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Final Fantasy XI’s producer discusses archival and...

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2025/07/10

If you have somehow missed the flow of linear time, we hate to be the ones to introduce it, but Final Fantasy XI is old now. Very old. So it makes sense that after last year nearly saw the game go into a true maintenance mode, potentially even shuttering, the team over at Game Escape would […]

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Lord of the Rings Online’s Great Hobbit Run finally...

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2025/07/10

While Boromir might once have famously stated that no one simply walks into Mordor, he did not factor into the tenacity and silly recklessness of Lord of the Rings Online players. Ever since the Mordor expansion opened in 2017, there have been many attempts — some successful, some not — to walk the entire breadth […]

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Throne and Liberty opens a new four-star trial, adds...

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2025/07/10

If you like dipping your character’s little toesies into the various instances of Throne and Liberty, then you’re going to be delighted by the MMORPG’s latest patch, which has brought on a new trial for players to face and made some tweaks to existing big bad fights as the primary feature. The new instance in […]

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World of Warcraft previews its housing system’s...

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2025/07/10

Blizzard has released the fourth of its preview blogs on World of Warcraft’s upcoming housing system, this one designed to finally make you fall in love with your HOA. OK, just kidding, but it is about the neighborhood system. At launch, the game will offer two types of neighborhood zone, one for Alliance and one for […]

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Old School RuneScape is in the middle of an unusual...

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2025/07/10

Apparently the rapid pace of content additions to World of Warcraft isn’t enough to keep some of the MMORPG’s bigger streamers invested, as there’s been a noted wave of those players instead taking a peek into Old School RuneScape. As first chronicled by GamesRadar, notable WoW streamers have recently started dipping into OSRS for the […]

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Elder Scrolls Online celebrates last April’s birthday...

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2025/07/10

It’s tradition in MMORPGs for developers to grant players gifts on the occasion of its birthday, but Elder Scrolls Online would prefer you give it some money to kit yourself for the festivities, which actually happened back in April when the anniversary actually happened. Perhaps that’s an uncharitable read, but it’s not inaccurate: ZeniMax Online […]

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WoW Classic is hyping up Mists of Pandaria’s zones...

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2025/07/10

I can’t be the only one who finds it strangely funny how Blizzard keeps presenting these expansions for WoW Classic as if they’re debuting for the very first time and nobody has ever heard of them before (never mind spent a good chunk of 2024 playing Pandaria Remix). But here we are again, as the […]

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BitCraft dishes out a small patch of adjustments and...

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2025/07/10

While the most recent patch applied to BitCraft Online might not be as sexy as adding WASD movement, it does do the important step of adjusting and fixing things, which is always a good move when it comes to an early access MMORPG. Or any MMORPG, really. Among the noteworthy adjustments in this patch are […]

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Stars Reach’s latest patch includes ‘extensive’...

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2025/07/10

It’s hard to believe Stars Reach has been developing out in the open for the last year, but Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds has reached that milestone – and it’s done it with a new patch for the pre-alpha testers. “We’ve done an extensive network upgrade and we’re asking for your help to stress test it,” […]

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Vague Patch Notes: No, splitting your MMO into two...

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2025/07/10

There was no scenario in which I was the target audience for Reaper Actual, but I would never assume that it could have never had an audience. Sure, I might be firmly of the mind that adding John Smedley to a spiritual sequel for a series I’ve never really had an emotional attachment to is […]

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Lord of the Rings Online plans to lock 32-bit server...

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2025/07/10

Lord of the Rings Online’s long-running 32-bit servers may have an execution date of August 31st, but their days are even more numbered than that. Standing Stone Games announced that it will be locking new character creation on all of those worlds as of July 30th while free transfers to the 64-bit realms continue through […]

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Escape from Tarkov’s hardcore wipe stuns players with...

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2025/07/10

Apparently there is indeed a line where “hardcore” is a bit too hardcore for even the hardcore fans of multiplayer extraction shooter Escape from Tarkov. The most recent patch to the PvPvE game, otherwise known as the hardcore wipe, has evidently come with a much heavier hand than players anticipated, leading to a whole lot […]

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Pantheon’s next Ashbreathers patch brings a...

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2025/07/10

In less than a week from now, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen players – particularly those in the higher levels – are going to be seeing some more new things coming to the MMORPG. Wednesday, July 16th, is when the second half of the Ashbreathers patch goes live. As one might expect, this update will […]

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World of Warcraft offers a plethora of new videos...

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2025/07/10

World of Warcraft fans have to wait less than a month for patch 11.2, Ghosts of K’aresh, to hit the live servers. But Blizzard doesn’t want to risk you losing any amount of interest, and so you’re getting hit with not one, not two, not three, but four new videos to stoke your interest. To be […]

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Sea of Thieves teases its next content update and the...

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2025/07/10

The Season 16 update for Sea of Thieves lands on July 17th, which is sure to bother people because the season and the date are so close but don’t quite line up. Hopefully you can ameliorate that bother by undertaking the Followers of the Flame Voyage, which allows you to seek out new allies for Flameheart’s […]

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Krafton delays Subnautica 2 into 2026 and axes its...

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2025/07/10

Update: As of this afternoon, Krafton has made second and much longer statement than before, and it’s a doozy. It’s tucked down at the end of this post; the original article follows. I dunno about you, but the Subnautica franchise is much loved around my house, as my kids frequently dip their toes into the […]

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The Daily Grind: Do you want to be Uncle Owen (that...

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2025/07/10

John Smedley is – rightly – never going to live down the reputation that he got from insisting to Star Wars Galaxies players that no one wanted to be Uncle Owen. What he meant is not really up for debate; he was telling fans who liked being crafting-and-culture focused that they didn’t actually want to do […]

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The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming’s explosion...

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2025/07/09

In an era of armchair warriors (and MechWarriors), we bring you Backseat Streamers! Here, MassivelyOP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch the gameplay right along with you; instead of asking you to comment on their adventures, they will comment on yours! Today is not a day for a world of fantasy. […]

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Pixel sandbox Necesse is releasing its new creative...

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2025/07/09

Building things is neat in video games. Necesse knows this, it’s a game in no small part about building things. But do you ever feel like you just want to build things? No engaging with any part of the game except things that you can build without restriction? Good news; the developers know this, and they […]

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IMC Games’ Tree of Savior unveils the Aether Blader...

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2025/07/09

“Harmonizer of Blue Waters and Golden Lightning, Manipulator of Battle, Bender of Elements, Wielder of the Blade of Shining Light.” It’s quite a series of titles for a single MMOARPG class, but that’s precisely the kind of purple prose being used by IMC Games for the new Aether Blader class available in its version of […]

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