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Star Citizen begins the finale of its Pyro Must Burn...

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2025/10/17

The story line that’s been interweaving through Star Citizen ever since last November’s Save Stanton event is now reaching its finale. Alpha 4.3.2 is now officially on the live alpha servers, bringing with it the closing series of events in the wider Pyro Must Burn narrative that’s been a headline for many of the sandbox’s […]

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First Impressions: A housing skeptic samples World of...

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2025/10/17

Housing in games has always been a bit of a hard sell for me, but the feature finally arriving in World of Warcraft with the upcoming Midnight expansion after 20 years of people clamouring for it is big news, and as a long-time fan of the franchise, I can say that being able to claim […]

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More Blizzard workers unionize as the World of...

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2025/10/17

Does it feel like it was just a couple days since we were last talking about Blizzard employees unionizing? That’s because it was just a couple of days, but there’s a new group of workers who have voted to unionize and be represented by the Communications Workers of America. This latest effort is already being […]

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No, New World is not using AI voices in Nighthaven,...

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2025/10/17

Earlier this week when Amazon launched New World’s spooky Nighthaven update, there was an uproar in the community over some of the voice acting in the release. According to players (and even our own New World columnist), some of the voiceover work sounded like a placeholder effort with some oddly flat and amateur delivery. An […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO have you clocked the most...

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2025/10/17

Back in July, PC Gamer decided to make some random ARK Survival Evolved fan the main character of the day. Well, actually, the dude probably had it coming: He was notable because he’s clocked 35,000 hours in the game, issued a negative review, and demanded a refund. I don’t want to talk about the refund […]

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The Stream Team: Getting done with DDO’s The Dreaming...

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2025/10/16

In a once-in-a-streamtime twist of fate, Massively OP’s MJ and her group were able to run through the the first three quests of a Dungeons & Dragons Online arc in just one sitting. That leave just the final quest to finish up The Dreaming Dark. To wrap things up, MJ needs to repair the Interdiction […]

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Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPGs have taken a...

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2025/10/16

A while back, I was chatting with a reader on Bsky who said something about the current state of an MMORPG that gutted me. “I’m just sad to see the MMO I’ve loved and played since beta change itself into this,” Aqua said. It doesn’t even really matter what MMORPG it was because man, do I […]

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Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet is fundraising for Extra...

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2025/10/16

Among the core MMORPG studios that have turned Extra Life charity work into an annual tradition is Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet, and it’s back to do it again here in 2025. “We’re preparing for our ninth annual Extra Life event, and we invite you to join us,” ArenaNet says. “Extra Life is a yearly […]

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Monsters and Memories invites you to a quick stress...

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2025/10/16

For the second time this month, old school EverQuest-styled Monsters & Memories is holding a stress test to see how some new server optimizations hold up under the strain of as many players as will try to break things. This weekend’s test will take place from Saturday at 1:00 p.m. EST until Sunday at midnight […]

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Pax Dei celebrates its official launch with a new...

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2025/10/16

If you weren’t already in the Pax Dei headstart, then today is your day: The sandbox MMORPG has formally launched out of early access and “opening this new chapter” for the “true beginning” of the game. “Since October 14, our Founders have been exploring the new shards, settling plots, and beginning their stories,” studio Mainframe […]

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NetEase drops a new trailer for its upcoming Wuxia...

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2025/10/16

We’ve had an eye on NetEase’s Wuxia MMO-lite Where Winds Meet since it first popped up on the radar as a major NetEase contributor overseas – and it’s slowly inching westward. The publisher announced today that it now counts 5M pre-registrations for the global version of the game due out on PC and PS5 next […]

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Co-op dungeon running ‘MODA’ Fellowship begins its...

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2025/10/16

We’ve been keeping a weather eye on Arc Games and Chief Rebel’s upcoming co-op multiplayer dungeon runner Fellowship, sharing previews of characters, open beta impressions, and three different previews with the developers. Well, the time for peeking is over and early access is here for the game, as it has begun this phase of its […]

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Nightingale leads admit that development is ‘much...

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2025/10/16

It’s been something of a regular feeling for fans of the gaslamp survival sandbox Nightingale that development on the early access title is reeling back, but the latest developer video from Inflexion CEO Aaryn Flynn and art director Neil Thompson basically confirms as much, as most of the discussion for a video about the game […]

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Sword of Justice, aka Justice Online, finally ties...

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2025/10/16

Talk about a blast from the unreleased past, at least as far as western MMORPG fans are concerned: Back in 2022 we first reported on plans from NetEase to bring the Chinese wuxia-styled game Justice Online to our half of the globe, with the promise of a massive open world to explore, tamable creatures, and […]

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Massively on the Go: Assessing community damage dealt...

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2025/10/16

It’s been over a year since Pokemon Go’s devs first announced the Max Battle System last fall, but as we saw with the Darkest Day Go Fest Finale, it’s a feature that pushes FOMO hard and often leads to boredom. It also helps that it’s the most expensive part of the game and that the […]

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Old School RuneScape kicks off bingo-like Grid Master...

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2025/10/16

Alert the senior citizen mafia and tell them that Old School RuneScape is liberating bingo for the entire world. That’s because the legacy MMO is running a new event called Grid Master wherein players complete a bingo-like sheet by completing a variety of tasks over a four-week period (ending on November 12th). “Play your way […]

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Vague Patch Notes: No, crypto and blockchain are not...

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2025/10/16

I’m really glad that over the past couple years, the time I spent figuring out how cryptocurrency and associated concepts work have become increasingly useless. This stuff has always been awful, so it’s glad to see that the Web3 crowd’s complete inability to get anything off the ground in any real fashion has steadily eroded […]

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Guild Wars 2 explains beta feedback and changes...

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2025/10/16

Did you find yourself playing as an Antiquarian with Guild Wars 2’s elite spec beta and realizing that it belonged in a museum? If so, you’d be wrong; the latest article on the elite specs reveals that changes are coming to the spec, like Split Deck becoming a baseline mechanic instead of a trait. In fact, […]

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Perfect Ten: 10 things that haven’t changed about the...

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2025/10/16

“The more things change, the more they stay the same,” is one of those sayings that makes my eyes cross. While that statement is poorly phrased, I can get behind the idea that certain themes, trends, and facts remain constant even amid the progression of years. Ten years ago, Massively OP was born from the […]

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Players sound the alarm over Aion 2’s dual...

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2025/10/16

When NCsoft put out a developer livestream discussing Aion 2’s features at the top of the month, one of the things that were brought up was monetization, including an optional $14 a month standard subscription and a $20 a month “premium” subscription. Now, with time, translation, and analysis, more of the game’s monetization plans for […]

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