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The Stream Team: Decorating with Shrade for AQ3D’s...

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2026/03/13

What’s better than one Friday the 13th? Two in a row! Massively OP’s MJ is pretty giddy about celebrating her favorite day yet again. And she’s doing so in AQ3D — a game that knows how to Friday the 13th. For example: new Shrade-themed housing items for the day have been added. She just needs […]

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NCsoft’s brand-new survival shooter Time Takers...

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2026/03/13

We’ve got one more announcement coming at you on this here Friday night: NCsoft and Mistil Games have officially begin the closed beta for Time Takers as of this evening. In fact, it’s more like a series of playtests from now through March 21st, with the servers going up at 7 p.m. EDT and shutting […]

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Betawatch: Shadowstone kicks off playtesting, EVE...

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2026/03/13

It’s Shadowstone time, people! What is Shadowstone, you ask? It’s the new game from Secret Door and Dreamhaven that’s starting its playtest this weekend. Didn’t you know that? Well, now you do. And if the names sound familiar, yes, these are the same folks behind Sunderfolk. Elsewhere, EVE Frontier continues its blockchain-based sloughing-through-development era (and yes, I checked, “slough” is […]

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IMCGames’ Tree of Savior appears to have placed one...

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2026/03/13

The IMCGames version of Tree of Savior, aka the one that’s on Steam, has put special classes into its lockboxes. That’s not anything really new. However, the Leticia’s Cube for March has something that’s more than a little familiar: One of the MMO’s pre-existing advanced classes, only with a different name. According to a thread posted by […]

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PSA: The Elder Scrolls Online is giving tons of free...

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2026/03/13

Hey you! Do you like free stuff? Do you like The Elder Scrolls Online? Because boy-howdy, the launch of the game’s Update 49 that’s serving as a foundation for the seasonal model going forward is offering you a bunch of free stuff. No, really, everyone can claim a bundle using the code “U49GIFT” once per account […]

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Crystal of Atlan releases its new magitech Inventor...

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2026/03/13

It’s been a few months since we peeked in on Crystal of Atlan – it was September of last year, in fact, when the MMO, which has only been live since last May, rolled out its Steam version and Assassin class. But now, Skystone and ByteDance/Nuverse are releasing yet another class: the Inventor. “The Inventor […]

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MMO Business Roundup: PEGI’s lockbox accountability,...

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2026/03/13

Welcome back to yet another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Today’s bundle features a few multiplayer game-specific tidbits for a little bit of a surprise peppery kick, but we promise it’s the good kind of spicy. PEGI game ratings will account for lockboxes: The Pan-European Games Information ratings system (aka PEGI) will now account […]

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MMO Jukebox Song of the Week: ‘World Soul Cradle’...

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2026/03/13

A new World of Warcraft expansion is the perfect time to sink deep into a gorgeous new soundtrack, and Midnight’s arrival is no different. Everyone seems to be in love with the ethereal “World Soul Cradle,” a gorgeous long-form piece that is perfect for some tranquil basking. You bask, don’t you? MMOs are meant to […]

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Path of Exile blames ‘very persistent and targeted...

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2026/03/13

You might have been having a rough time staying connected to Path of Exile pretty recently, which has been an issue that Grinding Gear Games has been wrestling with ever since its Mirage update came online. Well, we can all blame everyone’s favorite grass touching-deficient trolls: the DDOS attackers. GGG lays the blame at the feet of […]

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Here’s how Pantheon is overhauling its attribute...

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2026/03/13

With Pantheon’s March update – and its long-awaited ability loadouts and Nightfall Crypt – fully live, Visionary Realms is turning its attention more fully to the combat and progression overhaul coming later this spring. Today’s dev blog on that topic homes in specifically on attributes – that is, stats like strength, dexterity, and intellect – […]

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Swordeye is an upcoming MMO hardcore action combat...

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2026/03/13

Tired of the feeling that MMOs are holding your hand a little too much — and maybe even powdering your butt so that you don’t chafe? Then you’re a prime candidate for Swordeye, an upcoming game that bills itself as a “hardcore MMO slasher with brutal directional combat.” Developed by ALX Theory and heading our […]

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Storyboard: The challenges of breaking into a...

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2026/03/13

In some ways, this should be a really easy column to write because breaking into a calcified RP community is actually really easy. People will be falling over themselves to welcome you into the community, in fact. And in another way, it’s an impossible column to write because the actual answer is that you don’t. […]

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Lord of the Rings Online expands its spring festival,...

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2026/03/13

If you’re used to giving it a pass, then heads up: Lord of the Rings Online’s Spring Festival hopes to earn back your attention with a Hobbity glow-up this year. The festival, which kicked off Thursday and runs until March 31st, includes all of the previous years’ activities as well as a new series of […]

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WoW Factor: You don’t have to speed-run MMORPG...

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2026/03/13

Last week, World of Warcraft launched its 12th expansion, Midnight. And it was a big deal to a whole lot of people, with an early access crowd rushing through content a few days prior and a surge of latecomers powering through levels and content during the global release. If you listened to the multitude of […]

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Palia provides a sneak peek at the March 17 Toadstool...

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2026/03/13

Palia might have provided the littlest of peeks for its next expansion, but evidently it’s not quite finished with providing more looks at what it’s got coming next. Case in point, a trailer for its March 17th Spring Spectacle: Toadstool Tales update. As the name suggests, this is the first of the lineup of Spring Spectacle patches, […]

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World of Warcraft looks forward to its first content...

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2026/03/13

Are you enjoying World of Warcraft’s latest expansion at this point? It doesn’t matter what your answer to that question is, because we can’t have anyone getting bored so the developers are already full steam ahead on previewing the next content update for the game. Patch 12.0.5 is going to bring new Void Assaults to Eversong […]

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Final Fantasy XIV previews patch 7.5, Trail to the...

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2026/03/13

The next Final Fantasy XIV update arrives on April 28th, and it might be a bit easy to miss the forest for the trees. Or at least, for one specific tree, considering that the upcoming third part of the Vana’diel raid series will bring players to Windurst and its iconic central tree. But that’s hardly everything […]

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Marvel Heroes emu Project T.A.H.I.T.I. dates 1.0...

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2026/03/13

We’ve kept an occasional eye on the efforts of Project T.A.H.I.T.I., an emulator of the MMOARPG Marvel Heroes, for some time now, and when we last checked in we had the exciting news to report that its fan devs were looking at a 1.0 release early this year. Well we now can happily note that release window is […]

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The Daily Grind: What MMO and multiplayer IPs are...

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2026/03/13

Back in February, Blizzard’s Holly Longdale said the quiet part out loud when she declared that the Warcraft IP is being “underutilized.” Maybe you could push back against that; it’s had multiple strategy titles, an MMO, books, and a popular card game, and maybe you could say it’s best not to dilute a brand too […]

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The Stream Team: Fred’s First Date in Dungeons &...

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2026/03/12

A while back, Massively OP’s MJ decided to help the friendly mindflayer Fred with his first date in Dungeons and Dragons Online for Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately, she forgot! Whoops. But it’s never too late to help him find love. MJ and her team have all hands on deck to assist Fred as he takes this […]

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