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The Finals brings a full-on fantasy league to the...

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2026/03/27

Usually, when someone talks about a “fantasy league,” he’s talking about picking various athletes to follow and pretending you have a baseball or football or whatever league going. Curling? Sure. But The Finals is bringing on its fantasy league in Season 10, and this is about swords and crossbows and all the lovely accoutrements of […]

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Sci-fi base builder StarRupture teases its first...

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2026/03/27

Now in early access for the next year or so, the sci-fi base builder StarRupture sounded the happy klaxon alarm — yes, there’s such a thing — to alert the community that Update 1 is on the way. While the patch has yet to be dated, it sounds as though it’s going to slather the […]

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Winds of Valen is an old school-styled F2P MMORPG...

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2026/03/27

It’s no secret that feeling like you earned something through hard work feels good, but how much should work affect your leisure time? If you’re of the mind that earning anything in an MMORPG should be through that ol’ “pull up the bootstraps” mindset, then perhaps Winds of Valen, a new free-to-play MMORPG from Fiery […]

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My Time at Evershine talks about development scope...

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2026/03/27

The latest development diary about Kickstarted multiplayer sandbox My Time At Evershine is about having some difficult discussions with fans. No, not the kind of difficult discussion wherein the game is being abandoned, nothing like that, but the kind where original concepts from the Kickstarter don’t work out. For example, the brick-by-brick style for building […]

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Etherwind is a side-scrolling 3-D MMORPG that’s...

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2026/03/27

Who’s ready for an indie side-scrolling MMO’s first public debut? Then mark your calendar for Friday, April 10th, which is when Etherwind will open its doors to Steam players for the first time in a weekend-long public playtest. Described by developer Accidental Cube as “a small-scale 2.5D MMORPG focused on social play, cooperative combat, and long-term progression,” Etherwind […]

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Multiplayer PvE survivalbox ICARUS makes its official...

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2026/03/27

We might have known that a console launch was coming for the multiplayer survival sandbox ICARUS, but all that was known at the time was that it would be sometime early this year. Well, that time is now, as ICARUS: Console Edition has indeed released this week to grant PlayStation 5 and Xbox gamers the opportunity to experience […]

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Old School RuneScape’s Easter Egg hunt is on — as are...

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2026/03/27

Hippity hoppity, the Easter bunny is back in the city… of Old School RuneScape, that is. The game’s Easter event arrived earlier this week on March 25th along with a bunch of quality-of-life improvements for the retro MMORPG. “Spring has once again arrived in Gielinor, and with it comes a familiar sense of mischief! The […]

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Eterspire’s impending update expands the Dwarven...

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2026/03/27

The children yearn for the mines! The Dwarven Mines of Eterspire, that is. Argentinian indie MMO studio Stonehollow Workshop actually introduced the mines earlier this month in patch v70, but it’s getting an expansion with the update due out Monday, March 30th. “The Dwarven Mines zone, introduced in the previous Eterspire update, has been expanded […]

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World of Warcraft introduces tougher raid tiers and...

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2026/03/27

Much tougher content revved up in World of Warcraft this week as Blizzard activated higher tiers of its raids and Mythic+ dungeons. The Voidspire raid got a mythic difficulty level, opened up the second wing of its raid finder, and added a story mode while the Dreamrift raid activated a mythic option as well. Meanwhile […]

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MMO Jukebox Song of the Week: ‘Nightclub District’...

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2026/03/27

Bree is neck-deep in Marvel Heroes’ Tahiti rogue server reboot these days, finding so many of the game’s elements a delight to rediscover. And that includes the music, such as this nightclub track! “It’s like one step from Hella Good, but it’s also got the way more retro claps, it’s just so fun,” she said. […]

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Marvel Heroes Tahiti adds a second server and load...

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2026/03/27

If you’ve been playing Marvel Heroes Tahiti this week, first of all, say hi if you see us because we are too. And that’s meant sitting through lengthy queues on the newly relaunched rogue server more often than not. Hopefully, that won’t be the case this weekend as the player devs have finally rolled out […]

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Warframe of Mind: The Shadowgrapher’s Follie flub

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2026/03/27

There are times when I have written about Warframe patches that I have not particularly liked, you all know that, but the Follie situation is… well, there’s no two ways to say it: This patch has been kind of a disaster. In fact, it was enough of a disaster that until we got an official comment […]

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Sand: Raiders of Sophie postpones March launch,...

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2026/03/27

For the last two years, we’ve been keeping an eye on an upcoming multiplayer PvPvE sandbox world called, well, Sand, which MOP’s Chris accurately dubbed “Last Oasis with a diesel engine.” Since then, the devs at tinyBuild and Hologryph wisely renamed the game to Sand: Raiders of Sophie, which while confusing is at least easier […]

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APB Reloaded delivers an expansion called Legends,...

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2026/03/27

APB: All Points Bulletin always sits in my brain as one of the very first MMORPGs that launched right after I started working at Massively That Was, almost 16 years ago. It was also one of the very first MMORPGs that imploded right after I started working at Massively That Was, just a few months […]

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Duet Night Abyss preps a gun-toting bartender, a mech...

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2026/03/27

Fans of Duet Night Abyss are getting the opportunity to control either a bartender with an assault rifle or an “aerial mech combatant” very soon. Assuming their gacha pull luck is any good, anyway. These are the highlights for the game’s next update arriving on Tuesday, April 7th, along with some other things just in case […]

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‘Slower combat, longer battles’ becomes the focus of...

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2026/03/27

Even if you’ve never consciously thought about it, the time it takes you to kill a mob (TTK) in an MMO is a delicate balance for game developers to strike. Too long, and the whole game becomes a slog. Too short, and there’s no strategy or choices in combat. So reaching that Goldilocks “just right” […]

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The Daily Grind: What MMO would’ve succeeded with...

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2026/03/27

I don’t like the idea that marketing can make or break an MMORPG. Even as someone in the media who sometimes benefits from that marketing spend, I still don’t like the system we are baked into, mostly because it makes budgeting games really stupid. Sometimes studios try to brute force their games on the public […]

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The Stream Team: In DDO’s House of Rusted Blades

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2026/03/26

After an interesting interlude to help a mindflayer research dating in Dungeons & Dragons Online, Massively OP’s MJ is returning back to adventures in the Underdark. And the task this time is to pit drow houses against one another in the Underdark city of Sschindylryn, where the drow forces originate from. Since the war is […]

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Massively Overthinking: Should gamers shut up about...

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2026/03/26

Former World of Warcraft and Overwatch developer Jeff Kaplan apparently has zero floops left to give because he’s been on the warpath ever since re-emerging in the industry earlier this March. In fact, he had a some choice words for the most obnoxious of loudmouth haters. As he put it: “If a game comes out, […]

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World of Tanks previews three new Tier XI tanks...

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2026/03/26

If you ever wondered what World of Tanks would do on the day when the game ran out of tanks to add to the game, the answer is apparently “make new tanks.” The Tier XI tanks are getting three new additions in Update 2.2.1, and they’re three new tanks with signature abilities to define them. The […]

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