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Amazon’s Throne & Liberty and Lost Ark both ran into...

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2025/07/25

Amazon’s long streak of borky patches continued unabated this week thanks to releases in both Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark. Let’s start with T&L. Yesterday morning, following the launch of the Summer Splash Event patch, stability issues forced Amazon to announce that it was “temporarily placing all servers in maintenance mode while we work […]

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Black Desert overhauls combat on PC, celebrates...

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2025/07/25

MOP’s Carlo burst through our newsroom wall like the Kool-Aid Man, slammed his hand on a desk until it splintered, and bellowed out like a barbarian, “Black Desert combat changes up!” And then he kicked over a water cooler and ran through the opposite wall. Once the surprise wore off, we checked to see that […]

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Krafton just gobbled up Last Epoch studio Eleventh...

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2025/07/25

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: An indie studio making a multiplayer game that you love just got snarfed up by a megacorp with some baggage. This time, the indie studio is Eleventh Hour Games, the much-loved team behind much-loved Kickstarted early access OARPG Last Epoch. And the megacorp is… Krafton. Eleventh Hour founder […]

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Final Fantasy XIV is making further blacklist changes...

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2025/07/25

The changes to Final Fantasy XIV’s blacklist feature in patch 7.0 (like the fact that blacklisting someone functionally Thanos-snaps them away for you) were good ones. What was not good was how some of the data allowed people to mod the game to create the Harassment Engine, which is why the team has already worked to patch […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs excel at promoting...

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2025/07/25

This past spring, MOP’s Justin penned a piece on Final Fantasy XIV in which he praised the way the game encourages specific, directed prosocial behavior. “I noticed that there was more chatter and good vibes during these dungeon runs, especially at the end when players could hand commendations out to each other.” I’ve always been […]

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The Stream Team: Ending the Reign of Madness in...

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2025/07/24

The Lord of Eyes has been busy in his plans of conquest in Dungeons & Dragons Online. Currently, he has invaded the Tower of the Twelve itself with his followers. Massively OP’s MJ and her team have been called upon to rally the beleaguered survivors of the Lower Arcanum area and open the way for […]

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Massively Overthinking: Are ya winning, son?

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2025/07/24

Let’s talk about winning. MMORPGs are not supposed to be about having won. There’s no way to finish an MMORPG that never ends. You can’t really beat the game. It just keeps going. You can’t really win. But you can still be winning. In English, there’s nuance to that participle. It implies ongoing successes, maybe […]

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League of Legends fighting game 2XKO confirms 24/7...

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2025/07/24

Obviously we’re not big fighting game aficionados here, but there’s been some cross-pollination between this genre and MMOs, such as the DFO brawler DNF Duel and the League of Legends fighter 2XKO, which puts members of the MOBA’s roster into a 2v2 team tag fighter, which we first started reporting on back when it was […]

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As rumored, Battlefield 6 has released its first...

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2025/07/24

I can’t even pretend that as a core MMORPG person first and foremost I care much about the Battlefield franchise, but at least it’s going to be amusing watching EA and Activision fight, right? Yes, earlier today EA and Battlefield Studios formally unveiled Battlefield 6 with a teaser trailer sure to titillate fans of shootymans-style […]

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Closers previews its newest character, Triss, with a...

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2025/07/24

Depending on your age and your particular interests, it may be easier or harder to accept that the preview video for the 22nd character in Closers involves the main character pondering the nature of personal power while she reminisces about her days barefoot in a strapless thong costume as some variety of demon. That’s just part […]

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Sandbox MMORPG BitCraft just rolled out its new...

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2025/07/24

It’s move-in day over in early access MMORPG sandbox BitCraft as Clockwork Labs has officially introduced player housing. “We are excited to finally release the first version of housing!” the studio says in today’s patch notes. “Players can unlock their own personal house by buying a housing deed from Brico and can upgrade the size […]

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MOBA battle royale Supervive officially releases out...

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2025/07/24

It’s been something we’ve kept eyes on a couple of times, and now it has arrived: Theorycraft Games’ colorful battle royale MOBA Supervive has now officially left early access and made its full 1.0 release as of late last night. As the studio maintains, this full launch represents an overhaul to every part of the […]

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Indie VR MMO Eldramoor successfully funded on...

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2025/07/24

Kickstarter still has some juice left in it, at least when it comes to MMORPGs: Eldramoor fully funded this morning with over 1000 backers pledging $171,000 and change to make the game happen. Granted, the success of the campaign wasn’t really in doubt; players actually funded Resolute Games’ effort in about 90 minutes on the […]

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Ubisoft’s revenues dip as the company forms promised...

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2025/07/24

We’re not quite done with the first quarterly earnings news from 2025 just yet, friends. It’s time now for Ubisoft to report in with its own earnings for fiscal year Q1, and right now it doesn’t look all that great, though CEO Yves Guillemot is once more nodding to future outlooks and business maneuvers. Unsurprisingly. […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Effective video game boycotts that...

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2025/07/24

Our recent Daily Grind topic about boycotts got me thinking about how boycotts are actually supposed to work, which is ironic because what prompted the topic in question wasn’t actually a formal boycott at all. Seriously, that’s the funniest part of the whole story. There was not a real boycott; there was the imagined possibility […]

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Some clown tried to attack Stop Killing Games with a...

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2025/07/24

There is a rule in the EU that petitions like the ones that Stop Killing Games has been spearheading have to disclose sponsor payments. This is a reasonable stipulation to ensure that astroturf campaigns are flagged, and it’s not an issue for Stop Killing Games because it hasn’t received sponsor payments. Or has it? No, […]

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WoW Factor: Forget World of Warcraft patch 11.2 – I...

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2025/07/24

I don’t know about you, but my World of Warcraft schedule is rapidly filling for the rest of this year and well into 2026. We’ve got several currently running events (such as Turbulent Timeways and Collector’s Bounty), Patch 11.2 coming early next month, some other follow-up patches later in the fall, the Midnight expansion reveal in […]

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After almost six months offline, Fallen Earth is...

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2025/07/24

It’s been a long, long wait for Fallen Earth players, but they’re finally on the cusp of getting back into their beloved MMORPG sandbox. Readers will recall that APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth both went offline abruptly at the top of February; studio Little Orbit was forced to switch the game to fresh hosting, and […]

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Albion Online is struggling with fresh DDOS attacks –...

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2025/07/24

Albion Online players will already know that the game has been suffering from DDOS attacks for the last few days – and Sandbox Interactive appears to have a pretty good idea of what group might be interested in messing with the PvP MMORPG’s infrastructure and uptime. Yesterday, the studio told players that the “servers are […]

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Final Fantasy XIV’s The Promise of Tomorrow arrives...

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2025/07/24

The Final Fantasy XIV playerbase has just about two weeks left to go until the game’s next patch arrives; this morning hosted the latest Letter from the Producer LIVE with its ever-increasing runtime, and that meant the announcement that patch 7.3, The Promise of Tomorrow, will launch on August 5th. There’s a new trailer, to boot, […]

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