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Fractured Online’s new dev team previews the first...

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2025/05/30

If you’ve not been paying attention to the new Fractured Online team’s developer videos on everything it’s doing to revamp the game, you might want to drop ’em a little listen as Happy Cauldron Games is plainly diving in with a combination of heart and calm that is compelling. HCG’s Duncan Davis has previously explained […]

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Black Desert pits players against the White Witch on...

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2025/05/30

Regular fans of Black Desert are very likely familiar with Illezra the White Witch – she’s the villain who basically set player characters off on their adventure in the MMORPG’s narrative. At long last, the battle against this long-standing baddie is live this week with the opening of the Final Gladios. Pearl Abyss tries to […]

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Guild Wars 2’s Absolution zone, Bava Nivos, is hella...

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2025/05/30

We’re just a few sleeps away from Absolution, the fourth and final leg of Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds expansion, and now, ArenaNet is dropping some new videos, the first of which showcases a few animated clips from Bava Nisos. Bava Nisos, fans might recall, is the mountain-based ruin of an ancient mursaat city, long […]

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Modders put out a call to help rebuild and revive a...

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2025/05/30

The Borderlands series of FPS games are already a multiplayer affair for small groups, but what if that kind of gunplay and world (and take-it-or-leave-it humor) was expanded into an MMO scale? Well, you might recall that was already attempted in China over 10 years ago, and one modder is hoping to bring it back […]

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RuneScape explains loot table rebalancing while Old...

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2025/05/30

With an MMO that’s been operating for a quarter-century and has plans for at least that long to go, you might well expect that some balancing and adjustments are necessary to keep the game running well. RuneScape’s team calls this “game health,” and in a two-part blog post it explained why such work is important […]

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The Stream Team: Pushing through some sterner...

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2025/05/30

Despite the game being set to story mode, MOP’s Chris and his friend Brit ran into a surprising bit of trouble through the last MechWarrior 5: Clans co-op playthrough. Namely, a whole huge complement of mechs! But that doesn’t mean they’re not going to try again! Join them today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as they […]

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Pax Dei is ‘rethinking the entire structure’ of its...

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2025/05/30

When it comes to addressing its burgeoning crafting system, Pax Dei isn’t taking a little screwdriver here or some WD-40 there to tune up the feature. Nay, this sandbox MMO has grabbed the biggest sledgehammer it could find and is swinging away right in front of our eyes. “With the arrival of Path of the […]

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Helldivers 2 players successfully defend Super Earth...

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2025/05/30

This is a story that manages to stir together Helldivers 2’s coolest content update, some alleged numerical trickery, and some apparent Chinese nationalism. It’s the kind of stew that can only come from this shooter’s wider community, honestly; remember that this is the same playerbase that crashed out over PlayStation Network requirements. Readers may recall […]

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Elden Ring Nightreign arrives on PC and console with...

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2025/05/30

How many times do we need to see the words Elden Ring Nightreign typed before it teaches people the difference between reign, rein, and rain? I don’t know, but the marketing folks are aiming to find out as they’ve been flooding our inboxes with Nightreign news for the last month. But that’ll finally slow down […]

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Internet Road Trip invites you to pile into a virtual...

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2025/05/30

Feel like ditching your responsibilities to cruise in an aimless road trip? While you might not have the time or gas money to do that right now, you can virtually engage in this with the hilariously fun Internet Road Trip. In what feels like a delightful throwback to the old web, Internet Road Trip puts […]

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Amazon is experimenting with adding ‘rough edges’ to...

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2025/05/30

As part of its preview of New World’s upcoming hardcore seasonal world, Amazon has sent along a new Q&A-style dev blog explaining the studio’s reasoning for the planned ruleset. As we’ve been covering, season 8’s seasonal server effectively flattens the game’s leveling curve so that PvP players can zip from “zero to endgame-ready in just […]

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Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs attract players with...

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2025/05/30

This week in our Gachapwned column, we’re examining the three-pronged approach that gacha games use to attract players in the first place. Last week, we covered the strong character writing that is a component of the genre’s selling points, but that in and of itself wouldn’t be enough to attract players in substantial numbers. After […]

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Kakao’s MMO Odin Valhalla Rising has seen 20M...

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2025/05/30

Exactly a month ago, Kakao and Lionheart launched Odin Valhalla Rising, their Norse-mythology-themed MMO that promised typical MMORPG fare like dungeons and large-scale PvP. Apparently, that sounded pretty good to a lot of hungry MMO players, as Kakao announced this week that 20M people downloaded the game across PC and mobile. That apparently includes everyone […]

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Elite Dangerous offers initial details of the guild...

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2025/05/30

As it stands right now, Elite: Dangerous does have something like a guild system known as squadrons, but it’s pretty bare bones in general. That’s going to change sometime this summer when the Vanguards update goes live and brings with it a full ground-up retooling of the squadrons feature to make it more like a […]

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Here’s how Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s updated...

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2025/05/30

Throughout its long development, Pantheon has made heavy use of player testers, but some of the test structures are about to change. That’s the takeaway from the latest dispatch on the official site, which explains how Visionary Realms will run its testing moving forward. According to the devs, there are two types of testing that […]

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Aion 2 promises to be ‘the complete version of Aion’...

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2025/05/30

Don’t look now, but Aion 2 may be one of the biggest MMORPG projects on the near horizon that nobody’s watching. It’s easy to forget about this game, since it’s been in development for so long and mostly only whispered during investor calls, but NCsoft is finally giving us a deeper look into its follow-up […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO (that you actually wanted...

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2025/05/30

I promise you I did not wake up today and decide to give you a lesson in watercolors. This post is actually about MMORPGs. If you’re not an artist, you may not know that paint pigments are discontinued frequently, sending artists into a panic. I dabble mainly in watercolors, but at least once every year […]

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The Stream Team: Suspects and soarsleds in Dungeons &...

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2025/05/29

After investigating the rally incident in DDO, SWAP’s hired Inquisitive discovered that the half-orc Agnor Skolmid at the final fight was working with another half-orc named Taugh Ignath. Obviously, Massively OP’s MJ needs to ask this Taugh Ignath some questions, and to do that she must pay him a visit. Luckily, it just so happens […]

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Massively Overthinking: Who really buys MMORPG...

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2025/05/29

For this week’s Massively Overthinking, we’re going full Inception because we’re talking about last week’s Massively Overthinking and some of the spillover our team had while discussing lockboxes. See, I had asked our team to talk about desirable things in lockboxes (the veteran MMORPG term for gambleboxes/lootboxes). And to the person, all of us basically said… […]

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Animal Crossing New Horizons got a new patch for the...

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2025/05/29

At long last, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been updated! Birds are singing! Spontaneous choirs are forming in the street! The world has been blessed with an update! Finally, our long nightmare of players on the Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Switch 2 not having the ideal multiplayer session has been ended! And also… nothing […]

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