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Roblox is cracking down on players who recreate...

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2025/04/25

As a general rule of thumb, you do not want to have any sort of story about your video game wherein your title is being railed against by the ADL. You definitely do not want those stories if your video game is primarily for children. Unfortunately, this is exactly what is happening in Roblox at the […]

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The assets of Russian World of Tanks developer Lesta...

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2025/04/25

The studio responsible for the Russian version of World of Tanks and World of Warships has had its assets seized by the Russian government. According to Russian news agency RBC, a trio of companies – Lesta, Lesta Games Moscow, and Lesta Games Agency – had their assets seized last week on April 17th by the […]

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Once Human celebrates its mobile launch with free...

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2025/04/25

This week has brought on another way for fans of Once Human to experience their favorite oddball survivalbox on a new platform, as the mobile version went live this past Wednesday as scheduled, but now NetEase is piling it on with some additional promotions for fans, including a contest involving survivalist Ed Stafford. For those […]

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The Stream Team: The continuing adventures of a pair...

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2025/04/25

MOP’s MJ and Chris were so taken by the side-scrolling platformer roguelike Mother Machine the last time they played it together, they had to come back! After all, what other game captures their gremlin energy better than a game with actual gremlins? Join them today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as they hop, bop, and fart […]

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V Rising previews the lore and history around the...

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2025/04/25

What is a man, V Rising fans? A miserable little pile of secrets, yes. What is Oakveil? Yes, it’s the new region that’s being added to the game with the next major update on April 28th, but what kind of region is it? The latest preview on the official site goes into detail about the area, […]

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Ashes of Creation releases the Turquoise Sea zone...

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2025/04/25

If your idea of a tropical paradise is one where you can face the threats of various monsters, pirates, and swarms of PvP players, then you’re invited to the Turquoise Sea zone that was added to Ashes of Creation this week, with all of its beauty, danger, and naval shenanigans now open to those who […]

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Star Citizen discusses narrative plans as PTU testing...

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2025/04/25

It’s been a couple of months since Star Citizen has put its monthly narrative-focused content cadence plan in to action, so now appears to be the right time for CIG’s devs to answer some player questions about how things are going and where the next steps lead in the latest Star Citizen Live broadcast. As […]

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Second Wind: Back in LOTRO for the first time in a...

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2025/04/25

Lord of the Rings Online is a game that is near and dear to me. It was my first MMO. It is still my all-time favorite MMO. And while many games feel smoother and more polished, the sum of the parts – including the intangibles like the active and responsive dev team and friendly community) […]

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The Crew 2’s hybrid offline mode will begin player...

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2025/04/25

Remember last year when Ubisoft followed up a year of pissing people off over the unnecessary demise of The Crew 1 by announcing a proper offline mode for The Crew 2? Well, it’s happening. Last night, the company’s Gregory Corgie tried to differentiate between an offline mode and a “decommissioned” game, i.e., a sunsetted game. “As […]

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Dune Awakening will run a large-scale beta from May 9...

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2025/04/25

When Funcom delayed the launch of its survival MMORPG Dune Awakening from May 20th to June 10th, it casually mentioned that it’d be opening a large-scale open beta weekend at some point in May. Now, we know exactly when it’ll be: May 9th through 12th. “From May 9 until May 12, the largest Beta yet […]

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Horse mystery MMO Equinox Homecoming confirms Steam...

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2025/04/25

“Surprise: our game is coming a lot sooner than you may have expected!” declares Equinox: Homecoming, and indeed early access is arriving a whole lot earlier than many may have expected. On Thursday, May 8th, to be precise. The self-described horse mystery MMO will feature the first act of its greater grim plot as well […]

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First impressions: Dune Awakening is an MMORPG...

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2025/04/25

With Dune Awakening just a few weeks away from launch, I’ve finally taken a deep-dive into the game to see whether it’s worth the hype – and worth the price tag. Funcom invited press to play Dune Awakening for the past couple of weeks, specifically in the areas of the Hagga Basin. Thankfully, it was […]

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MapleStory Worlds expands its reach to the entire...

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2025/04/25

While Nexon’s MapleStory Worlds fully launched this past January, that was only in North America and Europe. Now the Roblox challenger has its sights set a little higher: the entire world. Citizens of Senegal, Palau, and Bolivia (and, you know, more) can now get their hands on this PC and mobile MMO. Nexon is banking […]

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World of Warcraft is kicking Season 2 of The War...

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2025/04/25

On May 13th, World of Warcraft is lighting Season 2 of The War Within’s gear progression on fire and thrusting it at the scream while a really intense dude screams at you, “ARE YOU READY FOR GEARING UP IN WOW?!” It is implied that the question cannot be answered in the negative. Or the positive. It’s a […]

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The Daily Grind: What are the tipoffs that mark...

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2025/04/25

Back during the first weekend of the Lord of the Rings Online transfer mess, I spent an inordinate amount of time in the game’s Discord, hovering for info from the devs, and that meant I saw a lot more random chatter from MMORPG players than I usually see. And boy, I was surprised at some […]

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The Stream Team: Into Dungeons & Dragons Online’s...

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2025/04/24

Finding dirt on the scumbag Vaunt in Dungeons & Dragons Online is leading Massively OP’s MJ to a dwarf named Evan Greybeard, an arcane researcher who worked for Vaunt and helped to develop his products. Recently fired and angry, he wants to meet with MJ at his house down in one of the Sharn’s rougher […]

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Massively Overthinking: The eternal granular...

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2025/04/24

So if you don’t play a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server – and chances are that you don’t – you probably have no idea what the endless player fights on such servers are about. On SWG Legends, for example, the eternal struggle is over atmospheric flight. Readers might remember that after announcing SWG’s sunset but […]

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Black Desert PC brings more class balancing, improves...

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2025/04/24

At long last, player characters of Black Desert can face the high fantasy threats, PvP encounters, and monstrous bosses in the best possible gear: a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. As previewed earlier, the Lookin’ Frosh outfit is now available for purchase in the MMO’s pearl shop and there’s even an event for the […]

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Sea of Thieves brings on the boars, buffs the spear,...

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2025/04/24

It’s patch day for Sea of Thieves, and at long last, players will get to face that most ubiquitous and dangerous form of fauna known to multiplayer and MMO gaming: the extremely angry wild boar. As we reported previously, these new fiends can be found in treasure-filled wallows either out in the world or tracked […]

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Bellwright celebrates a year in early access by...

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2025/04/24

How do you celebrate a game release while also saying a released game isn’t a finished game? By marking an early access anniversary, of course, and that’s precisely what Bellwright is doing this week with an appropriately named anniversary update patch. The major feature of this patch is the addition of animal husbandry, which lets players […]

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