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Co-op roguelike shooter Terminull Brigade nails down...

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2025/06/20

Fans of third-person roguelike shooters with oddball spelling choices in their titles, listen up: Tencent’s Level Infinite publishing arm and developer Pew Pew Games have tied down a release date for Terminull Brigade, which will land free-to-play on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store on Tuesday, July 29th, at 10:00 p.m. EDT. “A […]

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Fractured Online’s revamp will swap prefab player...

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2025/06/20

It’s not every day that an MMO launches twice and closes down twice and then launches again after being bought by another company and flooded with money and development, but we’re watching just that with Fractured Online. New owner, Happy Cauldron Games’ Duncan Davis, ran a fresh developer stream this week recapping more of the […]

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World War II MMO Foxhole’s latest update lets you...

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2025/06/20

When the bombs start dropping, the best place to be is deep, deep underground. That’s why it’s welcome news that World War II-themed Foxhole added underground building options with this past week’s Update 61. The patch expanded upon bunker and trench tools, such as additional garrison types, more trench variants, and modifications to make your […]

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The Stream Team: Harvesting the Elderwood in Palia

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2025/06/20

MOP’s Chris has been putting his nose to the grindstone in Palia over the past little while, and now with a few long tail goals laid out before him, he’s ready to share his time in the cozy multiplayer title with all of you, particularly as he travels the Elderwood to gather up all of […]

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Diablo Immortal’s Prince of Freedom update is live...

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2025/06/20

It’s time to re-read the title for Diablo Immortal’s newest content update released this week and realize that, yes, it is indeed called Prince of Freedom and not Price of Freedom. Also there’s a bunch of new content to take on too, but honestly we’re still kind of hung up on constantly mixing up the […]

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Destiny 2 discusses changes to melee damage and...

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2025/06/20

When the Edge of Fate expansion arrives to Destiny 2, it’s going to be making some pretty impactful changes to melee combat. Or to put it another way, it’s changing the edge of melee. Get it? Because edged weapons exist in the game. But also punching and shield bashing exists so… OK, maybe this wasn’t […]

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ARK: Survival Ascended launches its ‘first full...

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2025/06/20

The next chapter for ARK: Survival Ascended is here (sort of), as the sandbox’s “first full expansion” arrived yesterday on Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation with Lost Colony. Players can purchase the expansion pass to get a bunch of new perks and abilities, but they’ll have to wait until much later this year for the actual […]

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Gachapwned: The hollowness of gacha MMO shutdowns and...

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2025/06/20

Sunsets are a reality in our line of coverage. They’re not a constant, of course, but there are a lot of MMORPGs that do not make it to the decade mark, and I don’t need to list all of them. You no doubt know of several of them. There are titles I have bought deluxe […]

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Star Citizen updates to alpha 4.2 with new sandbox...

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2025/06/20

A storm has arrived to Star Citizen in both a figurative and a literal sense as the spaceship sandbox has released its latest alpha build, aka Storm Breaker, which brings a new persistent activity for players to take on, some new vehicles to command, and a host of overall changes. The marquee feature that gives […]

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Chrono Odyssey’s beta is underway with no NDA, lots...

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2025/06/20

Eager fans hoping for a crack at the Chrono Odyssey beta this weekend are finally getting their wish as the event is finally underway. Well, some of them are. “The Chrono Odyssey Closed Beta has officially begun, and the servers are now open,” Kakao announced this morning. “Players who have received access can now begin […]

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Mortal Online 2 shows off the new combat abilities...

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2025/06/20

It’s time for a new evolution of combat in Mortal Online 2, and that evolution involves combat abilities. Players can look forward to a new suite of combat skills with weapons that are fueled by Adrenaline, a new resource akin to Stamina and Mana. Taking damage will increase your Adrenaline, and it naturally regenerates (or decays) […]

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Final Fantasy XIV previews patch 7.3, The Promise of...

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2025/06/20

The latest Final Fantasy XIV live letter has showed off the game’s next patch: patch 7.3, The Promise of Tomorrow, is slated for early August release and will contain the conclusion of the Dawntrail expansion story. Of course, before we reach that wrap-up, we’ll have a new expert dungeon in the form of the Meso Terminal and […]

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Dune Awakening’s future plans include a beefy July...

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2025/06/20

Dune Awakening was one of the more impactful launches this year, but can Funcom keep momentum and interest in the survival SANDbox going? That’s the hope behind a recent AMA on Reddit, during which several of the game’s leads came out to answer community questions earlier this week. Of the greatest interest was the immediate […]

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MMORPG sandbox BitCraft will launch early access...

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2025/06/20

We’re back and forth and back and forth on BitCraft’s $30 early access: It’s been undelayed and is now launching tomorrow. Readers will recall that the game was originally meant to hit early access May 29th, but Clockwork bumped it to June 20th. Yesterday, the studio told fans that Valve’s slow-roll Steam approval had delayed the […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best mascot?

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2025/06/20

A recent Black Desert tweet using the creepy Black Spirit mascot got me wondering why more MMOs don’t have mascots. I mean, BDO deploys the Black Spirit as an anthropomorphic (blobbopomorphic?) ambassador for promotion. It’s cute, it’s weird, it’s funny. It’s the Gritty of MMO mascots. MapleStory’s PinkBean is pretty fun too. So is Valheim’s Rocky! […]

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The Stream Team: Dungeons and Dragons Online’s Soul...

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2025/06/19

Thanks to the intel gathered from the crayfish — er, former-accountant Davyd Shelby — the crooked business Fathom Endeavours in DDO is experimenting on the souls it stole from the warforged in its underground base. And that big high-tech underwater base is right nearby in Sharn’s harbour. Massively OP’s MJ’s goal is to infiltrate the […]

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Massively Overthinking: Finding flow states in MMORPGs

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2025/06/19

In this week’s Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about flow in MMOs – the psychology concept, not zone or progression design flow. Here’s Wikipedia’s definition: “Flow in positive psychology, also known colloquially as being in the zone or locked in, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed […]

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Fortnite’s various modes add Bruno Mars, a co-op wave...

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2025/06/19

The distraction circus that makes up Fortnite appears to have gone into overdrive this week, with the multiple modes and variants of the once PvE-only wave survival shooter bringing a clearly wide assortment of updates. Including… a PvE-only wave survival shooter mode. Huh. That mode is housed within LEGO Fortnite in the form of Expeditions, […]

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Black Desert adds a new boss on PC, preps current...

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2025/06/19

It’s another pretty busy week in the worlds of Black Desert as all three versions of the sandbox are introducing new things for players to get busy with. Or in the case of BDO Console, readying to introduce new things. We’ll start with the console version, as next Thursday, June 26th, will officially see the […]

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Greg Street explains how Project Ghost’s proc-gen...

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2025/06/19

Episode the third of Fantastic Pixel Castle’s aptly named Ghost Stories has arrived today, allowing studio boss Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street more space to discuss his upcoming MMORPG, codenamed Project Ghost. And Street is trekking back to what is fast becoming one of his favorite topics: blue zones, which are basically procedurally generated maps. Street explains […]

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