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Pax Dei’s major Verse 3 update and wipe will get...

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2025/06/06

We’ve finally got a hard date for Pax Dei’s next big update: It’s coming on June 11th, right in the thick of all the other launches this month. “Verse 3 is the most expansive and ambitious update Pax Dei has seen to date,” Mainframe Industries reminds players. As we’ve been covering, this update to the […]

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Casually Classic: What is Blizzard baking for WoW...

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2025/06/06

Even before WoW Classic launched in 2019, everyone saw the big problem that this legacy version of the MMO would be facing: What kind of future could it have? The devs were effectively limited to three options, all of which WoW Classic has explored. They could keep the game frozen in time (Classic Era), they […]

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WoW Classic Pandaria says ‘no’ to raid finder but...

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2025/06/06

When WoW Classic progresses into Mists of Pandaria Classic next month, not everything from the original expansion will make the transition. Blizzard revealed this week that it has decided not to bring the raid finder into this version. “In progression Classic, however, we’ve seen far, far more players participating in Normal raiding, and there is […]

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Star Citizen outlines alpha 4.2’s upcoming new...

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2025/06/06

Apparently CIG’s calling alpha 4.2 of Star Citizen Storm Breaker isn’t just because it’s full of inclement weather patterns; it’s also the name of the sci-fi sandbox’s latest persistent sandbox activity that lets players dive into a multi-layer adventure across different locations. The activity involves players infiltrating a scientific compound owned by ASD, a high-tech […]

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Tarisland preps its first birthday celebrations – but...

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2025/06/06

Tencent’s MMORPG Tarisland has apparently awakened from its intermittent slumber to plot some minor festivities for its anniversary. Yes, time flies: Tarisland officially launched a year ago back on June 21st, 2024. “Dear Adventurers, thank you for being with us every step of the way! To celebrate the wonderful journey we’ve shared, the Community Anniversary […]

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BitCraft releases an empire-building showcase video...

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2025/06/06

If you’ve been watching BitCraft alongside us these last four years of development but still don’t entirely understand what it’s all about, today’s video is for you: The game is barreling on toward early access with the debut of a new showcase trailer that effectively demonstrates how players will begin, grow, and ultimately end in […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s the ideal gateway game for...

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2025/06/06

If you’re a veteran MMORPG player, it’s pretty likely that you came to MMORPGs through one of a handful of ways that I can probably guess. A lot of you started with Ultima Online or EverQuest, and a huge number of you came to MMOs through World of Warcraft, of course. More recently, the genre […]

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The Stream Team: Split souls in Dungeons & Dragons...

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2025/06/05

The Cloudwrights’ Club, an exclusive private club for the Sharn’s elite, has just replaced all of its staff with soul-split Warforged in Dungeons & Dragons Online. If Massively OP’s MJ can trace the sales, perhaps she can track down a lead for discovering who is behind the disappearances. One of SWAP’s patrons — Cyndrin Dorwell […]

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Massively Overthinking: Is Dune Awakening an MMO,...

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2025/06/05

In this week’s Massively Overthinking, we have a very simple question on deck in honor of Dune Awakening’s headstart: What the heck is it? Funcom called it an MMO for years right up until it didn’t, invoking MMORPGs of olden times to prop it up, but then backtracked a bit as its gathering zones settled […]

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A mercenary league and new endgame story await in...

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2025/06/05

No, your eyes do not deceive you: A new Path of Exile expansion is on the horizon. Secrets of the Atlas will launch at 4:00 p.m. EDT on June 13th, along with its accompanying challenge league, Mercenaries of Trarthus. Of course, this big update brings a plenty of things for folks to sink their teeth […]

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Post-apocalyptic MMO shooter Pioner shows pre-open...

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2025/06/05

In the grim post-apocalyptic future, odds of survival are so slim that people have taken to eating spare vowels out of titles. But Pioner endures even so, and this “socially driven MMO” has a new one-minute gameplay trailer to share. Spoiler: Everything in this future looks a bit dirty and deathy. Serbian developer GFA Games […]

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Vindictus Defying Fate nails down timing and details...

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2025/06/05

Over the past couple of months Nexon has been talking up an alpha test for its co-op multiplayer ARPG Vindictus: Defying Fate. Now the hype and vague excitement has coalesced into firm dates, timing, and other details for the open alpha, which opens its doors as part of Steam Next Fest starting Sunday, June 8th. […]

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Abyss of Dungeons, fka Dark and Darker Mobile,...

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2025/06/05

Abyss of Dungeons, which readers might remember as the spiffing new name given to Dark and Darker Mobile that soft launched to North America in February, is gearing up for its next pre-season update, which appears to mostly be about ensuring new arrivals have a good time. And that makes sense since the game is […]

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ARK Survival Ascended celebrates the survivalbox’s...

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2025/06/05

ARK: Survival Ascended is not 10 years old; it released in 2023. However, the wider ARK survivalbox series is 10 years old, which is more than reason enough for ASA to mark the occasion. Particularly since this remaster usurped the original. The party runs between now and June 17th with ramped up earning for XP […]

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Black Desert tweaks Arena of Solare and awakened...

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2025/06/05

This week is pretty tame across the various versions of Black Desert comparatively speaking. And while this does mean that there’s nothing new for console players, there are still a few things of note for PC and mobile fans of the sandbox to report on. So let’s do that. For PC, the major headlines are […]

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Co-op dungeon runner Fellowship shares a run-through...

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2025/06/05

If the best part of playing online RPGs to you are the exciting small-team dungeon runs, then you might already be keeping an eye on Arc Games’ Fellowship, a co-op multiplayer title currently in development. They’re calling it a “MODA” – a multiplayer online dungeon adventure game. This week, Arc posted a 10-minute playthrough video […]

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Pax Dei answers questions about crafting, PvP, PvE,...

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2025/06/05

If you don’t live, breathe, and swim around in the dank cloud of a game community’s Discord, you might feel bad that you would have missed out on a Q&A session like one held by Pax Dei, which was focused on its upcoming Verse 3 update and how it will change the whole game. However, […]

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NetEase’s new multiplayer RPG Sea of Remnants is...

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2025/06/05

NetEase is still cranking out new multiplayer games for the western market: Last night at the PlayStation State of Play event, it announced that it’s publishing Joker Studio’s upcoming “free-to-play ocean adventure RPG” Sea of Remnants, which is destined for PC, PS5, and mobile. Yes, this is the second new sea-themed game we’ve covered just […]

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Warframe of Mind: Is Yareli Prime just plain terrible?

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2025/06/05

One of the dearest people in my life is a huge fan of Yareli in Warframe, so you know that the first thing I was doing when the game added Yareli Prime was starting to farm for that frame. And lest you wonder, yes, I have been boarding around on Yareli Prime for a while since […]

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Star Citizen recounts efforts on AI and gameplay as...

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2025/06/05

It’s time for yet another look back at the month that was in Star Citizen’s development. That’s right, it’s monthly report time for the internet spaceship sandbox MMO. Let’s break it on down. Gimme a beat. Most efforts across CIG this past May were focused on AI behavior once more, with several added reactions to […]

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