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Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s April update brings...

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2025/03/30

Pokemon Go’s buyout by Scopely hasn’t resulted in a full transition yet, but we’re already seeing some of Scopely’s influence, and it’s not all bad. Not only did March get two new spawning Pokemon (as opposed to egg-locked ones), but in April we’ll see new regionals that at least will start out as remote-raidable, a […]

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Who is Fawkes Games, Defiance’s new operator, and...

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2025/03/30

With Gamigo reviving and offloading sci-fi MMO Defiance to Fawkes Games for a relaunch next month, there’s some question about who this Fawkes is and what other titles are under its care. Fawkes’ motto is “Breathing life to old worlds and preserving their legacy together.” This outfit primarily handles the day-to-day operation of Gamigo’s unwanted […]

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One Shots: Neon to the max!

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2025/03/30

I certainly hope you weren’t looking for a neutral color scheme that will go great with those IKEA cabinets and chairs you bought last weekend, because Minimalistway is here to bring you your 5,000% of daily recommended neon from Star Wars: The Old Republic. It goes with nothing, yet it is awesome. “Every time I […]

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The Daily Grind: Does your favorite MMO have in-world...

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2025/03/30

I do not care for spiders. They seriously unsettle me, and so the fact that so many MMOs I like are awash in giant spiders is not exactly a fun time for me. It’s kind of inevitable when giant spiders are a consistent feature in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (and […]

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Star Wars The Old Republic begins public testing of...

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2025/03/30

Are you ready to try on a new look in Star Wars: The Old Republic? Unfortunately this isn’t to suggest that there are some new character customization options on hand. What is being offered, however, is a public test of character face updates as part of Broadsword’s modernization efforts for the MMORPG, so it’s less […]

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Ashes of Creation provides a look at its first...

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2025/03/29

The latest Alpha Two build for Ashes of Creation wasn’t only about bringing the stab-happy Rogue class; it’s also offering up the very first iteration of the MMORPG’s naval gameplay loop, which is the focus of its latest video preview. The video starts off by cramming a massive sea vessel into a river because the […]

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Destiny 2 prepares for Heresy’s next act, collabs...

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2025/03/29

Even though this year’s Game Developers Conference is long gone, we’re still getting peeks at how the gaming sausages are made in many respects, and just like that analogy suggests, that manufacture can turn out to be ugly indeed. Take the case of Destiny 2 and its efforts to try to retain players, as discussed […]

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BitCraft Online will be $30 in early access but F2P...

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2025/03/29

The in-development sandbox MMORPG BitCraft has discussed its monetization plans before, but those were more conceptual than anything that was fully decided. That was four years ago, and with the game nearing its early access release, developer Clockwork Labs has obviously had more time to firm up its monetization plans and share them with followers […]

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The Stream Team: Last-minute spring cleaning in...

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2025/03/29

Spring may have just sprung (at least it is trying to!), but Astroneer’s spring cleaning event is about to end. And Massively OP’s MJ has a ton of junk still strewn across her planets! Obviously, she needs to get a move on and embark on some serious last-minute spring cleaning if she wants to earn […]

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MMO Hype Train: Is there any hope – or hype – left...

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2025/03/29

If there’s any developer alive who knows realm-vs-realm MMO design better than Mark Jacobs, I haven’t met him or her. Jacobs and Mythic Entertainment made an MMO genre name for themselves with 2001’s Dark Age of Camelot, which figured out that three-way faction warfare was the ideal setup for PvP MMOs. Then, of course, there […]

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WRUP: I have found a variety of knives in the laundry...

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2025/03/29

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about our scariest vehicle incidents. We're a bundle of laughs this morning.

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The Daily Grind: Do you stop collecting mounts when...

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2025/03/29

Mounts are a powerful reward in most MMOs, offering not only a faster way to get to your destination but also a fashion statement to the world. It’s important to a lot of us that a good mount look cool or fit our theme, and the pursuit of acquiring more and more vehicles, horses, and […]

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The Stream Team: Getting our gremlin on in Mother...

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2025/03/28

When you are terrible at side-scrolling, platformer, and roguelike games but a super adorable side-scrolling platformer roguelike launches, what do you do? For Massively OP’s MJ, it’s join in and play co-op with a friend! Chris has invited MJ to play Mother Machine, and one look had her ready to dive in. Dive? We mean […]

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Betawatch: Stars Reach’s Kickstarter did indeed reach...

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2025/03/28

It’s not exactly a shock that Stars Reach hit its funding goal, but it is still newsworthy! Like, it would have been a real big deal if it didn’t hit that funding goal. But it did, and it actually wound up at a pretty respectable spot, especially when you consider that the goal of this particular […]

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Final Fantasy XI looks forward to balance adjustments...

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2025/03/28

The past several updates to Final Fantasy XI have definitely been calmer and smaller, but that’s a trend that the upcoming April version update is poised to… continue unabated. The preview of the next update is available now, and the biggest topline feature is that there will be two major server maintenance times during the […]

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World of Tanks promotes its Girls und Panzer...

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2025/03/28

It’s all right if you don’t know anything about the anime Girls und Panzer. You don’t really need to know anything about it to see the name and then realize “oh, yeah, why hasn’t World of Tanks already crossed over with this?” Like, it seems obvious as heck. Why did we get a Teenage Mutant […]

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Project Gorgon’s latest update includes a balancing...

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2025/03/28

Project Gorgon’s latest update isn’t a major content update like February’s – you can add vampirism only once, after all – but it does include an engine upgrade and a tidy list of tweaks and fixes. “We’ve updated the game to use Unity 2022.3,” Elder Game says. “This is a major version change, which usually […]

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World of Warcraft is changing the guild name service...

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2025/03/28

Your World of Warcraft guild is probably named something mildly offensive that seemed like a funny joke when you named it but now feels kinda cringe. Of course, no one can blame you for not wanting to drop $20 to make a better guild name (or, more likely, a new mildly offensive reference that’ll feel […]

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Corepunk pushes its Prison Island update to April 4...

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2025/03/28

Delays? In Corepunk? Get out of here! No, wait, come back, because there’s more to say. So yes, Corepunk announced that it’s slightly pushing back its next big patch to April 4th while at the same time promising that the wait will be worth it. Prison Island and a brand-new weapon specialization, the Defender, are […]

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The Stream Team: Focusing on Palia’s story

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2025/03/28

MOP’s Chris is easily distracted, as regular viewers of OPTV know by now, but today he’s hoping that he’ll get his way through the story in Palia in order to maybe progress. Emphasis on maybe. Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as he revisits this cozy little realm. What: Palia Who: Chris Neal When: […]

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