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Watch Elder Scrolls Online’s ESO Direct as ZeniMax...

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2025/04/10

We’re just about to finally get our first look at what ZeniMax Online is plotting for Elder Scrolls Online in 2025 and beyond. Readers will already know that last December, the studio announced that it would be discontinuing the annual chapter system in favor of some sort of a seasonal model with smaller updates. But […]

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Black Desert PC has begun a 14-day trial event for...

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2025/04/10

Easter is very much happening over in Black Desert right now, as Pearl Abyss has kicked off a 14-day trial for the Duskwing flying mount. “Pearl Abyss unveiled a series of seasonal Black Desert Online events in celebration of Easter,” the devs say. “Starting April 10, 2025, Adventurers can claim exclusive daily gifts by logging […]

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Tomo Endless Blue is a new anime survivalish MMO...

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2025/04/10

Former MMO and MOBA devs have unveiled a new MMO today: It’s called Tomo: Endless Blue, and it’s launching on Steam next year. It’s coming to us from studio Onibi, which boasts devs from World of Warcraft, Fortnite, and League of Legends. The press release calls the game a “voxel open-world, anime-style RPG set in […]

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Ship of Heroes calls attention to its ‘gorgeous’...

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2025/04/10

One would expect that a game set in a sci-fi superheroic setting would have a lot of dynamic things to look at, and Ship of Heroes is certainly making that case in its latest dev blog and associated video, both of which call attention to the “gorgeous game” being made and how those visuals hold […]

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Casually Classic: How Burning Crusade brought us some...

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2025/04/10

There’s certainly been a rise of chatter among the WoW Classic community these days regarding The Burning Crusade. This is partially because of a pent-up demand for a return to that expansion and an anticipation that this will happen on the anniversary servers later this year. It’s a very specific Classic period that brought in […]

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Hardcore PvP MMO Warborne Above Ashes is launching a...

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2025/04/10

Back in March, we covered a new-to-us sci-fi MMO from developer Pumpkin Studio and publisher Qooland Games called Warborne Above Ashes. It’s a pretty unusual format for an MMO these days, but it most definitely includes 100v100 guild fights and a PvP focus, so it has our eye. And now, it’s looking for your time, […]

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Lineage II reveals three PvE and PvP encounters...

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2025/04/10

Lineage II has been gearing up for its big Project Wolf update for weeks already, and now NCsoft is teasing even more new content for the update. And it’s not just the wolf server and Varkas werewolf class! “NC America, the western publishing arm of NCSOFT, added exclusive new PvE and PvP components today — […]

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Former Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra criticizes Diablo...

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2025/04/10

Just because Mike Ybarra is no longer with Blizzard doesn’t mean that the former studio president has closed the book on his opinions about how the studio is being run. To point, this week Ybarra posted a pointed critique of Diablo IV’s recent roadmap and its perceived issues. The key problems, in his opinion, are […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The problem with level scaling in...

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2025/04/10

Last week, as I talked about the problems with horizontal progression, long-time commenter Rick Mills asked if I would write a column about level scaling and the problems with that. I informed him, rather impishly, that I would not do so because I already wrote that column like seven years ago. And at the time […]

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Ubisoft’s legal response to The Crew class action...

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2025/04/10

Readers may remember that a pair of gamers have been pursuing Ubisoft to court via a class action lawsuit over The Crew’s sunset and store removal, arguing that the move by the company broke California laws and was tantamount to various levels of fraud. Ubisoft has since filed a response to the suit, as first shared […]

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Make My MMO: Anachronia canceled its $72K Kickstarter...

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2025/04/06

Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP’s long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older games long past their fundraising. The Kickstarter for indie survival MMORPG Anachronia was apparently canceled the day before it was meant to end, having raised only $43K of its $72K […]

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Star Citizen confirms a one-day, digital-only...

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2025/04/05

If you were hoping to set up plans to visit the United Kingdom this year for Star Citizen’s annual CitizenCon event, well, don’t bother because this year will be an all-digital CitizenCon Direct instead, which will broadcast on Saturday, October 11th. The single-day broadcast is confirmed by CIG to be “shorter than a traditional physical […]

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NCsoft addresses ‘relentless and destructive’ DDoS...

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2025/04/05

It’s been a trying week or so for NCsoft’s games, as the MMORPG giant’s been dealing with several severe DDoS attacks upon its infrastructure and titles. While the company is offering compensation to those who found themselves unable to enjoy their games fully, NCsoft also said that it’s dedicated to slugging it out with the […]

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The Stream Team: Do you want some free Dinkum?

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2025/04/05

Do you want some free Dinkum? No, that’s not coming from a shadowy figure whispering to you from a dark alley. It’s from Massively Op’s MJ! Hey, what’s that look for? More precisely, it’s coming from Steam, which is offering a free weekend of the adorable death-in-the-outback co-op survival sim. MJ is going to pop […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: Should LOTRO players also check...

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2025/04/05

You know what’s always fascinated me? The connection between Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online. These two MMOs are very much like siblings with the same developer “parents” and some shared DNA, yet the pair are distinctly different in more ways than not. I’d be very interested to see SSG’s internal […]

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Devs promise to ‘finally present’ Chrono Odyssey soon...

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2025/04/05

A lot of the details for the upcoming Kakao-pubbed MMO Chrono Odyssey have effectively been a collection of drips and drabs from Twitter previews or briefs after closed testing periods. That trend does regrettably continue in the game’s latest dev blog, but it also promises that the curtain will finally lift in the very near […]

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WRUP: Addition Addition Addition Addition Addition...

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2025/04/05

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

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The Daily Grind: What small thing brings you great...

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2025/04/05

Sometimes it really is the small thing that can bring you an absurd amount of joy or contentment. It just has to hit you, personally, the right way. And you know what? MMOs are filled with a whole lot of small things — and chances are that some of these make you wag your non-existent […]

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The Stream Team: Desiring Death’s bow in...

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2025/04/04

Massively OP’s MJ is always searching for the best bow (or bow skin) in AQ3D. And now, there’s a new secret quest that will grant a new bow. Death’s bow! Of course, MJ needs this. It sounds perfectly dark and dismal, a sinister skin for her favorite weapon. Death is also giving out more free […]

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Betawatch: Defiance’s revival is running an open...

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2025/04/04

So the good news with Defiance is that it is doing a weekend stress test – tomorrow, in fact. The less good news is that it comes after the promise to not make another trailer with generative AI, and… you know what? That’s all you need to know about that story to know what existed […]

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