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WoW Classic’s 20th anniversary servers are already up...

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2025/03/21

It might only be March, but WoW Classic’s newest servers are already barreling into their third phase of content. Phase 3 landed on the servers yesterday, unlocking more endgame options such as the Blackwing Lair raid, level 50 class quests, and Warsong Gulch reputation lists. “The ominous depths of Blackwing Lair are waiting for those […]

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Palia’s next update, Tinker & Timber, includes decor...

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2025/03/21

Palia is eyeing its next patch for a launch next week on Tuesday, March 25th. Its name? The Tinker & Timber update. “Build and bounce into the Tinker & Timber update!” Singularity 6 says. “This patch is tailor-made for you crafty creatives and arduous adventurers, offering new ways to decorate and turn your Housing Plot […]

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The Daily Grind: How many players does an MMO need to...

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2025/03/21

A while back on Reddit, I saw a comment – I think it was about Throne & Liberty – that pushed back hard against the usual online “dead game” discourse. What leaped out at me is that the user put hard numbers on what a “reasonable” playerbase should be. I don’t aim to start a […]

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The Stream Team: Murder, Red Rain, and fun as a fire...

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2025/03/20

The enemy: Lucian Vaunt. The task at hand? Gather more folks folks in DDO’s Sharn who have a grudge against this villain, like the tiefling detective Zeleth Crowspire. Massively OP’s MJ will help her investigate the crime scenes of a string of murders down on the surface in Cogsgate that appear related gangs that Vaunt […]

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Massively Overthinking: Are you tired of survival...

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2025/03/20

When we were deep-diving Aloft earlier this year, MOP commenter Jon Wax said something that caught my attention. He thought the game looked neat, but the “scav loop” has just burned him out. “It was a great mechanic when it was new,” he said. “I realize now that the closer games become to simulation, with too […]

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Kickstarted cozy MMO Loftia recaps worldbuilding and...

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2025/03/20

Kickstarted cozy MMO Loftia is back with another development blog this week, this time recapping the last month of effort over at indie studio Qloud Games. A large chunk of the post is devoted to worldbuilding. “[A]las, it’s impossible to build a floating island in a day,” Qloud writes. “There is still a lot of […]

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Pokemon Go’s director emphasizes stability under...

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2025/03/20

If you were worried that Niantic selling Pokemon Go to Scopely would lead to everything Pokemon Going To Hell – and if MOP’s Andrew’s measured read on the situation didn’t calm you down – then the latest interview with director Michael Steranka over on Polygon will hopefully help settle some of those fears. Steranka is […]

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Star Citizen shares updates to ships, UI, and mining...

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2025/03/20

Alpha 4.1 of Star Citizen is nearly upon the playerbase. How can we tell? Because CIG is putting out its first “alpha watch” post for the build, which points out that the update’s PTU is open to all backers and that the next alpha is “in the final stretch, refining the last details.” Among the […]

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Warhammer Online Return of Reckoning reruns the Wild...

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2025/03/20

It’s time to go into some Elven hunting grounds, hunt a mystical stag, and apparently make it your horse by doing so. Don’t think too hard about it; just know that Warhammer Online rogue server Return of Reckoning is bringing back the Wild Hunt event for another year, running between March 21st and 31st. Rewards […]

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Black Desert sneezed and the Atoraxxion: Orzekea...

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2025/03/20

Get ready for a new Scrabble word champion because Black Desert released Atoraxxion: Orzekea today with the climax of its Ancient Stronghold saga. The March 20th patch opens up the Orzekea fiend monster zones and new main quest, while the 27th will unlock the final boss encounter. “Unlike previous Atoraxxion biomes, Orzekea introduces a unique […]

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New World and Throne & Liberty get small mid-week bug...

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2025/03/20

Let’s put this MOP Newswagon into fourth gear and catch up with a couple of mid-week updates for Amazon’s leading MMOs. First up is Throne & Liberty, which pumped out Update 2.2 on Wednesday to fix various issues. The main thrust here was to correct some missing dimensional trial season rewards, slap around the party […]

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Lost Ark discusses the features of its ‘lighter’...

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2025/03/20

By Lost Ark’s own admission, the patch arriving to the MMORPG on Wednesday, March 26th, is “a little bit of a lighter update.” Despite that, Amazon Games still has some things to cover in its Eye on Arkesia video digest for fans of the MMOARPG. Features of this patch include four new memories with new […]

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Fight or Kite: PvPvE extraction game Legacy Steel and...

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2025/03/20

Love ’em, hate ’em, or pine for the good old days, we are most certainly in the age of extraction RPGs. Just as spring brings with it the warm weather and fresh new flowers popping up all around us, this year it’s also popping in fresh new extraction games. Today I’m taking a look at […]

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Old School RuneScape deep-dives everything about...

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2025/03/20

The call of the ocean is sweeping across Old School RuneScape today as the sailing skill open alpha is now officially underway, and in true Jagex fashion, that means the features of the alpha have an intensely granular dev blog all about the skill’s latest iteration. Literally everything players could need or want to know […]

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Vague Patch Notes: If you have my money, you’d better...

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2025/03/20

So over the last couple of weeks Lord of the Rings Online has made itself quite a mess to clean up. It’s not the kind of screwup that ends like Alganon where the game goes out for cigarettes and never comes back (sure, it’ll come back this year, I believe you), but people were trying to […]

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Final Fantasy XIV previews the Arcadion and new gear...

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2025/03/20

There’s less than a week until Final Fantasy XIV players get to enjoy the next major patch for the game, but if you can’t wait that long to see more of what the patch offers, you don’t have to. Not that you can play it early, of course, but the special patch preview site has been […]

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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen discusses PvP, preps for...

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2025/03/20

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s news toddler has tripped on the sidewalk and cut open its knee, oozing out all sorts of information and probably crying really loudly at the same time, so while we give it a Hello Kitty bandage, here’s what followers of the sandbox MMORPG need to know. First, a new fixer-upper […]

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Spry Fox has finally named what it once called its...

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2025/03/20

We don’t often have occasion to cover Spry Fox here in the MMO world, but readers might remember that way back in 2021, the Cozy Grove/Road Not Taken developer announced that it was hiring for a “non-violent MMO project,” which immediately caught our attention. Then it got picked up for publishing by Epic Games and […]

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Conqueror’s Blade’s update aims to be the ‘first-ever...

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2025/03/20

Military strategy MMO Conqueror’s Blade has had an interesting turn of the year, having just moved house from My.Games and Obsidian to Poros Interactive, which is the publishing label used by Conqueror’s Blade’s OG dev studio, Booming Tech. In other words, the game didn’t just move house; it came back home. And now, it’s rolling […]

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Warframe takes the stage once again with the new...

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2025/03/20

It’s a well-known fact that when a musician asks the crowd if they are ready to rock, the only correct answer is an enthusiastic yes, and Warframe‘s latest patch is asking you if you are ready to rock. The Techrot Encore has arrived, bringing with it new infested nemeses in the form of corrupted Techrot clones […]

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