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The Daily Grind: How much attention do you pay to...

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2025/07/03

The richness of an MMO’s lore does not actually matter, on some level, because no matter what, you are going to have two groups of players. One group wants to find out every element of the lore with a rigor and determination usually reserved for figuring out ancient Greek birth records, and the other group wants […]

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The Stream Team: Under the light of the moon of Split...

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2025/07/03

Today is a special side story for Split Fiction because it’s one of Massively OP’s Larry’s favorites, and surprisingly, it’s not one of the science fiction settings. They’ve been pigs and hot dogs, but this next area might be even sillier. Laugh along with Larry and MJ as they explore what is likely the silliest […]

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Final Fantasy XIV confirms changes to Forked Tower...

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2025/07/02

Remember when Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida noted during the last Live Letter broadcast that changes to forming parties to enter the Occult Crescent’s Forked Tower dungeon would be coming in patch 7.3, which is slated to land in early August? Well, there’s some good news for those grinding it out in […]

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Destiny 2 previews The Edge of Fate with a trailer...

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2025/07/02

The next update for Destiny 2 is getting very, very edgy. It’s The Edge of Fate, after all, and if you want some trippy trailer action, we’ve got just that for you down below. Thrill to a ringing phone that appears to be disconnected and a stop light that appears to be malfunctioning while music plays in […]

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Blizzard is putting Warcraft Rumble into maintenance...

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2025/07/02

The Microsoft purge of 9100 people and a growing list of games live and in-development games continues to widen this evening. We’d thought maybe Blizzard would escape unscathed, but no: The company has announced that it’s putting Warcraft Rumble into maintenance mode. Does it use those words? No. But that’s what this is. “After much […]

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Team vs team mecha battler Mecha BREAK officially...

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2025/07/02

The time has come for mecha PvPing fans to get into their big fancy robot suits and blow one another up for funsies. Mecha BREAK, the team vs team sci-fi shooter from developer Amazing Seasun Games, has officially made its launch this week on PC and Xbox Series X|S just as announced. The free-to-play bot […]

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We’re so back: Red Dead Online surprise-launches four...

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2025/07/02

Are you ready for “the odd, twisted, and downright supernatural” in your Old West setting? Then saddle up, pard’ner, for a trip through Red Dead Online’s quartet of Strange Tales of the West. This update landed on Tuesday with an “anthology” of four missions, including Strange Tales of the Plague (zombies), Strange Tales of Modern […]

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ZeniMax Online Studios president Matt Firor is...

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2025/07/02

If you read this morning’s Microsoft layoff news – that Microsoft is laying off more than 9000 more workers in addition to the 6000 it shed a few months ago, closing whole substudios and shuttering games – then you already know that ZeniMax Online Studios has seen the closing down of its in-development MMORPG, Blackbird, […]

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The Stream Team: Anything goes in Elite Dangerous

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2025/07/02

Sometimes you go into a game with a plan – some kind of basic goal – but today, MOP’s Chris is hopping into Elite: Dangerous with only one idea in mind: play the game! What will he and his best friend Britarnya be doing, then? Who knows, but they’ll figure something out today at 2:00 […]

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City of Heroes spiritual successor Ship of Heroes is...

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2025/07/02

It’s been a long time coming, but Ship of Heroes finally has a proper release date: August 18th, 2025. Longtime MMO fans will recall that we’ve all been watching Ship of Heroes since 2016, when the indie team at Heroic Games first revealed the MMORPG. At the time, we were counting the game as the […]

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Turn-based MMO Broken Ranks readies to release a...

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2025/06/29

It’s been quite a while since we reported on Broken Ranks, the turn-based MMO from Polish indie Whitemoon Games, but that’s not necessarily because it’s been idle. In fact, the game is readying to crank out its next major update on Tuesday, July 1st, which is bringing players to The Other Side – and a […]

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The MOP Up: Last Epoch shuts out content creators...

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2025/06/29

OARPG Last Epoch is tired of people “solving” patches too quickly and is cutting out content creators and media from testing new updates: “We understand how important discovery is to the Last Epoch experience, and we want to preserve that sense of excitement and exploration for the entire community.” And this is just the beginning of the […]

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The Stream Team: Taking a trip to the Museum of Human...

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2025/06/29

What sorts of things could possibly happen within a museum at night? Well when that night is spent in the creepy yet hilarious game of R.E.P.O., the answer is anything could happen! Join Chris, MJ, and their family and friends as they once again come together for some co-op spooks and possession of goods today […]

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Stop Killing Games approaches its final deadline as...

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2025/06/29

It was only just last year that Ross Scott, who runs the YouTube gaming channel Accursed Farms, spearheaded the Stop Killing Games initiative in response to… well, a pretty cynical game closure, specifically for The Crew. Scott initiated that effort to put social pressure on lawmakers to prevent unnecessary closures, which has included petitions like this […]

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Riot Games confirms sports betting sponsorships for...

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2025/06/29

The sponsorship banners for the next major League of Legends and Valorant esports tournaments are going to look a bit different this year, as Riot Games has officially announced that it will open up to sponsorships from official sports betting services, where previously such sponsors were not allowed. According to Riot president of publishing and […]

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One Shots: The perils of misallocating your stats

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2025/06/29

Back when the MMORPG genre was a more wild and wooly place, developers would let you fling your stat points into your character all willy-nilly with no warning or restraints. There are horror stories of what happened to some of those characters with borked stats, but none so terrifying as those who suffered permanent deformities […]

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The Daily Grind: What MMO critter do you want in...

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2025/06/29

I stopped caring what anyone had to say about Palworld and whether or not it was too similar to Pokemon or whatever as soon as I saw Relaxaurus. Look at him. He’s perfect. He’s better than any Pokemon and I want all the plushies of this gigantic dopey thing. They’re probably never going to exist, but I […]

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Make My MMO: Ahoy, Lionhearts, and Eldramoor...

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2025/06/29

Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP’s long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older games long past their fundraising. We are watching three brand-new Kickstarters this round! Ahoy is an age of sail MMO that’s already funded with over $640,000 as we type this, far […]

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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen shows off upcoming visual...

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2025/06/28

Tell us if this is you: You’re a fresh-off-the-boat player in Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. You’ve killed the millions of monsters it requires to move from level one to level two and your pockets are bursting with crafting materials. So you head back to one of the hub cities to make some stuff and […]

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Hytale’s former devs paint a picture of executives’...

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2025/06/28

Earlier this week we had the unfortunate duty to report that Hytale, the Minecraft-like MMORPG being developed by Riot Games-owned Hypixel Studios, was fully cancelled along with its studio being shut down. At the time there were presumptions about what happened and whether Riot was to blame, but several former devs are now speaking out, […]

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