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War Thunder promises air superiority with this...

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2026/03/05

The skyways in War Thunder are about to erupt into all-out conflict when the Ninth Wave update arrives in the middle of this month with “the most ambitious evolution” in the game’s history. Gaijin announced that it’s trotting out the first-ever Rank IX jets for the game based on the most up-to-date modern generation aircraft. […]

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Sea of Thieves unleashes its new Ashen Garrisons...

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2026/03/05

At the top of February, Rare Ltd. was preparing to unleash the final part of Season 18 Act 3 of Sea of Thieves with its Ashen Garrisons content, but… well, it got pushed back by a couple of weeks. But those two weeks are up and the content is now live for really reals. The garrisons in […]

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Indie dev who canceled Soloria returns to MMOs to...

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2026/03/05

Last fall, we first covered Soloria, a new “fake massively multiplayer offline roleplaying game” in what is becoming a long line of these throwback MMO titles that are actually single-player. It actually looked pretty cute, and it had the added benefit of actually being made by a former Standing Stone Games developer, Quentin “Tonquin” Cantor, […]

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Black Desert begins free-play on console, adds...

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2026/03/05

As Black Desert’s 10th birthday celebrations roll on, Pearl Abyss has multiple announcements for the game and its spinoff. First, the console version of the game is currently free-to-play over on PlayStation, even without a PS Plus sub, through March 8th. On Xbox, you can do the same thing without any of the Game Pass […]

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Lost Ark sets its End of the Abyss update – with...

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2026/03/05

Lost Ark players knew they were getting a vlog drop from Amazon this week since the studio said as much in its announcement about merges and hell keys, and now that video is here with full details from Amazon’s Roxx. Roxx confirms that the patch – ominously dubbed The End of the Abyss – is […]

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Skate Season 3 brings ’70s style, speed challenges,...

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2026/03/05

While skating was really not as popular during the ’70s as it was in the ’80s and ’90s, it was still a big development period for the sport back then, so it’s a time period that’s worth being remembered in the early access multiplayer sandbox of Skate, which will be a primary feature of Season […]

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Bungie’s Marathon launch is officially happening this...

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2026/03/05

An MOP commenter remarked this week that we’re in the “Concordian Age” for shooters now and that we can’t expect Marathon to succeed – but Bungie is clearly hoping otherwise, and the numbers from the Steam demo sure seem to suggest the studio is on track for a hit. We’re about to find out who’s […]

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MMO Hype Train: Taking a ride with cozy van life sim...

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2026/03/05

Ever since I heard about its Kickstarter, Outbound’s held a great deal of fascination for me. Like many of you, I went through a vicarious tiny house van phase on YouTube for a while there, daydreaming about what it might be like to condense my lifestyle into a living space on wheels… and then explore […]

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MMO Business Roundup: Sony pulls back from PC ports,...

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2026/03/05

Welcome back to yet another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! And while we’ve only got a couple of headlines for this digest today, they’re pretty big. PlayStation 5 games are no longer headed to PC: In what is a major shift in the company’s strategy, insiders are telling Bloomberg that Sony has decided to […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Toxic anti-elitism in MMORPGs and...

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2026/03/05

I had known this was going to be a difficult conversation before it started, but at the time I couldn’t have articulated why. But it was about kicking Steve out of the university anime club. This was not a popular stance among our other officers. At first they were wondering why I didn’t like Steve, […]

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MMO Week in Review: The clock strikes Midnight

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2026/03/02

We are deep into the age of World of Warcraft vending privileges for money, I’m afraid, so Midnight officially launched its headstart this week, at least for people who paid for the epic edition preorder. Folks who merely preordered the expansion without paying the headstart ransom will finally be let in tomorrow evening. Meanwhile, BitCraft […]

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Fellowship attacks a sudden infrastructure bug that...

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2026/03/01

This past Friday was a bumpy one for the early access co-op MODA Fellowship, as the game’s frontend and backend both decided to have a critical issue that wrecked character progression data and caused developer Chief Rebel to scramble to fix it. Updates were first shared on Discord Friday morning, when the studio confirmed that sudden […]

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The MOP Up: Aion Classic EU adds the fiery Phoenix class

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2026/03/01

Aion Classic players are invited to lock ‘n’ load, because this version of the legacy MMO got a lot better with February’s Ignite content drop. “Ignite is headlined by the debut of the brand-new Phoenix class, alongside a wide range of new systems and endgame progression. Players can jump in today to experience a streamlined […]

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Not So Massively Roundup: Early access release news...

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2026/03/01

It’s time once again for us to pull together several Not-So-Massively titles, since once again there’s been quite a lot brewing in the smaller scale multiplayer space that pulls together into a lovely French-style bouquet. Look at those big, airy blooms. We’ll begin first with Nested Lands, the medieval multiplayer survivalbox that challenges players to survive […]

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The Game Archeologist: Majesty, the 2000-era RTS that...

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2026/03/01

At first glance, Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim looks like any other real-time strategy game that emerged during the popular RTS boom of the late ’90s and early 2000s. There are a bunch of isometric sprite buildings on a map that are built up into a base of sorts, troops are paid for and “built,” […]

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No, Elite Dangerous probably wasn’t hacked, but it...

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2026/03/01

This past Saturday ended up being a bumpy and worrying ride for Elite: Dangerous players, as the game’s servers started to suffer some random instability and rumors of a hacker as the cause began to surface within the community. Server issues were first reported early Saturday morning, with players reporting being kicked out of the game and […]

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One Shots: Pop dem bubbles!

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2026/03/01

As we start this week’s player screenshot gallery, we find Vincent grinding out phantom jobs in Occult Crescent in Final Fantasy XIV. But all I can think of now is bubble wrap and the extreme simplistic joy of popping all of dem bubbles. Pop. Pop. Pop. pop? POP! Pop. Pop. Pop. popopopopopopopopopop. “Last night was […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s the most recent MMORPG you’ve...

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2026/03/01

This will probably not surprise the majority of our readers, but there are, in fact, MMORPGs I have not played. If I want to try an MMORPG I have never played before, I can absolutely do that. But if I want to go back to an old favorite, I can also absolutely do that, and if […]

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Make My MMO: Epitome made $661K on Kickstarter, Elite...

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2026/03/01

Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP’s long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older games long past their fundraising! We’re baffled to report this week that AI-driven MMORPG Epitome has not only successfully funded but ended its Kickstarter run with around $661,000 banked and […]

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Warframe brings Shadowgrapher and Switch 2 release...

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2026/02/28

We hope you’re ready to war and soul your frames, readers, because Digital Extremes has a pair of headlines for its action multiplayer RPGs Warframe and Soulframe. Though the highlights are arguably a lot bigger for the former than the latter. We’ll begin with the latest developer livestream for Warframe, which announces that its earlier previewed Shadowgrapher update will launch […]

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