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LOTRO Legendarium: The forging of new communities in...

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2025/03/07

As I write this, it’s Tuesday morning, and we are well underway in what I’m calling the Great Server Migration of 2025 in Lord of the Rings Online. By the time you read this, you’ll know whether or not everything went smoothly. Me in the past? I’m casting pennies in that big ol’ well in […]

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Brighter Shores launches the first phase of its...

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2025/03/07

I don’t think anyone was going to argue that Brighter Shores had the most engaging and thrilling combat system in the MMO space. In fact, the initial implementation of fighting in this RuneScape clone was barely more involved than two people sitting head-to-head playing War with cards. But that’s all changing thanks to a combat […]

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Storyboard: How do you roleplay in MMOs that don’t...

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2025/03/07

Readers, I am about to blow your minds. Are you ready to have your minds absolutely blown? It’s going to be a huge shock, I promise. It turns out… I really enjoy Warframe. You know, the game I’ve now written several columns about (at least one of which has a content warning in front of […]

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APB Reloaded is fully online after a month in the...

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2025/03/07

After a month offline, APB Reloaded is fully back – and we don’t just mean the test server. At the beginning of February, both Little Orbit MMORPGs – APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth – were taken down over what initially sounded like unexpected network issues but ultimately was much worse than that into a situation […]

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Final Fantasy XIV rolls out the Seekers of Eternity...

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2025/03/07

Fans of Final Fantasy XIV have to wait until next week to get another letter from producer and director Naoki Yoshida outlining details regarding patch 7.2, Seekers of Eternity. But there’s no need to wait on all information because the special site serving as a preview for the next patch has gone live with several […]

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Lord of the Rings Online hopes to finally open 64-bit...

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2025/03/07

On the dawn of a day that was supposed to be the next great era of Lord of the Rings Online’s history, a week of botched transfers and scattered communication has left this normally upbeat community stressed and angry. While SSG is committed to opening the four new 64-bit servers that will comprise LOTRO’s main […]

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Stars Reach passes $550K on Kickstarter and unlocks a...

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2025/03/07

The Stars Reach Kickstarter continues to climb since its debut last week, as Playable Worlds has now pulled in over $550,000 from players eager to jump into the MMO sandbox. And that $550,000 mark is no random number: It’s the threshold for the latest stretch goal unlock, which just so happens to be the guild […]

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The Daily Grind: How often do you update your Steam...

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2025/03/07

MMO veteran Scott Hartsman recently skeeted a gamedev article about Steam reviews, specifically looking at the data on whether or not spending time replying to Steam reviews is worth the trouble. Apparently, it is. Thanking people for good reviews seems to have a small effect on the rate of positive reviews (as other people see […]

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The Stream Team: Finding Forgewraiths in Dungeons &...

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2025/03/07

When there’s something weird in the neighborhood, who ya gonna call? OPTV! Massively OP’s MJ has heard of some desperate residents in DDO’s Cogs area have begun to worship the recently appearing — and terrifying — Forgewraiths as new gods. What better way to get to know folks in this new area than by diving […]

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Massively Overthinking: What should MMO corpse runs...

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2025/03/07

A couple of years ago – yeah, I save weird things in my “ideas bin” folder – MMO designer Damion Schubert tweeted about a chat he had with a Vanguard producer way back in the aughts. “When we talk with [EverQuest] players about their best EQ stories, they’re all corpse runs,” the producer opined. To which […]

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PlanetSide 2 patches in a new base and a new related...

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2025/03/06

If you’ve been itching for server merges in PlanetSide 2, well, we still don’t know what’s happening on that front since Daybreak/Toadman’s aka ToadBreak’s last check-in. If you’ve been itching for a new building to fight over in Esamir, however, you’re in luck because that is a thing that has been patched in now. The […]

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Black Desert adds ship crew management to PC, class...

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2025/03/06

This week in Black Desert can be summed up thusly: managing a ship’s crew, wondering what things were done to your favorite class, and finding a new challenge in the Black Shrine. Yes, that’s kind of what the headline also said, but you’re here for the details as well as the rundown, right? So let’s […]

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Path of Exile extends the Legacy of Phrecia event,...

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2025/03/06

If you found yourself enjoying the Legacy of Phrecia event in Path of Exile so much that you wish it would never end, well, good news: It won’t. Or at least it won’t end as soon. Grinding Gear Games announced that the event is going to keep running for an extra month due to player […]

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Fractured Online and its dev team have been bought...

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2025/03/06

Kickstarted MMORPG sandbox Fractured has been teasing something big coming for the last month, punctuated by a promise from Dynamight’s Jacopo Gallelli earlier this week that he’d just signed a “big deal” to bail out the floundering sandbox, which was down to three unpaid staffers and a tiny playerbase. Well, now we know what it is: […]

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Crystal of Atlan is a new ‘magicpunk’ gacha MMO from...

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2025/03/06

Well here’s a bizarre one: I’m first hearing about an MMO because it appeared in our ads today, and it’s one we would’ve covered anyway had we but known it existed. It’s called Crystal of Atlan, and it is not, in fact, the name of your new RP character; it’s a PC/mobile gacha MMO out […]

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‘I think we’ve cooked’: MMO sandbox BitCraft prepares...

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2025/03/06

Way back in 2021, we started following an up-and-coming MMORPG sandbox sim called BitCraft that – despite its perhaps inauspicious name – was not actually a bitcoin monstrosity at all but a legitimate sandbox with kind of a lot of money and thought behind it. And now, with years of development and testing under its […]

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Star Citizen outlines progress on base building,...

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2025/03/06

Like clockwork, Star Citizen has pulled together another monthly progress report to recount development steps made for the previous month, and so that means we also are here to try to summarize some of the more interesting bits of this otherwise granular update post. Also like clockwork. The largest segment in this month’s synopsis is […]

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Fight or Kite: Steel Hunters brings mechas to the...

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2025/03/06

I don’t think of the giant mecha genre as being a genre I’m wild about, but I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for it anyway. I suppose that’s a bit like saying I’ve never been someone who’s into vegetables or the wizarding school genre. The mecha genre is so big it spans […]

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Dark and Darker was yeeted from the Epic Games Store...

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2025/03/06

Last month, we covered what appeared to be the messy middle of the ongoing legal saga between Nexon and Ironmace over the Dark and Darker franchise. Back in 2023, Nexon accused Ironmace, which was headed by former Nexon devs on Project P3, of ripping off P3. The ensuring legal drama saw Dark and Darker yoinked […]

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Perfect Ten: Ranking real-world holidays in MMOs from...

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2025/03/06

There are really only two categories of MMO festivities: the ones made up for the game itself and the ones “inspired” by real-world holidays. Sure, some games try to slap a thin disguise onto the latter to pretend that they’re original, but whom are they kidding? We know what Snowmas and Foolish 24-Hour Period Set […]

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