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Ultima Online’s second update for New Legacy is here...

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2025/04/11

Broadsword hasn’t been overly chatty about Ultima Online’s New Legacy alternative ruleset server since it launched last fall, but the studio has been busy indeed: The roadmap in January suggested New Legacy would see its second update this spring, then we learned the game’s longtime producer was relinquishing her post, and then we got word […]

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Astroneer-spinoff Starseeker talks multiplayer co-op...

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2025/04/11

System Era Softworks’ reveal of its second-ever game Starseeker likely has roused a whole lot of curiosity from fans, particularly those who have enjoyed the studio’s first game, survival sandbox Astroneer. Cue a Q&A session with creative director Adam Bromell, which seeks to give a little more insight into what the game is like. Bromell […]

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Blizzard takes players on a tour behind the scenes of...

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2025/04/11

The basic goal when World of Warcraft’s development team announced the Season of Discovery for WoW Classic has long been discussed, but a new video from the team this week in the wake of Phase 8 reiterates that point: It was always was to mix up the vanilla game. Not to add new classes or specs, […]

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The Stream Team: Taking some first steps into...

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2025/04/11

The Choose My Adventure voting public looks to have secured the next destination for MOP’s Chris as he continues to roam through Nightingale: Welkin’s Reach, the next bespoke location in the survivalbox’s primary story. Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as he makes his first inroads into this new realm! What: Nightingale Who: Chris […]

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Overwatch 2 previews Season 16’s new and adjusted...

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2025/04/11

The new season of Overwatch 2 content is slowly building on the horizon, which means that Blizzard is eager to get people excited for what’s to come in both a sizzle reel sense and an informational sense. We’ll start with the information portion first, which is couched within the game’s latest dev blog that shares […]

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Enshrouded announces Thralls of Twilight, launching...

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2025/04/11

If you’re one of the 4,000,000 people who’ve already bought into the Enshrouded hype, then this week has been a good one for you. That’s because Keen Games has teased the survivalbox’s sixth update at the Triple-I Initiative. In fact, it was kinda the headliner for the show, which is sort of the indie version […]

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Lord of the Rings Online whips up a new tropical...

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2025/04/11

One of Lord of the Rings Online’s younger festivals is about to get a major upgrade in 2025. The Midsummer Festival, which came following Update 27, previously confined players to a modified version of Minas Tirith. However, SSG is taking the festivities out of the city and down south for this year’s summer event. On […]

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Why I Play: V Rising is an MMO you can win

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2025/04/11

We’ve got a couple weeks to go until we can play V Rising’s next major update, Invaders of Oakveil, which is hitting on April 28th. And I’m looking forward to it, since I plan to start a new playthrough with a friend on a fresh server… which, y’know, isn’t so much a choice as a […]

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The First Descendant previews new content arriving...

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2025/04/11

Season 2 Episode 2 for The First Descendant is already well underway, but next week will be bringing more to the looter shooter when a patch on Thursday, April 17th, introduces more story content, new events, and revamps for the new arrivals. The updates were showcased during a developer livestream earlier this week, which offered […]

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New World’s revised Coral Divide outpost rush map...

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2025/04/11

Are you ready to kick the tires of the Coral Divide outpost rush in New World? Then you’ve got a set of dates to keep in mind because Amazon Games has confirmed that testing will start on Tuesday, April 15th, and will run for a week until Tuesday, April 21st. Readers may recall that Amazon […]

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Final Fantasy XIV reruns its callback campaign and...

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2025/04/11

Final Fantasy XIV appears to be eager to both draw in lapsed players and marshal free companies (aka guilds) in order to draw everyone back together in Eorzea, as the MMORPG has kicked off a pair of promotions that appear to be all about bolstering player numbers. First, the Callback Campaign that lets players invite […]

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Stars Reach has wiped its pre-alpha and revamped for...

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2025/04/11

You might not expect devs of an MMORPG in testing to be quite this excited to be perpetrating a wipe of the game worlds, but Stars Reach is still deep in pre-alpha, so it kinda makes sense. “Now that the Kickstarter campaign is complete, we are restoring the new character experience so that it’s more […]

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V Rising launches a new site and trailer for its...

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2025/04/11

Is it possible that the real invaders of Oakveil were the thralls we made along the way in V Rising? No. That doesn’t even pretend to make sense. But the update is approaching for the game on April 28th, and that means it’s almost time to take command of three new weapons, seven new spells, […]

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World of Warcraft has opened signups for Mists of...

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2025/04/11

No, you haven’t just wandered through a dodgy portal: Blizzard is pushing the World of Warcraft Classic progression servers on to Mists of Pandaria this year, and if you wanted to peep it early, the beta is your ticket. “Return to the mystic lands of Pandaria – a world shrouded in fog and mystery,” Blizzard […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO posts the best patch notes...

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2025/04/11

Back in February, Justin and I discussed No Man’s Sky on the MOP podcast, and I joked that I love to be the staffer who writes up the game’s updates because the patch notes are a work of art. Seriously, go click on the game’s latest patch notes. It doesn’t even matter when you’re reading […]

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The Stream Team: It’s Just Business in Dungeons &...

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2025/04/10

While Issabet Tremont has helped Massively OP’s MJ when she arrived in Sharn, the girl maybe be in danger for it! Vaunt has summoned Issabet to an “important meeting” (which doesn’t sound suspicious at all!), and her family has asked MJ to keep an eye on things to make sure nothing too bad happens to […]

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Massively Overthinking: The one about open-world...

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2025/04/10

MOP’s Chris is fast becoming my muse: It was his remark about Marvel Heroes that inspired this week’s Massively Overthinking. “Some of the best fun I had in that game was diverting to whatever open world ruckus was being raised by randos while I was marching towards the next story mission,” he said. And of […]

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Overwatch 2 devs discuss how they effectively create...

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2025/04/10

In a time when those in power are desperately trying to erase whole groups of people from the annals of history, science, sport, and human rights, a new piece from Rolling Stone about how the developers of Overwatch 2 embrace inclusion and diversity within the shooter’s roster is arguably needed oxygen. The article primarily zeroes […]

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Here’s how to get into the April 11 Monsters &...

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2025/04/10

We reported earlier how Monsters & Memories is going to be hosting another totally open playtest starting on April 11th and running until April 13th. We also reported how these tests aren’t necessarily new. But maybe this is new to you – or you became curious to peek in after MOP’s Justin pondered its intriguing […]

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Elder Scrolls Online lays out its new seasonal...

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2025/04/10

Just ahead of the new year, ZeniMax Online Studios worried the Elder Scrolls Online playerbase with the announcement that the studio would go into the MMORPG’s 11th year with a brand-new cadence – one that wouldn’t include annual chapters. Now, thanks to this afternoon’s 2025 ESO Direct, we (and the game’s 26M other players) are […]

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