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WoW Factor: How could World of Warcraft reclaim the...

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2025/05/23

If you flip back and forth between WoW Classic and World of Warcraft Retail, you will certainly agree that these are two very different MMOs in a lot of respects. Sure, they share some of the same DNA, but how they function and where their focus lies are far apart. Personally, I feel that each […]

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Star Citizen heralds the Idris as a victory for its...

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2025/05/23

Star Citizen‘s Invictus event ushered in more than just CIG’s pay-to-win clusterfudge; it also introduced the Idris, one of the sandbox’s biggest internet ships that players could get their hands on – assuming they were in the queue at the right time for the artificially limited digital stock. Now that the ship is hovering around […]

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Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs attract players with...

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2025/05/23

The first two installments of the Gachapwned column were all about the ways in which the gacha business model is predatory, and more specifically how it is a predatory model specifically set up to get you to invest even more in its predatory monetization. This is not up for discussion; it’s a fact. But the […]

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Guild Wars 2’s launching a new cookbook – and...

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2025/05/23

If you’ve ever wanted to make Bloodstone Bearclaw Pastries or Lake Doric Mussels in real life, first of all why, second of all why not, and third of all your moment has come. ArenaNet announced this week that Guild Wars 2 is getting its very own cookbook, one I will surely have to buy for […]

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Diablo IV S9 brings custom spells and nightmare...

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2025/05/23

It’s almost season time for both Diablo IV and Diablo III as both multiplayer OARPGs have readied up their next marquee events. It’s a big deal if you care about doing seasonal content stuff. We’ll begin with D4 and its Season 9: Sins of the Horadrim, which is headlined by the temporary ability for players to […]

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Chrono Odyssey hypes up its June beta with a new...

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2025/05/23

How’s your summer gaming docket looking so far? If it’s not already completely full, Kakao would like to make a bid for your time with Chrono Odyssey, which has a closed beta coming up this June. To assist in generating hype and delivering info, Chrono Studio released the first of a series of developer interview […]

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Final Fantasy XIV previews the monsters and quests...

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2025/05/23

Ready to explore a crescent filled with enemies and jobs that are reminiscent of Final Fantasy V? Good news if the answer is yes because that’s exactly what is arriving to Final Fantasy XIV next week with the arrival of patch 7.25 on Tuesday. And the patch preview site has been updated with a look […]

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The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO-related phrase that...

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2025/05/23

Of course there is, else I’d not have asked the question! I had this realization the other day when I was looking at a certain MMO’s website, and right up top in the main navigation bar I saw the phrase “top-up center.” For those blissfully unaware, a lot of F2P and import games use the […]

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The Stream Team: Thwarting warforged kidnappers in...

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2025/05/22

Have you seen this warforged? Massively OP’s MJ has found her old friend Dorris in Dungeons & Dragons Online, but she — like the other missing warforged — has been enslaved and lost her soul. Now the warforged of the Underlane District in the Lower City are holding a rally to protest their plight and […]

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Massively Overthinking: The spectrum of lockboxes in...

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2025/05/22

A while back, I came across a Lord of the Rings Online discussion that leaped out at me because of its unusual turn. The players were complaining about the game’s lockboxes, not because they’re exploitative but because they’re mostly junk. And I don’t entirely disagree with the sentiment. Normally, a lockbox loot table will have […]

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Gamigo MMORPG RIFT brings its Unicornalia event...

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2025/05/22

Gamigo MMORPG RIFT has no intentions of being left out of the current horse MMORPG meta. Heck, it’ll do you one better than horses with Unicornalia. Unicorns are all the horseness of a horse, but they also have a horn. Do horses have horns? No! Then they’d be unicorns! Explore trivia like that in the […]

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Dune Awakening’s Mentat will murder you with darts...

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2025/05/22

Dune Awakening is continuing its slow-drip of teasing for is launch next month, this time with a brief new video on the Mentat. If you haven’t been paying a whole lot of attention to Dune thus far, you might be a little foggy on the concept that in spite of all the flowery lore language […]

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PSO2 New Genesis launches its latest limited-time...

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2025/05/22

This week is a little bit of anime and a little bit of eight-player boss fighting in Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis. That’s because the most recent content patch has continued its month-long series of updates, specifically adding another limited-time quest and anime collab event. In terms of playable content, the return of the […]

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Ubisoft’s CEO and HR director must testify before a...

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2025/05/22

This past March we reported on the start of legal proceedings in France against former chief creative officer Serge Hascoet, former VP of editorial and creative services Tommy Francois, and former game designer and director Guillaume Patrux, all of whom stand accused of sexual and psychological harassment that was made public back in 2020. The […]

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Arc’s co-op dungeon runner Fellowship processes open...

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2025/05/22

Over the past half a year or so, we’ve been covering Fellowship, a character-based co-op title that seeks to distill the MMORPG dungeon running experience as the primary game loop as players earn loot enough to ramp up difficulty with modifiers. We’ve had some hands-on time alongside developer Chief Rebel a couple of times and […]

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Skull and Bones outlines its May 27 Death Tides PvP...

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2025/05/22

Death Tides. It’s not just a potentially awesome name for a pirate metal band; it’s the team vs. team PvP mode arriving to Skull and Bones on Tuesday, May 27th, and Ubisoft Singapore is here to tell players all about it. This mode opens shortly after the game’s opening sequence for new players or after […]

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NetEase’s mobile FPS Destiny Rising opens pre-reg on...

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2025/05/22

Last year we first started reporting on Destiny Rising, a rumored – then confirmed – mobile version of the Destiny shooter that lets players control a variety of hero characters from the wider canon as well as new faces. The game held a closed alpha last November and terrified fans with the prospect of a […]

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Cozy ‘rogue-life RPG’ Lynked Banner of the Spark...

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2025/05/22

As promised, Lynked: Banner of the Spark is officially launched and live in the wild as of today as it departs early access for good. The Dreamhaven-published, FuzzyBot-developed multiplayer roguelite (actually, the devs use “rogue-life” for all its lifeskills) opens its doors with its 1.0 update, including five chapters, 40 new missions, and a new […]

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Elder Scrolls Online’s Solstice Isle promises a...

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2025/05/22

It’s hard to believe we’re already a week and change away from the launch of The Elder Scrolls Online’s Seasons of the Worm Cult launch, but the calendar just keeps barreling onward, and now ZeniMax Online Studios is deep-diving Western Solstice, the first half of the island players will be visiting – an island the […]

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First Impressions: Moonshot’s Wildgate is fun, but...

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2025/05/22

I’m not much of a PvP guy. Without putting too fine a point on it, I’m bad at them. But something about Moonshot Games’ extraction RPG Wildgate spoke to me, so when the opportunity came up to play during the community preview a week ago, I decided to try it out. The good news is […]

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