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Fallout 76’s Gone Fission update and 21st season have...

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2025/05/22

I’m contractually obligated to adore the name of the latest Fallout 76 patch because I have had a City of Heroes characters named “Gone Fission” for many years. It’s the perfect name for a radioactive fisherwoman, and therefore it’s also perfect for Fallout 76’s fishing update. “Available free for all Fallout 76 players, this fin-tastic […]

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Vague Patch Notes: MMO fans create divisions that do...

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2025/05/22

There is a constant debate in the World of Warcraft fan space that you have no doubt seen at this point, but it is one that has been going for quite some time. It is an ongoing turf war between the people who exclusively play WoW Classic as the antediluvian, unsullied version of the game and […]

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Guild Wars 2 has resumed testing of its PvP Push...

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2025/05/22

Remember last year when Guild Wars 2 began testing its new PvP mode called Push? Our own PvP columnist Sam, who has been critical of the MMO’s PvP in the past, thought the test was messy and hampered by visual noise – but loaded with potential. So we’re happy to see that ArenaNet is back […]

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Embracer Group rebrands as Fellowship Entertainment,...

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2025/05/22

While you might half-heartedly reorganize your game or music collection once in a while, that’s nothing compared to what the Embracer Group does on a random day of the week: After its last few years of chaos, Embracer is now reorganizing hundreds more studios in a move that spins off Coffee Stain and its whole […]

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Hackers are trying to use DDoS attacks to pressure...

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2025/05/22

For nearly two weeks now, the online game platform BYOND has been under severe DDoS attacks to the point that it and its supported titles aren’t accessible. According to a now-deleted post on Reddit, the malicious actors here are trying to pressure the site’s owners into going open source. So far, the owners are holding […]

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Star Wars The Old Republic is launching patch 7.7...

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2025/05/22

The time is almost here for fans of Star Wars The Old Republic, as patch 7.7 has been confirmed to be landing on May 28th. Yes, that’s in just a week, and even better the patch notes will be available on May 27th. Until then, you will just have to close your eyes and imagine the […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s the fastest you’ve ever noped...

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2025/05/22

I am someone with a huge degree of patience for grinds and making slow, steady progress in goals in any MMO. That is the closest thing I have to a superpower, I suppose. But that does not mean there are not times I have looked at a grind and just immediately replied with “nope, I’m […]

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The Stream Team: Outrun the sun in Split Fiction

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2025/05/21

When we last left Larry and MJ in their misadventures in Split Fiction, they jumped into a sidestory that took them to a planet whose sun sat on the edge of going supernova. Larry described this level in his original playthrough as one that requires the most coordination and timing of all the levels, two […]

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PvPvE mecha extraction shooter Synduality Echo of Ada...

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2025/05/21

Last January saw another addition to the arguably very crowded PvPvE extraction sub-genre in the form of Synduality: Echo of Ada, a mecha-based extraction shooter that puts players into machines known as Cradlecoffins (seriously) to scour maps, find goodies, and leave before they’re taken out by the baddies of the environment or other player mecha. […]

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Sea of Thieves discusses recent server issues,...

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2025/05/21

It’s time for yet another game health update from Sea of Thieves, which means production director Drew Stevens calmly talking about efforts to address bugs, server issues, and cheaters, all while a serene reprise of the game’s main theme floats along and the dev makes politician-like warm hand gestures. The first order of business is […]

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Apple’s legal intransigence forces Fortnite off the...

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2025/05/18

Last week we reported on apparent Apple stonewalling in regard to Fortnite’s return to the US App Store, as the corporation appeared to be shuffling its feet in the usually swift approval process, which in turn forced Epic Games to cancel an update for the battle royale shooter on all platforms and resubmit its latest […]

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World of Warcraft admits to dropping the quality bar...

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2025/05/18

This past April saw World of Warcraft score an own-goal with the release of patch 11.1.5, which rankled players with its time-gated content and huge number of bugs. And while that stormy season has now passed by, senior game director Ion Hazzikostas is still reflecting on the disastrous patch in an interview. “We’re experimenting and trying […]

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One Shots: Saving on electricity bills

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2025/05/18

Lucky Jinx’s headlining World of Warcraft screenshot brings to mind an observation I’ve oft made in MMOs and RPGs over the years, which is that underground life wouldn’t be the same if it wasn’t for those magically glowing wall crystals that never seem to run out of luminescence. That’s really got to cut down on […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s an MMO you left because of...

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2025/05/18

For all that people talk about leaving MMOs because the designers made some terrible choice or another, I find it doesn’t happen a lot. Oh, sure, it does happen. Maybe your chosen character just doesn’t work any more or isn’t fun to play, or maybe you ran out of content you found fun and moved […]

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Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s pay-to-win fiasco,...

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2025/05/18

Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP’s long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older games long past their fundraising. Star Citizen’s free-fly should’ve been the focus of the weekend, but alas, CIG managed to incite an online riot instead as backers rightly called out […]

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PlanetSide 2 marks continued server improvements,...

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2025/05/17

When Toadman Interactive/Daybreak (aka ToadBreak) merged the NA servers of PlanetSide 2, it did so extremely poorly, electing to move the more performative Emerald server into the lag-stricken Connery server – a decision so unpopular that players were willing to pay $10K to revert the change. That obviously didn’t happen, and now ToadBreak is reflecting […]

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Whatever happened to Gigantic: Rampage Edition?

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2025/05/17

It’s been a year and a month since Motiga’s Gigantic was resurrected and returned from the dead as Gigantic: Rampage Edition. And we were pretty excited about it, although we noted at the time that its launch was marred by server connection issues at the time. So now it has been a year, and what happened? […]

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Dune Awakening gets all kinds of trigger happy with...

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2025/05/17

If you’re the sort of person who would like to turn Dune: Awakening into Calladooty Shootymans, then look no further than the Trooper, the combat school that never met a gun it didn’t like and the focus of the survival MMO’s latest showcase video. As readers might have guessed by now, the Trooper is all […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: The pros and cons of Lord of the...

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2025/05/17

When you’re starting out in an MMO world, it’s nice to have choices — especially if you plan to roll up an army of alts one day and don’t want to keep doing the same content over and over again. As of 2025, Lord of the Rings Online offers four starting regions, each with its […]

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Star Citizen will make future ship components buyable...

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2025/05/17

Earlier this week, Star Citizen decided to absolutely tap dance in it by selling ship components like weapon kits, bomb racks, and stat-boosting blades in the cash shop first and foremost, which ignited a tinderbox of rage among players who found the offerings both predatory and pay-to-win. CIG has now stepped through the flames to […]

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