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Elder Scrolls Online’s winter event, the New Life...

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2024/12/15

Count Elder Scrolls Online among the MMORPGs that celebrate a winter holiday without clear references to the real world – no Santa in Tamriel, after all. Yes, the New Life Festival returns for another winter starting December 19th. “During the New Life Festival, you will automatically enjoy a 100% boost to XP gain whenever you […]

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Skull and Bones tries again with its Great Shadow...

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2024/12/14

Ubisoft is sheepishly trying again with a big patch feature in Skull and Bones after having to take a brand-new world event offline earlier this week because of bugs. “On Tuesday 10th of December, we temporarily disabled the mythic difficulty world event The Great Shadow,” said the devs. “We’ve since been hard at work resolving […]

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Final Fantasy XIV offers up a void-filled story while...

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2024/12/14

Final Fantasy XIV lore fans are being fed well today with another new short story from the game’s team getting unveiled. This time, players are treated to a tale of Zero and Golbez upon the Thirteenth once more… and a chance to see what prompted Zero’s own memories as well as the secure space she […]

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The Stream Team: The debut of Warframe 1999

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2024/12/14

Although she’s a bit disappointed it didn’t drop on the ultimate perfect day (the 31st), now that Warframe 1999 is live, Massively OP’s MJ can dive in and enjoy the end of the ’90s with Arthur and his team. It will be a party of her lifetime! (Just how well will the Death Counter feed?) […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: Looking back at LOTRO’s run in 2024

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2024/12/14

How do we sum up the entire year of Lord of the Rings Online? That’s always a hard task, but if I had to give a label to this MMO in 2024, it would be “mixed, shows potential, needs more work.” That’s a bit of a downer coming off of a spectacular 2023 during which […]

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MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best MMO Rogue Server

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2024/12/14

Welcome back to Massively Overpowered’s formal end-of-the-year awards! Today’s award is for the Best MMO Rogue Server, which was awarded to Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning last year. Readers will remember that this is still a fairly new award for us, being formalized back in 2021. We use the term “rogue server” to describe the haze […]

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WRUP: Dril edition 2: Supreme Blessings of High...

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2024/12/14

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about our favorite seasonal smelly things.

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The Daily Grind: Do certain seasons of the year bring...

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2024/12/14

As the years start to flicker by faster, I’ve observed that certain seasons tend to bring out different gaming desires and habits in my life. Autumn puts me in mind of community and new MMO launches, winter makes me burrow into the coziest and brightest gaming experiences I can find, the new year challenges me […]

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The Stream Team: A fabulous Friday the 13th in...

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2024/12/14

Massively OP’s MJ’s favorite game to spend her favorite day in is AQ3D. And what’s her favorite day? The fabulous Friday the 13th, of course! She’d be the first to sign up to attend Camp Gonnagetcha if it appeared in real life. But alas, it is only in game, and only for a week this […]

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Betawatch: Pantheon enters early access at long last

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2024/12/14

If you were worried that Pantheon would ever reach any form of release, before or after the untimely passing of Brad McQuaid, we’re happy to report that you can stop worrying as the game’s early access has finally begun, and while it does not contain everything scheduled for the title, it’s still available for play! […]

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Blizzard roundup: Diablo IV’s treasure goblins,...

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2024/12/13

If that headline seems like it’s a big ol’ pile of stuff, well, you’re not wrong: Blizzard’s variety of games are adding all kinds of smaller things that can be cobbled together into one parfait of content. At least “small” insofar as treasure goblins, a collab, and the return of the Diablo boss fight are […]

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Warframe 1999 is officially live with new romance and...

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2024/12/13

The previews for Warframe’s newest update have focused on the fact that the update sees players team up with six individuals fighting against a horrifying infection in Hollvania who have themselves been turned into Protoframes. What they have not focused on is the fact that players will be serenaded by a made-up boy band while […]

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Elite Dangerous releases the Cobra Mk V and pits...

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2024/12/13

Yesterday marked both a new ship’s arrival and the final battle for Earth in Elite: Dangerous, as the spaceships sandbox’s latest patch has officially launched the Cobra Mk V ship and added a new community goal to combat the last remaining Thargoid Titan. The patch itself is generally about the new ship, adding it to […]

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Black Desert continues anniversary, adjusts sea...

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2024/12/13

The weekly patches for Black Desert on PC and console might seem pretty meager this time around, but there are still lots of things to note for both games, particularly for the console version, as the big-ticket addition of Kharazad accessories has officially gone live. The majority of these patch notes are all about these […]

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Palia wants to be your ‘holiday homestead’ with next...

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2024/12/13

Is it possible for Palia to get any cozier than it already is? Apparently so because this life sim is busting out a cheerful holiday update next week on December 17th. Patch 0.187 is prepped to bring “community festive content, playable decor, and quality-of-life improvements.” This also includes snowball fights, fun emotes, curtains for your […]

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The Stream Team: Taking a peek inside of the early...

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2024/12/13

Today is the day when Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen takes its next big step forward toward release with its early access launch, and MOP’s Chris is going to be there to try to experience as much of this new sandbox MMORPG as he can! Be sure to tune in today at 2:00 p.m. EST […]

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Star Trek Online’s creepy Hearts and Minds mission...

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2024/12/13

Today is Friday the 13th and that’s reason enough for Star Trek Online to try to squick out its players by pulling the Hearts and Minds mission out of mothballs and slapping it wetly on the table over the course of this weekend once again. Eww. For anyone who hasn’t experienced this mission in years […]

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Happy holidays: 461 Elder Scrolls Online studio...

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2024/12/13

Bethsoft has one union, yes. What about *second* union? In fact, this is more like third union, and we’re not sorry to see it. Readers will recall that QA workers at Microsoft-owned ZeniMax – which encompasses Bethsoft/Fallout 76 as well as ZeniMax Online Studios/Elder Scrolls Online – began unionization efforts all the way back in […]

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Lost Skies’ island construction tool is officially...

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2024/12/13

Earlier this month, we noted that Bossa Games was pushing onward with its new multiplayer MMO-esque sandbox Lost Skies by releasing an Island Creator tool on Steam. Now, that tool is finally launched, allowing players to build an island almost from scratch, with terrain tools, environmental effects, landscaping, architecture, puzzles, and playtesting too. “Bossa Games […]

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Design Mockument: What should Guild Wars 3 look like?

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2024/12/13

We know that Guild Wars 3 is happening… probably. I mean, we have no specific details about Guild Wars 3, other than the fact that NCsoft told investors it’s being worked on and ArenaNet responded by making the PR equivalent of that face where you plaster on a smile over your panic, but that also […]

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