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The Stream Team: One last open beta test hunt in...

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2025/02/16

MOP’s Chris and his crew are coming together for one final run through the open beta test of Monster Hunter Wilds! They’re pretty much settled in their favorite weapons by now, but you can never call a fight against unpredictable giant creatures routine! Join them for another romp in the wilds today at 2:00 p.m. […]

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Overwatch 2 invites the pressure of competition,...

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2025/02/16

When Overwatch 2 unveiled its big shakeup plans for its next couple of seasons, there was a pervasive sense that these moves were a direct response to the competition the shooter was now facing. That subtext is now directly quoted text, as game director Aaron Keller has discussed the importance of having a big competitor […]

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EVE Online talks up recent updates to its internet...

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2025/02/16

EVE Online, at a brass tacks and arguably reductive level, is a PvP gankbox where internet spaceships are thrown at one another because massive corps are vying for digital dominion. So naturally making the experience of managing those internet spaceships is a big part of the experience. It’s also been a noted focus for improvements […]

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One Shots: The picture of patience

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2025/02/16

What makes for the perfect portrait? Great lighting and costuming certainly helps, as does the serene pose of the subject. And as George Washington learned from his official portrait, an artist who is willing to put decals and cat faces all over the place. Vincent is keeping it more restrained than that with this Final […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s an underappreciated MMO zone?

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2025/02/16

There are a lot of zones in World of Warcraft that deserve way more credit than they ever got. This probably doesn’t really matter all that much at this point; it’s not as if anyone is going to go back and really notice how pretty Azshara was before it got hastily retrofitted with Goblin stuff […]

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MMO You’ve Never Heard Of: Cloudheim, Key to Heaven,...

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2025/02/16

Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles that you have probably never heard of. Well, some of you have heard of some of them, since some of you tipped them to us. Let’s share the love! Cloudheim Noodle Cat’s Cloudheim is newly on Steam for a planned 2025 release date; it’s […]

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Once Human starts the Crimson Moon event and adds a...

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2025/02/15

This week has brought a few new things to the survival sandbox Once Human, especially if you’re the kind of player who likes playing digital guitar or chasing yet another game currency. There’s probably a few folks out there like that, right? Players can indeed now craft themselves a folk guitar to play in-game for […]

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Hearthstone moves into the Year of the Raptor with a...

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2025/02/15

Big things are afoot at Hearthstone these days as the digital competitive card game moves into the Year of the Raptor. Blizzard gave a high-level overview of what players can expect to see in 2025, which starts with the expected three expansions and battlefield seasons. But on top of that, Hearthstone is putting the final […]

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The Stream Team: A look at Star Trek Online’s next...

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2025/02/15

It’s been quite some time since Massively OP’s MJ was able to immerse herself in new Star Trek Online story. But the drought finally is over: the Kings & Queens arc has a new chapter out — Axiom. In this update, MJ will join the Cooperative in the Delta Quadrant to battle more Borg and […]

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Not So Massively: Checking up on StarCraft II’s...

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2025/02/15

For some time now, MassivelyOP’s Not So Massively column has been keeping an eye on the crop of upcoming real time strategy games that seek to continue the legacy of StarCraft II: Stormgate, ZeroSpace, and Immortal: Gates of Pyre. The recent Steam strategy game festival a few weeks ago had all three games participating in […]

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Lord of the Rings Online dev Q&A talks about class...

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2025/02/15

When two chatty Lord of the Rings Online veteran developers get together for a livestream to talk shop, everything and anything is on the table for discussion. That’s what happened this past week as SSG’s Orion and Scenario got together for a new “We Have a Cave Troll” Q&A discussion. The pair didn’t drop any […]

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WRUP: Media where the protagonist is actually a horse...

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2025/02/15

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about childhood fears we still have.

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The Daily Grind: Should roads in MMORPGs actually...

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2025/02/15

Readers might remember that when we awarded the rogue server of the year to Star Wars Galaxies Legends back in December, we specifically noted that it was the player-run game’s new road system that sealed the deal. Player cities can now lay an intricate set of roads that make the cities feel, well, more like […]

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The Stream Team: Love and sneks in AdventureQuest 3D

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2025/02/15

What’s a good way to celebrate Valentine’s day? With snakes! Or snekkies, as the more cuddly case may be. Massively OP’s MJ is combining the Lunar New Year and Heroes Heart Day into one celebration in AQ3D. She’ll work with the Cupid organization to solve a matchmaking mishap, collect moonlight biscuits, and even face off […]

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Betawatch: Stars Reach delays its Kickstarter for...

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2025/02/15

There need to be more testers in Stars Reach. Not because the current crop of testers is somehow insufficient for feedback, but because the team has specifically delayed its Kickstarter campaign in order to get more testers in first. Then these testers will see how cool the game is, and it’ll make everyone more excited […]

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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Luckcatchers 2,...

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2025/02/14

Welcome back to a roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent games you’ve (very likely) never heard of. If you have, then pat yourself on the back and feel extremely smug as you read on! Luckcatchers 2 Tragic jokes about Luckcatchers 2 not being able to catch any luck write themselves here, as we first heard about […]

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Revived 2-D cozy browser MMO Lasuni renames and...

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2025/02/14

Back in January 2024 we chronicled the upcoming return of Lasuni, a browser-based 2-D MMORPG brought back to life after a sunset caused by the end of Adobe Flash support. Since then developer One Byte Solutions has made quite a bit of progress, including renaming and revamping the game in its all-new form: Ticuto “Enter […]

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Dark Age of Camelot is running classic Valentine’s...

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2025/02/14

We can’t let Valentine’s Day slip by without mentioning at least one more event, this one in one of the most classic MMORPGs our genre’s got. Dark Age of Camelot is indeed alive and kicking, and it’s running a short multi-pronged Valentine’s Day event through February 18th. Most notably, players are commanded to take on […]

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MMO Business Roundup: Olympic esports, Unity layoffs,...

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2025/02/14

Welcome back for a quick roundup of some of the MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news bits from the week! Esports: If for some reason you were super excited to see esports join the list of sports being greenwashed later this year, then your hopes are about to be dashed: International Olympic Committee has apparently delayed […]

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No Man’s Sky invites players to explore its updated...

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2025/02/14

No Man’s Sky has already continued its world refreshing updates with the Worlds Part II patch, but now it’s time for players to come together and explore some of these changes themselves with the launch of the Titan expedition. This time around, players will find themselves waking up on the surface of New Aftesfi, a […]

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