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Multiplayer co-op folk legend RPG Ravenswatch has...

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2024/10/04

Looking for a more bite-sized Diablo experience with a bit of imagination slathered on top? There’s a newly launched player in town called Ravenswatch that co-ops famous folk legends for a co-op experience (see what we did there?). In this game, you have three days and three nights totaling about 20 minutes to clear a […]

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Rodent Rumble is a multiplayer mix of party games and...

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2024/10/04

What would happen if squirrels were armed with wacky weapons, fought in battle royale, or participated in party-style minigames? Players of Down Smash Studios’ upcoming new game will get to find out when Rodent Rumble makes its debut on Steam sometime next year, bringing with it a zany-sounding collection of multiplayer game modes and adorably […]

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Destiny 2 details Revenant’s updates to gear, shares...

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2024/10/04

The Revenant season/episode/update is nearly here in Destiny 2, which means Bungie is continuing its long-standing tradition of spilling all of the beans it can about the patch as it looks at changes and additions to look forward to. The newsletter for the week offers granular information about the Revenant seasonal artifact’s perks, adjustments for […]

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EVE Online’s annual Crimson Harvest Halloween event...

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2024/10/04

The Halloween season has returned to the universe of EVE Online once more as CCP Games has brought back its annual Crimson Harvest event, offering thematic goodies and activities for players to take on from now until November 5th. The event will once again feature the beef between the Order of Tetrimon and the Blood […]

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Enter to win a Predecessor currency bundle for heroes...

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2024/10/04

It’s been a few weeks since we last checked in on Predecessor, the indie MOBA that is one in a long line of MOBAs trying to recreate the original success of Epic’s open-source Paragon. MOP’s own Fight or Kite columnist Sam has played four of the Paragon spin-offs and found Predecessor to be the closest […]

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The Stream Team: A long overdue return to the...

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2024/10/04

MOP’s Chris hasn’t played Helldivers 2 in quite a while – not since the game got its big balance improving update – but today that changes! Not only that, he’s bringing a couple of friends along for the ride! Join them today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as the fight against bugs and bots begins anew! […]

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Nightingale devs host a Realms Rebuilt postmortem and...

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2024/10/04

Now that Nightingale’s Realms Rebuilt update has been out in the wild for a few weeks, Inflexion Games is taking a moment to process the update’s reception and consider what’s next in a new and far less formal video with Inflexion CEO Aaryn Flynn and head of audio Neil Thompson. The devs first remark about […]

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New World’s latest Aeternum trailer is a primer for...

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2024/10/04

The avalanche of New World videos ahead of the launch of Aeternum later this month just keeps on rumbling down the hill, as this afternoon, Amazon has released yet another trailer. This one aims to address what exactly the game is to people who haven’t already been playing the game for the last few years, addressing […]

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Mortal Online 2 upgrades its engine and servers, adds...

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2024/10/04

If that headline didn’t clue you in, the latest update to Mortal Online 2 has a lot going on, touching on a wide assortment of gameplay mechanics and adding a few things to the PvP sandbox. First, the game has officially upgraded its tech with a switch to Unreal Engine 5.4 and the addition of […]

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Storyboard: Yes, there really is actual roleplaying...

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2024/10/04

It started with my character saying one word. “No.” Both men on the bridge were surprised to hear it, least of all from someone who at least had purported up to this point to be a bandit. “What do you mean by that?” asked the taller man first, who seemed to have a hint that […]

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Star Wars: The Old Republic previews the Feast of...

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2024/10/04

Quick, what’s the best way to restore fear in a galactic crime syndicate overseen by corpulent slugs? If you said “throwing a gigantic feast for people,” you are… an odd fellow, to say the least, and also for some reason you are on the same wavelength as the Hutts responsible for the Feast of Prosperity […]

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Global Chat: What’s World of Warcraft Cataclysm’s...

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2024/10/04

Wilhelm over at The Ancient Gaming Noob kicks off our tour of various MMO essays as he lists and ranks all of the zones that make up Cataclysm Classic. So what’s the winner? And is it even possible to figure out? “All of that brings me to my own problem, which is how to even […]

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New World plans a three-week fresh-start crossplay...

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2024/10/04

Amazon is pulling out all the stops on its New World Aeternum launch on October 15th. Last night, the studio partially detailed its plans for launch festivities, which include a three-week promotional event called Trials of Aeternum. There’s loot in it for you. Some of you, anyway. “In pursuit of rumored riches, you’ll join forces […]

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Throne & Liberty addresses ongoing errors,...

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2024/10/04

As Throne and Liberty approaches its first full weekend as a free-to-play MMORPG, Amazon and NCsoft have issued a letter to the community, saying they’re focused on “the biggest player-reported issues.” “After we opened commercial launch servers, we immediately noticed that some players were being disconnected, encountering stalled black screens when loading the game, gate […]

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LOTRO sweetens Legacy of Morgoth pre-orders with...

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2024/10/04

Following both excitement and criticism over the announcement and pre-order packages this week for Lord of the Rings Online: Legacy of Morgoth, SSG Executive Producer Rob Ciccolini announced on the forums that the editions would be improved while defending why the expansion doesn’t have a “special system” like many others. Ciccolini acknowledged that it was […]

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Star Citizen devs are being forced into mandatory...

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2024/10/04

While Star Citizen is making sure it keeps excitement up for CitizenCon 2024, behind the scenes the devs at CIG are being crunched to make it happen. Internal memos shared with Insider Gaming confirm that the studio is mandating overtime work for the next two weekends “to make sure that once again [the studio can] […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s the weirdest personal...

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2024/10/04

A few weeks back, I saw a post on Reddit about an MMO player who had decided to set himself a bizarre project: to make every single piece of furniture in Black Desert. There’s no prize for this, just wholesome intrinsic goals. And I love the initiative because I’ve done stuff like this myself, no […]

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The Stream Team: Feast or Famine with giants in...

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2024/10/03

Brothers most definitely do not always agree. In DDO’s Gianthold Wastes saga, the orc chieftain’s brother disagrees with the leader’s alliance with Wyrm Cult orcs to bolster the Stormreaver’s forces. As such, Bosa Grimskin asks Massively OP’s MJ to infiltrate the lair and slay chieftain Rhutha Grimskin before the hunting party returns. Tune in live […]

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Massively Overthinking: Has the term MMORPG become...

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2024/10/03

Back in 2016, when the MMORPG genre had just suffered a brutal one-two punch of losing EverQuest Next and the gutting of WildStar’s team, there was such a sense of panic among our readers and even our writers that I sat down and tried to write a reassuring column about the fate of the genre. […]

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Tarisland’s Incendiary Lava dungeon lore dump has an...

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2024/10/03

That’s right, kids, it’s Story Time with Tarisland once again, as this time around Tencent is taking players through the extremely descriptive Incendiary Lava dungeon that’s arriving with the Blight Dragon Elegy season update. We’re once more treated to the extremely odd backstories of the encounter’s three bosses, which include an alchemist whose quest for […]

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