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MMO Hype Train: The odd allure of Eternal Tombs’ live...

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2025/01/30

For a lot of MMORPG players, there are certain keywords that prove to be deal-breakers if we hear them in conjunction to an upcoming project. Let’s see if I can rattle some off: permadeath, full-corpse looting, gacha, open-world PvP, and — oh yeah — hardcore. The term “hardcore” has become shorthand for stripping away a […]

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Corepunk outlines a new talent upgrading system...

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2025/01/30

Beefing up character stats and abilities is the name of the game in MMOARPGs like Corepunk, but later this week a new layer is going to be added to that progression parfait when new talent upgrade features arrive later this week. When the update goes live, upgraded and overclocked Tier 3 artifacts will grant one […]

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Vaultbreakers – fka Project F4E – is an upcoming...

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2025/01/30

Anybody out there remember BetaDwarf’s upcoming MMO Project F4E? You’d be forgiven if you didn’t. It was first announced in 2021 as Project Haven, a co-op PvE MOBA focused on “friendshipping” gameplay, then reinvented as Project F4E as a PvE MOBA that the studio was directly calling an MMO. In the years since, it’s been […]

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World of Warcraft shows off the new customizable cars...

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2025/01/30

No matter how hard you might try in World of Warcraft, you cannot replace your horse’s hooves. There are no tools to lower the suspension on your wolf. And good luck installing a subwoofer in your elekk. But the upcoming D.R.I.V.E. system in the game’s Undermine(d) patch will let you fully customize your own personal […]

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Path of Exile 1’s next league is delayed indefinitely...

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2025/01/30

This was likely a foregone conclusion for most fans of Path of Exile, but game director Jonathan Rogers has confirmed it in a video address: The next major league update for POE 1 will be delayed for an indeterminate length of time while Grinding Gear Games devotes most of its headcount to fixing and releasing […]

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The Daily Grind: How invested are you in MMORPG...

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2025/01/30

I’m going to let you in on a little secret: A lot of the people you see in an MMORPG who are into crafting aren’t actually into crafting. The thing is that there are a lot of people who are less interested in crafting in the abstract and more into having some non-combat gameplay, and […]

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The Stream Team: A Wacky Wednesday in Ultimate...

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2025/01/30

When a Funky Friday must morph into a Wacky Wednesday, Massively OP’s MJ goes hog wild. Or chicken horse wild. More specifically, Ultimate Chicken Horse wild! Yes, MJ will be delving in and experiencing this crazy platformer PvP game for the very first time. Will she manage to set any traps for others, or will […]

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World of Tanks and Warships won’t let the Lunar New...

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2025/01/30

The end of January isn’t meant to be dull in Wargaming’s titles, as both World of Tanks and World of Warships Legends are observing the Lunar New Year with their respective events and updates. World of Tanks has plenty of goodies for the taking with its Serpent’s Treasure event: “The serpent’s power is getting unleashed! […]

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Conqueror’s Blade celebrates Lunar New Year with free...

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2025/01/29

The Year of the Snake is being celebrated in the strategy MMO Conqueror’s Blade this week as the Spring Festival is online for players to enjoy between now and February 14th, bringing with it freebies and a returning mode to celebrate the Lunar New Year. The celebration is being marked with login goodies for players […]

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Naddic’s Closers Online promises an informative...

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2025/01/29

The support staff for anime MMORPG Closers Online is taking some downtime to observe the Lunar New Year, but once that’s over, the title should return with some juicy details for the future. That’s according to Naddic game lead Hyun-Jun Kang, who dispatched a short letter to the playerbase this week, wishing everyone a happy […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite nickname for an...

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2025/01/26

NPCs you have to deal with long enough in any game are going to facilitate memes. This is inevitable. But some NPCs wind up generating their own nicknames along the way that make understanding who you’re referring to even more difficult if you don’t know the reference. When players in various games talk about helping […]

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Fan video explains why text-based MMOs ‘refuse to die’

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2025/01/26

If you know your MMORPG history, then you’ll be well-acquainted with the fact that the oldest and original variants of these games came about in the early 1980s as text-based titles. Most commonly called MUDs — multi-user dungeon — but sometimes saddled with other acronyms, these text-based MMOs were fairly popular in certain circles for […]

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Whatever happened to multiplayer open world voxelbox...

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2025/01/25

Usually when we pose the question of Whatever Happened To a game, it’s often answered by some ill tidings; a game stops development mid-early access, a studio is shuttered, or the game has mutated into some horrid beast chasing the latest Silicon Valley buzzword. In the case of Portal Knights, the voxel-y multiplayer open world […]

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The Stream Team: Vroom vroom goes the vehicle in...

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2025/01/25

At the very end of last week’s adventure, Massively OP’s MJ got a blueprint for building a vehicle station in Planet Crafter — and she’s been beside herself waiting this whole week to craft herself a car! Today, she finally gets to put it all together and explore even farther out. Tune in live at […]

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Marvel Snap details the compensation packages players...

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2025/01/25

It’s been a frustrating couple of days for Marvel Snap fans in the US as the mobile CCG went dark in the country as a result of a Congressional ban of TikTok – a shutdown that persisted even as TikTok’s ban was almost immediately lifted. Readers will remember that Snap has been published by Nuverse, […]

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Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s 20th anniversary...

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2025/01/25

Two months. It’s now been two months since WoW Classic did a huge re-launch of its progression servers under the widely mocked “Classic Classic” label (or, if you want to get technical, the 20th Anniversary Servers). And it’s been a really great time! I log on daily for that long journey up to 60 because […]

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Guild Wars 2 previews its PvP-focused class balancing...

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2025/01/25

It’s that time once again, Guild Wars 2 players – time to take a look at the balance adjustments coming to the MMO’s classes on Tuesday, February 11th, most of which are zeroing in on the PvP abilities of several specs. Survivability via sustain has been a bit too strong in PvP and WvW by […]

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WRUP: How to get a pear to run on your Nintendo...

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2025/01/25

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about the worst movie we still own a copy of.

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The Daily Grind: Do weather effects improve your MMO...

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2025/01/25

Is there such a thing as an uncanny valley for video game environments? To me, there is. When a place in an MMO never changes — no day/night cycle, no weather, not even a random breeze — it’s unnatural and eerie. While studios don’t seem to talk about weather effects that much any more, I […]

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The Stream Team: The Legacy of Sir Lanceler in...

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2025/01/25

Massively OP’s MJ will not stand for injustice! And AQ3D’s Roderick Lanceler needs help reclaiming the treasures of his family’s bloodline, so obviously she is going to the Scholar District in Battleon to lend her aid. Will MJ ultimately get to wield the Vorpal Bunny… er, Blade? Tune in live at 8:00 p.m. for this […]

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