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PixARK releases its first player-designed creature...

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2025/01/10

It’s been a hot minute or five since we checked in on PixARK, the voxelbox multiplayer open world survival title that’s basically ARK but boxier. You might recall that we wondered what happened to it in 2023, so it’s high time that we peer back in and report that, yeah, this one’s still getting stuff […]

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Chrono Odyssey is now taking newsletter signups that...

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2025/01/10

It’s been a couple of months since we’ve heard much of anything out of Chrono Odyssey, Kakao and Npixel’s upcoming fantasy MMO that’s eyeing a global launch in the latter half of this year. Unfortunately it doesn’t look as if much new has come out of the game’s communication channels so far, but that could […]

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Lord of the Rings Online’s lead explains how the new...

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2025/01/10

After sparking some unintended (but predictable) drama over a half-formed announcement of new 64-bit servers coming this year to Lord of the Rings Online, Standing Stone Games’ Executive Producer Rob Ciccolini jumped onto a livestream today to explain how all of this is going to go down — and how LOTRO is cruising toward becoming a […]

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Final Fantasy XI adds a new high-end Cloud of...

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2025/01/10

We know, you’re looking at that headline and wondering if we’re not thinking of another online game in this franchise, but we really aren’t. Yes, Final Fantasy XI is pitting players against the Cloud of Darkness in a powered-up form this month, with the newest patch adding The Orb’s Radiance as a new high-end mission […]

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Co-op gauntlet battler Elden Ring Nightreign opens...

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2025/01/10

If you’re looking for an MMO version of the popular hardcore RPG Elden Ring series, you’re currently out of luck. However, the franchise is readying a coop game where small teams can battle through a gauntlet of monsters called Elden Ring Nightreign. And if you’ve got a particular console, you can sign up to try out […]

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The Stream Team: Returning to survival MMO Once Human

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2025/01/10

MOP’s Chris visited this game already for Choose My Adventure, but today’s stream has him coming back purely out of curiosity! That’s right, he’ll be taking a return trip through MMO survivalbox Once Human to see if things are still as entertaining as they previously were. Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EST for this […]

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V Rising thwarts vampire hunters to sell over five...

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2025/01/10

Don’t count a vampire down and out just because it died once upon a time. Stunlock Studios announced that its survival horror game V Rising just crossed five million units sold over its lifetime (deathtime?). “This milestone cements the game’s status as one of the most popular survival games of recent years, captivating players with […]

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In latest shareholder call, Ubisoft continues to be...

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2025/01/10

The latter half of last year saw persistent rumors about Ubisoft’s efforts toward stabilization, as the founding Guillemot family and the company’s largest stakeholder, Tencent, allegedly debated taking the company private through a buyout of other shareholders. Readers will recall that Ubisoft dodged the reports, simply saying that it “regularly reviews all its strategic options” […]

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Throne and Liberty’s Violetta’s Star battle pass is...

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2025/01/10

We’re very sorry to the men in Throne and Liberty who wish to dress up in sexy battle gear because the Violetta’s Star battle pass denies you access to an iridescent mail backless bustier. Here the ladies are rocking no pants and a bustier and you’re stuck with nothing but a bare arm. At least […]

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WoW Factor: The ‘tactical era’ of World of Warcraft...

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2025/01/10

One of the things that I like to do, in both this column and elsewhere, is push back against myths that have grown up around World of Warcraft while they just are not and were not ever true. For example, you did not actually know everyone on the server, ever, regardless of how you formed […]

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Blizzard invites fan to celebrate 30 years of...

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2025/01/10

Sydney. Sao Paulo. Seoul. Toronto. Boston. London. These six cities all have something in common: They are not Albuquerque. Also, they are all hosting a special gathering with Blizzard developers over the next few months to celebrate 30 years of Warcraft as a franchise, which is probably a bit more immediately unifying than the Albuquerque […]

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MassivelyOP’s complete MMO 2024 awards recap and debrief

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2025/01/10

As we did in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, today we’re going to recap our annual awards and other articles from the end of 2024. We gave out 23 formal awards over the span of December 2024 and early January 2025, in addition to our annual recaps, roundups, listicles, predictions, golden yachties, […]

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Brighter Shores plans to merge combat professions,...

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2025/01/10

Last November brought the MMORPG Brighter Shores into early access with some distinct design choices, chief among them being combat professions that are specific to larger zones or “episodes.” It was a decision that didn’t particularly appeal to most players, and while lead dev Andrew Gower beseeched players to give it a chance, player feedback […]

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Elder Scrolls Online reveals the Fallen Banners DLC...

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2025/01/10

ZeniMax Online Studios previewed two things for Elder Scrolls Online last night – and no, neither of them was a chapter, as the studio has sworn off chapters (for now?) as part of its new (and seemingly scaled-back) content cadence. But apart from the lack of a chapter, the content thus far seems pretty similar […]

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PSA: Star Citizen followers raise the alarm over...

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2025/01/10

If you’ve been following the discussions around Star Citizen, you might have seen the topic of the sandbox’s refund policy come up, perhaps even with claims that the policy is being changed on the sly. Our research suggests that there hasn’t been a full change to getting a refund, but there most definitely are some […]

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Warframe studio Digital Extremes donated $10000 to...

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2025/01/10

This week, we’ve been covering the devastation in Southern California as multiple wildfires are rampaging through Los Angeles, destroying tens of thousands of homes and buildings and leaving around half a dozen people dead, with no end in sight. And unfortunately, we’ve seen multiple game studios affected, as MMO studios like Blizzard and Fantastic Pixel […]

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The Daily Grind: What was the biggest MMO trainwreck...

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2025/01/10

Every year, we elevate certain stories with awards – we pluck out the biggest surprise, the most exciting story, the story we wish we hadn’t had to write. But there are so many stories that get overlooked when they happen early on the year, happen to smaller games, or get drowned out by much bigger […]

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The Stream Team: The Age of Rage in Dungeons &...

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2025/01/10

It’s the age, The Age of Rage! What sounds like a great motivational opener for any gathering of over-energized Dungeons and Dragons Online cultists is actually the next quest in Massively OP’s adventures. An adventure full of raging cultists. Yup, perfectly fitting! Thanks to information passed along by an informant of Urqhart Steadfast, an investigator […]

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Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2025

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2025/01/10

For our next Massively Overthinking roundtable of the 2024/2025 transition era, we’re looking ahead not with predictions but with something a whole lot more fiddly and personal: hopes and fears. Consider this piece a counterpart to our predictions; that’s all stuff we think will happen, even if it’s not at all what we want. Here, […]

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Tibia-inspired MMO Ravendawn announces a full mobile...

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2025/01/09

Ravendawn, the sandbox MMO that drew inspiration from the classic tile-based Tibia, has been quite the busy beaver in year since its launch. And now it looks to be expanding its reach even further with the announcement of a mobile version coming later this year. Tavernlight Games said that this isn’t a half-hearted port but […]

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