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Working As Intended: Stars Reach could be the...

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2025/01/16

When Raph Koster started talking in Discord on Saturday night, I was super annoyed because I knew I was going to lose my whole evening to writing about Stars Reach. But by the end of the fireside chat, I was buzzing with the feeling that our genre might finally be on the edge of a […]

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Lost Ark teases its January 22 patch and its...

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2025/01/16

New year, new Eye on Arkesia coming out of Amazon and Smilegate’s Lost Ark, as Community Manager Roxx is back with a brief look at what fans can expect in the near future. And we do mean “near” future as the next patch is dropping on January 22nd. “This update is going to include Brelshaza […]

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Guild Wars 2 delays January’s balance update into...

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2025/01/16

If you remember early November, which I realize feels like 10 years ago, ArenaNet released a roadmap for the rest of the Janthir Wilds expansion, basically plotting out Guild Wars 2’s content chunks through summer. And on the January agenda was the skills and balance update, so that should’ve been within the next two weeks. But […]

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World of Warcraft Classic will add the Karazhan...

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2025/01/16

Well, they did it. They finally freaking did it. Years after players were finding the hidden crypt segment beneath Karazhan in World of Warcraft that never actually got used for content, WoW Classic is turning the area into a dungeon in the seventh phase of Season of Discovery when it goes live on January 28th. It’s […]

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Nintendo finally announced the Switch 2, launching...

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2025/01/16

After endless hemming and hawing and leaks and fuss, Nintendo has finally formally revealed the Nintendo Switch 2 as of this morning, and yes, it’s launching this year. We don’t have a whole lot of information yet, save the obvious in the video: It’s a much larger device with a different lock-in mechanism for the […]

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The Daily Grind: How long should it take to catch up...

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2025/01/16

There is no way that you can reach the level of resources held by someone who has been playing an MMORPG for two years by playing for a month. That’s just not realistic. But it is definitely possible to find yourself at least up to the point that you are taking part in the content […]

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The Stream Team: Secrets in the Dark of Path of Exile 2

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2025/01/16

It turns out that Massively OP’s MJ and Larry’s Sorceress and Mercenary classes make a decent duo in Path of Exile 2. And Larry feeds the Death Counter well to boot! After the defeat of that first mega worm boss, the two are ready to continue their exploration of Clearfell and Grelwood. Will they discover […]

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Star Trek Online reactivates its Feast event for...

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2025/01/16

Getting invited to a feast is almost always welcome — unless you yourself are the main dish and aren’t even getting tipped for delivery service. Star Trek Online has a feast for you to join, but a friendly heads-up that it’s not the delightful kind. Instead, the console versions of this sci-fi MMO brought about […]

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Final Fantasy XIV promises Clouddark Demimateria...

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2025/01/15

If you have been farming the Chaotic fight against the Cloud of Darkness in Final Fantasy XIV, you probably have had a much easier time getting Clouddark Demimateria I than Clouddark Demimateria II. While the latter is needed for only two items, it drops in quantities of one per clear (plus two for each full-time […]

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Sea of Thieves readies a new FFA PvP event and more...

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2025/01/15

Now that the holiday break is complete, Rare Ltd. is ready to get back into the content-making rowboat for Sea of Thieves as it provides a very general outlook for updates coming in January for players of the piratical PvP sandbox. Friday, January 17th, will introduce a new event activity known as Reaper Gunpowder Runs. […]

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Make My MMO: Star Citizen sheds execs, Pantheon tops...

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2025/01/12

Welcome to our first Make My MMO of 2025! Make My MMO is a long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older games long past their fundraising stage. At the end of December, we recapped all of 2024 in one fell swoop, but now, we’re […]

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Raph Koster’s Stars Reach MMORPG is launching a...

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2025/01/11

Raph Koster and Playable Worlds announced during their fireside chat this evening that they’re launching a Kickstarter campaign for sprawling sci-fantasy sandbox MMORPG Stars Reach. “Playable Worlds has announced the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to supplement funding for the next stage of development for Stars Reach, a sandbox MMORPG set in a dynamic, living […]

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Magic The Gathering Online delays events and tourney...

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2025/01/11

A nasty multi-day lag issue has forced Daybreak to remove a series of scheduled events from Magic: The Gathering Online through Tuesday, January 14th. Lag issues were first reported this past Thursday and persisted on through last Friday as the devs tried to wrangle the issue. Unfortunately the problems were not solved in time, leading […]

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The Stream Team: On the hunt for furniture in V Rising

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2025/01/11

If you want to decorate in V Rising, you need to go see the boss. And kill the boss. Because those bosses unlock the ability to create all the cool stuff in the game. And Massively OP’s MJ wants to decorate, so she needs to go on the hunt. Her first target: a priest in […]

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WoW Factor: Ranking all 10 of World of Warcraft’s...

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2025/01/11

Now that I’ve played through the entirety of The War Within, I have some strong opinions where this expansion lies in the grander tapestry of World of Warcraft. But why talk about it in a vacuum when it can be mercilessly compared and contrasted with its siblings? Thus, with 10 full expansions out for World […]

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Enad Global 7 shuts down Toadman and lays off staff...

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2025/01/11

We have the unfortunate duty to report that the layoffs within the games industry will apparently continue until funny line improves. Enad Global 7, the Swedish company that took ownership of Daybreak Games in 2020 (and then was taken over by Daybreak from within), has released two separate announcements that confirm the effective closure of […]

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WRUP: The adventures of Saltford William the magical...

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2025/01/11

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about inadvisable home decor we nevertheless still keep.

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The Daily Grind: Have you ever regretted deleting an...

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2025/01/11

The other day I was cleaning up my World of Warcraft roster by getting rid of several alts that were being too distracting for my main character. Once in a while, I’ll burn bridges like this because I know I need to focus without any side temptations. But that action got me thinking about all of […]

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Betawatch: Pantheon adds servers in the wake of...

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2025/01/11

People really like Pantheon, it turns out! That’s the most logical conclusion to the fact that the game has apparently hit some new concurrency records as well as adding new servers to keep up with demand. So that’s a good thing, even if our impressions of it weren’t too rosy. Everyone likes different things! Or […]

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Aion Classic brings back Class Changes for a limited...

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2025/01/11

Aion Classic EU has been busy with a roadmap, so what’s Aion Classic NA up to? Changing your class and your destiny, apparently. Now, there are things that are easier and harder to change in Aion, whether you’re talking about the Classic version or the more modern version. Changing where you’re standing? That’s really easy. […]

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