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First Impressions: Sea of Remnants is a curious,...

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2025/06/27

You know when you see trailers or images for a game and you think that it looks too good or too nice to be true? That’s kind of where I landed when I first saw Sea of Remnants showcased. I immediately was suspicious of what was being shown off, how much was gameplay versus animation, […]

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Star Citizen is ramping up the rewards for its...

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2025/06/27

The referral program on offer for Star Citizen players is overdue for an update and modernization by CIG’s reckoning, so that’s just what the studio is doing on Wednesday, July 2nd, when it gets an update that promises more goodies for both new players and those who hook those new players into the sandbox. In […]

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Raph Koster’s Stars Reach is ramping up to 14-hour...

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2025/06/27

Playtests for upcoming games can be tricky. You want to play Stars Reach, but the servers are not available all day every day for you to do so. And that isn’t changing next week, but the game is going to be up for 14-hour playtest sessions on July 1st and July 3rd, which certainly helps. We […]

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The Daily Grind: Are there MMO mechanics you just...

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2025/06/27

Earlier this spring, I was showing my husband how busy our Lord of the Rings Online server was, as SSG was forced to suppress certain zones from showing everyone just to keep the server flowing. And he said, “Hey it could be worse – at least they aren’t literally whisking you away through an untimely […]

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The Stream Team: Acute Delirium in DDO’s Reign of...

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2025/06/26

With the souls of the Warforged restored (mostly correctly), Massively OP’s MJ is moving on to another adventure in Dungeons & Dragons Online. Tonight, she starts a new quest arc, Reign of Madness. Her task is to return to the Sleeping Spell Inn where she previously cleared out creatures from Xoriat, the Plane of Madness, […]

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Massively Overthinking: How many MMO alts is too many?

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2025/06/26

A few weeks back, I asked our readers how they manage their MMORPG alts (the joke being the LOTRO player who said “log out of one and log into the other”). But I want to jump off that discussion and into another one this week because the question assumed that you even have alts to […]

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Black Desert adds a new PvP dragon on PC, moves to...

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2025/06/26

How can you strike fear in the hearts of your PvP foes in Black Desert? Why, rock up on top of a big angry dragon of course. We’re hard pressed to think of another way, and as of this week’s PC update, those who are part of the larger-scale battles in the sandbox can absolutely […]

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Co-op roguelike Evercore Heroes Ascension releases...

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2025/06/26

It’s been a long while in coming, and it had a stuttering startup before it got to this point, but at long last Vela Games’ Evercore Heroes: Ascension has officially arrived to Steam early access for those looking to see how this blend of co-op roguelike and MOBA play out. As we’ve reported previously, this […]

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Elite Dangerous outlines the upcoming Panther Clipper...

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2025/06/26

The end of the month once more brings another round of news from Elite: Dangerous studio Frontier Developments as its latest Frontier Unlocked livestream granted additional details for the upcoming Panther Clipper Mk2 cargo hauler, including its paid early access arrival date of Tuesday, July 22nd. This supermassive space truck fields some astonishing slots, including […]

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The best MMO and multiplayer deals from Steam’s...

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2025/06/26

I usually put a pithy line or two snarking about the annual Steam summer sale in this post, but this year, I can’t bring myself to do it because for once I have actually been really looking forward to it. That’s because I just got a Steam Deck (they’re surprisingly back in stock, by the […]

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Odin Valhalla Rising’s summer update adds an event...

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2025/06/26

If you are one of the 20M players who’ve dipped a toe into Kakao’s Odin Valhalla Rising, you may want to consider a whole-body dive, as the game has just released its full summer update. “Odin: Valhalla Rising leaves the winter behind and brings the heat with a summer update featuring a brand new elite […]

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Throne & Liberty’s Calanthia 12-person raid is live...

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2025/06/26

Throne and Liberty fans are marching toward their death and/or their delight today as the Calanthia 12-person raid has officially opened its doors. “Vanquish Calanthia before her dream becomes a nightmare for all of Solisium,” Amazon dares you. “Fearsome bosses will attempt to stop you on your way to the altar. Upon your arrival, you’ll […]

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Hearthstone is adding its first in-game pet, but you...

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2025/06/26

Hearthstone is setting up a pet adoption agency in its game — but it may cost you more than you’d like. The digital trading card game announced that it’s adding its very first interactive cosmetic pet to the game named King Krush. This little dino will sit on the corner of your board and cheer […]

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Warframe of Mind: Warframe’s Isleweaver is an awfully...

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2025/06/26

I have been looking forward to Isleweaver pretty much since the moment that it was announced. It struck me as a little bit surprising as a direction to go; sure, the various talks with the Hex made it very clear that Duviri was going to remain a major component of what we were doing for […]

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PSA: Champions Online will apparently end 32-bit...

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2025/06/26

The inexorable march of time appears to be coming for the tech that’s powering Champions Online, as one player is sharing a screenshot of a popup (archived here on the Wayback Machine) that the superhero MMORPG is ending support for 32-bit operating systems on Monday, June 30th. The alert comes from a player of 14 […]

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WoW Factor: Is World of Warcraft flooding us with too...

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2025/06/26

The awful periods when World of Warcraft suffered from extensive content droughts still existing in living memory: Typically, these were lengthy stretches of time prior to an expansion’s launch when absolutely nothing new was added or done with the MMO. The worst of these were, to my recollection, the lead-ups to both Warlords of Draenor […]

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Chrono Odyssey confirms restrictions to limit...

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2025/06/26

When players get their hands on character creators in an MMORPG, they’re often going to go buck wild if given the ability to do so. Chrono Odyssey has found this universal truth out the hard way, and while the devs at Kakao’s Chrono Studio were initially fine with keeping options wide open, the variety of […]

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EVE Frontier offers a free trial for the blockchain...

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2025/06/26

“Huh,” you say to yourself as you sip your coffee, staring at this game. “Why is no one sharing anything about EVE Frontier? CCP Games said that everyone could share their impressions of it and… oh, wait, this was that blockchain game they were doing, right? Yeah, that makes sense.” And you’re right, hypothetical coffee-drinking reader; […]

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‘We have lost players to the way we approach...

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2025/06/26

If you’re looking for a reason to be distracted from the fact that Jagex leadership made the deeply unpopular decision to prevent RuneScape’s devs from fully celebrating Pride this year as they usually do, then Jagex execs are happy to be giving you one: monetization changes. Readers will know that the RuneScape playerbase is frequently […]

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Dune Awakening begins the process of pivoting to a...

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2025/06/26

Following the recent furor over a heavy PvP endgame design and subsequent developer change of mind, Dune Awakening delivered its Patch 1.1 today with a much more friendly PvE endgame focus. “This hotfix will see the first iteration of the changes to the balance between PvE and PvP in the Deep Desert,” the studio said, […]

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