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Here’s how Ashes of Creation’s 64-class character...

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2025/04/24

Any class-based game boasting of 64 different classes is making quite a flex, but it can also make playing the game and choosing your class somewhat difficult. Fortunately, Ashes of Creation has a list of 64 classes, but it also has a list of eight in a more immediate sense. That’s because the whole class […]

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Elder Scrolls Online’s player response options...

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2025/04/24

ZeniMax Online Studios has a new dev blog up this afternoon all about Elder Scrolls Online’s new player response options system. In fact, if you’ve dipped into the MMO’s Seasons of the Worm Cult prologue quest, you’ve probably already seen it in action, but it’s coming to the wider game with the release of update […]

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The Stream Team: An anniversary romp on LOTRO’s new...

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2025/04/24

The LOTRO life has not been especially easy for Massively OP’s MJ lately. With the craziness of server transfers, she’s managed to make it to a new server — unfortunately her entire Kinship escrow has not! But that won’t stop her from celebrating this Middle-earth’s 18th birthday; who would ever willingly miss a date with […]

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The Division 2 outlines Year 7’s plan for better...

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2025/04/24

Ubisoft’s multiplayer looter shooter The Division 2 is nearing the start of its Year 7 series of seasonal content updates, which means that the studio is ready to show off what’s in store for players – and mostly sell them on the Battle for Brooklyn DLC after its delay following a layoff wave at the […]

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Throne and Liberty previews the Illusion Workshop –...

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2025/04/24

For fans of particular gear appearances in Throne and Liberty, the good news is that the upcoming Illusion Workshop arriving on May 1st will let you preserve the cosmetic appearances you want. Just use Illusion Scrolls (six for weapons, two or three for armor pieces) to convert a piece into an illusion and use the […]

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Lord of the Rings Online activates 18th anniversary...

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2025/04/24

Lord of the Rings Online is officially 18 years old, and it’s got the anniversary celebration to prove it. The annual festivities — and free gifts — are now live in the fantasy MMO, with plenty to do and a whole new batch of baking-themed rewards to earn. As usual, check out FibroJedi’s guide for […]

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The Soapbox: I love that MMOs allow me to live in the...

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2025/04/24

I used to think that the notion of a “mid-life crisis” was somewhat ridiculous… until I found myself deep in one. It kind of crept up on me over the past couple years, as I became low-key obsessed with older music technology, collecting CDs and modded iPods. It felt like I was rediscovering a joy […]

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Eldramoor is a brand-new virtual reality MMORPG...

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2025/04/24

It’s not every day we get to post about a brand-new MMORPG that’s actually proud to call itself an MMORPG, but Eldramoor is doing just that. Oh, and did we mention that it’s a virtual reality MMO with distinct cartoony Orbus-esque vibes? “Already in development for more than a year, Eldramoor will feature immersive gameplay […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Not every MMO mechanic you dislike...

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2025/04/24

There is a category of responses to any column about mechanics, and it came up with the recent couple of columns about level scaling, but it comes up with every column about mechanics. And even in its most benevolent form, it features one perfectly valid statement… and one that is just, unfortunately, misinformed. “I don’t […]

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Marathon’s closed alpha testing kicks off with a...

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2025/04/24

If anything about Marathon’s big reveal from last week had your interest piqued, then you probably already know all about Bungie’s neon-coated PvPvE extraction shooter entering into closed alpha testing earlier this week, which started off with an announcement over the last weekend about what Bungie’s definition of testing was all about. The closed alpha […]

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MMO Week in Review: The defiant unsunset of Defiance

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2025/04/21

It’s not every week that we get to cheer for an unsunset, but that’s exactly what we’re doing this week as Fawkes Games officially debuted the latest version of Defiance, one of the rare few MMOs that has any sort of TV tie-in. Meanwhile, Dune Awakening got a delay to June 10th, Jagex surprise-launched its […]

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Final Fantasy XIV kicks off a furniture design...

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2025/04/20

After a hard day of adventuring in Final Fantasy XIV (or a hard day of saying “pspspsps” at Hrothgar and Miqo’te, we don’t judge), do you want to return to your home or apartment and collapse on an exact recreation of the chaise lounge you had in your great aunt’s house when you were six? Can […]

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The MOP Up: Villagers and Heroes celebrates 11 years...

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2025/04/20

A very happy birthday to Villagers and Heroes, an underrated MMORPG that’s pushing 14 years old – 11 of them on Steam: “Throwback to 11 years ago today, when we not only celebrated the Villagers and Heroes Steam Launch, but also the release of our first expansion Fury of the Stone Lord. A very special […]

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The Stream Team: Turning back to tanking in Final...

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2025/04/20

MOP’s Chris has once again found himself bit by the MMORPG tanking bug. Mostly because his stream of Final Fantasy XIV last week saw him clutch out a win against a dungeon boss by himself, but also because the Gunbreaker is a lot of fun. So why stop now? Join him and his Eorzea Sunday […]

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EverQuest II brings back the Beast’r Eggstravaganza,...

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2025/04/20

Whether you’re looking to celebrate the Easter season or enjoy a little anniversary-laced mystery, both EverQuest and EverQuest II have you covered. Or at least they have you covered individually, as there are events that are unique to each MMORPG. We’ll begin with EQ2’s return of the Beast’r Eggstravaganza, which runs from now until April […]

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Grand Theft Auto Online celebrates 4/20 with extra...

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2025/04/20

While the name of the game is Grand Theft Auto Online, it is not exactly a surprise that the game involves players doing a whole lot of tasks that may, in fact, be considered worse than thefting an auto. However, smoking weed has increasingly gone from “crime” to “just a legal thing” over the past […]

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One Shots: That’s a whole lot of WD-40

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2025/04/20

Let’s be real: A giant, city-destroying robot is going to require lubrication by the tankful. And some poor sap is going to have the job of getting into all of those joints and hydraulics to coat it, lest it become a giant rusting lawn ornament. However, Doiley101 is not that sap! “Come on surely City […]

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The Daily Grind: How much do you stress yourself out...

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2025/04/20

In basically any MMORPG, nobody actually cares about your performance in most group content. Unless you are pushing for progression – in which case you probably have a fixed group – you are accountable to nobody. Even then, the odds are more or less absolute that the only consequence you can face will just be […]

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Last Epoch’s Tombs of the Erased season brings a...

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2025/04/20

This week brought the second season of stuff for OARPG Last Epoch, as the Tombs of the Erased update and all of its features went online this past Thursday as scheduled, and its arrival brought on some concurrency spikes and the problems that typically come along with them. Shortly after the new season update went […]

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Sea of Thieves is introducing shark hunts, mega...

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2025/04/19

While the next season of Sea of Thieves won’t be live until May 22nd, there are still plenty of things going on within the pirating sandbox in the form of a wide assortment of new and returning events and the upcoming addition of furious wild boars. And no, we’re not going to make any “hog […]

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