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The Soapbox: World of Warcraft’s biggest remaining...

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2025/06/05

I’ve been pretty vocal about the fact that I think World of Warcraft is in a very good state right now, possibly the best it’s ever been. For most of its history, it’s struggled to balance the needs of raiders and casual players, but with open world and solo content now getting the same love […]

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The Nintendo Switch 2 console has officially hit...

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2025/06/05

Most of the time a games console going on sale is a big deal to the large but still semi-insular gaming circles, but Nintendo is different – and big enough to make national headlines. Yes, today is the day that the Nintendo Switch 2 console has officially been put on sale, and as you can […]

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Dune Awakening’s $70+ headstart has officially begun...

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2025/06/05

If you shelled out for either of the two largest Dune Awakening preorder packs, your time has come! No, literally, your time to play Dune Awakening has come. That’s because the headstart has just begun. Now, we’ve been covering this game for over six years: At the beginning of 2019, Funcom was riding high on […]

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Tides of Tomorrow is an ocean planet multiplayer...

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2025/06/05

Does the idea of a flooded world appeal to you — as a game, we mean, not as some sort of sadistic fantasy? If you grooved on movies like Waterworld or video games like Subnautica, you may want to check out THQ Nordic’s Tides of Tomorrow, a new multiplayer adventure game that’s coming out early next […]

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Warframe preps for its upcoming Tennocon with plenty...

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2025/06/05

It has been 10 years of Tennocons for Warframe, and the number 10 is pretty significant in the game. (Like, that is part of the reason for the name “Tenno” in the first place.) So it shouldn’t be a surprise that the developers are going all-out for the celebration, complete with an in-game relay players can visit […]

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The Daily Grind: What ‘bad’ build have you loved the...

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2025/06/05

Some players in Final Fantasy XI loved running around as a Warrior/White Mage. It’s like being a Paladin without being a Paladin! Except it actually is not, it was a terrible build, no one should ever do that. But some people really did love it, not just at low levels, and honestly? That’s fine. It’s not […]

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The Stream Team: From cats to kite run in Split Fiction

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2025/06/04

Luck was on Massively OP’s MJ’s side last time when she and Larry loaded in to the end of the last Split Fiction side story closer to where Larry left off instead of the beginning where MJ was. Thanks, Larry! And they defeated the cuddly kitty… er, cruel ice king of Zoe’s story. As the […]

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Temtem: Swarm previews its upcoming Endless Inferno...

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2025/06/04

Temtem: Swarm may have sold 100K copies, but if Steam concurrency is anything to go by, it has not exactly lit the gaming world on fire – never mind fans and Kickstarter backers of the original MMORPG Temtem that’s been put to pasture. But clearly studio Crema’s next update is hoping to set all sorts of […]

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Embers Adrift rolls out subscription time blocks to...

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2025/06/04

The Embers Adrift devs has clearly struggled through the last few months after their payment processor swindled them, and the Steam launch hasn’t fully gone to plan either. As we previously noted, Stormhaven ran into a technical glitch following the game’s Steam rollout whereby players were getting billed for multiple months at once via Steam. […]

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DC Universe Online kicks off another new character...

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2025/06/04

It’s time to blitz through the levels in DC Universe Online and get rewarded for it, above and beyond having a new high-level alt character, anyway. The superheroic MMORPG’s Ultimate Recruitment event is back and is offering new goodies for players who hit cap between now and June 30th. For those who haven’t participated before, […]

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Nexon unveils PvPvE extraction game Nakwon Last...

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2025/06/01

Would you like some more bangy shooty games out of Nexon? Don’t answer that because you’re getting two of ’em soon: PvPvE zombie-filled extraction shooter Nakwon: Last Paradise and free-to-play tactical FPS Sudden Attack Zero Point. We’ll begin with Nakwon, which drops players into a zombie-ravaged Seoul, South Korea, where scavenging by day, surviving through […]

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Co-op roguelite Evercore Heroes Ascension patches in...

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2025/05/31

An early access calendar date for Evercore Heroes: Ascension might have seemed like an impossibility if you recall this game’s development track. Dublin-based Vela Games first debuted the title back in 2023 as a competitive PvE MOBA where player teams would race to clear PvE objectives in the fastest time possible. It was almost a […]

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Guild Wars 2 details Absolution’s quality-of-life...

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2025/05/31

The Absolution update for Guild Wars 2 isn’t just bringing a creepy new zone; it’s also going to be introducing a host of quality-of-life improvements to the MMORPG, not the least of which being the Wizard’s Gobbler. Just what is a Wizard’s Gobbler? It’s not a wrestling finishing move (unsurprisingly), a magic-wielding turkey (regrettably), or […]

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The Stream Team: Driven to explore Planet Crafter,...

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2025/05/31

Massively OP’s MJ knows she has many other survival sandbox games to play, but she can’t help being drawn back into Planet Crafter. Once the world started shaping up, she’s been driven to advance it further. And now, the drive includes unlimited oxygen! That means MJ can explore across the entire planet in the vehicle […]

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MMO Hype Train: I need Outbound’s cozy van life, and...

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2025/05/31

I went through a jag a couple years back where I was downright obsessed with “van life.” This became really popular during the COVID years when YouTubers and others modified vans into tiny homes to travel the country in style (and promote their ongoing vacations to the envy of us house-locked schlubs). It wasn’t that […]

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ZeniMax QA workers reach tentative contract agreement...

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2025/05/31

We’ve been periodically reporting in on the efforts of ZeniMax Workers United-CWA – that’s the union that represents QA workers who work on titles such as Elder Scrolls Online – to come to a contract agreement with Microsoft. Indeed, the last time the union checked in, it accused the corporation of stalling negotiations. Well, it […]

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WRUP: Woman vs. wombat meta

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2025/05/31

Calvin Has A Stupid Face: Mary doesn’t like this one because she thinks it’s insulting to people named Calvin and no matter how many times I bring up Better Than Ezra she won’t concede the point. The Botswana Solution: Sounds kinda offensive to people in Botswana. Angular Mirrors: It seemed like a neat name but […]

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The Daily Grind: Are MMO parties more engaging when...

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2025/05/31

Who doesn’t love a good party now and then? Well, maybe you don’t if you’re a grouch hermit who would rattle a stick at kids who dare cross your lawn — but even that is a party if you look at it sideways! And when it comes to MMOs, there are plenty of parties to […]

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The Stream Team: The trobble with bosses in...

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2025/05/30

Massively OP’s MJ lied. Not intentionally, mind you! She honestly thought she could get a few trobbles without any trouble in AQ3D last time. However, it turns out that the drop rate is pretty low, and her luck was bottomed out! But now, trobble drops have been added to boss fights, so she can continue […]

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Betawatch: Dune Awakening wakes up next week, Aion 2...

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2025/05/30

So we all remember when Dune Awakening hit the snooze button, but it’s coming out next week and even has new trailers on deck to hopefully get people psyched up to play it. Meanwhile, Aion 2 has hit the snooze button so often that it is entirely possible you never believed it would happen, but it […]

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