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Final Fantasy XI invites players to return home and...

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2025/05/09

It’s been 23 years since Final Fantasy XI launched (slightly less time in North America, but who’s counting?) – and if you took some time away from the game, Vana’diel wants you back. No, really; the Return Home to Vana’diel campaign kicks off on May 16th, offering former subscribers a chance to jump back into […]

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DECA is closing the Star Trek Online, Champions...

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2025/05/09

As I type this, Another One Bites The Dust is going through my head, but I’m not talking about an MMO – just its forums. This afternoon, DECA Games, the Embracer-owned studio that took over the operation of Star Trek Online from Cryptic Studios last year, has announced that it’s shutting down its forums in […]

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Black Desert confirms its Heidel Ball for PC and...

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2025/05/09

One of the major events for fans of Black Desert is on the horizon, and it’ll be here sooner than you may think: The Heidel Ball presentation for PC and console has gotten its date of Saturday, June 28th. Information is a bit thin on the event right now beyond the date, an apparent beachy […]

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The Stream Team: Trotting headlong into the horse...

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2025/05/09

It’s time for MOP’s Chris to experience the horse mystery MMO! That’s not a sentence we thought we’d print, but it’s true: Equinox: Homecoming is now available in early access and he’s fitting to ride into the game for a quick peek! Saddle up and ride alongside him today at 2:00 p.m. EDT! What: Equinox: […]

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Echoes of Elysium announces its airship build contest...

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2025/05/09

Echoes of Elysium isn’t out yet, but the airship builder app for this procedural RPG has been in the wild for over a month now, allowing fans to tinker with one of the core features of the game. To both encourage interaction and show off Echoes of Elysium’s potential, developer Loric Games recently ran a […]

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Tower of Fantasy posts the patch notes and event...

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2025/05/09

Tower of Fantasy appears to be extremely excited for its May 13th version update, as Hotta Studio and Perfect World have put out patch notes and event details for players to ogle while they wait for the content patch to drop. The new patch will be headlined by a new character and a new zone […]

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Former Dragon Age EP Mark Darrah discusses how Dragon...

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2025/05/09

There’s always going to be a degree of controversy around a new Dragon Age game, it seems, but Dragon Age: Veilguard earned perhaps more than its fair share, owing largely to how it felt like a total reboot rather than the fourth entry in the series. And according to a new video from former series executive […]

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Gachapwned: Examining the nature of gacha mechanics...

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2025/05/09

If you mention the term “gacha” to most people, what you will get is a reaction somewhere between disgust and anger or one of confusion. This strikes me as a little bit odd. Not because I think people who get angry about this are somehow getting angry about a great thing that does wonderful things […]

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City of Heroes Rebirth celebrates its sixth birthday...

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2025/05/09

It’s hard for me to believe it, but it’s been over six years since the City of Heroes community whirred back to life with the release of the source code – and that means a bunch of CoH rogue servers are not only celebrating the game’s anniversary this season but celebrating their own birthdays. That […]

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Indie MMORPG Project Gorgon buffs druids but nerfs...

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2025/05/09

Statehelm is getting closer in Project Gorgon – but it’s not here yet. The MMORPG’s final major city is one of the last big hurdles for the game’s development, and it is indeed referenced several times in today’s patch notes, but Elder Game says it’s not accessible yet and that it’s still working behind the […]

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Star Citizen’s latest video talks up the multiple new...

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2025/05/09

Evidently missions are going to be the main feature in Star Citizen soon, as the sandbox’s latest video digest is all about the assortment of new missions coming in alpha 4.1.1, which are categorized among a few different types but all involve ship-to-ship PvE combat. These new missions include destroying a stolen Polaris before it […]

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Dune Awakening brings its opening gameplay beats in...

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2025/05/09

Today begins the big beefy beta test for the survival MMORPG Dune: Awakening, letting players kick the tires of Funcom’s latest desert playspace, experience enough of the game to maybe buy in, and ideally provide the studio with actual test data because that’s what a beta should be doing. Right, bean counters? Right? This build […]

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New World outlines the free and paid benefits it...

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2025/05/09

Free players and paying players alike get things for progressing through New World’s Season 8, but the lion’s share of the benefits do go to paid players. This isn’t going to surprise anyone, of course; that’s always been the case for New World’s seasons. On the plus side, of course, free players do get things […]

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Here’s what’s coming in Star Wars The Old Republic’s...

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2025/05/09

The love for Star Wars The Old Republic seems as if it’s on the rise these days, especially following a May 8th developer livestream that previewed the next major content drop, Update 7.7: Dynamic Worlds. In the livestream, the devs acknowledged that the voice acting strike impacted the rollout of new content but that they’re […]

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The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on hero bans and...

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2025/05/09

For all the interest in Overwatch 2’s apparently really great Stadium mode, I haven’t seen all that much positive feedback on the new hero ban system in competitive. What I have seen is a very grumpy husband who absolutely loathes the system and has a fresh rant about it every night. He has a range […]

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The Stream Team: Reclaiming Stormreach’s beacon in...

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2025/05/08

Vaunt’s little enterprise has been crumbling around him in DDO, in no small part thanks to the helpful nudges of Massively OP’s MJ. He needs cash. Lots of it. Now, that corrupt businessman is putting on a gala to try and persuade people to invest in his business. Well, if he is going to be […]

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Massively Overthinking: Are you a random reward...

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2025/05/08

This week’s Massively Overthinking comes to us via a phrase MOP’s Eliot dropped back in April that leaped out at me. He was discussing Final Fantasy XIV’s Cosmic Exploration, and he mentioned that he is “generally a Random Reward Disliker,” which is why he wasn’t thrilled with the random draws. He called it a “[him] […]

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BitCraft’s June early access will include two new...

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2025/05/08

Our readers know by now that BitCraft will be pushing back its early access release from May 29th to June 20th in order to make way for some gaming gorillas. Even so, Clockwork Labs is making sure it stays under the spotlight for just a bit longer by posting its patch notes for early access […]

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Gamigo teases upcoming Trove content, including a new...

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2025/05/08

Trove’s community letter for the month of May has arrived, and while the front chunk of Gamigo’s address is mostly just recap of spring event content you already knew about, the back half actually focuses on player-submitted questions – some of which we’ve been curious about ourselves. For instance, Gamigo tells players that it’s working […]

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Elder Scrolls Online’s new housing contest could gift...

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2025/05/08

The Elder Scrolls Online hasn’t been overly forthcoming about future development plans for the MMO’s housing, but the team certainly hasn’t forgotten housing exists, and we’re not just talking about the latest house giveaway. Today we’re talking about a major housing contest that ZeniMax Online is offering – and winners could score kind of a […]

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