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Jeff Kaplan’s Legend of California demos multiplayer,...

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2026/03/19

Now that Jeff Kaplan has spilled gallons of tea about his former company, he can get to the arguably much more fun business of guiding his new studio Kintsugiyama and its upcoming multiplayer title The Legend of California, which was done through both a short introductory video and a 10 hour-long livestream. We’ll begin with that first video, […]

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EVE Frontier’s blockchain-powered ‘hackathon’ test...

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2026/03/19

Last week saw the sci-fi survival MMO EVE Frontier begin its 2026 “hackathon” contest, which leans heavily into the game’s modifiable constructs, otherwise known as the “smart assemblies” that CCP Games insists are impossible without blockchain tech. The contest challenges players to create mods for these assemblies or craft external apps, with an $80,000 prize pool up […]

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Wizard101 adds a new Hidden Temple Gauntlet as a...

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2026/03/19

In the mid-’90s, Nickelodeon had a popular and fondly remember game show, Legends of the Hidden Temple. Six teams of two kids competed to answer trivia questions and ultimately challenge the eponymous hidden temple obstacle course, making the overall show something like Double Dare crossed with Indiana Jones. And so modern kids probably don’t think […]

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Lord of the Rings Online explains why it settled on...

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2026/03/19

Are you ready to order a Pods delivered to your old Lord of the Rings Online house and get all of your stuff moved over to Elf country? If so, then you’re probably pretty juiced about the upcoming arrival of Rivendell housing this spring. Standing Stone Games gave an interview to MMORPG.com about the latest […]

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Indie MMORPG Embers Adrift returns to service with a...

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2026/03/19

After over 24 hours offline, the Embers Adrift servers were finally returned to service last night. Readers will recall that on Tuesday, Stormhaven Studios dev Undone told players that the devs were “dealing with a catastrophic hardware failure with the live game service” that pulled the game offline for an anticipated 12-24 hours. The outage […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs are you genuinely...

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2026/03/19

I tell you what, at this point I no longer expect that Lost Ark has a particularly long future after Amazon’s most recent actions toward the game. This does not affect me personally in the abstract, I’ve never been a huge fan of the game, but between its player concurrency and Amazon’s general behavior this does […]

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EverQuest lawsuit reaches settlement with threat of...

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2026/03/19

I’m almost surprised to be writing this, but it looks like the EverQuest emulator lawsuit is finally coming to an end. MMORPG fans will surely remember that back in 2025, Daybreak sued the operators of an EverQuest rogue server called The Heroes Journey, alleging that the group was pulling in as much as $100,000 a […]

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2-D beat-em-up Dungeon Fighter Online celebrates its...

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2026/03/18

Dungeon Fighter Online’s always been one of those anomalous MMORPGs that’s super popular overseas yet doesn’t seem to have much of a cultural footprint in the west. Even so, we’re willing to bet that a few of you enjoy this 2-D beat-em-up and are glad to see the title come to its 11th anniversary this […]

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Elder Scrolls Online’s Jester’s Festival next week...

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2026/03/18

I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but in two weeks, we’re all gonna get slammed with April Fools’ Day jokes and events, only some of them actually worth a giggle. Elder Scrolls Online is hoping its Jester’s Festival will be one of those. “The glorious return of the beloved Jester’s Festival in-game […]

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Funcom delays Dune Awakening’s character migration...

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2026/03/18

If you’re still actively playing survival sandbox MMORPG Dune Awakening, the upcoming server migrations are surely at the top of your mind, and not just because Funcom has been talking about them all year. Originally, the studio planned to get the merges and migration system underway in March while explaining that its goal was not […]

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One Shots: The steamy seduction of swamp life

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2026/03/15

Chances are that most of us don’t give much of a thought to the attraction of swamps and think of them instead as composts heaps where Artax goes to be sad and die. But if you get past the stench and decay, perhaps there is a loveliness to these zones? Jaunty thinks so, at least: […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s your dream expansion for an...

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2026/03/15

Every so often I think about expansions that I’m never going to get. Some of those are expansions that are rendered impossible because linear time is a thing and there is no way to reverse that, so if a given MMORPG already explored a continent there’s no do-over button. Others are rendered impossible because the […]

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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Nova Era Atom, Tyr, and...

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2026/03/15

Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you’ve never heard of! We hope you’ve got your bibs on and your crab leg-crackin’ rocks on hand because this one’s a pretty varied seafood boil of stuff today. Nova Era: Atom First on the list is Nova Era: Atom, a sci-fi MMORPG from developer […]

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World of Warships celebrates the Yamato with the help...

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2026/03/14

World of Warships collaborating with the Swedish heavy metal band Sabaton is nothing new; readers may recall that the two worked together to commemorate the German battleship Bismarck. But now it’s happened again, only this time it’s for the Japanese battleship Yamato. The collab is the headlining feature for the military battler’s Update 15.2, which introduces […]

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Star Citizen discusses FPS gameplay, begins alpha 4.7...

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2026/03/14

Earlier we pointed out how Star Citizen had locked down some features for alpha 4.7 and would very likely begin spooling up the hype engine for the next build. Well, sure enough, that has indeed started, beginning with the sandbox’s customary “patch watch” forum posts that highlight other features that are incoming. This first preview covers a pretty […]

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The Stream Team: Ending No Man’s Sky’s earth-bound...

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2026/03/14

For the first time ever, Massively OP’s MJ is poised to complete a No Man’s Sky expedition! All it took was making this round earth-bound. She’s been loving trucking around, hauling junk, and cleaning up the planet. Today, she even gets to equip spider legs to her vehicle! The fun factor is rising. Join us […]

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MMO Hype Train: Is all MMO hype actually MMO copium?

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2026/03/14

It is said — probably by me — that there are three ways to shut down any argument online: accuse someone of being Hitler, accuse something of being AI slop, and accuse a person’s attitude of being copium. Some people have these responses hot-keyed to their keyboard so that they can carve a swath of […]

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Nine-year-old colony building MMO SEED deploys a new...

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2026/03/14

It’s been about a year since our last check-in on SEED, the colony building sandbox MMO from developer Klang Games that’s still in a state of “pre-release” testing begun in 2024. It would appear that testing continues, judging from the game’s most recent newsletter, but the devs also remark on vague plans to “bring SEED to the world.” […]

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WRUP: Prisoner of the heck fart brigade edition

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2026/03/14

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about words that just look so weird to us.

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The Daily Grind: Did you switch up your MMO main...

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2026/03/14

Look at that: We’re into March already! And with two months under our collective belts, the odds are pretty good at at least some of us swapped out our MMO mains. In fact, I swapped out my old World of Warcraft main — a Death Knight that I’ve been piloting since Warlords of Draenor — to a […]

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