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Whatever happened to crafting sandbox A Tale in the...

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2025/01/09

It’s been a couple trips around the sun since we last checked in with 2003’s A Tale in the Desert, an old MMO that’s famous for being one of the very few in the genre that eschewed combat for a crafting and community focus. As the website describes it, “A Tale in the Desert is […]

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Old School RuneScape adjusts run energy and seeks...

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2025/01/09

With Old School RuneScape’s Varlamore: The Final Dawn quest inching its way closer to its projected spring launch, Jagex is once again developing via committee as it asks players for their thoughts on proposed content and rewards for the quest. The dev blog goes over the quest line’s delve system and associated boss that digs […]

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Splash Damage pulled the plug on online shooter...

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2025/01/09

Transformers is a franchise that’s had a surprisingly difficult time breaking into the online sector, and it looks like its luck isn’t changing any time soon. IGN reports that Transformers: Reactivate has been officially canceled after years of development, delays, and silent comms. Developer Splash Damage announced the game’s fate on Twitter, saying, “Today, we have […]

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Tower of Fantasy’s Forging a New World update arrives...

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2025/01/09

Online gacha RPG Tower of Fantasy aims to start this year with a literal blast of content when its 4.6 update comes out later this month. Forging a New World is scheduled to arrive on January 21st with the next chapter of this game’s story, and apparently there’s an atomic explosion involved. In addition to […]

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Aion Classic EU’s first half of 2025 will bring a new...

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2025/01/09

The new year is bringing some new goodies for fans of Aion Classic EU as Gameforge has laid out the first part of its 2025 content roadmap that promises a few things for players to look forward to going into the first two quarters of this year. The first portion of 2025 appears to be […]

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Pax Dei announces new servers for NA and EU players...

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2025/01/09

Server populations are apparently getting kind of crowded for NA and EU players of Pax Dei, and since this is a survival sandbox MMORPG that has open housing plots, that can be a problem. Luckily, Mainframe Industries is going to open a couple of new shards to help out on Friday, January 10th. There will […]

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Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2024?

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2025/01/09

It’s pretty much a given that every year when we announce our MMO of the year, someone’s going to hop into the comments and say, “Well actually, that MMO is totally overrated.” I’d be disappointed if someone didn’t do that, frankly. And I can’t really be mad about it; some of our winners this year […]

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Black Desert adds new accessories on PC, hands out...

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2025/01/09

This week sees yet another gaggle of updates for every version of Black Desert, yet they’re a little bit all over the map in a general sense. Still, there’s new things and new adjustments for every type of player of this MMORPG, so let’s dig right in. We start with the PC version and its […]

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Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2024

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2025/01/09

Welcome to the worst article I have to write every year. I mean, nobody is really making me do it. But I still feel I have to write it; I don’t want to lose sight of the fact that while we get lots of new MMOs and multiplayer titles every year, we also lose a […]

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EverQuest and EverQuest II released full 2025...

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2025/01/09

It’s roadmap week over in the land of EverQuest, as Daybreak’s Darkpaw Games has delivered roadmaps for both Original Flavor EverQuest and New Coke EverQuest II. (Hey, New Coke was actually good, and so is EverQuest II. This metaphor works.) Let’s do the classic MMO first, with some kudos here because this is a full-year […]

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Vague Patch Notes: No, authenticity does not make...

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2025/01/09

On December 12th, 2024, The Game Awards had its annual awards show, and the award for Game of the Year was presented by Larian Studios head Swen Vincke. Vincke, coming a year after his own studio made the award-winning Baldur’s Gate 3, prefaced the award by giving a short speech in which he claimed to […]

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Throne & Liberty’s latest update extends Startree...

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2025/01/09

Throne & Liberty is back in action after the holidays with a fresh update that brings the game to 1.12.0. Servers went down at 1:30 a.m. EST this morning for a planned 10-hour downtime, though actually the servers were back up in fewer than eight hours. “Due to an issue that caused the Startree Solstice […]

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Final Fantasy XIV reruns its free login campaign for...

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2025/01/09

It’s time once again for lapsed players of Final Fantasy XIV to take an opportunity to peer back in and see what’s new in Eorzea for a limited time, as Square Enix this week has brought back its free login campaign that lets inactive accounts fire up the game without any cost. From now until […]

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Multiple game studios and even the Fallout TV show...

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2025/01/09

If you’re paying any attention to the current US news, you know that large parts of dense Los Angeles, California, are under siege by five wildfires that are consuming whole neighborhoods, with thousands of buildings destroyed, over 30,000 people evacuated thus far, multiple people killed, and firefighters trucking in from around the country to help […]

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World of Warcraft is hiking subscription prices in...

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2025/01/09

Who doesn’t like paying more for things? Wait. Sorry. The answer to that is “everyone,” and so you can imagine that residents of Australia and New Zealand are not exactly thrilled about upcoming changes to how much it’ll cost to play World of Warcraft. The game’s one-month subscription price will rise to $23.95 in AUD […]

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The Daily Grind: When has an MMO developer ruined...

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2025/01/09

I am honestly glad that World of Warcraft’s developers no longer seem to remember Captain Placeholder. The thing about Captain Placeholder is that he was just an NPC added to the game when a particular boat ride was broken. He wasn’t interesting or a character, but players composed little songs about him and had fun […]

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The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming starts its new...

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2025/01/09

MOP’s Chris and MJ are coming back together for some more Backseat Streaming! And what better way to start the new year off with some more New World gameplay? This time around, the pair are going to watch some footage of some dungeon mutators in action to see what instances are like with a little […]

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Mother Machine is a multiplayer side-scrolling co-op...

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2025/01/09

While there likely is nothing new under the sun in terms of multiplayer gaming anymore, sometimes existing sub-genres or game styles blend in such a way that they end up mutating into something pretty much brand-new. That’s something one could argue is the case regarding Mother Machine, an upcoming side-scrolling co-op platformer that lets players […]

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Co-op sci-fi farming game Lightyear Frontier preps...

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2025/01/08

Does the phrase “we have plans for large-scale experiments which we’ll need your help to explore and test” in regard to your online game generate excitement, anxiety, or a mixture of both inside of you? The team behind the co-op sci-fi farming sim Lightyear Frontier hopes it’s the first because it has big plans for […]

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Meet the World of Warcraft hardcore mode guild that...

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2025/01/08

Many of the staff here at MOP grew up in a very special age of soap operas, with shows like Melrose Place, Guiding Light, and Beverly Hills 90210 making huge waves across TV. However, the soap opera – or at least some of the overblown high drama of that venerable television genre – has evolved […]

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