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Star Wars Galaxies Legends’ Ewok Festival of Love is...

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2025/02/07

If you thought that Star Wars Galaxies’ Wookiee Life Day was the weirdest seasonal event in the game, then you are sadly mistaken, for the Ewok Festival of Love celebrating Valentine’s Day is categorically more batshit, and it is live today in the SWG Legends rogue server. We have previously called it the most cursed […]

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Sky-based survival sandbox Aloft continues fixing up...

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2025/02/07

Last month brought a rather pleasant surprise to the world of early access survivalboxes in the form of Aloft, which MOP’s Bree found to be quite a pleasant surprise when she first tried it out. It would appear that she’s not alone in that assessment, as the game has now soled over 100K copies and […]

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Final Fantasy XI’s Valentione’s Day starts once again...

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2025/02/07

If you want to share the love in the more recent Final Fantasy MMORPG, you can already do that, but Final Fantasy XI is making you wait a little bit longer. Specifically, it is making you wait until next week when Valentione’s Day comes around once more, with the celebration lasting until February 24th. And […]

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The beta for early access tiny MMO Book of Travels...

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2025/02/07

Around MOP, we’re still a bit sad that Book of Travels didn’t really take off. It was a unique low-combat “tiny MMO” from Might and Delight that scored a successful Kickstarter and then made it to early access, but that early access was a bit of a mess, which was followed by the layoff of […]

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Roblox stock dips after the company misses earnings...

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2025/02/07

Apparently a game company missing earnings forecasts by what looks like a rounding error is enough to cause its stock to drop now. That’s the effective takeaway from Roblox’s fourth quarter and 2024 fiscal year report, which saw bookings rise by 21% to $1.36B when compared to last year but missed a projected $1.37B by […]

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The Stream Team: Taking on the challenge of survival...

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2025/02/07

It’s an odd mouthful of a game, sure, but it’s also an intriguing-looking bit of multiplayer survival RPG gaming. It’s IfSunSets and MOP’s Chris is going to take his first crack at this early access game. How many nights can he possibly survive? Tune in today at 2:00 p.m. EST to find out! What: IfSunSets […]

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Black Desert adjusts sailing content on PC, refines...

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2025/02/07

This week’s updates in Black Desert can be best summarized as adjustments for everything, as all three versions of the sandbox MMORPG has seen some tweaking or refinement to existing content in some form, whether it’s Great Ocean bartering on PC, better node workers on console, or balancing for classes on mobile. The PC version’s […]

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Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Legendary Flight...

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2025/02/07

Niantic’s problem isn’t that players are over or have forgiven Pokemon Go’s Dynamax/Gigantimax raids – it’s that the company keeps pushing them in the face of disappointment, anxiety, and heavy shrugs. I’ve felt this more keenly recently not only because of the Legendary Flight event, but because I’ve been meeting more new players and returnees […]

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Pax Dei’s next update will bring a compass, market...

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2025/02/07

Isn’t it nice when your MMORPG character can tell the cardinal directions in her own head like some sort of avian creature? That’s going to be the case in Pax Dei’s next update, which will be introducing a compass feature that will help everyone navigate the game’s world a little bit easier thanks to its […]

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Casually Classic: Why vanilla Classic’s quest system...

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2025/02/07

In every retrospective covering World of Warcraft’s explosive success out of the gate, there’s a lot of effort spent trying to put a finger on what, exactly, made this game blow up the way it did. Personally, I think it was a whole lot of converging factors, such as great timing, a built-in fanbase, user […]

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Pantheon’s Visionary Realms is investigating after...

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2025/02/07

We’ve updated the end of this story with Visionary Realm’s investigatory conclusion; in short, it does not believe the dev was guilty but has chosen to “counsel” the GM about it and pause his in-game activity. Right now there’s a small firestorm burning away in the Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen Discord, as one of […]

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Vague Patch Notes: How long do online games truly get...

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2025/02/07

I’m going to start this article by asking a question I don’t actually want an answer to: How long has Minecraft been popular? Objectively there are obviously dates and times you can look at to arrive at a window. The game came out in 2009 in a public alpha stage, it hit 1.0 in 2011, […]

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‘We are designing it to last for decades’: Stars...

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2025/02/07

Are you feeling the hype yet from the approach of the Stars Reach Kickstarter? Because Playable Worlds is kinda going all out with blogs and videos and now an AMA on the MMORPG Reddit. In fact, Stars Reach boss Raph Koster even posted the AMA as a single doc on Reddit (apparently this is the […]

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Final Fantasy XIV 7.2 promises new gathering quests,...

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2025/02/07

Before anyone in our readership gets worried that Final Fantasy XIV is giving ghosts long-term occupations, rest assured that “phantom jobs” are not jobs for phantoms but rather the new ability crossover coming to the game in Shades’ Triangle. Players will be able to adopt a set of abilities related to jobs that are not planned […]

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Following layoffs and an exec purge, Star Citizen is...

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2025/02/07

Star Citizen is continuing to beat the drum of its focus on playability and stability in its promised Star Citizen Live broadcast, which brought on CTO Benoit Beausejour to discuss the bugs that have plagued the game recently, the cause for a few of them, and the efforts CIG is taking to improve things overall. […]

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New World gears up for its Coral Divide Outpost Rush...

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2025/02/07

New World has a big event weekend queued up: It’s letting players preview the Coral Divide map en route to the game’s Outpost Rush PvP mode. This map is “smaller with fewer direct paths between the outposts, features fewer wide open areas, and has more controlled sightlines” with the goal of offering a “more balanced […]

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The Daily Grind: What was the worst-managed MMO...

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2025/02/07

A few weeks back, I asked you about the most painful sunset of 2024. That’s not what I mean today! I mean the worst-managed sunset and/or sunset announcement. I was inspired when I stumbled into a clip of this old conversation Chris and I had in work chat over an MMO whose server merge press […]

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The Stream Team: What’s in your warehouse, DDO?

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2025/02/07

Twisted monstrosities rampaging around the Saltire District Dungeons & Dragons Online and dozens of people are missing. And now strange sounds are coming from a Harbour District warehouse labeled Creative Objects Storage. What’s in your warehouse? Massively OP’s MJ will investigate for the Stormreach Chronicle’s reporter Parker Pipewort. Once she solves that case, she can […]

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Massively Overthinking: MMOs that suck in interesting...

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2025/02/07

This week’s Massively Overthinking is entirely inspired by a fantastic argument made by YouTuber on Bluesky. Iron Pineapple declared that “a good game can turn into a great game if it sucks a little bit in an interesting way.” a good game can turn into a great game if it sucks a little bit in […]

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Elite Dangerous fans can enter FDev’s new contest to...

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2025/02/06

Elite: Dangerous fans are certainly creative when it comes to finding ways to refine combat, ship builds, or in-game grinds, but how creative are they from an artistic standpoint? Well, they have shown off their ability to make amazing screenshots (just search the #StellarScreenshots tag for proof), but now they’re being challenged to design a […]

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