodically peeking in on the development of Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore ever since its development was taken over by Oath Games, especially since most of its updates appear to have done quite a bit to right the ship. We’re once again getting a look into the game, but this time around it’s not […]

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Last Epoch opens a dinosaur-filled landscape full of...

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2025/08/22

Nearly everything is better with dinosaurs added, whether it’s movies, oatmeal, chicken nuggets, or the Transformers (though MOP’s Eliot might have some opinions on that one). With that in mind, we’re expecting a lot of good things out of Last Epoch now that the multiplayer ARPG has dinosaurs in it with the release of Season […]

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Final Fantasy XI brings back the Shadowlord cosmetic...

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2025/08/22

It’s a bit ironic that Final Fantasy XI is celebrating the Final Fantasy XIV alliance raid with a re-run of the Shadow Lord’s Dominion event. That’s the (newly renamed) event that allows players a chance to pick up the cosmetic replicas of the Shadow Lord’s swords, and it’s ironic because the newest alliance raid in question is […]

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Gamescom 2025: Smed’s MMOFPS Reaper Actual talks up...

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2025/08/22

It’s been the better part of a month since we heard any major peeps out of Reaper Actual, the in-development extraction MMOFPS being developed by John Smedley’s new studio Distinct Possibility; readers will recall that most recently, the studio shared a deep-dive of the game in a Discord livestream. That silence is once again being […]

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Overwatch 2 Season 18 adds more features to Stadium,...

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2025/08/22

Next week sees the arrival of a pretty big update to players of Overwatch 2, as the PvP hero shooter’s Season 18 will land on Tuesday, August 26th, with multiple additions, system changes, and the return of summertime events. Leading things off are several more updates to the popular Stadium mode, including the proliferation of […]

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The Stream Team: Diving back into the co-op shooting...

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2025/08/22

MOP’s Chris and his friend Britarnya took Terminull Brigade for a spin on OPTV once before, and they had fun enough that they’re looking to dive in again! It’s another afternoon dive into the digital battlefield for shooting and rougelike looting today at 2:00 p.m. EDT! What: Terminull Brigade Who: Chris Neal When: 2:00 p.m. […]

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Gamescom 2025: Once Human unveils new wave survival...

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2025/08/22

Games large, small, and intermediate (medium?) have coated the floor of Gamescom this year, and NetEase’s survival shooter Once Human is among the lot. That means, of course, that the studio has decided to use the event to highlight a new gameplay mode on the way to the Visional Wheel – Starfall Inversion servers known […]

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Ultima Online’s New Legacy server approaches its...

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2025/08/22

Ultima Online New Legacy is about to shatter! Broadsword announced this week that the seminal MMORPG’s classic-esque seasonal server is approaching its planned end and reboot. Readers will know that Broadsword revealed New Legacy back in 2020 and finally got the first iteration full live last October; the server is a unique ruleset that turns […]

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Fallout 76 previews its upcoming player housing CAMP...

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2025/08/22

Just because a game system is popular and heavily used doesn’t mean that it can’t use a refresh to make it even better. That’s the thought behind Bethesda’s push for a CAMP revamp update in Fallout 76 on September 2nd. As Creative Director Jon Rush explained in a new video, “We wanted to create an […]

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Warframe of Mind: Why are Warframe’s bosses so bad?

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2025/08/22

I am something of a Johnny-come-lately to our Warframe coverage here on this site; while MOP’s MJ has been playing the game for ages now with her usual zeal, I started getting into the game in a big way back in December. That doesn’t mean I don’t love the game, and the fact that I have […]

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‘Today marks the right time for a new beginning’:...

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2025/08/22

It’s the end of an era over at Destiny 2 studio Bungie as CEO Pete Parsons has announced his departure. “After more than two decades of helping build this incredible studio, establishing the Bungie Foundation, and growing inspiring communities around our work, I have decided to pass the torch,” he writes. And to whom he […]

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MMO Hype Train: When hype for MMOs bit me in the butt

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2025/08/22

Allowing yourself to get excited about an upcoming event, release, or acquisition comes with a risk. Hype is fun, in other words, but it isn’t always safe. You open yourself to disappointment, to mismanaged expectations, and to a letdown that could be crushing. Still, I maintain that getting hyped up for game releases is worth […]

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