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EG7 Q1 2026: Daybreak is acquiring Cold Iron Studios...

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2026/05/08

Every three months, we’re right back here snooping in the finances of Enad Global 7, the Swedish company that owns Daybreak, Piranha, Singularity 6, and several other MMO studios we watch with interest. And in Q1 2026, the results were a sprinkling of good and bad. Overall, EG7 saw a drop of 13.1% in revenues […]

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Palia drops a new trailer for next week’s Royal...

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2026/05/08

Mini-MMO Palia is indeed destined to roll out its second big expansion of beta on Tuesday, and that means Singularity 6 is turning on the hype machine – and the trailer machine. The expansion, dubbed Royal Highlands, is the game’s biggest zone to date, so big it required work on the UI to fit the […]

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World of Warcraft injects major housing love into its...

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2026/05/08

Now that World of Warcraft’s Patch 12.0.7 is in testing, testers are discovering that there’s a lot to love here for housing fans. The Revelations update will increase the outdoor housing decor budget by 40%, allow outdoor lighting once more, add a ton of decor to the neighborhood vendors, and — this is the real […]

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Path of Exile 2’s May 29 Return of the Ancients...

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2026/05/08

It’s almost time for a new Path of Exile 2 update, and this time it’s a whopper! Return of the Ancients will debut on May 29th, 2026 — just a mere three weeks away. It may take that long for folks to digest all of the content coming. During my preview of the GGG Live […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG still really needs to...

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2026/05/08

Every few years, I ask this question, and I’m gonna ask it again in light of the recent Guild Wars 1 port announcement because there are so many MMOs that still just have no entry path on my phone. Why do I not have a Guild Wars 2 idle game? How come I can’t build a […]

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The Stream Team: The Portal Opens in Dungeons &...

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2026/05/07

After her clandestine incursions into Sschindylryn, Massively OP’s MJ successfully threw the Drow noble houses of Dungeons & Dragons Online into chaos, turning on each other. Next, she will be meeting with Elminster to prepare to go after the High Priestess Hekta Szind herself in the Temple of Lolth. Tune in live at 8:00 p.m. for […]

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Massively Overthinking: What should MMOs do about...

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2026/05/07

Last week, GamesRadar did a tactful piece on the backlash toward Diablo IV’s endgame coming from competitive players specifically. One particular streamer finished a T12 run in a single 17-hour sitting and then announced that there’s insufficient motivation for him to keep logging in and grinding. “[I]t just didn’t take that long,” he says “With […]

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Duet Night Abyss dishes out an assault rifle-using...

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2026/05/07

Who here wants their drink order with a side of hot lead? Then you’d better make sure you provide a suitable tip to Camilla, the recently added character in the multiplayer gacha RPG Duet Night Abyss, who came online this week as the latter half of last month’s content update. This pyro-powered character brings her Dregs of […]

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Multiplayer pirate sandbox Windrose counts 1.5M box...

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2026/05/07

Since Windrose’s early access release three weeks ago, Pocketpair and Kraken Express say they’ve roped in 1.5M sales from fans of that pirate life, which napkin math says is roughly $45M, minus all the cuts from Steam. It peaked around 210K/222K concurrent players that first weekend and is still pulling in nearly 100K peak players […]

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Ubisoft responds to Assassin’s Creed: Invictus leak...

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2026/05/07

Are you ready for the Assassin’s Creed dedicated multiplayer spinoff? Do you already have your joke about “GASassin’s Creed” ready to go? If not, there you go, that one’s on us. But the fact that there is a title dubbed Invictus in the works is a known fact, and a screenshot was supposedly leaked on Twitter, which […]

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Solarpunk MMORPG Loftia concludes closed beta with a...

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2026/05/07

Last night, Loftia’s closed beta came to an end, but that doesn’t mean Qloud is done. “[T]he Beta is just that: a Beta,” the devs of the Kickstarted solarpunk cozy MMORPG told Discord fans. “The game isn’t finished yet – there is so much more that we will be improving, deepening and iterating on ahead […]

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Fellowship shows off its profile enhancements while...

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2026/05/07

Bad news, Fellowship fans. Even though your name in-game is Cool Mike, some people might not think that you’re actually all that cool. They might believe you’re actually Mike, but are you cooler than Cooler Mike, or Mike Coolguy, or even CoolMike McCoolFace? Well, the next season will add in tools to customize your profile, so […]

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EverQuest Legends widens its closed beta, EverQuest...

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2026/05/07

I can’t say I’m sorry about having so much EverQuest-related news to cover that we have enough for a proper roundup, but we do, so we’re doing it. First, EverQuest Legends says it’s releasing another 2000 beta keys. Are you in this wave? Probably not, given how many people signed up, but hey, forward movement. […]

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Two months after launch, rogue server Marvel Heroes...

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2026/05/07

When Marvel Heroes TAHITI officially launched as a public rogue server back in March, it was so popular with returning MMO fans that that the devs spun up a second server, largely to reduce some of the lag happening in the early zones and hubs. That launch crush has apparently abated now, and the player […]

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No, Dune Awakening’s Polar Cap map isn’t coming with...

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2026/05/07

Funcom has a letter out to Dune Awakening fans this afternoon that attempts to reset expectations for what exactly is coming in its next couple of content patches – and what isn’t. In a nutshell, the studio says some players thought the Polar Cap map would be bundled in with the Water Wars DLC, as […]

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Star Citizen hypes its May 14 DefenseCon event and...

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2026/05/07

There is a whole lot of noise coming out of Star Citizen right now, and if your head is spinning trying to keep up with all of the various vectors CIG has been using to make itself look busy, we’ve got you covered. That’s what we’re here for. Sit back in that cushy papasan and relax. […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The complex feelings of a static...

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2026/05/07

Final Fantasy XIV recently finished up its crossover with Final Fantasy XI, and I have to admit that the very last shot of the crossover got me. I hadn’t expected it to; the story on a whole, while sweetly nostalgic, had not really been one that tugged at the ol’ heartstrings for me. But the very […]

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Chrono Odyssey showcases its matrix progression...

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2026/05/07

Since we all have to wait until sometime in 2027 — maybe — for Chrono Odyssey to release, there is a lot of time to pad until anything playable comes along from Chrono Studio. So how’s about a Twitter post about system updates that are coming to the game? Maybe that’ll sate some fans’ hunger. The longtweet in […]

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Throne and Liberty teases the arrival of The Frozen...

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2026/05/07

Apparently, Amazon Games is hoping to string along curious and understandably worried fans of Throne and Liberty with the promise of something new and big. Or at least big enough to warrant its own specific title. In any case, the MMORPG is teasing the arrival of something called The Frozen Divide. Regrettably, all that anyone has right now is […]

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Neverness to Everness promises to rework AI-generated...

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2026/05/07

It looks as if, yet again, gamers are being forced to sleuth for procgen AI trash in their video games before fully committing. The latest game to be unmasked is gacha RPG Neverness to Everness, which readers no doubt recall made its global release last week and was found to have multiple instances of AI-generated assets. Several […]

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