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Layoffs have apparently hit Jackalyptic Games, the...

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2025/04/19

We’re not sure precisely how bad things may be over at Jackalyptic Games, the Jack Emmert-led dev studio that’s working on a Warhammer 40K MMO, but we at least have an initial report from one former developer that layoffs – plural – have occurred. The news comes from now-former senior combat designer Jacob Beauseigneur, who […]

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The Stream Team: Bringing on more biodiversity in...

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2025/04/19

Now that lakes are growing even bigger on her planet, Massively OP’s MJ is eager to replace the barren orange landscape with green! It’s time to bring on more biodiversity in Planet Crafter. She may be nowhere close to adding critters, but she can spread some grass to carpet the ground. And what more perfect […]

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The Soapbox: I am just about done with MMO epic...

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2025/04/19

I’m not here to flash my MMO credentials at you because (a) you don’t care and (b) you probably top me. That’s fine. All I want to put out front here is that I’ve been playing MMORPGs for a long time and seen a lot of trends and development in this area. And if you […]

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Mario Kart World previews gameplay as Nintendo Switch...

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2025/04/19

Mario Kart World, the flagship Nintendo Switch 2 title, has made many fans of the series curious with its new open world spin. That was reason enough for the company to have premiered a video digest all about the racer earlier this week, which provided a closer look at its mechanics and gameplay modes. As […]

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WRUP: David Lynch had an orbital cannon named Tiny...

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2025/04/19

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

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The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have the best combat...

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2025/04/19

Way back when I first dipped into MMOs with Anarchy Online, I remember being vastly underwhelmed by the lackluster sound design of that game’s combat. There’s nothing that leeches the fun out of a fight like audio that sounds like someone is going to town on a bad guy with a wet noodle or a […]

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The Stream Team: Hopping into AQ3D for Easter gnomes...

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2025/04/18

‘Tis the season of floppy ears and colorful eggs throughout Battleon. And AQ3D added a bit more to its Easter celebration this year, with Hoppity the Gnome summons joining the mix of egg decorations and the Grenwog. Massively OP’s MJ is definitely in the spirit and will join in all the fun festivities. After all, […]

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Betawatch: Dune delays delivery and Dragonwilds...

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2025/04/18

If you had already taken time off for Dune Awakening launching, bad news as the game has been delayed until June 10th to give it more time to cook. Of course, if you believed the launch date given by Funcom, you… well, you don’t deserve this kind of shabby treatment, but you have now learned why […]

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ARK: Survival Ascended debuts its Eggcellent...

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2025/04/18

ARK: Survival Ascended is taking a brief break from dino survival to hop into something a little more seasonal. The prehistoric sandbox debuted its Eggcellent Adventure spring event, which is running now through April 30th. “This festive in-game event brings vibrant new cosmetics, returning seasonal favorites, and eggciting in-game bonuses,” Studio Wildcard said. “Players can […]

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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen opens a fresh start...

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2025/04/18

It’s a weird, woolly, and odd set of headlines coming out of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen early access, and there’s really no way we can kind of set it all up, so let’s just dive right in to things as they stand right now. First off: Visionary Realms has decided that now is the […]

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Black Desert wrestles with node war problems on...

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2025/04/18

It’s Black Desert news time again, and this week we’re going to be leading off with BDO Console, but not necessarily for particularly happy reasons. That’s because this week brought some problems to those who engage in the PvP node war activity. It all began with the MMORPG’s weekly patch, which among other things applied […]

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Ragnarok Online has launched a Kung Fu Panda...

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2025/04/18

The last Kung Fu Panda film was released in March of 2024, but apparently that’s not long enough to prevent DreamWorks Animation from letting the elder statesman MMO Ragnarok Online from letting it bring its characters over for a limited-time collab event. Strike while the iron is… really cold and catching a lot of dust, […]

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The Stream Team: Joining in on the live return of...

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2025/04/18

Defiance? In 2025? It’s more likely than you think! MOP’s Chris is going to be boots-on-the-ground during Fawkes Games’ revival of the previously sunsetted shooter MMO and you’re invited to join him today at 2:00 p.m. EDT! What: Defiance Who: Chris Neal When: 2:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 17th, 2025 The show is over […]

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Here’s how to get all SWTOR’s Star Wars Celebration...

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2025/04/18

If you happened to catch Star Wars The Old Republic’s producer letter earlier this month, then you probably knew all about the rewards coming in conjunction with Star Wars Celebration 2025, but even so you might want a lil refresher now that the goodies are actually out in the wild. First, there’s the Jubilee Hover […]

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Aion Classic readies two new high-level dungeons for...

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2025/04/18

Are you ready for some good old-fashioned wrath? It’s OK, Aion Classic isn’t really mad at you; it’s merely puffing itself up to look as fierce as possible for next week’s content drop Update 3.7: Wrath arrives on April 23rd with two “high-stakes dungeons:” the lava-themed Burning Blood Fortress and the haunted Dokkaebi Realm. Both […]

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Fallen Earth’s been offline over two months now, but...

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2025/04/18

So here’s an out-of-nowhere thought for the day: Did Fallen Earth ever come back online since its abrupt closure in early February? And it turns out that no, no it hasn’t… but it might at some point in the near future. Since it’s been a while, here’s a brief recap: In February, Little Orbit (which […]

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Fight or Kite: I discovered a whole new side to Myth...

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2025/04/18

I told you all in my previous column that I was going to get to the Persian DLC in Myth of Empires or die trying (my character, not me, obviously), and lo and behold, I actually stuck with a game for more than a couple weeks and got my hero into the Persian DLC… sort […]

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World of Warcraft’s anniversary Classic servers hit...

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2025/04/18

All right, let’s make something clear for the World of Warcraft fans: It’s almost time to go back to Zul’Gurub again. But this isn’t going back to Zul’Gurub like the original rollout when Cataclysm arrived, and it’s not going back like when WoW Classic rolled out Zul’Gurub, and it’s also not like the return to […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Level scaling in MMOs with the...

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2025/04/18

Last week I talked about how MMORPGs use level scaling to accomplish actually useful and important goals. In short, there is an issue with making sure that newer players and higher-level players still have some use for content, and you also want to make sure that players have more opportunities to play together. But at […]

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Mortal Online 2 previews the mechanics of its...

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2025/04/18

In the time between Mortal Online and Mortal Online 2, something really bad happened. In the game world, we mean. It was called the Tagmaton Irruption, and it was generally considered a bad time for everyone other than the eponymous Tagmatons. All this backstory is meant as a good reason for why players in MO2 will want […]

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