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BioWare’s Anthem is shutting down altogether in 2026

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2025/07/04

Alas, poor Anthem; we knew it, Horatio. The game never really got over with players, and while it launched to two million units sold, it only ever hit about five million in total. Unfortunately, it looks as if now the final sunset approaches for the game, as Electronic Arts has announced it will sunset game’s servers, […]

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The Daily Grind: What *didn’t* you buy in the Steam...

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2025/07/04

OK, smartasses, I know you didn’t buy the vast majority of things in the Steam sale. You know what I mean here. You have a wish list. You at least considered buying a whole list of things. My wish list is 200 games long, and obviously I did not buy 200 things! I think it’s […]

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The Stream Team: A trip to The Sane Asylum in...

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2025/07/03

The Sane Asylum? Yup, that definitely sounds like a place that Massively OP’s MJ would find interesting, so she’s going to visit one in Dungeons & Dragons Online. It turns out to be an asylum in the Embers district where the inmates have taken over — all thanks to the influence of the Plane of […]

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Massively Overthinking: Is vertical progression still...

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2025/07/03

Back in May, Project Ghost’s Greg Street got MMO players buzzing over the state of MMOs in the West vs. the East. That isn’t what we’re going to talk about today, though. I want to pull on a different thread. In the midst of that discussion, Street mentioned that in his new MMO, he is […]

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Warframe kicks off its TennoCon celebration early...

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2025/07/03

Tenno, the Lotus has a new mission for you this month, and that’s celebrating TennoCon even before the actual 2025 event starts on July 18th. Oh, sure, Warframe players can look forward to that when the event kicks off to learn about upcoming content, but what else will you do until then? Why, you’ll hopefully order […]

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Marvel Rivals teases Season 3 going live on July 11

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2025/07/03

No matter how many times Jean Grey, the Phoenix, gets killed, she always comes back. This would perhaps be a little more on-brand if that were her actual superpower, but she is being added to the roster of Marvel Rivals when the game’s third season goes live on July 11th. A new trailer just below details Jean […]

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EverQuest teases a 2025 expansion ‘to die for,’...

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2025/07/03

Daybreak was busy Daybreaking this week – the good kind of Daybreaking, mind you – and there’s so much that we’re gonna round it all up! First, EverQuest’s producer’s letter for July dropped, with studio head Jenn Chan recapping the game’s spring content, promising a content creator program, the merge of the Ragefire server into […]

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BitCraft Online takes the stance of ‘moderate don’t...

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2025/07/03

Now a couple weeks into its early access launch, sandbox MMO BitCraft Online is catching its breath and looking forward to the next steps of its evolving gameplay. Clockwork Labs said that it’s shifting over into a “predictable weekly update schedule” with at least one (but perhaps more) patch every week. With the servers becoming […]

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Star Citizen preps new gear and PvE co-op zones as it...

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2025/07/03

Star Citizen is effectively looking at its past, its present, and its future in a manner of speaking this week, as CIG has put out its latest roadmap roundup post for the sci-fi sandbox’s next tentative features, outlined work done over the past month, and kicked off its latest event to draw in new players/buyers. […]

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Elder Scrolls Online teases Feast of Shadows’...

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2025/07/03

While ZeniMax Online Studios is currently reeling from the Microsoft-inflicted chaos of layoffs and the loss of a whole MMORPG those staffers have been working on for seven years as well as the departure of Matt Firor, the Elder Scrolls Online team must still soldier on with development – and that means the content roadmap […]

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Blue Protocol: Star Resonance interview highlights...

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2025/07/03

The resurrection of Blue Protocol as Blue Protocol: Star Resonance might seem like a strange arc for any MMORPG, but now MMO players are getting more info thanks to an IGN-published Q&A between the Blue Protocol Database fansite and the head of Tencent’s Shanghai Bokura Network Technology, all focused on the western version of the game with […]

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Black Desert’s 30th class, Wukong, is live this week...

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2025/07/03

Pearl Abyss spent last weekend’s Heidel Ball dishing on what’s en route for Black Desert in the near future, and now some of that content is already coming to pass in the form of the game’s new class. “Black Desert Online welcomes an exciting wave of content and deals, headlined by the long-anticipated debut of […]

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Lord of the Rings Online tests Hunter and Burglar...

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2025/07/03

The most interesting developments in Lord of the Rings Online right now aren’t on the live servers but rather the Bullroarer test server. Standing Stone Games continues to expand upon the Update 45 preview on that realm, and players can now check out the myriad of Hunter and Burglar changes that have been in the […]

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Warframe of Mind: Spiderframe Oraxia creeps along the...

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2025/07/03

I have an odd relationship with spiders. I personally think they’re incredibly neat, but I also find them really disturbing. So I do not want them around me, like, at all, but I was also immediately fascinated by Oraxia as a concept because ooh, spider-frame, how do you make a frame focused on spiders? It’s hardly among the weirdest themes […]

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John Smedley’s new MMOFPS is called Reaper Actual,...

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2025/07/03

Remember back in March, when John Smedley resurfaced teasing a new game headed up by PlanetSide 2 devs Matt Higby and Tramell Isaace? Well, today, we’re finally getting a bit more info on that game, starting with the fact that it’s actually called Reaper Actual and the studio is actually called Distinct Possibility Studios. Yes, […]

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Why I Play: The Secret World’s Joelzilla Incident is...

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2025/07/03

Thirteen years ago today, The Secret World launched. Twelve years ago today, it began its first anniversary event, and I got to experience one of the most unique and memorable moments of my MMO career. When I think about what keeps me coming back to MMORPGs, this is a moment that is always top of […]

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NetEase’s Wuxia MMO Where Winds Meet confirms its...

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2025/07/03

A couple of months ago, western gamers were introduced to Where Winds Meet, a multiplayer open world wuxia RPG developed by Everstone Studio and published by NetEase. Information on the game was mostly provided on its official site and Steam page with the promise of “an epic open-world action-adventure RPG” set in the Five Dynasties and […]

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‘Adventure’ OARPG Vaultbreakers, now backed by...

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2025/07/03

We’ve been covering BetaDwarf’s multiplayer game Vaultbreakers for so long that it’s had two other names along the way – Project Haven and Project F4E – and while it’s long since pivoted from MMO to extraction OARPG, it’s still one we’re watching. In fact, we’re watching even more closely now as today, the studio announced […]

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Dune Awakening players find a fresh dupe exploit...

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2025/07/03

Life in Dune: Awakening continues to be challenging, and not because of any intended design. A patch that was put out just yesterday to address a material duping exploit may have fixed that initial problem, but literally a day later, players found another one. The new exploit, which let players duplicate and fully repair items […]

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Guild Wars 2 is teasing something (new elite specs? a...

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2025/07/03

Guild Wars 2, what are you cooking up for us next expansion? The MMORPG’s social media posted some artwork on Monday of a lute, with the cryptic caption “15 days …” and followed it up two days later with a similar icon of a winged helmet, which bears more than a passing resemblance to the […]

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