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Stars Reach releases video footage of its movement...

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2024/09/05

When writing up a post about last week’s Stars Reach dev blog on character movement, I kept thinking one thing: This article needs a video so badly! Describing character movement just can’t hold a candle to showing it. Apparently, Playable Worlds heard my unspoken plea and has uploaded not just a Raph Koster-narrated video but […]

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First Impressions: The War Within breathes new life...

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2024/09/05

After being mostly disappointed with Dragonflight, I was wondering if my decision to return to World of Warcraft for the Worldsoul Saga was a mistake. I’d already pre-ordered The War Within, so I it gave it a shot anyway, but I did so without much enthusiasm. After 20 years, was it even possible for the […]

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Tarisland opens SilverLit Cup guild PvP tourney...

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2024/09/05

Tencent has dropped several new dev blogs for Tarisland over the last few days, including previews of Blight Dragon Elegy and its PvP tourney. Let’s start with PvP: The tourney here is called the SilverLit Cup, and the registration period began as of last night. This event is aimed at guilds split into one or […]

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You have one year to move your Skyforge account and...

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2024/09/05

At the end of August, we were startled to learn that MY.GAMES had sold sci-fantasy MMORPG Skyforge to another company and was transferring publishing to yet a third party. The story – coaxed mostly out of kind PR folks, as the original memo was so unclear – is that MY.GAMES sold 2015 MMO Skyforge to […]

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Riot Games details price hikes coming for Brazil,...

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2024/09/05

In its recent post on the topic, Riot isn’t sugarcoating the numerous price hikes coming to Riot’s various games including Valorant and League of Legends. Right at the start of the post, the studio admits that what it has to say is mostly unpleasant, since it’s an increase in prices for multiple games across numerous […]

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Star Wars Outlaws took inspiration from Star Wars...

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2024/09/05

If you can set aside the funky reviews and stock dips brought on by the launch of Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws, there’s actually some fun MMORPG trivia packed into the game, specifically relating to one of our genre’s pet Star Wars games. GamesRadar reports that the Ubisoft Massive devs actually took direct inspiration from Star […]

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Wayfinder returns to the PlayStation store with the...

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2024/09/05

While Wayfinder fans on the PC got to enjoy (or at least, experience) the sweeping Echoes relaunch back in June, PlayStation 5 fans have been twiddling their thumbs waiting for the whole process to pass through Sony certification. Happily, this has happened, and the studio said that the update along with game sales should be […]

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World of Warcraft previews its super nostalgic fall...

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2024/09/05

You World of Warcraft players have finished up The War Within by now, yes? No? Well, all y’all better get on top of that because Blizzard’s cooking up another heap of content for this fall with the MMO’s 20th anniversary celebration. For World of Warcraft’s two-decade mark, the studio is leaning pretty hard on nostalgia. […]

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The Daily Grind: Are you more likely to leave MMORPGs...

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2024/09/05

To be perfectly clear, there are lots of potential reasons to decide that you no longer wish to play a particular MMORPG. It’s not that anger or boredom are the only potential reasons. Rather, it’s that those are the two most obvious reasons to move on. Either something happened to get you so miffed that […]

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The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming suits up for...

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2024/09/04

In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers! Here, Massively OP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch the gameplay right along with you; instead of you commenting on their adventures, they will comment on yours! There’s PvP, and then there’s PvP as a mech! Fighting in massive suits […]

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Dune Awakening’s Joel Bylos showcases the MMO’s...

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2024/09/01

Funcom is once again excited to talk about Dune: Awakening and its big Gamescom arrival as the studio’s latest video focused on the sandbox in a pretty general sense, discussing overall gameplay mechanics and features to effectively condense all of the event’s reveals into one 22-minute showcase. The point in the video that most will […]

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Fractured Online becomes the victim of its very first...

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2024/08/31

If you were experiencing some more server weirdness while playing Fractured Online yesterday, it wasn’t just you nor was it another moment of the servers falling apart; it was a result of a DDoS attack on the sandbox MMORPG. Presumably because boredom takes many shapes. Dynamight CEO Jacopo Gallelli offered a brief rundown of the […]

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The Stream Team: Bear boss beat down in V Rising

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2024/08/31

Although Massively OP’s MJ planned to hunt down the remaining Act I bosses in V Rising after she played with Mr. Nibbles last time, she was distracted by carriages and their plentiful supply of servants. However, now she’s focused, and her goal is to eradicate Finn the Fisherman (because, who doesn’t want to fish?!), Polora […]

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Corepunk aims to shore up several systems for early...

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2024/08/31

The race definitely is on for Corepunk to make its deadline for a November 26th early access launch. After a couple of unexpected wipes to its Alpha 4 test, Artificial Core said that it is delaying a planned future wipe by a couple weeks to allow players more time in high-level content so that feedback […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: Why haven’t I burned out on LOTRO...

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2024/08/31

None of what I’m about to write is to meant to be self-promotion – just observation. It really hit me the other day how incredibly long I’ve been playing Lord of the Rings Online. I first got into the game back in the late beta/headstart period in 2007 and have been playing off and on […]

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Ashes of Creation previews Alpha 2’s Citadel of The...

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2024/08/31

The road leading to Ashes of Creation’s long-awaited Alpha 2 is less than two months away at this point, and Intrepid Studios hopes to generate more interest (and no doubt key sales) in the upcoming lengthy test. To help with this, the team posted a 47-minute run-through of two key pieces of group content in […]

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WRUP: What was Bree doing with this one edition

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2024/08/31

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about times we failed to read the room IRL.

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The Daily Grind: When’s the last time you partnered...

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2024/08/31

I’m having a pretty great time on Lord of the Rings Online’s new progression server, partially because it’s keeping the community in the same level range and zones. That means I keep bumping into people all the time, and I’ve become pretty liberal with the “invite to fellowship” button when I see someone doing the […]

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The Stream Team: Bob-O and doggoes in AQ3D

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2024/08/30

Between last week’s and this week’s AdventureQuest 3D releases, Massively OP’s MJ has a fun combination of content to partake in. She’ll get to take a trip to a lighthouse on Azurecrest Island to upgrade her lance from Bob-O. Then if she can get done with that, there are pup onesies to collect and wear. […]

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Betawatch: Blue Protocol departs the MMO beta list...

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2024/08/30

After so many delays and so much waiting, the good-ish news is that people waiting for Blue Protocol finally found out what was happening with the game’s release. The bad news was that, uh… what we found out wasn’t good! It’s shutting down, it’s never coming over here, and while we know that there is […]

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