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Lost Skies officially enters Steam early access as...

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2025/04/18

Worlds Adrift refugees can finally come home today as Bossa Games’ Lost Skies officially enters early access. It’s not an MMORPG as Worlds Adrift was, but it’s also not a gankbox: It’s a cozy up-to-five-person survival sandbox “where you’ll traverse beautiful floating islands using wingsuits, gliders, grappling hooks, and your own custom-built airships.” “As you […]

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Star Citizen kicks off an alpha 4.1.1 stress test...

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2025/04/18

If you have no plans this weekend, are a Star Citizen fan, and are among the Wave 1 and Wave 2 testers that get into the sandbox’s PTU, then you’ve got something being asked of you by CIG: stress test the servers of alpha 4.1.1. Testing isn’t just a matter of logging in to the […]

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Fawkes has officially relaunched Defiance four years...

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2025/04/18

As promised, Defiance officially launched at 6 a.m. EDT this morning. If you got up at 6 a.m. to play this, you can officially call yourself a true fan. And if you’re currently sitting there thinking, hey didn’t Defiance sunset, then a lil recap is in order: Back on March 11th, Fawkes Games announced that it […]

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The Daily Grind: How many people do you have on...

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2025/04/18

I have mentioned in a few places now that the new Glamdring server in Lord of the Rings Online is fairly dreadful in terms of the chat. I know it’s a new server and all, and a ton of people are taking the opportunity to act out in front of a whole new audience, but […]

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The Stream Team: DDO’s Sharn offers No Refunds

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2025/04/17

Surprise! No, not really. Agents of the Twelve in DDO have made some disturbing discoveries after examining the prototype device Massively OP’s MJ acquired (*cough* stole *cough*) from Vaunt’s warehouse. While the Sharn City Council and the Aurum have growing concerns and want MJ to keep investigating Vaunt, she’s also been asked to provide extra […]

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Massively Overthinking: Putting the Elder Scrolls...

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2025/04/17

Last week, far and away the biggest MMORPG news was the fact that Elder Scrolls Online finally revealed its new cadence – and its new monetization plan. In a nutshell, the game is switching away from its chapter/DLC cadence (that part we knew) and replacing it with an annual content pass – on top of […]

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Sci-fi sandbox SpaceCraft confirms multiplayer focus,...

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2025/04/17

Last December we were all introduced to SpaceCraft, a sci-fi sandbox about building, exploration, and eventually growing an interstellar trading empire with – or against – other players. Since that initial announcement, developer Shiro Games has been putting out informational peeks as the game heads toward its planned 2025 early access release. We’ll begin with […]

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Overwatch 2 deep-dives the new Stadium mode arriving...

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2025/04/17

While there are already lots of team vs. team fights to be had in Overwatch 2, none of them is in a more structured arena-based format. That won’t be the case when Season 16 arrives on Tuesday, April 22nd, which is when the new – and permanent – Stadium mode will open up for players […]

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MMO Business Roundup: Arcane in Fortnite, Ubisoft and...

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2025/04/17

Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news of the week! Ubisoft and accessibility – Proving a stopped clock is indeed right twice a day, Ubisoft open-sourced its colorblind accessibility tool known as Chroma. “With an estimated 300 million people around the world affected by colorblindness, Chroma allows developers to […]

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The First Descendant’s April patch has arrived with...

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2025/04/17

As promised, Dynamic Motion Online – that is, The First Descendant – has launched episode 2 of its second season in its April update today. “The Season 2 Episode 2 April Update brings a newly reworked beginner experience, which includes new Guide Quests and simplified Main Quest, making it a perfect time for new players […]

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Trove kicks off the Bunfest spring event and The...

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2025/04/17

Gamigo’s voxelbox MMORPG Trove has one of the cutest Easter events in the genre, and as of this week, it’s live for PC and console players. “Bunfest hops back in for its fourth annual celebration!” Gamigo says. “[T]hrough April 28, 2025, players can rendezvous with Qubesly in the Hub to jump-start this quest. From there, […]

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Dungeons and Dragons Online drops another new quest,...

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2025/04/17

Don’t expect to binge Dungeons and Dragons Online’s latest quest pack because Standing Stone Games is holding back all of its goodness from your digital gluttony. Update 73.1: Tavern Tales arrived yesterday to continue its slow-drip storytelling. The first new quest line, Dinosaur Crisis, arrived earlier this month. The latest update launches Toil and Trouble […]

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Throne & Liberty adjusts difficulty for solo...

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2025/04/17

The solo dungeons waiting within Throne & Liberty’s Hall of Illusion have gotten a bit of a tweaking in this week’s patch, with a reduction in difficulty tiers from five to three, a pair of new bosses to fight in the form of Verence and Marta, and the addition of some possible belt and necklace […]

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Eternal Tombs apologizes for silence and shares...

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2025/04/17

While we’re still waiting to hear the “huge news” that Eternal Tombs has planned for fans this year, at least the studio has emerged from a quiet period to apologize for its silence and give fans some indication as to what’s happening with this hardcore MMORPG. The devs at Triune Studios say that they’ve “been […]

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Dune Awakening talks combat, guild features, and...

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2025/04/17

Do you like videos? Funcom likes videos. Dune: Awakening really likes videos. The game has three new videos to watch cut from the livestream earlier this week. These cannot be in an email; these must be in a video format. This lovely set for recording videos can’t just be left to gather dust, after all, […]

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WoW Factor: Six things I really don’t like about...

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2025/04/17

With that rager of a negative title hanging over this column today, I want to start by saying that overall I generally like World of Warcraft: The War Within. I like it a lot, actually. Since last fall’s release, I’ve been playing it daily and appreciating its many virtues and slick design. It’s yet another […]

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Pax Dei is finally getting fast travel in next week’s...

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2025/04/17

So, who called for a surprise Easter patch in Pax Dei? Because that’s what you’re getting on April 22nd. Perhaps it’s to be expected from a game that includes miracles as core content! And this miracle is wanted indeed as it leads to the game’s fast travel ability. “A new Miracle will be available in […]

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Interview: Star Wars Galaxies Legends reveals the...

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2025/04/17

If you’ve been following the Star Wars Galaxies rogue server community, you probably know that SWG Legends has become one of the most interesting of the batch, being the highest-population rogue server for the almost-22-year-old MMORPG – quite a feat for an NGE server. And the player-led team behind the project has cranked out some […]

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RuneScape Dragonwilds plans new region, dragon fight,...

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2025/04/17

Now that Jagex’s survival sandbox RuneScape: Dragonwilds is out in the wilds of early access, the obvious question is just what the studio has in mind over the course of its ongoing development. Some of those details were shared by Jagex during yesterday’s livestreamed unveiling via a roadmap. The map itself doesn’t have any dates […]

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PlanetSide 2 players offer Daybreak $10,000 to revert...

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2025/04/17

Earlier this month, when Daybreak and Toadman finally merged the PlanetSide 2 North American servers into one, players had quite a shock when they realized the studios had merged the zippy east coast server, Emerald, into the sluggish and largely abandoned west coast server, Connery. The move led players to widespread complaining about ping and […]

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