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RuneScape’s dungeoneering remaster promises ‘less...

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2026/05/09

Suit up for some deep delving because RuneScape’s Dungeoneering Remastered hits the servers next week on May 11th. The studio said that it wasn’t trying to reinvent the system but simply to improve it overall. “This update focuses on bringing that experience up to where it should be today,” Jagex said in an in-depth look […]

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The Stream Team: Dinking around Dinkum

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2026/05/09

Although Massively OP’s MJ frequents a number of survival sandboxes, she can’t resist returning to Dinkum. Building up her outback paradise is relaxing and practically effortless; here, work is play and play is work. Seriously, whether she is actively pursuing goals or just dinking around, MJ can’t help but make progress. Catching butterflies? Fishing? Chatting […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: Touring LOTRO’s new Rivendell...

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2026/05/09

The year of our Hobbit 2016 was when premium housing first came to Lord of the Rings Online with the Cape of Belfalas homesteads. This Man-styled housing set in Gondor was then followed by Kingstead Meadows (Man/Rohan), Eastfold Hills (Man/Rohan), the Abodes of Erebor (Dwarf), and Lyndelby (Hobbit). An astute observer of this paragraph so […]

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Camelot Unchained establishes its Steam early access...

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2026/05/09

You would be forgiven for thinking that the opening of a Steam page for an upcoming MMORPG would be something to herald, but in the case of Camelot Unchained, the opening of its Steam early access page doesn’t appear to have been done with any amount of fanfare on Discord or social media, but it is indeed […]

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WRUP: The context of this entry is that something...

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2026/05/09

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about our favorite weird old internet videos.

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The Daily Grind: How has your MMO playstyle evolved...

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2026/05/09

The other day my son was asking me about how I used to game before I had kids, and I told him stories of how I’d stay up until 1:00 am every night indulging in MMOs. But when children arrived, that time frame got knocked back until about 9:30 pm every evening. I’ve noticed that […]

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The Stream Team: Spring cleaning the cultists in...

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2026/05/08

‘Tis the season for spring cleaning! Massively OP’s MJ is ready for some spring as well as cleaning in AQ3D. Last time, she began clearing out AQ3D’s Crypt of Mortis of all the undead and cultists that infest it. Now that the Wandering Light Saga has progressed even further, she’s ready to continue scrubbing and […]

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Betawatch: Farever glides into early access while...

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2026/05/08

Folks, I’m sorry, the most obvious song joke I could make about Farever ties into a Beach Boys song that Brian Wilson didn’t even write (he did do some arrangement for the backing, though), so it’s just not very funny. Frankly, the fact that the game has gone into early access isn’t very funny, either; it’s […]

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Odin: Valhalla Rising adds weapon particle effects...

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2026/05/08

So Odin: Valhalla Rising has been out for more than a year without having school uniforms that make no sense for you to slap on gender-locked character classes in a Norse mythology setting? Are you sure this is a Korean free-to-play mobile MMORPG? We are, but don’t worry; the game’s most recent patch does indeed address […]

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Outbound un-delays its launch by a few days to escape...

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2026/05/08

Fans of the cozy camper van sim Outbound were no doubt dejected when developer Square Glade announced that it would be delaying the launch from April 23rd to May 14th. However, the studio subsequently announced that it’s bumping up the launch date by a few days to avoid releasing against a more hardcore competitor. “The […]

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Scars of Honor reports on feedback from its ongoing...

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2026/05/08

Several fans of the upcoming MMORPG Scars of Honor got an earlier-than-expected look at the title thanks to a large-scale technical alpha playtest that started at the end of April and will be continuing through next week. The studio said that so far, over 210,000 people have requested access to the test, although not everyone […]

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Old School RuneScape is on the brink of running out...

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2026/05/08

The reality is that while people make jokes about Old School RuneScape being a mass of spaghetti code, that’s also just how any long-running programming project is going to look after several years of operation. You are always working under a time crunch and nothing is ever simple. That does not mean that the game doesn’t […]

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Lord of the Rings Online sells an Elf-themed pack and...

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2026/05/08

If selling new Rivendell housing in Lord of the Rings Online isn’t enough to fatten Standing Stone Games’ coffers, the studio announced that it’s rolling out new patron packs into the store. These are themed around fancy-schmancy Elves and include a variety of cosmetics, mounts, and pets. Depending on the pack purchased, players will get […]

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MMO Business Roundup: 2K’s layoffs, Indiana’s Roblox...

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2026/05/08

Welcome back to yet another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! It feels like we were just here yesterday, right? Well, that’s because we were, but also it’s because there ain’t no brakes on the games industry news silly train. Choo choo, y’all. 2K Games lays off staff from an in-development shooter: We’ll rip […]

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With a day remaining, Temtem Pioneers’ Kickstarter...

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2026/05/08

It appears that Crema Games’ Temtem Pioneers breaks through a new crowdfunding milestone on a daily basis, which also means we’re back for another check on the Kickstarter drive’s progress with just around 24 hours left to go before it all wraps up. As of this writing, the game has raised a total of $550,512, which […]

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Sony confirms $765M in ‘impairment losses’ against...

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2026/05/08

It’s probably a good thing for Sony that it has its thumbs in several different pies because the corporation’s financial results for the 2025 fiscal year are not exactly glowing in its gaming sector, and a fair bit of that rests in part at Bungie’s feet. The presentation slide that breaks down Sony’s game and network […]

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Surprise: Gamigo has begun public testing of Trove’s...

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2026/05/08

Over the last couple of months, the Trove community has been in a state of collective grumble over the fact that the entire auction hall system has been down since December with no ETA, an absolutely devastating situation for the game and its economy. A lot of people thought it might be the beginning of […]

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Warframe of Mind: The big guide to picking a frame –...

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2026/05/08

At this point, there’s a pretty solid cadence to when new frames come out in Warframe, but that was not true in the earliest days of the game’s history. While Rhino and Ash do wrap up the list of frames that were available in the base game, the next couple additions are paired up with multiple […]

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Daybreak and Cold Iron formally unveil Aliens...

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2026/05/08

In its quarterly financial report this week, EG7 finally admitted that “Project Avo,” a game Daybreak has been backing for years, is really just Aliens Fireteam Elite 2, the sequel to Aliens Fireteam Elite, led once again by Cold Irons Studios. In fact, we learned that the delay frenzy is over, meaning it’s officially coming […]

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WoW Factor: World of Warcraft needs to throttle back...

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2026/05/08

You don’t have to tell me that World of Warcraft’s Patch 12.0.5 was an unmitigated disaster. I was there. Things were breaking or broken all over the place, with some of it frustrating, and some of it amusing. Our whole guild was chuckling over the stupidity of not being able to strafe (!) in delves, […]

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