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Lord of the Rings Online reactivates transfers from...

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2025/10/10

For Lord of the Rings Online players who found their characters stuck on an unwanted — or closed — server, developer SSG has some good news: You might be able to move to a better home right now. Yesterday, the studio announced that it is re-activating transfers from the old 32-bit “dark world” servers to […]

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Final Fantasy XI’s latest version update changes...

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2025/10/10

There’s much ado about timers in the latest update in Final Fantasy XI, starting with changes to timer resets for Coalition Assignment imprimaturs to only 180 minutes and Limbus chests remaining available for four weeks instead of just one. In addition, the amount of points players can carry over between login events is being reduced to […]

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Final Fantasy XIV gets Halloweeny with another round...

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2025/10/10

Do you hear the cackle of a witch in the woods? Do you sense the disquieting presents of a ghoul in the closet behind you? Do you feel that you’re never too old to dress up in a costume and demand treats from strangers? Then it’s time to pull out your best glamour and partake […]

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Wizard101 has launched on Xbox and PlayStation at...

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2025/10/10

There are plenty of MMORPGs out there, but few can match Wizard101 in being a fun all-ages romp of a thing… which is why it’s a good thing to note that at long last, the title is available on PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Now younger players (and older players who like a touch of whimsy to […]

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World of Warcraft previews the Midnight prologue...

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2025/10/10

There’s more coming to the next World of Warcraft patch than just early access for housing, but you can be forgiven if your main focus is on housing. It’s not for nothing that one of the main features previewed in the latest article about The Warning update focuses on early access to housing, and a reminder […]

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NetEase has abandoned another western MMORPG, this...

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2025/10/10

NetEase is apparently dumping another American games studio, this time pretty close to home for MMORPG fans: Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street announced last night that NetEase is no longer funding Fantastic Pixel Castle and its MMORPG, Project Ghost. “I wanted to share the news that Fantastic Pixel Castle’s time as a first party studio within NetEase […]

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The Daily Grind: Be honest, how many of your MMO...

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2025/10/10

A few weeks back, there was an article on PC Gamer that actually made me laugh out loud. “I’m sick of the survival crafting ‘Cube’ and calling the gamer HOA on all of you,” author Andrea Shearon declared. I feel extremely called out because I literally have one of these in Palia; I bought a […]

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The Stream Team: Delving into the Dreaming Dark in...

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2025/10/09

It’s the Eye of the Titan, it’s the thrill of its plight Risin’ up to the challenge of its survival And the first known Warforged wasn’t built by Cannith And we learn that by staring into the Eye of the Titan House Cannith’s claims to have created the Warforged in Dungeons & Dragons Online? Rubbish! […]

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Massively Overthinking: Is there a specific year of...

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2025/10/09

This week’s Massively Overthinking is inspired directly by something MOP reader Zulika said last month in comments about Smed’s new MMOFPS. “More and more I am just glad past me was around to experience MMOs starting in 2000.” OK, obviously Zulika was throwing deserved shade on some of 2025’s excesses, but let’s talk about more […]

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Trove is cracking down on player-made mods that...

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2025/10/09

If you haven’t played Gamigo’s core MMORPG Trove in a while or ever, you might not realize that modding has always been a big deal in the game, and we’re not just talking about Trion and then Gamigo’s programs for putting player-made gear and structures directly into the live MMO. Trove’s fanbase maintains several mod […]

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Astroneer spinoff Starseeker sounds like a cozy...

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2025/10/09

Way back in April, Astroneer studio System Era Softworks announced a spinoff of its OG multiplayer space sandbox, but still set in the Astroneer universe. Called Starseeker, the new game sounded even more multiplayer-oriented than its predecessor. Now, System Era has gone into more detail on what to expect, courtesy of this week’s gameplay reveal […]

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Palia’s latest patch added player profiles and...

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2025/10/09

It floors me to realize how very long MMORPG players have been snooping each others’ profiles in games. In Ultima Online, you had to be careful because a double-click could sometimes turn into an attack and not just a way to check out someone’s paperdoll drip. In EverQuest, it was even considered impolite to check […]

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Roblox faces a second state lawsuit, this time from...

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2025/10/09

Back in August, we reported on a lawsuit filed by Louisiana State Attorney General Liz Murrill against Roblox that alleged the games platform has not done enough to protect children from predators and sexual exploitation. Now it looks as if the company has a second such lawsuit on its hands, this time coming from the […]

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EVE Frontier partners with Sui blockchain to enable...

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2025/10/09

As we like to remind people around here, EVE Frontier is a blockchain MMO despite CCP Games going on record as not wanting people to call it a blockchain MMO. Now it would seem as if the studio is deciding to shrug off this request itself, as it announced a partnership with the Sui blockchain […]

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Skate highlights the cosmetics in its first skate...

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2025/10/09

This week saw the first season arrive to the early access mulitplayer sandbox of Skate, and like all games that run a seasonal model, this one is once again making sure that players are made aware that it has a battle pass – sorry, skate pass – that offers up cosmetic goodies to earn. The […]

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Hackers are apparently trying to extort Discord over...

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2025/10/09

Last weekend, Discord admitted to a “limited” security breach by hackers who supposedly wiggled Discord user data from a third-party. At the time, Discord suggested the breach was minimal and affected only “a limited number of users” – something like 70,000 users (oof). It’s starting to look like that was a bit of an understatement. […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The ‘eternal now’ era of MMORPGs

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2025/10/09

So there was a fun meme that was going around about four years ago in which an image of Final Fantasy IV was posted as “what people think Final Fantasy looked like 20 years ago,” followed by a picture of Final Fantasy X as “what Final Fantasy actually looked like 20 years ago.” Of course, now it’s […]

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Elder Scrolls Online’s partially paywalled Battle for...

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2025/10/09

All the way back in April and long before the summer’s devastating studio layoffs, ZeniMax Online Studios revealed a major cadence shift for Elder Scrolls Online that aimed to do away with the old chapter system and introduce special seasons, including one-time FOMO-ish events. The first core event of that new system is a player-vs.-wall […]

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WoW Factor: Welcome to the age of Midnight

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2025/10/09

Here’s the crazy thing: It’s October 2025, and it already feels as though World of Warcraft: The War Within is completely over at one year and one month after its launch in August 2024. Back when the Worldsoul Saga was first announced, Blizzard said that these expansions would come faster than normal — but I […]

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Lord of the Rings Online’s Fall Festival returns with...

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2025/10/09

The door to Bilbo’s Haunted Burrow creaked back open as Lord of the Rings Online welcomed back the Harvestmath Festival on Thursday. The expansive annual event, which runs through November 3rd, includes activities in a haunted Hobbit home, a chilling maze, and even a sad story about a long-dead character that takes you through one […]

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