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Vampire survivalbox V Rising will launch its 1.1...

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2025/03/27

We’ve finally got a map and a plan for V Rising’s first big post-launch update: It’s called Invaders of Oakveil, and it’s launching April 28th on both Steam and PS5. The vampire survival box officially launched out of early access last May with the release of Ruins of Mortium – which we loved, by the […]

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Chronicles of Elyria dev addresses fumbled deadlines,...

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2025/03/27

Updates on Chronicles of Elyria, the Kickstarted MMORPG that was canceled and then brought back even as backers attempted to sue for relief, have been few and far between lately, thanks to efforts by lead developer to move development news behind closed doors. But some of the privately communicated info from Discord does continue to […]

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WoW Factor: Evaluating World of Warcraft’s allied...

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2025/03/27

At the tail end of an exciting expansion cycle, World of Warcraft: Legion saved one last big surprise for the community. In 2018’s Patch 7.3.5, Blizzard announced that it would be introducing new playable racial variants into the game — “allied races,” they were called. While initially these did feel like reskins of existing races, […]

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Black Desert adds a five-player boss fight to Orzekea...

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2025/03/27

Oh, did you think that last week’s addition of Atoraxxion: Orzekea for the PC version of Black Desert was all that the instance had waiting for you? Well, you probably weren’t since Pearl Abyss did mention an “ultimate boss” at the time, but now this week has added said ultimate boss for players to face. […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The MMO you play isn’t always the...

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2025/03/27

There was, for a brief period of time, a window when World of Warcraft was moving toward a more deterministic gear structure that de-emphasized the idea of raiding as the pinnacle of content. That window is now almost two decades in the rear view. The current game is currently stuck in a place wherein it’s […]

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New World just won April Fools’ Day already with this...

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2025/03/27

It’s not quite April Fools yet, but New World may have cornered this year’s laughs with a silly new store item that will no doubt be all the rage for the self-depreciating tank. That’s right, there’s a “kick me” shield you can buy starting next week: “This shield might just kick things up a notch. […]

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Stars Reach’s final Kickstarter haul inches past...

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2025/03/27

Last night, we covered the successful completion of Stars Reach’s Kickstarter campaign: Thanks to gamers, Playable Worlds raised over $750,000 in crowdfunding, and at least that much again in off-site player investment, according to the devs, which means the unlocking of yet another stretch goal. “When we launched this campaign, our goal wasn’t just to […]

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‘We like to make really big games’: John Smedley...

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2025/03/27

Our regular readers and followers of the MMO genre already know the name of John Smedley. He was the former head of Sony Online Entertainment for almost two decades, overseeing some of the studio’s biggest games right until SOE became Daybreak Games, not long after which he left the company. Then he went indie with […]

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Final Fantasy XIV fan claims to have...

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2025/03/27

Among the many other changes made to Final Fantasy XIV with the launch of patch 7.2, one of the subtler ones was meant to alter a particular behind-the-scenes feature with the game’s blacklist functionality. Apparently, Square-Enix’s idea was to make it impossible for a particular harassment-empowering mod – yes, the one from earlier this year […]

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The Daily Grind: How much research do you do for your...

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2025/03/27

Within the larger MMO community, there are three basic stances regarding guidance for builds online. The first group believes that ever acknowledging that Thing A might in fact be stronger than Thing B is heretical behavior, how absolute dare; we must pretend that all things are equivalent, so even a moment of checking online is […]

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The MOP Up: World of Peaky Tanks

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2025/03/23

When you think “World of Tanks,” naturally you free-associate the TV series Peaky Binders along with it. And a good thing too, because Wargaming is hosting a battlepass this month themed around the show: “The Shelby family enters the world of large caliber guns, bringing their guile, cunning, and grit.” And this is just the beginning of […]

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The Stream Team: How great is the great sword in...

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2025/03/23

That’s the question that MOP’s Chris is looking to investigate today! Our intrepid hunter has never tried the great sword weapon in previous entries of the series, but Monster Hunter Wilds seems like the right game (with the right mechanics) to give it a shot! Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EST as he swings […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: The virtuous world of Middle-earth

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2025/03/23

There are plenty of fantasy brands out there to suit any preference. If you arranged them on a spectrum, you might start at cozy fantasy at one end and go all the way to severe grimdark at the other, passing through many other varieties along the way. Every created fantasy IP has to take a […]

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If you want some Baldur’s Gate 3 in your Stardew...

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2025/03/23

If you think about it, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Stardew Valley have a lot in common. They both are multiplayer games with a strong single-player component. They’re both very moddable. You can disappear into both for a very long time. They both feature people getting very into their romance options. You’re going to go dungeon crawling […]

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One Shots: Light pollution over Bree

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2025/03/23

Are you under the assumption that light pollution is the sole product of the modern era? You’ve obviously never visited Lord of the Rings Online when someone’s stumbled upon an obnoxious amount of Dwarf candles and set about creating a gaudy display. My eyes! The goggles do nothing! “Nothing fancy, just a nice shot of […]

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The Daily Grind: Which of your favorite MMO’s patches...

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2025/03/23

So it is not exactly a secret that I like Warframe a lot, and thus you are probably aware that I am entirely on-board for the content in the game’s latest patch. Yet this particular patch has a problem for me because it leans into an aesthetic that I just do not vibe with. I […]

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Whatever happened to Bless Unleashed’s PC version?

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2025/03/23

“Hey, yeah, I remember Bless Unleashed! Wasn’t that a bit of a mess,” we hear you presumably say. And yes, it kind of was: The MMORPG first released in 2018 as Bless Online only to sunset a year later, then got resurrected in 2020 as a console version known as Bless Unleashed followed by a […]

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PSA: Nightingale is offering a free demo for a...

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2025/03/22

We’ll be one of the first to remind readers to be very cautious of early access purchases – if not avoid them outright – but the early access survival sandbox of Nightingale is granting players a unique opportunity to try before they buy… but only for a limited time. Inflexion Games has announced that players […]

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Guild Wars 2 previews April 15’s balance patch and...

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2025/03/22

Get your favorite clutchin’ pearls ready and prepare your fingers for knee-jerk reaction posts because Guild Wars 2 has once again provided preview patch notes for another balance update that’s due to arrive on Tuesday, April 15th. “The main goals of this update are to bring some specializations in PvE up closer to their contemporaries […]

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The Stream Team: Fun with farming in ICARUS

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2025/03/22

Last time, Massively OP’s MJ started with plans to advance her mobile base in ICARUS. However, she soon discovered that updates had added a ton of farming stuff! Now, she wants to check out all the things, from plowing plots to raising roosters. She even has new building materials to expand the base… er, farmhouse. […]

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