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MMO Business Roundup: Ubisoft execs sentenced, Stop...

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2025/07/06

Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Though this round of news is much more in the “MMO-adjacent’ bucket than not. Still, the business headlines do be a-flowin’. Ubisoft executives face prison time: The trial in France for former chief creative officer Serge Hascoet, former VP of editorial and creative […]

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Dungeons and Dragons Online explains how you’ll...

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2025/07/06

While Dungeons and Dragons Online players are going to have to wait an extra week to storm the gates of the new 64-bit servers, it’s not too early to start planning what to do and where to go when the moment arrives on July 15th. To aid in this, Standing Stone Games posted a transfer […]

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One Shots: Chugga chugga choo choo

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2025/07/06

You know what’s a great reason to screenshot your MMO adventures? Because it encourages you to stop dashing to your next destination and slow down enough to take in the sights and process what you’re seeing. There are so many great and memorable visuals in MMOs, if only people would really look. That’s the service […]

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The Daily Grind: How do you handle a fight gone bad...

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2025/07/06

There’s a point in Final Fantasy XIV fights that are going badly where you have no one left who can cast any kind of raise spell. So long as you have one person who can pick up the rest of the group, you can keep things going for a remarkably long time, but as soon as […]

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Skull and Bones’ Oaths of War comes out on July 15th...

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2025/07/06

Ubisoft’s naval sim Skull and Bones isn’t going small with its second season this year. Rather, Year Two Season Two is about to unleash the biggest ship captains have seen yet: the frigate. “Large ships in general have been long requested by the community,” the developers said in this past week’s producer’s letter. “Designing the […]

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Fallout 76 tests combat rebalancing and relaxed CAMP...

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2025/07/05

Fallout 76’s public test server beeped, clicked, and whirred back to life this past week as Bethesda put a few significant changes through the player gauntlet. This starts with some welcome “relaxed” building rules and concludes with much-needed combat rebalancing. As for the former, Bethesda notes, “Relaxed Build Rules are activated for Adventure Mode. Unleash […]

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The Stream Team: Into the Imperial Testing Station in...

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2025/07/05

Now that they’ve concluded their current business at the tradepost in Dune: Awakening, Massively OP’s MJ and Larry are going setting off to infiltrate the Imperial Testing Station #2 for a new mission. Larry also plans to introduce MJ to a Planetologist, who can apparently teach her the Planetologist class. After all, you can never […]

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PSA: Aion NA is deleting characters that haven’t...

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2025/07/05

Games opening their own official Discords is just the way of things in these increasingly frustrating modern times, but we would argue that an announcement of this magnitude – the kind that could affect long-standing Aion NA players – maybe shouldn’t be stuffed only in Discord. So we’re fortunate that one of our readers tipped […]

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MMO Hype Train: Dipping into Monsters & Memories’...

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2025/07/05

As one of my personal anticipated upcoming MMOs, I’ve been holding a weird, polygonal torch for the “throwback” styled MMO project, Monsters & Memories. As I said back in March, I like the attitude and vibes coming from this game and team, and now that we’re getting longer public playtests, I thought it was about […]

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Insiders detail gameplay for Blackbird, the ‘f’ing...

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2025/07/05

The 9,000 workers shed from Microsoft’s games division saw not only massive losses in terms of workers, the end of content updates for other live titles, and the stepping down of Zenimax Online Studios’ Matt Firor, it also killed off Project Blackbird, a new MMORPG from ZOS that was in development for seven years. Now […]

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WRUP: Surprising reasons you cannot get a pastrami...

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2025/07/05

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about scoring sweet deals IRL.

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The Daily Grind: Should MMO pets feature more utility?

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2025/07/05

While MMO non-combat pets (or “vanity” pets) may not be everyone’s thing, I absolutely love mine. It’s a small dose of artificial companionship during my adventures, as well as a way to express my tastes and maybe show off a treasured possession. But it’s kind of bugged me that these pets really do very little […]

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The Stream Team: Some 4th of July Summerween fun in...

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2025/07/04

If Massively OP’s MJ loves Mogloween so much, how do you think she’d react to a dose of AQ3D‘s holiday during summer? She be stoked, of course! And for July 4th, she’ll be celebrating some Summerween on Pointless Isle. The island is filled with Mystcroft beach crashers, the Summer Squash Lord, and a massive Beach […]

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Betawatch: Where Winds Meet has a final test, Reaper...

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2025/07/04

I don’t know why we keep getting weird titles in this field, but while Where Winds Meet is a kind of odd title, it is at least a cool one. Also, more importantly for our particular column here, it’s getting a final test on July 24th on both PC and consoles. So if you’re hoping for […]

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Helldivers 2 is coming to the Xbox Series X|S in late...

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2025/07/04

No longer content with merely bringing democracy to armies of insectoid aliens, the eponymous military force of Helldivers 2 is now going to be bringing democracy to the players on Xbox Series X|S consoles. The stream of same is embedded below, but don’t be fooled by the length; it’s an hour of absolutely nothing before the […]

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The Stream Team: Saying hello to the newly arrived...

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2025/07/04

Today is the day when MOP’s Chris and his family come together again in Monster Hunter Wilds to welcome some new neighbors, Lagi and Steve! That’s Lagiacrus and Seregios, the two creatures added to the game, and the “welcome” will involve hitting them with enormous weapons. Join them today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as they […]

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The Crew Motorfest celebrates Ferrari and European...

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2025/07/04

Whether you consider yourself a card-carrying member of the Ferrari Tifosi, you like the Prancing Pony cars, or you just enjoy seeing fast new vroomy-vroom machines, the latest free content update available in The Crew Motorfest should ideally bring a smile to your face, as Season 7 is all about Ferrari and the wider excellence […]

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Gachapwned: Gacha is not just a business model – it’s...

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2025/07/04

When I started off the Gachapwned series, I devoted the very first column to explaining that the gacha business model is inherently a predatory way of monetizing a video game. And I framed that column as being a matter of establishing something as a starting point, an object of basic understanding: Gacha is a predatory […]

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Final Fantasy XIV kicks off the Moogle Treasure Trove...

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2025/07/04

Allegory, for those unfamiliar, refers to the idea of something in a story having a metaphorical importance, so a dragon actually represents a kind of evil that hasn’t been controlled over generations or whatever. Not that this is a thing you have to worry about with the latest Moogle Treasure Trove event in Final Fantasy XIV […]

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GTA Online, uh, embraces the Fourth of July spirit...

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2025/07/04

Sometimes satire can be subtle and sneaky, but other times it can be swung at you like a cinderblock tied to a rope. We’re suspecting the latter method is being leveraged by Grand Theft Auto Online over this Fourth of July holiday weekend, as the multiplayer open world is absolutely awash in star-spangled opulence all […]

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