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Escape from Tarkov continues attacking bugs and...

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2025/11/21

Last weekend we reported on the sorry state of the 1.0 release for PvPvE extraction FPS Escape from Tarkov, which has struggled under the weight of server problems, matchmaking issues, and heaps of bugs, among other things. As one might expect, this has put Battlestate Games on the back foot as the studio continues to […]

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PlanetSide 2 continues marking its 13th anniversary...

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2025/11/21

While a recent patch to PlanetSide 2 already started the celebrations, ToadBreak Rogue PlanetMan is continuing to party hard for its lucky number 13 anniversary, and it’s doing it by handing out a bunch of codes for doing stuff outside of the game. You only turn 13 once, after all, so why not? Four different […]

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Skull and Bones looks toward balancing the rewards...

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2025/11/21

Who doesn’t like fighting people because you belong to a different faction? Surely not the pirates in Skull and Bones, who have gotten to enjoy factional warfare being added into the game. But while the Ubisoft developers seem pretty happy with the game content, the latest development diary makes it clear that they’re aware some problems […]

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The Stream Team: Co-op sessions in the community...

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2025/11/21

While the multiplayer sandbox of Skate might be having a somewhat underwhelming in-game event right now, MOP’s Chris is still having some fun by visiting the community skate parks that pop up every day. So that’s precisely what he’s going to be sharing, and he won’t be alone, as he’ll be with his best friend […]

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Path of Exile 2 announces The Last of the Druids...

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2025/11/21

For those who love the class fantasy of being capable of wielding the wild in combat against evil, you’ve been kind of starved for that choice in Path of Exile 2 thus far. However, that cavernous Druid-shaped hole in your heart is about to be filled, as Grinding Gear Games has officially announced The Last […]

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Astroneer’s Megatech DLC is live now as System Era...

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2025/11/21

Do you want to build big in Astroneer? Well don’t let your dreams stay dream, little space guy, get out there and put together a megastructure. What is a megastructure? It’s a big construction. Like, really big. It’s also the central feature of the game’s new Megatech DLC, asking people to put together their enormous flipping […]

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WoW Classic tests Burning Crusade changes and new...

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2025/11/21

The first public tests for what WoW Classic is calling the Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary (BCCA for short, why not) is now up on the PTR, and you better believe that this Outland boy is coming in hot with all sorts of changes. The community is abuzz about the different approach that Blizzard is taking […]

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Design Mockument: What would a Final Fantasy XI...

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2025/11/21

So this week’s moment of “unexpected but very, very good” news is the announcement that Guild Wars is getting a new “Reforged” update that does things like bump up some graphical quality and add some general experience improvements, for players on multiple devices. This is a really cool and good thing, and while I could speculate […]

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Following a goofy delay, Ubisoft’s financials arrive...

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2025/11/21

If you happened to be holding any stock in Ubisoft, this past week might have frayed some of your nerves, as the gaming company announced that its fiscal report for the first half of the year was being delayed and that share trading would be temporarily halted. As one might expect, this ended up causing […]

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MMO Hype Train: Is Ashes of Creation ready for the...

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2025/11/21

One of our internal running gags at Massively OP is that there’s this hypothetical bingo prediction chart that’s full of incredibly specific events that absolutely nobody could see coming — until those events occur, and then we claim that they were on the bingo sheet all along. So I like to imagine that square G-4 […]

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Oh behoove! RIFT brings back its Unicornalia event

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2025/11/21

It’s turning out to be one of the most strangely active years in modern RIFT history, what with patches, a community-led revival, a player housing contest, and even a vote on the return of the XP locking feature. Now stack on top of all of that a pile of unicorns, and this MMO is hot […]

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Hytale devs invite player builders to join and shape...

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2025/11/21

If you’re a fan of blocky sandbox grinder RPGs with a hefty dose of modding that enables people to make their own custom servers and MMOs, then you’re having a spectacular week. As we’ve been covering, the Hypixel founders have rescued the Hytale MMO from cancelation at Riot Games, having rehired dozens of its devs […]

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Blizzard addresses drama over World of Warcraft’s...

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2025/11/21

As the next World of Warcraft expansion rolls onward through testing, game director Ion Hazzikostas took the time to opine once more about why Blizzard is overhauling the ways that addons work and reducing the number of raid addons players are expected to use. Hazzikostas brings up several elements like how addons could often muddy the […]

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Brass Rain is a new military MMOFPS from Yarnhub...

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2025/11/21

MMOFPS fans and military sims, I have something intriguing for you today, and it is a real MMO shooter and not another extraction clone: It’s called Brass Rain, and studio Yarnhub has just announced it as a properly funded free-to-play UE5 title coming to early access early next year. “Yarnhub, the animation studio behind high-quality […]

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The Daily Grind: Have the terms sandbox and themepark...

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2025/11/21

A while back, MOP’s Justin penned a Daily Grind about the themepark/sandbox spectrum, asking where our readers would put their alignment. I’ve written before about how we’re losing both concepts from the MMORPG lexicon, very steadily, and that I’ve had newbie developers insist very loudly that their obvious sandbox isn’t a sandbox. It’s led me […]

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The Stream Team: Looking for Lolth in DDO rift spaces

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2025/11/21

So the big spider boss in Dungeons & Dragons Online wasn’t the big spider boss. Nope. That title belongs to the demon goddess herself, Lolth — who just happened to poke her head through the rift ripped in dimensions. Now what will Massively OP’s MJ do about that giant, supposedly stabilized rift? Why, head into […]

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Massively Overthinking: The MMORPG cash shop stuff we...

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2025/11/21

I was flipping through the Guild Wars 2 cash shop the other day when I was reminded that the game actually sells hero points. ArenaNet actually started selling them about two years ago, but I had completely forgotten about them because I can’t really think of a compelling reason to buy them. The playerbase was […]

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Raven2 marks the arrival of its new Gunslinger class...

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2025/11/20

If your idea of dealing with MMORPG enemies is through an overabundance of firepower, then this week’s new patch for Raven2 might just have your huckleberry. Netmarble’s grimdark MMO has introduced the new Gunslinger class, which never met a problem it couldn’t handle by wielding more guns in its face. This new class brings a […]

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Wolcen Studio’s PvPvE extraction RPG Gods Death and...

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2025/11/20

They say that you never get a second chance to make a first impression, but clearly that axiom was written before the advent of alpha testing for MMOs and multiplayer games. Case in point: There’s a fourth closed alpha test now available for Gods, Death & Reapers, the PvPvE “ExtrAction” RPG from Wolcen developer Wolcen […]

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Roblox has begun rolling out its automated age...

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2025/11/20

It is doubtlessly a good thing that Roblox on a whole wants to limit the ability of adults to interact with children on the platform, and the fact that it is putting restrictions in place based upon age verification is ultimately a good thing. That being said, the fact that said restrictions are based upon automatic […]

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