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Betawatch: Chrono Odyssey might not hit its second...

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2025/07/11

For a game that clearly wants to be about time travel, Chrono Odyssey seems to be having something of an issue with time management. To be fair, in this case that time management is about addressing issues from its first closed beta test that might force it to take too much time before the second closed […]

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Final Fantasy XIV plans its Promise of Tomorrow live...

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2025/07/11

The next Final Fantasy XIV patch, The Promise of Tomorrow, is slated for early August. The promise of August. But you don’t have to take that from us; you can find out more about it yourself when the next live letter from the producer kicks off on July 24th at 6:00 a.m. EDT. As is common […]

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Mabinogi launches its Faith and Fury update, new...

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2025/07/11

Mabinogi fans have something new and sparkly to dive into this weekend thanks to Nexon’s latest patch. Dubbed Faith and Fury, the summer update adds a pair of new arcana talents, events, and a balance update for existing skills. “Arcana: Faith and Fury introduces two new Arcana talents, Sacred Guardian and Explosive Vanguard where players […]

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Black Desert dates mobile’s Heidel Ball for July 19...

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2025/07/11

The Heidel Ball once again looms on the horizon, only this time it’s the event specifically for fans of Black Desert Mobile, as Pearl Abyss has tied down a date of Saturday, July 19th, for the presentation. As is usually the case, this event will be a showcase that grants an exclusive look at upcoming […]

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Star Citizen highlights the new Meteor combat ship...

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2025/07/11

What if the RSI Mantis removed its interdiction capabilities and instead clapped a whole slew of guns and missiles on its chassis? Then you’d basically have the Meteor, the newest ship arriving to Star Citizen with the pending release of alpha 4.2.1. The Meteor is a medium size fighter that CIG says is designed to […]

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Fallout 76 is planning more crossover content with...

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2025/07/11

Ghouls, vaults, Kyle McLachlan showing off his chops as a villain… it’d be hard to argue that the Amazon Fallout TV show wasn’t a triumph or that it didn’t keep with the spirit of the video games. But it was notable that the series didn’t tie in specifically with a video game; there was no […]

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The Stream Team: Taking a first peek into the...

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2025/07/11

It’s Tryday Friday for MOP’s Chris as he checks out Towerborne, the side-scrolling beat-em-up MMO that MOP’s Sam was pretty happy with. Will this old school gamer find something to love in this one as well? It’s a live sneak peek that you’re invited to check out today at 2:00 p.m. EDT! What: Towerborne Who: […]

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Sea of Thieves details its updated seasonal content...

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2025/07/11

With the impact of Microsoft’s latest layoff round and the cancellation of Rare Ltd’s Everwild, there was likely a lot of trepidation and concern for what’s next in the Sea of Thieves. Fortunately, a community direct presentation brought plenty of fresh information for fans of the pirating sandbox. First off, the devs outlined the “refreshed […]

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EVE Online FedExes delivery jobs to players with its...

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2025/07/11

The common wisdom is that you shouldn’t make MMORPGs your second job. Don’t tell that to EVE Online, however, because “second job” is practically its working title, especially with the recent freelance tasks added with this summer’s Legion expansion. Those freelance jobs became even more robust this week with the addition to deliveries — Uber […]

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WoW Classic’s 20th Anniversary servers move into...

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2025/07/11

WoW Classic’s 20th Anniversary realms are zipping along through the now-established phases, outpacing the original 2019 progression server roughly 30% faster. This means that the “Classic Classic” servers now entered Phase 5, just a couple months after they unlocked Phase 4’s Zul’Gurub. Phase 5 attempts to replicate one of vanilla World of Warcraft’s most famous […]

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Gachapwned: How to interact with gacha MMOs without...

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2025/07/11

When I initially conceived of Gachapwned, I did so as a limited experiment, and that experiment has now run its course. I did so because as I noted in the first column, gacha games tend to be treated in a particular way by people who may or may not know much about them or even […]

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Lost Ark touts more content for its July release,...

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2025/07/11

Following up on the summer roadmap released earlier this month, Lost Ark’s team wanted to clarify some issues that the community raised, starting with the restrictions to character portraits that might try to “depict sexual acts, character nudity with skin dyes, and other disruptive or harmful content.” Yeah, you’re paying attention to this piece now. […]

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Casually Classic: Should WoW Classic get player housing?

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2025/07/11

In the previous Casually Classic column, I mulled over Blizzard’s survey of proposed Classic Plus ideas, tagging several that I thought would be the most beneficial to an improved version of the legacy MMO. However, I didn’t touch on one incredibly interesting possibility that the studio floated: player housing. As Blizzard wrote, this would include […]

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Destiny 2 disabled Lootapalooza handouts because...

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2025/07/11

Apparently there was a bit of a bug during Destiny 2’s Lootapalooza event that was causing too much loot in the palooza. The freely handed out engrams that were a part of the event had been temporarily shut off just a day after the event kicked off thanks to an exploit that was discovered by […]

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Dune Awakening has begun the restoration of player...

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2025/07/11

Funcom shocked even us this week when the Dune Awakening team responded to players who’d lost everything in the PvE/PvP zone switcharoo bug by promising them compensation. Now, that compensation is actually rolling out. “We identified sub-fief consoles, their associated bases, and vehicles destroyed in affected areas of the Deep Desert, from the time the […]

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New World will be ‘free’ for PlayStation Plus Extra...

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2025/07/11

The New World news just keeps coming this week: First, we get a hell of a preview of the next two seasons (minus new season servers, which are dead and not coming back), and now we’re getting news that Amazon is bringing New World to the PlayStation Plus lineup. “PlayStation and Amazon Games announced that […]

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‘This needs to be made right’: The Subnautica 2 leads...

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2025/07/11

Yesterday, we covered the unfolding drama over in the Subnautica 2 world, as Krafton, which bought Subnautica dev studio Unknown Worlds in 2021, fired the three studio leads and unilaterally delayed the game into 2026. Studio insiders immediately pointed out that the timing was suspicious as the buyout agreement entitled the original 100-odd devs to $250M […]

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The Daily Grind: Would you have played ZeniMax’s MMO...

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2025/07/11

Over the last week, we’ve been regaled with leaks from devs on or associated with the Project Blackbird team that was laid off During Microsoft’s massive purge of over 9000 games workers. The MMORPG had been in development for seven years at Zenimax Online Studios and had apparently been through someone reboots and false trails […]

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The Stream Team: Seeking help from DDO’s Lord of Stone

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2025/07/10

As if one Daelkyr imprisoned in Khyber long ago in Dungeons & Dragons Online weren’t enough, Massively OP’s MJ has learned that there is at least one more. And she’s got to go try to enlist this one’s help in going against the Lord of Eyes, Belashyrra. Why would this other Daelkyr possibly help? It’s […]

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Massively Overthinking: Should MMO players get a vote...

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2025/07/10

I admit I haven’t been paying much attention to Marvel Rivals as it’s progressed, largely because I don’t care about shooters and I don’t care about Marvel all that much either (Marvel Heroes was my exception, not my rule!). But it caught my atrtention last week when the devs implied they were listening to informal […]

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