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Warframe masks up for another jam-packed Halloween...

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2025/10/03

You best believe that in a game where you’re regularly swapping out your full-body costume for another lethal outfit that the Halloween season is a big deal. And while tenno aren’t going trick-or-treating, there’s plenty to do in Warframe this month. The Nights of Naberus event is back from now through November 3rd with new […]

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World of Warcraft confirms addon limitations coming...

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2025/10/03

World of Warcraft fans already knew that limitations and changes related to addons were coming, but now thanks to a gruop interview with some of the Blizzard devs, we have a more specific window of just what else is being targeted in relation to certain combat and UI addons. First, combat addons will be completely […]

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US counter-terrorism body frames Discord and online...

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2025/10/03

A newly shared document that reportedly comes from United States federal investigators and researchers at the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) could spell new worries for Discord on a major level, as the chat program has been eyed as a major tool for violent extremism and organization as a result of its wide assortment of […]

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Storyboard: The age of the big MMORPGs is an...

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2025/10/03

As a general rule, folks who know me know that I generally err on the side of being positive, especially about roleplaying. There are a lot of reasons for this, but the most straightforward and simple reasons are pretty obvious. I love roleplaying and think it’s really cool, and I am generally of the mind […]

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Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones dates Season 3’s Faction...

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2025/10/03

There’s never an out-of-season period to be a fictional pirate, but there are moments in history that buccaneers step up to achieve something amazing. And the next such moment will happen on October 21st, when Skull and Bones fires off Season 3 and its touted Faction War system. “Earlier this month we gave you a […]

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Star Citizen elite testers leak flight model test...

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2025/10/03

Today in “this is why game developers can’t have nice things” news, we’ve got a fresh little tempest in a teapot from Star Citizen related to a recent small-scale closed test of flight model adjustments, which suffered a leak of details and in turn caused a bunch of back-and-forth chatter from a developer at CIG […]

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Aion 2 shares details on PvP progression, gear...

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2025/10/03

Considering Aion 2 will be launching to Korean and Taiwanese audiences in November, you won’t be surprised to learn that the NCsoft developers of the upcoming MMORPG held livestreams for each country to talk up the title. Of course what that means for us here in the west is some tasty new information as we […]

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Sandbox MMORPG BitCraft puts the wind in your sails:...

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2025/10/03

You know, I would be tempted to mock BitCraft’s wind patch this week, except that I literally wrote a piece earlier this year that specifically pointed out how important wind in video games is to selling immersion. So honestly, wind is cool, and BitCraft adding wind is cool – and it’s not just for verisimilitude, […]

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Palia’s Spiritfest Spectacle patch drops next week...

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2025/10/03

“Say hello to Goobi, your goo-d barn buddy!” That’s the key takeaway from Palia’s patch tease, that and the knowledge that Singularity 6 might be on to us when it comes to mingling cute and spooky. I don’t think anybody had “slime blob” on the list for the next pet coming to the game’s new ranch […]

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Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 7.35 drops October 7, and...

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2025/10/03

When Final Fantasy XIV drops patch 7.35 on October 7th, players are going to be able to hunt some monsters. That’s when the latest Monster Hunter collaboration goes live. But there’s more in the patch than just that, starting with players teaming up with the Yok Huy to deal with newly hostile winter spirits on snow-swept peaks. […]

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The Daily Grind: Should free-to-play MMOs maintain...

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2025/10/03

Back during the height of the Dungeons and Dungeons transfer fiasco, there was a disheartening thread on the official forums that suggested SSG should consider making the new 64-bit servers subscription-only. “There’s only so many life-boats on the Titanic, the servers go to [paid] after X number of people log in,” the thread declared. “Make […]

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The Stream Team: Destroying The Mindsunder in...

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2025/10/02

Although trapped in his own mind a while, Jeets in DDO was able to discover the source of the troubles during his investigation before he fell asleep. Hidden somewhere in the Dar Qat trade embassy is an artifact called the Mindsunder. This large crystal uses psychic energy to summon Quori from the Plane of Nightmares […]

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Massively Overthinking: Are we in the ‘slop era’ for...

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2025/10/02

Last year, I first heard the term “slop era” as a pushback against not just AI but just all kinds of slop media, from drama channels to lazy streaming shows churning out “good enough.” Nowadays, it’s become codified across generations to describe a whole slate of low-effort products and services that kinda suck. “The label […]

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Indie MMO Eterspire adds endgame zones, ranged mobs,...

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2025/10/02

Eterspire has become an indie darling around the MOP offices, as long as we don’t think too hard about its monetization system, anyhow. And now the Argentinian casual MMORPG has gotten its first update since its rollout to Steam last month. According to studio Stonehollow Workshop, the endgame-centric update adds two new Umbral Lands zones, […]

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John Smedley’s Reaper Actual talks about its...

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2025/10/02

John Smedley’s new studio Distinct Possibility has a challenging road ahead trying to win players over to Reaper Actual, an MMOFPS with extraction shooter elements, an infestation of NFTs, and a paid alpha that starts next week. Helping to make the case that this is a title worth your time is Chief Creative Officer (and […]

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Black Desert opens more Atoraxxion dungeon wings on...

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2025/10/02

The Atoraxxion dungeon in the console version of Black Desert is finally getting all of the wings that PC players have been able to delve for some time now. That’s right, all of the hard as hell names for different layers of the instance can now be experienced by console fans this week. Have fun […]

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Star Citizen celebrates Halloween with contests,...

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2025/10/02

It’s time for things to get spooky in Star Citizen, and this time we don’t mean terrifying ship prices. Instead the sandbox’s widespread Day of the Vara is happening, which marks Halloween with contests, a returning FPS mode in Arena Commander, and sales of paints and ship bundles. What, you thought that wasn’t happening? First […]

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Pax Dei confirms five servers opening at 1.0 launch...

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2025/10/02

If you and any of your friends happen to be rarin’ to get into Pax Dei once the PvP survival sandbox moseys out of early access on October 16th, then you’n yer posse are gonna want to git ready to ride to the same server. Lucky for y’all, Mainframe Industries has listed the number of […]

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Whatever happened to the development of co-op airship...

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2025/10/02

For a hot few minutes there, it seemed like “survival sandbox with airships” was the sub-genre bandwagon. And yet, like most bandwagons, it didn’t appear to have the wheels (sails?) to rumble forward and blaze new trails. That might be the case with Echoes of Elysium, an in-development co-op airship survivalbox from developer Loric Games […]

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Final Fantasy XI plans to close the Bahamut server to...

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2025/10/02

While Final Fantasy XI maintains its population, it is not uniformly spread across servers. The Bahamut server has consistently had the second-highest population of any server in the game aside from Asura, and so the developers are taking the same measures as were taken for the Asura world starting on October 9th. No new characters may […]

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