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The MOP Up: Gamescom 2025 features games from ‘more...

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2025/08/17

The games industry is gearing up for Gamescom later this month, and apparently it’s going to be a whopper. According to the organizers, this year’s Cologne, Germany, event, which kicks off August 20th, is already setting records before it’s even opened. “[G]amescom continues its growth course: from August 20 to 24, more companies than ever […]

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The Stream Team: Time for more treasure map runs in...

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2025/08/17

MOP’s Chris and his Eorzea Sunday crew had such a good time opening the recently added treasure maps in last week’s Final Fantasy XIV stream that he’s eager to do it again! After all, there’s riches to be earned and possible new mounts and pets to get. Join them today at 2:00 p.m. EDT for […]

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Massively on the Go: Bracing for Pokemon Go’s Max...

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2025/08/17

I really hate being negative, but Pokemon Go’s devs seems to be slipping back into their pre-Scopely days for the upcoming Darkest Day Go Fest Finale event. The official infograph lacks any hard information, unofficial infographs show terribly dull spawns, and the centerpiece of it all uses perhaps the game’s most divisive content to date, […]

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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: The Holdouts, Blind...

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2025/08/17

Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you’ve never heard of! Although this bundle is exclusively couched in the smaller scale multiplayer category. Even so, we’ve got quite the interesting selection of titles this time around, from the creepy to the cutesy. The Holdouts We’ll start with The Holdouts, a solo […]

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Nexon Q2 2025: MapleStory is a ‘flagship’ for Nexon’s...

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2025/08/17

Nexon’s Q2 2025 financial results aren’t as sunny as last year’s, but there’s a pretty clear reason for that: Last year was hella good for the Korean games giant, and everything looks shabby compared to quarters when D&F Mobile landed in China and The First Descendant descended on the world. To wit: “In Q2, Nexon […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s the furthest you have...

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2025/08/17

There is absolutely nothing wrong with having a comfort zone in MMOs. Your comfort zone is, in fact, comfortable. That’s why they call it a comfort zone. You are also under no obligation to step outside of it basically ever; you have a zone you like to occupy, that is the zone you work in, […]

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Get hyped for Midnight: World of Warcraft posts its...

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2025/08/17

World of Warcraft is going to be at Gamescom this year. This is most definitely not new information. What is new, however, is the full schedule of events Blizzard is going to be holding all through the event. Naturally this all kicks off with the Opening Night Live presentation on August 19th, which promises a […]

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Crimson Desert shares 13 minutes of open world...

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2025/08/16

Yes, we’re once again reporting on single-player content for Crimson Desert. We know. At this point it’ll be a miracle if any of the planned multiplayer features of the game make it to video for this game that was originally announced as an MMO and has slowly been eroded with each extra year it’s been […]

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Louisiana is now suing Roblox Corp over its alleged...

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2025/08/16

It looks like the issue of Roblox not doing enough to protect younger users from sexual exploitation and other harms on its platform is growing far more serious than banning a “vigilante” and arousing petitions. The company running the title is now facing a child protection lawsuit from the state of Louisiana, which argues that […]

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The Stream Team: The need for trees and a...

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2025/08/16

Despite the progress she’s making in Planet Crafter, Massively OP’s MJ is still miffed she can’t find any tree seeds! Perhaps some are hiding behind the tech debris on the ships. Now that MJ can finally break that down, she’s got to revisit each wreck and plunder them anew. Join us live at 2:00 p.m. […]

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MMO Hype Train: Revisiting Project Gorgon in 2025

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2025/08/16

Project Gorgon’s greatest purpose in existing is to be a response to anyone who asks where the creative, non-conforming, and imaginative MMORPGs are, especially in a post-World of Warcraft genre. It may be a bit too different for some people, but for a good while now, it’s been the cult favorite of MMO gamers who […]

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Superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes delays its launch...

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2025/08/16

[This article and headline were updated again with the new new date. Details at the end; the original post follows.] Hopefully, you didn’t take off work for next week’s Ship of Heroes’ August 18th launch because it’s going to be delayed a few days. “Today we learned that Steam may not be ready to approve […]

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WRUP: How various gods have responded to my offering...

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2025/08/16

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about the best movie food.

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The Daily Grind: How many times will you absorb a...

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2025/08/16

Sometimes a dungeon or raid run is not meant to be. Maybe it’s a very weak link in the team composition, way-too-tough mechanics, undergearing, or a lack of knowledge, but whatever the case may be, wipes begin to happen and that mental calculation begins. “How many times will we wipe before I quit or ask […]

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The Stream Team: AQ3D’s summer war on Sun’s Set Shore

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2025/08/15

AQ3D introduced a new summer event, called Sun’s Set Shore. Massively OP’s MJ buzzed by it briefly, but didn’t have the chance to stay and soak up the sun and fun. And war. Yes, it’s a war event, and MJ is now ready to enter the fray. Or is it ocean spray? Got it: Enter […]

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Betawatch: Project Ghost shows off its zones as Bill...

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2025/08/15

We got a deeper look at Project Ghost this week, and the bad news is that it still does not have an actual name and is still insisting on calling its zones “blue zones” and “red zones,” which isn’t a great naming convention when those names already have colloquial meaning in the MMO space. The […]

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Final Fantasy XI brings back its Final Fantasy XIV...

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2025/08/15

While players in Final Fantasy XIV enjoy the latest installment of the Final Fantasy XI-themed alliance raid, there is no such major content in FFXI… but that doesn’t mean that FFXIV fans who want to check out the older game or FFXI fans looking for a nod have to go completely underserved. The FFXI crossover event for FFXIV is returning on August 22nd, […]

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Brighter Shores releases a new side quest, reels back...

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2025/08/15

What in the deuce is a Zatapajra Beast? Well, there’s only one way to find out, and that’s to take on the new side quest that’s been added to the early access MMORPG Brighter Shores. Or wait for other people to tell you. Or judge by that header image, which suggests this thing is a […]

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Pax Dei offers a preview of new icon and UI visual...

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2025/08/15

Having a unified, legible, and quickly informative UI is one of those things in MMORPGs (and in software, let’s be real) that you don’t really think about until it gets improved or just outright looks bad from the very jump. For those who felt like the UI and icon visuals in Pax Dei could stand […]

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Warframe’s next Prime, Caliban, arrives on August 26

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2025/08/15

The next major Warframe update, The Old Peace, will be all about a period of not just coexistence but cooperation between the Orokin and the Sentients. That means there’s no more fitting time to have Caliban Prime, the Sentient-inspired Warframe, on the field… but why wait until later this year? Caliban Prime access is arriving on August […]

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