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Bellwright’s devs explain the vision behind their...

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2025/05/03

As the medieval survival sandbox Bellwright celebrates its first year of early access, studio Donkey Crew is taking a well-deserved pause to reflect upon the overall vision of this multiplayer title. “It was important that we put the player in charge,” one developer explained, going on to say that it’s not just the outcome that […]

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The Stream Team: Checking out the changes of V...

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2025/05/03

With such a major update for V Rising, Massively OP’s MJ put her vampire adventures on hold for a while. Why keep leveling up if she was going to start over? Now that Invaders of Oakveil has released, she’s got a new place and new changes to explore. But that still means starting a new […]

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The Soapbox: Could an official WildStar revival...

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2025/05/03

WildStar: Carbine’s ambitious, flashy, and flawed MMO that launched in June 2014. A little over a year later, it shifted to a hybrid free-to-play model in September 2015. Then, about four years after the MMO came arrived, NCsoft shuttered the game and development studio in November 2018. We’re now seven years removed from an operational WildStar, […]

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NCSoft invests in indie studio emptyvessel for its...

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2025/05/03

It looks as if NCsoft is making sure it’s got its fingers in another pie in the world of western games development, as the Korean company’s NA subsidiary NCWest (we assume the PR means NC America) has announced what it calls a “strategic equity investment” in the Texas-based indie studio emptyvessel as it works to […]

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WRUP: I have hose edition

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2025/05/03

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about lost media.

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The Daily Grind: When have you quit an MMO over the...

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2025/05/03

Hey, I used the name of the column in the question! The universe will now fold in on itself. But seriously, we didn’t pick our daily discussion title out of the blue; most MMOs feature some sort of weekly and daily grind that gives us additional tasks to accomplish and rewards to chase. Unfortunately, those […]

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EVE Fanfest 2025: EVE Online’s Legion expansion gives...

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2025/05/03

EVE Online‘s latest expansion was announced today at EVE Fanfest 2025, and this one seems to have a bit of something for everyone. The Legion expansion will drop on May 27th and is all about empowering leaders and organisers with new tools and options, from additional tactical options for territorial warfare to ways to incentivise […]

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The Stream Team: Early May the Fourth-ing in...

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2025/05/02

Massively OP’s MJ has a soft spot for silly and strange holidays, and May the Fourth Be With You is precisely one of them! And while it’s a bit early, she’ll be starting the celebration tonight in AdventureQuest 3D. Why should she wait until the 4th? Why should you? Grab your favorite Star Saber or […]

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Betawatch: Camelot Unchained is alive, Odin Valhalla...

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2025/05/02

So Camelot Unchained is 12 years old. This would be impressive if the game had launched during that period of time, but it has not, and instead it has been in testing/not launch that whole time. It has, however, finally surfaced with a stream and previews that has… uh… not exactly mollified the fanbase! Not […]

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Diablo IV gives a quick brief on this season’s...

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2025/05/02

Do you have 81 seconds to spare and a desire to catch up on the latest changes impacting Diablo IV this month? Then you’ll want to breeze through the following quick video covering the highlights of the game’s Belial’s Return update. The dev video looks at “shrine improvements, Whisper Caches, Tempering upgrades, refined leveling, and […]

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Ultima Online’s spring roadmap includes a new live...

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2025/05/02

If you’re a longtime Ultima Online player, you know just how unusual it is to get a roadmap, but so far this year, we’ve had two – and the spring roadmap has look at the next update. “Publish 120 is currently slated for Word Wide Release this June – we hope to bring the first […]

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Enshrouded teases the new visuals and points of...

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2025/05/02

You might find yourself thinking that the new lighting improvements for Enshrouded can’t make the game look all that much different with its next update. But try actually watching the teaser for the next update just below. Thrill to the shadow and light playing off one another. It is very pretty. Like, that’s some good lighting. Remember […]

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Black Desert applies a host of class balance updates...

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2025/05/02

Tuning classes can pretty much summarize the patches that have been applied to all three versions of Black Desert this week, with some pretty lengthy tweaks made to the MMORPG’s characters across PC, console, and mobile, among some other events and updates. So without further ado, let’s dig in. We begin as ever with the […]

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Lineage II marks 21 years, counts over 19M...

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2025/05/02

Despite the past and future attempts to make a third entry in the franchise, Lineage II is still standing and has been for 21 years now. That’s a pretty obvious milestone, and so it’s time for NCsoft’s classic MMORPG to keep on celebrating the occasion. Regular players know that many of the events for all […]

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The Stream Team: Trying a new Timber Wolf loadout in...

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2025/05/02

MOP’s Chris hasn’t left his Timber Wolf chassis since he first got it in MechWarrior 5: Clans, but variety is also the spice of life. So what do you do? You try out a different selection of weapons, that’s what! Join him and his best friend today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as they field test […]

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Kid-friendly MMO Puzkin canceled its Kickstarter,...

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2025/05/02

Earlier this month, we covered a cutesy family-friendly multiplatform MMORPG called Puzkin: Magnetic Odyssey. The developers were touting it as a “real MMO” but with “guardrails” to make it safe for players of all ages, not to mention some clear Breath of the Wild graphical vibes and some physical toy tie-ins. Tokkun Studio opened up […]

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Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Beyond teases its...

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2025/05/02

I swear I’m not biased for SWG Beyond just because its logo is a cute jawa. I’m actually biased for SWG Beyond because Star Wars Galaxies is the best MMORPG of all time, and I’m always tickled to see what the rogue servers for the long-sunsetted game are up to. In SWG Beyond’s case, it’s […]

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Pax Dei confirms a far-reaching wipe of progress,...

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2025/05/02

Ideally those who bought in to the early access of Pax Dei were prepared to see their progression reset a few times as the survival sandbox moved through development, but all the same those folks shouldn’t get too cozy with their characters because a significant full progression wipe is coming when its Verse 3 update […]

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WoW Factor: Down with raid nonsense addons, up with...

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2025/05/02

It might not stun you to learn that when we found out that World of Warcraft is adding a new rotation assistance tool into the game, MOP’s Bree immediately said to me, “So the column for tomorrow is about this, right?” And I informed her immediately that no, it wasn’t, because my column for tomorrow […]

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Epic Games follows up court victory with...

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2025/05/02

When we covered the Epic v. Apple injunction ruling yesterday in which the judge excoriated Apple for playing dirty with court orders, there was one common refrain on social media and in our comments: Why can’t they both lose? But maybe this latest round of news will make your heart a little softer for Epic […]

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