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Now EverQuest II players have shut down their...

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2025/10/02

Hey, user Bob! You’re famous! As we’ve been covering, Daybreak’s successful preliminary injunction against player-run EverQuest server The Heroes’ Journey has caused ripple effects across the company’s games, and the lawsuit most certainly continues. Let’s get caught up since our last post, shall we? A week ago, the THJ defendants asked the court to stay […]

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Blockchain MMO EVE Frontier puts out feature videos,...

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2025/10/02

If you’re not one of the devotees who have bought in to CCP Games’ blockchain survival MMO EVE Frontier and have somehow missed one of the many limited-time open tests, there are a couple of things you can do: Wait for yet another open test to start (these things seem to happen frequently), or check […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Why do launch features matter in...

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2025/10/02

Well, it’s finally happening. So long after launch that we had all concluded it was probably never going to happen and long after fans begging for senpai to notice them while masquerading as serious journalists had gotten very mad at people pointing out that it should have already happened, World of Warcraft is adding housing. […]

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Dungeons and Dragons Online starts Halloween, ‘ghost...

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2025/10/02

Missed the boat to move all of your Dungeons and Dragons Online characters to the new 64-bit servers before SSG shut down the old 32-bit ones at the end of August? The good news is that the studio’s activated free transfers from the so-called “ghost worlds” to the new realms — and will keep the […]

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Microsoft hikes Game Pass Ultimate price and kills...

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2025/10/02

Were you among those who touted Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service as one of the best values in gaming today? Well you might want to reconsider that argument against your perception of value because the deal has been altered and gamers are upset that it may be altered again. As elaborated in the summary […]

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Classic EverQuest announces its 32nd expansion,...

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2025/10/02

“Druzzil Ro has been murdered!” And so Daybreak’s Jenn Chan has introduced Shattering of Ro, EverQuest’s 32nd expansion. In last night’s producer letter for the veteran MMORPG, Chan explains that the expansion is set to launch in December, with a beta and preorder set to go live next week on October 7th. “A cataclysmic explosion has […]

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Throne and Liberty is celebrating its first birthday...

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2025/10/02

A year in, is it possible that maybe the real liberty was the thrones we got to sit in along the way? No. That makes no sense. But Throne and Liberty is celebrating its one-year anniversary just the same, and that means the latest patch gives players who login a special anniversary box with goodies. Players can […]

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Guild Wars 2 is smooshing strikes into the raid...

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2025/10/02

Back in July’s Visions of Eternity preview, the Guild Wars 2 team announced that it was going to smoosh strikes and raids down into just one game mode called, well, raids. This week, ArenaNet combat systems lead Brian Yarrow is explaining why. Yarrow says that strikes were originally meant to help players transition from the […]

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SWTOR addresses missing story and voice work, teasing...

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2025/10/02

If you were hoping for some reassurance that Star Wars The Old Republic is in no danger of losing the license or account services following the sale of its licensor to a foreign government-backed megacorp, the October executive producer letter isn’t giving that. But Broadsword’s Keith Kanneg does address some of the missing story – Galactic […]

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The Daily Grind: What long-delayed feature for an MMO...

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2025/10/02

I’m going to be honest with you, readers. It is now 2025. And I am increasingly beginning to think that maybe we’re not getting dance studios in World of Warcraft. It has been 17 years or so now, I really don’t think it’s going to be the next patch any more. Yes, I know, this is a long-standing joke […]

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MMO Week in Review: Drama in the throwback MMORPGs

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2025/09/29

Well, that sure was a weird week in MMOland. Ship of Heroes did indeed launch this week, after much fuss and ruckus, becoming the first City of Heroes spiritual successor to actually do so, though apparently most fans opted to stay in Paragon City. And over in the EverQuest community, several rogue servers have now closed […]

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Co-op survival RPG Outward marks 3M players as its...

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2025/09/28

You’ll have to pardon us if another survival RPG skirted our wider notice, but considering the game’s recent milestone and its future development track, it would appear to be firmly on our radar – or at least gotten a blip. Say hello to Outward, a single-player and co-op title that appears to lean more heavily […]

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The MOP Up: Last Epoch prepares Orobyss expansion and...

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2025/09/28

Last Epoch has not one but two huge cards up its sleeve this year. The online ARPG announced that it’s going to be launching on PlayStation 5 soon, and with that, both console and PC will be receiving the new Orobyss expansion. No, there’s no date for either yet. “When Last Epoch: Orobyss launches, it […]

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The Stream Team: Chasing a new type of internet...

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2025/09/28

Off-camera, MOP’s Chris and his family got some more Jump Space time in and found that they were nearing the opportunity to unlock what was described as a heavy fighter. That certainly sounds like a tasty reward to them, so that’s what they’re going to chase live at 2:00 p.m. EDT! What: Jump Space Who: […]

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Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s October events roll...

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2025/09/28

It’s finally happening. Pokemon Go’s level cap is increasing, and probably during one of its traditionally strongest months. Except, well, from the preview, this is looking a bit like a tricky October. But there may be some things hiding underneath the announcement’s guise, so Massively on the Go intends to unmask some potential good news […]

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BitCraft Online opens a lowbie dungeon, adjusts...

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2025/09/28

Were you jealously looking at all of the dungeon delving fun players in BitCraft Online were having but couldn’t jump in because you’re not a high enough level? Well we’ve got some good news for you because the sandbox’s latest update has added a new dungeon specifically for lower-level players to enjoy. Assuming dungeon runs […]

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One Shots: Don’t eat the dungeon Jell-O!

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2025/09/28

As Minimalistway finds out the hard way that edible-looking dungeon critters are more than happy to consume an adventurer in return, I had to pause and think about the last time I actually ate Jell-O. It was a staple of being sick or a kid, but I don’t impress a lot of people these days […]

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The Daily Grind: Do you alter your graphics settings...

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2025/09/28

A lot of MMOs let you filter out other players’ particle effects. This is not usually an option that I select, but I also understand why people do; in group content, battles can often turn into incomprehensible salads of visual effects colliding on the same thing, and sometimes you want to be able to focus […]

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The EverQuest emu community scrambles as multiple...

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2025/09/28

When the MMO community first learned that EverQuest rogue server Heroes’ Journey was under legal threat by EverQuest developer Daybreak, we knew that Heroes’ Journey itself was not the only server group affected. As we noted over the summer, several other rogue server groups, including Quarm and Wayfarer’s Haven, pre-emptively closed their doors, though Quarm […]

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Star Citizen’s Manchester office shows off its newly...

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2025/09/27

How is Star Citizen and Squadron 42 developer Cloud Imperium Games going to test the visuals and sounds for its unreleased games? Why, with a big splashy theater room in its enormous Manchester, UK office. Or to put the studio’s own labeling in play, a “briefing room.” This theater was put together by UK home […]

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