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RuneScape shares updates to auras and Dungeoneering,...

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2026/03/06

No, friends, we will not stop hearing about RuneScape’s so-called Road to Restoration anytime soon, so don’t ask. Instead, you’re here to learn about some further adjustments to the game’s auras as well as plans for the Dungeoneering skill. Right? Right. Good. Readers might remember a couple of weeks ago how Jagex had planned to eliminate auras […]

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Where Winds Meet opens the Jade Gate Pass area and...

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2026/03/06

Today marks the beginning of the largest update for multiplayer Wuxia RPG Where Winds Meet, as the Jade Gate Pass area for the Hexi expansion is live, with new regions, stories, and other things for players to do their kung fu in. Players who are at level 14 and complete a prerequisite quest will be able to […]

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World of Warcraft: Midnight talks PvP challenges,...

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2026/03/06

We’re still a little over a week away from the start of Midnight Season 1 for World of Warcraft, but that doesn’t mean we can’t prepare. Blizzard posted the schedule for the first four weeks of the season, which begins with a pair of raids (Voidspire and Dreamrift), heroic and mythic dungeons, four new world […]

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Elder Scrolls Online’s four oldest DLC merge into the...

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2026/03/06

When Elder Scrolls Online’s U49 and first among hopefully many seasons drop next week, they bring more than stuff to do and QOL for how you do it. They’re also accompanied by a(nother) business model overall that shakes up how some past content is distributed. “On March 9, four classic adventures (previously available as DLCs), […]

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Path of Exile’s endgame-shifting Mirage update goes...

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2026/03/06

You’re not seeing things, Path of Exile fans; that’s a Mirage, but it’s also a tangible content update to the game, bringing with it a whole bunch of endgame-focused adjustments to make your loot scooting at the top of the mountain more rewarding, ideally. As we’ve reported before, the Mirage update brings with it the titular league […]

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MMO Jukebox Song of the Week: ‘Papaya’ from Final...

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2026/03/06

Final Fantasy XIV’s extremely quirky and personality-filled soundtrack is on full display with this week’s pick, “Papaya.” Carlo wanted us to talk about this, probably because this is the bouncy tune that’s going through his head as he navigates his day. It’s silly and goofy in all the best ways — the track, not Carlo, […]

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Lord of the Rings Online restructures its Monster...

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2026/03/06

Lord of the Rings Online’s PvP system — also called Monster Play or PvMP — always lurked on the fringes of the game yet had a powerful ally in the dev team that refused to let it languish. The latest improvement to this system should arrive next week with Update 47.1, where the entire monster […]

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Fight or Kite: Final thoughts on Eldegarde’s PvE...

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2026/03/06

Well, this sucks. This edition of Fight or Kite was originally intended to be the last entry in my Eldegarde introduction and travel log, but only because I was moving on to other things. Instead, it will be the last entry because the game is sunsetting at the end of March, as apparently the game’s […]

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Helldivers 2 players took a charity challenge and...

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2026/03/06

So hey, who here’s ready to read about a multiplayer game’s community gleefully setting itself on fire over the stupidest possible thing ever? If you clicked through, then you’re in luck because that’s just what we’ve got to report out of the Helldivers 2 playerbase, which apparently took the suggestion of a charity challenge for developer […]

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Project Gorgon’s oops patch accidentally banned...

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2026/03/06

Yesterday’s Project Gorgon patch apparently didn’t go quite to plan. It started innocently: Elder Game’s Eric Heimburg originally posted around noon to warn players of an impending bugfix and the first pass for the new vendor mall area the devs pitched last week. Yeah, it moves fast around here. “This is primarily a bugfix update […]

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Marathon’s initial launch sees solid early numbers,...

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2026/03/06

We’re obviously nowhere near the settling point for player numbers, overall reaction, or complete sentiment for the PvPvE extraction FPS Marathon – a fact we feel it important to stress in times when games and studios go dark within days if they don’t make all of the money – but considering the shooter is Bungie’s biggest current […]

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Indie MMORPG Pantheon’s Summoner and Nightfall Crypt...

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2026/03/06

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen fans have finally (finally!) gotten their first proper update of the year with the release of its Summoner and Nightfall Crypt update late last night. Readers will recall that this update was originally intended to go out last week, then was delayed to yesterday, then to Thursday, when it was […]

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You can literally become The Butcher in next week’s...

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2026/03/06

The Diablo franchise had a helluva February, as Blizzard surprise-launched a paid expansion for Diablo II Resurrected, dropped a roadmap for Diablo Immortal, and kept on ignoring Diablo III in spite of the “millions of people” who still play it. And for Diablo IV, well, you already knew that it’s due for an expansion in […]

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Xbox’s next console, code-named Project Helix, is...

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2026/03/06

With a new boss heading up Team Xbox, the popular console got a huge announcement this week: confirmation of the next console in the series. Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma, who took over after Phil Spencer’s recent departure, announced that the team is working on Project Helix, “the code name for [its] next generation console […]

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The Daily Grind: Do you find cozy MMOs boring without...

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2026/03/06

Back in February, LittleBigPlanet’s Mark Healey gave an interview in which he picked on cozy games. It’s provocative but worth talking about. “There’s a lot of people that like cozy games – I think they became really popular during COVID, actually – but I find them incredibly boring,” he admitted. “I can understand the appeal of […]

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A judge has granted Ashes of Creation’s Steven Sharif...

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2026/03/06

Hey, you up? Cool, cool. So Ashes of Creation’s Steven Sharif just showed up late tonight with a lengthy public statement and an early victory in what is shaping up to be a long and messy court battle. Sharif begins by explaining his silence to date and the goals of his lawsuit, which we wrote […]

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The Stream Team: Exploring Meow Meow Temple in Where...

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2026/03/06

Wandering somewhere around the General’s Shrine is a fortune seeker seemingly searching for something important in Where Winds Meet. Does this affect Massively OP’s MJ any? No… at least not until she finds out the wandering tales quest is called Meow Meow Temple. Obviously she must now spend all her time and energy in discovering […]

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Massively Overthinking: Do you regret your hastily...

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2026/03/06

A few weekends ago, I bought $6 copies of Nightingale for the rest of my family so we could all play together, and I think I was the only one who took the initial assignment seriously. I spent like 20 minutes making a fabulous Victorian steampunk lady, and my husband and kids just kinda randomly […]

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Orna’s Monumental Updates makes monuments a key part...

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2026/03/05

If you’ve long wanted to be involved in a GPS-based MMORPG of some kind but didn’t want to do so with anything related to Nintendo copyrights, Orna has always had your back. But now it’s giving players something new to deal with, and that’s with a massive overhaul of Monuments. These dungeon experiences have been […]

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Crowdfunded multiplayer RTS Stormgate’s massive...

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2026/03/05

Calling an update to your game “the community update” is a bit of a big flex, but crowdfunded multiplayer RTS Stormgate seems pretty confident with the scope of its newest update. The developers are calling it the biggest ever update to its Versus mode, and looking at the changes, you can hardly blame them; it […]

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