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Old School RuneScape releases a fight against twin...

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2025/02/06

It’s a busy week in the world of Old School RuneScape as Jagex has released a pair of elemental giants to fight, marks its 12th birthday with community events, and elects to rethink some of the proposed rewards for its next Varlamore quest line. We begin with the Royal Titans fight that stands as the […]

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SMITE studio Hi-Rez is going through its second round...

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2025/02/06

Bad news for fans of Hi-Rez’s remaining multiplayer games: The company is apparently undergoing another round of layoffs. We say “another” because Hi-Rez just did a round of cuts four months ago as part of an “internal reorganization and reprioritization” that affected workers on SMITE and Paladins in favor of SMITE 2, which is now in […]

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Steam will finally start warning players when early...

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2025/02/06

It sucks pretty bad to buy an early access game on Steam only to find, belatedly, that the game has been abandoned by the developers and will not be maintained further. But even worse than finding that out by developer announcement is finding it out by, like… the game just never getting any further development. […]

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Aion Classic NA adds new gear, instances, and events...

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2025/02/06

Ready your favorite fire-based quips and references because Aion Classic NA is preparing its big Ignite update, which is bringing on some new and updated instances, new gear, and a couple of events to encourage players to get into the fire. The main attraction for this update is the change of the Citadel of the […]

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EVE Online preps showcases for chat updates, ship...

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2025/02/06

If you’re looking at the words “EVE Evolved” and thinking they sound familiar, that’s because the phrase has been the name of MOP’s Brendan Drain’s EVE Online column since the earliest days of Old Massively. But now CCP is using the term too as it heralds a time of evolution and improvement for EVE Online: […]

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Final Fantasy XI plans to shut down Limbus for a...

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2025/02/06

Usually version updates don’t really crow about removing a feature unless they’re replacing it with something better, but Final Fantasy XI’s next version update is notable in part because it’s removing the game’s Limbus system altogether. That’s not meant to be a permanent removal, of course; the game is going to refine and improve the […]

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WoW Classic Cataclysm heads into its final hour… of...

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2025/02/06

The original WoW Classic servers — how weird it is to type that — now are cruising down the final stretch of Cataclysm Classic’s run. Blizzard announced that it is rolling out Hour of Twilight on February 18th, which will mark the last patch of this expansion before Mists of Pandaria Classic takes the stage. […]

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Raph Koster offers a high-level overview of what...

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2025/02/06

“Today I’m going to give you a tour of Stars Reach, the game. Like, the whole thing.” So begins Raph Koster’s latest dev blog for Playable Worlds’ in-development sandbox MMORPG, just ahead of it next week’s Kickstarter launch. And make no mistake: When he calls this an MMORPG, he means it. “Stars Reach is an […]

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Warframe of Mind: Unpacking the reveals of the latest...

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2025/02/06

After years and years of watching a pretty standard set of development streams, I found that watching Warframe’s last week was a bit of a new experience. You know how it is; it’s like going over to someone else’s house for a holiday for the first time. You don’t feel unwelcome, but you’re keenly aware […]

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Star Citizen details work on AI and preparation for...

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2025/02/06

We’ve only started the month of February and gotten details on November and December’s work, but it’s too late to look back too far now as Star Citizen rumbles on with the monthly progress report for last January. No brakes, all gas, baby. Don’t think back too far on the literal years of development gone […]

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Dune Awakening’s latest trailer showcase the vibes,...

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2025/02/06

Dune: Awakening is once more looking to keep followers of the survival sandbox interested and intrigued through the medium of video, as Funcom’s latest showcases look at the design of the digital Arrakis. The game’s trailer this morning focuses on recreating the desert planet; it takes viewers through various locations across the game world to […]

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Throne & Liberty’s newest patch adds mouse and...

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2025/02/06

The next major update for Throne & Liberty isn’t here yet, but there is a new patch that allows for players who like to live… dangerously. Assuming you consider “playing on a console while using a mouse and keyboard” to be dangerous, which we do. Consoles are not meant to be played like that! You […]

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Palia’s new loyalty club has arrived with a de facto...

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2025/02/06

Just two weeks ago, Palia studio Singularity 6 announced what it’s calling Zeki’s Loyalty Club. As teased, the club sounded like a cross between an MMO-standard subscription stipend and a season pass. Effectively, players could opt-in to the club by buying a stack of cash shop coins, then log in every day over the next […]

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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen is finally launching its...

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2025/02/06

(We’ve updated at the end; the patch is now expected this afternoon! Updated the headline accordingly. Original article follows.) If you’ve been following the Twitter account of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, you likely noticed the game talking up a big update patch that was going to apply an upgrade to Unity 6; its official […]

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Lost Ark celebrates three years of service in the...

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2025/02/06

Pop on your party hats, Arkesians, because it’s time to celebrate Lost Ark’s third birthday. OK, its third birthday since arriving to the west. And it’s a little early, but nobody should be a pedant when free cake is involved. “Lost Ark’s Anniversary arrives with a brand-new festival event, the Festa of Arkesia, set on […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most nostalgic...

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2025/02/06

Look, there are a lot of MMOs I have loved, but I’m not even sorry to say that a part of me is always going to be a sucker for the Vana’diel March in Final Fantasy XI. It just hits something intensely primal for me, even more than several other games that were similarly formative […]

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The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming watches a...

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2025/02/06

MOP’s MJ and Chris are kicking back, relaxing, and watching a galactic war go down. That sounds dire on paper, but it’s fine because this is in the developing RTS ZeroSpace so no actual alien life forms were harmed in the making of the beta gameplay footage they’ll be enjoying. As for digital aliens? There’s […]

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Overwatch 2 steps up its technology game with a...

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2025/02/06

Overwatch 2 is taking steps this week to stay on top of the technology curve, as Blizzard announced that it’s running a beta for DirectX 12 support. “We are excited to announce that Overwatch 2 now supports DirectX 12. For the first time, Overwatch 2 will support multiple graphics APIs. This update is part of […]

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Villagers & Heroes gets a patch awash in Frontier Zones

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2025/02/05

So it’s important to note that the big patch 5.4.0 that has gone live for Villagers & Heroes is very proud of having five new Frontier zones. This is true. It does not state that all five of those zones are themselves new, so if you were hoping for five new zones, you may be […]

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War Thunder has unveiled a new auction house where...

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2025/02/05

Auction houses aren’t a new thing to MMOs, but they are something new to the multiplayer military vehicle battler War Thunder. What’s more, this auction house isn’t for any standard in-game items like gear or potions; it will be for player-created cosmetic items. The auction system uses the same Gaijin Coin currency that’s already used […]

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