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The Stream Team: Welcoming insects in Planet Crafter

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2025/06/28

Believe it or not, Massively OP’s MJ was able to resist the siren call of Planet Crafter for a whole month! It wasn’t easy. But now she’s returning — just in time to welcome insects to her home. With the tree stage completing, the insect stage is starting. Maybe in this stage she will be […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s Midsummer island is a...

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2025/06/28

Summer in Lord of the Rings Online never seems to arrive until the old Summer Festival or Farmer’s Faire finally kicks in. Even the previous iteration of the Midsummer Festival lacked that summery feel, as it were more of an extended wedding shower than anything else. But as of last week, LOTRO finally has a […]

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Judge approves order mandating EverQuest emu The...

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2025/06/28

Earlier this week, we covered the eyebrow-raising news that Daybreak was suing EverQuest emulator server The Heroes Journey in a California court. As we noted, Daybreak (fka SOE) has a long history of supporting older versions of its games by running progression servers, licensing player-run servers like Project 1999, and turning a blind eye toward […]

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WRUP: A quick primer for rap music my droogs edition

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2025/06/28

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

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most chaotic combat?

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2025/06/28

MMO combat has to accomplish many things simultaneously, including resolving many moving variables, trading skills, feeling impactful, and looking exciting. Yet some of these games punch up the visuals so much that combat can go from being thrilling to a chaotic mess of lights, sounds, and telegraphs you’re probably missing. When I think of the […]

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Monster Hunter Wilds gets two returning monsters,...

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2025/06/28

The beginning of next week promises to be a big one for Monster Hunter Wilds players as the next free content patch, appropriately named Title Update 2, will offer up new fights and features on Monday, June 30th. Headlining the patch is the return of a pair of classic monsters: Lagiacrus, the underwater leviathan that […]

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Betawatch: Sea of Remnants’ preview, Chrono Odyssey’s...

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2025/06/27

The vision of the future proposed by Sea of Remnants can best be described by one word: “Wet.” MOP’s Chris used several more words in his impressions of the early preview, though. The short version is that he enjoyed it, but by gosh did it have some roughness around the edges, helped not one whit by […]

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Final Fantasy XI revives its Celestial Nights event...

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2025/06/27

The Final Fantasy XI Celestial Nights event is unique to the game. It isn’t an adaptation of a real holiday, it’s just an in-universe story about a prince and princess who fell in love with one another across a river but never got together and wound up dying. For some reason, this celebration then awards people […]

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Lynked: Banner of the Spark celebrates the season...

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2025/06/27

Is “beach bum” a term that people still use these days? Do the Youths still refer to beach bums? Do the Youths even know beaches exist in real life? Regardless, Lynked: Banner of the Spark is either making use of it or bringing it back from obscurity with its newest update, and the Beach Bum […]

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War Thunder’s Leviathans update brings new ground...

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2025/06/27

You might think that with an update named Leviathans, War Thunder would forget about everything other than oceanic threats with this update. But you’d be wrong. This update certainly has not forgotten about helicopters, for example, with the addition of the RAH-66 Comanche and new Z-10 variants. It also hasn’t forgotten about other aircraft, as […]

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ASKA’s June update overhauls happiness mechanics,...

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2025/06/27

Earlier this week the Viking-themed survivalbox and colony sim ASKA was looking back at its year’s worth of early access updates, but now it’s time for us all to look forward as the newest patch brings what every gamer wants: the ability to milk bunnysheep. That’s right, players can now engage in smolkr farming with […]

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Funcom cozy sandbox Aloft drops a new roadmap,...

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2025/06/27

As promised, multiplayer cozy sandbox Aloft has officially launched its Puzzles & Pyrologics update this week. “With this update, the cozy co-op sandbox survival game expands the diversity of its sky islands through the new puzzle system and elevates the potential of player’s own creations,” developer Astrolabe and publisher Funcom say. “The Puzzles & Pyrologics […]

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The Stream Team: Taking a peek at Palworld’s latest...

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2025/06/27

While MOP’s Chris has literally no experience with Terraria, he does have lots of experience with Palworld, and that’s more than enough to get him to peek back into this survival sandbox and check out the latest content patch that blends the two together, among other things! Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as […]

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Solo MMO sim Erenshor opens Bellwain Island, adds...

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2025/06/27

The summer season has dawned upon Erenshor, and the single-player MMO simulator has a brand-new vacation destination for you to visit: Bellwain Island. But beware! This abandoned isle was cursed by ghosts or something. “Rumored to have hoarded a massive treasure over 100 years ago before vanishing into retirement with his beloved wife, Captain Bellwain […]

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Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s July events should...

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2025/06/27

Pokemon Go may be having Go Fest 2025 around this time, but the July 2025 events haven’t been forgotten. Well, not all of them; as of this writing, Scopely’s POGO team did leave out at least one event description posted elsewhere, but oh well. After all, this is the same team that came from Niantic, warts […]

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Square Enix acknowledges Final Fantasy XIV’s dip in...

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2025/06/27

Many fans of Final Fantasy XIV appear to have clung to admissions from producer and director Naoki Yoshida during the recent live letter about missed quality targets and some dropped features like a lack of two different difficulties for the Forked Tower dungeon due to “cost,” which MOP’s Eliot argues likely doesn’t mean fiscal (and […]

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Fight or Kite: Old-school side-scrolling beat-’em-ups...

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2025/06/27

Let me take you back in time. It was the early 1990s, and videos games were super and rollerblades were so rad. A cute, bright-eyed boy spent hours upon hours in the local Pizza Hut. He wasn’t there for the pizza, though, mind you. He was there for the arcade games. In small-town Texas, the […]

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RuneScape Dragonwilds community Q&A says Jagex is...

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2025/06/27

Following a state of the game and roadmap earlier this month in which the Jagex team said that it wasn’t going anywhere, survival sandbox RuneScape Dragonwilds produced a community question-and-answer video with the game’s executive producer to go over future specifics. Of greatest interest to players is the news that the upcoming Fellhollow patch will […]

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Gachapwned: The lesson a failed gacha game’s offline...

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2025/06/27

In 2020, Capcom launched a mobile gacha game based on Mega Man X titled Mega Man X DiVE. The title was primarily developed by a Taiwan-based studio, and so you might think that it was some kind of cynical cash grab due to… you know, the game’s being a gacha title and so forth. But when the […]

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Project Ghost highlights the hand-crafted nature of...

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2025/06/27

If there’s one thing that’s kind of confusing when approaching Fantastic Pixel Castle’s Project Ghost MMO, it’s that the studio keeps using the terms “blue zones” and “red zones” like you should automatically know what they mean. Fortunately for the non-psychics among us, Fantastic Pixel Castle has been explaining what these are in recent blog […]

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