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MMO Week in Review: Seasons of the Worm Cult

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2025/04/14

The fact that Elder Scrolls Online’s new content has “worm” in the title is probably the least of its worries: This week, ZeniMax Online Studios revealed the game’s first season of fresh content along with a rather convoluted annual-pass business model that has MMO players wondering whether they’re being asked to pay more for less. […]

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EVE Online details its April 15 Capsuleer Day event...

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2025/04/13

This year’s Capsuleer Day event in EVE Online is going to be looking a tiny bit different. That is to say, the fight against the Drifters that has been encapsulating the sci-fi sandbox will be coming to a head when Capsuleer Day kicks off on Tuesday, April 15th. The event promises “a full-scale seasonal event […]

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The MOP Up: Path of Exile 2 figures out how to respec...

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2025/04/13

Path of Exile 2 finally is responding to the demand for respecs with this week’s update, although it will be done in a structured fashion: “Redoing an Ascendancy Trial allows you to respec which Ascendancy Class you have chosen at the Ascension device, but only if the Trial would grant you the number of points […]

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The Stream Team: The further training with friends in...

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2025/04/13

MOP’s Chris and his crew are once more in Final Fantasy XIV this week for some tune-up as the random dungeons beckon and the shakedown continues. It’s another chilled out Sunday of remembering rotations and instance delving with friends today at 2:00 p.m. EDT! What: Final Fantasy XIV Who: Chris Neal When: 2:00 p.m. EDT […]

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Computers, smartphones, and other electronic...

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2025/04/13

The tariff policy from the current US presidential administration is, uh, fluid to say the least: Shortly after its threat of tariffs across the global economy – even against friendly nations – caused gaming and tech company stock value to slip, the current administration decided to mostly change its mind, offering a 90-day drop to […]

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Marathon unveils gameplay details and September 23...

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2025/04/13

It was very easy to assume that the reprise of Marathon, Bungie’s in-development PvPvE extraction shooter, was in very real danger of not releasing; all fans got for years were vague riddles that assured the game was still being made even as developer jobs were slashed as payment for unreasonable executive demands. Now, after an […]

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One Shots: What happens in Undermine stays in Undermine

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2025/04/13

Looking for a place to indulge in every explosion-related vice that you can imagine? Then head right down to Undermine, friend, and be a delinquent for a long weekend before heading home and denying that you did anything out of the ordinary. “Here’s a shot from World of Warcraft’s Undermine,” submitted Lucky Jinx. “This patch has […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s your weird quirk for...

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2025/04/13

I don’t like using Control or Alt for my extra action bars in MMOs, and I really hate that that’s the default. Usually one of the first things I do is rebind all of that to Shift. Based on how I hold my hands on the keyboard, it’s just easier for me. And I am […]

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Dune Awakening shares new screenshots and confirms...

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2025/04/13

Just in case you weren’t fully convinced that the world of Dune: Awakening is an extraordinarily dangerous place, what with all of the desert heat and the PvP and the sand worms and such, the survival MMO’s latest newsletter is warning players of yet another threat to be aware of: the Emperor’s Sardaukar. “As they […]

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RuneScape is reopening its Easter-soaked Blooming...

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2025/04/12

If pastel hues, smiling bunnies, and Easter fun times make you unconscionably furious, then you are warned to stay away from RuneScape between April 14th and May 5th, which is when the MMORPG will reopen the colorful Blooming Burrow event instance once more. For everybody else, enjoy. Especially if it makes joyless people mad for […]

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Pixel sandbox Necesse counts 250K new players last...

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2025/04/12

Don’t sleep too long on Necesse, as this quirky sandbox MMO is truly picking up steam in 2025. In fact, indie developer Fair Games announced that the title saw over a quarter-million players come into the game in March alone. It’s a good time to check Necesse out, starting with a 30% off sale on […]

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Blockchain MMORPG EVE Frontier opens a free trial for...

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2025/04/12

This week, the floodgates for blockchain sandbox MMORPG EVE Frontier open, as this past Friday brought on a free trial for the game running between now and Monday, April 21st, granting players another opportunity to check out the hardcore survival sandbox promising modability via the blockchain without buying a founder’s pack. The free trial comes […]

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MMO Hype Train: Is Equinox Homecoming for real or is...

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2025/04/12

I have long gone on the record saying that I truly appreciate it when a creative work — especially TV, movies, and video games — bucks the tired trends and instead swings for the fences. I love audacious and daring approaches that venture into new territory or do something old in a fresh way. As […]

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Dreamhaven-pubbed extraction shooter Wildgate is...

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2025/04/12

Last month we were first introduced to Wildgate, a sci-fi extraction shooter from developer Moonshot Games and publisher Dreamhaven – that’s the company that Mike Morhaime is helming – that heralds itself as co-op owing to its crew-based spaceship control but also notes players can win by eradicating all rival vessels, so it’s probably PvPvE […]

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WRUP: Confused Enya edition

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2025/04/12

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

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The Daily Grind: Which two MMORPGs pair well together?

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2025/04/12

I’m no foodie — you go to MOP’s Chris for that — but even I understand the concept of “pairing.” Some foods and drinks go exquisitely well together, and finding those combinations can be a source of delightful discovery for gourmands. So why not extend that to MMORPGs for the moment? Let’s brainstorm pairings of […]

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Guild Wars 1’s community is organizing a massive 20th...

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2025/04/12

Leave it up to the amazing classic Guild Wars community to top what ArenaNet is already doing for this legacy MMO on its 20th anniversary. This week we got the news that the studio is patching up the game next week with previously exclusive weapons and minipets in its loot tables, and now fans are […]

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Betawatch: Tomo Endless Blue joins our watch list,...

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2025/04/11

When I saw the announcement for Tomo Endless Blue I immediately began trying to sing a version of Styx’s “Mr. Roboto” that incorporated the title. This was exceedingly stupid and unproductive. No one needed it, and the studio name (Onibi) doesn’t scan into the joke in any way. Good thing the game looks like it’s […]

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Squirreled Away is a multiplayer co-op ‘squirrel...

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2025/04/11

Have you been filing through the Steam storefront, hoping against hope that a multiplayer survival game would finally let you live out your dreams of being a squirrel, then weeping bitterly and silently as you see that no such game exists? Developer Far Seas and publisher Amplifier Studios have heard your plea and have put […]

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Last Epoch showcases April 17’s new faction, new and...

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2025/04/11

While Last Epoch might have shuffled its next update out of the way in order for Path of Exile 2 to make its bellyflop, that hasn’t stopped Eleventh Hour Games from trying to keep the hype fires burning, as it’s spent the past few days sharing dev blogs that highlight what’s arriving in the April […]

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