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Astroneer spinoff Starseeker sounds like a cozy...

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2025/10/09

Way back in April, Astroneer studio System Era Softworks announced a spinoff of its OG multiplayer space sandbox, but still set in the Astroneer universe. Called Starseeker, the new game sounded even more multiplayer-oriented than its predecessor. Now, System Era has gone into more detail on what to expect, courtesy of this week’s gameplay reveal […]

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Palia’s latest patch added player profiles and...

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2025/10/09

It floors me to realize how very long MMORPG players have been snooping each others’ profiles in games. In Ultima Online, you had to be careful because a double-click could sometimes turn into an attack and not just a way to check out someone’s paperdoll drip. In EverQuest, it was even considered impolite to check […]

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Roblox faces a second state lawsuit, this time from...

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2025/10/09

Back in August, we reported on a lawsuit filed by Louisiana State Attorney General Liz Murrill against Roblox that alleged the games platform has not done enough to protect children from predators and sexual exploitation. Now it looks as if the company has a second such lawsuit on its hands, this time coming from the […]

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EVE Frontier partners with Sui blockchain to enable...

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2025/10/09

As we like to remind people around here, EVE Frontier is a blockchain MMO despite CCP Games going on record as not wanting people to call it a blockchain MMO. Now it would seem as if the studio is deciding to shrug off this request itself, as it announced a partnership with the Sui blockchain […]

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Skate highlights the cosmetics in its first skate...

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2025/10/09

This week saw the first season arrive to the early access mulitplayer sandbox of Skate, and like all games that run a seasonal model, this one is once again making sure that players are made aware that it has a battle pass – sorry, skate pass – that offers up cosmetic goodies to earn. The […]

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Hackers are apparently trying to extort Discord over...

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2025/10/09

Last weekend, Discord admitted to a “limited” security breach by hackers who supposedly wiggled Discord user data from a third-party. At the time, Discord suggested the breach was minimal and affected only “a limited number of users” – something like 70,000 users (oof). It’s starting to look like that was a bit of an understatement. […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The ‘eternal now’ era of MMORPGs

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2025/10/09

So there was a fun meme that was going around about four years ago in which an image of Final Fantasy IV was posted as “what people think Final Fantasy looked like 20 years ago,” followed by a picture of Final Fantasy X as “what Final Fantasy actually looked like 20 years ago.” Of course, now it’s […]

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Elder Scrolls Online’s partially paywalled Battle for...

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2025/10/09

All the way back in April and long before the summer’s devastating studio layoffs, ZeniMax Online Studios revealed a major cadence shift for Elder Scrolls Online that aimed to do away with the old chapter system and introduce special seasons, including one-time FOMO-ish events. The first core event of that new system is a player-vs.-wall […]

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WoW Factor: Welcome to the age of Midnight

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2025/10/09

Here’s the crazy thing: It’s October 2025, and it already feels as though World of Warcraft: The War Within is completely over at one year and one month after its launch in August 2024. Back when the Worldsoul Saga was first announced, Blizzard said that these expansions would come faster than normal — but I […]

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Lord of the Rings Online’s Fall Festival returns with...

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2025/10/09

The door to Bilbo’s Haunted Burrow creaked back open as Lord of the Rings Online welcomed back the Harvestmath Festival on Thursday. The expansive annual event, which runs through November 3rd, includes activities in a haunted Hobbit home, a chilling maze, and even a sad story about a long-dead character that takes you through one […]

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Vitae Aeternum: New World’s Nighthaven update is more...

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2025/10/09

I’ve been trying to maintain a cautious optimism for New World‘s upcoming Nighthaven season, but after more than a year of neglect and questionable decisions around New World, I admit my enthusiasm for the upcoming update was still pretty minimal. However, the recent developer update video impressed me in a number of ways, and I’m […]

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Lost Ark will finally merge North American regions on...

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2025/10/09

If you’ve been waiting on the big North American region merge in Lost Ark, your moment has almost arrived: Amazon has set the date for October 22nd. That means the patch itself will roll out October 29th. “NA West will be merged into NA East on October 22. The full policy will be released on […]

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Anime MMORPG Blue Protocol Star Resonance makes its...

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2025/10/09

It’s been a long time coming for the erstwhile fans of Blue Protocol to get to this point. Regular readers will no doubt recall that Bandai Namco’s original anime-styled MMORPG was headed for our corner of the globe via a publishing partnership with Amazon Games, but player issues with the game and financial troubles for […]

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World of Warcraft tackles Legion Remix problems and...

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2025/10/09

It’s been quite the rollercoaster of a week for World of Warcraft — and I’m not merely talking “ups” and “downs.” There were helixes and spirals and some unintended brake runs where too much lag infested the new Legion Remix mode. To help with the performance, the studio did a server reset last night. But […]

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Former Project Blackbird developers band together to...

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2025/10/09

When you get a project you worked on for years that was in a compelling state swept out from beneath you, you are more than entitled to throw a bit of shade. So it goes for the former developers on Project Blackbird and The Elder Scrolls Online who have banded together to form the new Sackbird Studios. […]

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The Daily Grind: Have you ever done progression...

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2025/10/09

The war between MMO players who want to be on the bleeding edge of the most difficult content and will never let you forget about it ever and the MMO players who just want to chill out will never be resolved, for better or worse (worse, definitely worse). But it’s interesting to note that not […]

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The Stream Team: Split Fiction plays a mean pinball

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2025/10/08

Although Larry and MJ played most of the last session of Split Fiction as pinballs and paddles, they were instantly knocked out by someone who is definitely not Mio. I guess someone tilted the machine. It is wild how varied and fun all the different levels of this game have been. There have been sentient […]

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Titan Quest II brings new quests, zones, monsters,...

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2025/10/08

A trip to the beach is not typical for the early access multiplayer-optional ARPG Titan Quest II. For one thing, there are violent fish people to contend with. For another thing, characters are wielding fantastical powers against enemies like said fish people. Basically, don’t expect to surf, lounge, or smell the shrimp as they begin […]

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Profane elects to drop the NDA for all of its future...

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2025/10/08

Back in August, we checked in on the FFA PvP sandbox Profane, which was gearing up for its next series of closed tests. At the time, we remarked that whatever was happening would be locked up behind an NDA, but it looks as if developer Insane Studio has decided to remove the gag order going […]

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Multiplayer open world Autonomica shares new gameplay...

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2025/10/08

It’s time to once again check in on The Game Formerly Known as Farm Folks, aka Autonomica. As a brief refresher, this cozy-styled solarpunk open world RPG successfully finished its second swing at Kickstarter fundraising, raking in over $1M from gamers, so now it’s time to pull together some of the development updates since then. […]

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