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The Stream Team: Peeking into the closed beta of...

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2024/08/23

What happens when MOP’s Chris is given a digital firearm, told to go into a spooky dark mansion, and hunt down five other players? Well, we’re all about to find out as he steps into the closed beta test of spooky shooter Midnight Murder Club! Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as he checks […]

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Lost Ark posts a slight delay to its roadmap for...

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2024/08/23

There’s a lot that goes into localizing every content update for Lost Ark, so perhaps it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that the game is going to be dealing with a slight delay compared to its prior roadmap. The good news is that the Behemoth raid is still going to be going live on September […]

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PSA: Gigantic Rampage Edition is now free to grab and...

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2024/08/23

One of our favorite underdog shooters is now more accessible than ever before, thanks to Gigantic Rampage Edition becoming free on the Epic Games Store for a week. You will need to grab it before this promotion goes away after August 28th, however. “Join Gigantic fans from all around the world on the airship, learn […]

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Unleashed Games confirms its MMO Haven will be used...

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2024/08/23

In the beginning half of the year, we started covering Haven, a developing MMORPG from Unleashed Games that promised gameplay beats familiar to those who grew up with games like EverQuest and World of Warcraft and were looking for something to play with friends and family. As it turns out, Haven is just the beginning […]

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NCsoft Q2 2024: NCsoft says it’s not shifting focus...

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2024/08/23

In the chaos of August financial releases and Gamescom, we overlooked NCsoft’s Q2 2024 financial release, so we’re tackling it now. Unfortunately, it’s not great news overall for the company, which reported another decline in sales, down 16% since the same quarter last year. While net income is up 133% since Q2 2023, operating profit […]

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Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era is a prequel to...

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2024/08/23

Care for a blast from the past? How about something that’s olden? Then you’re ready for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era, the official prequel to the seminal turn-based strategy RPG series being developed by Unfrozen and published by Ubisoft. “Olden Era returns to the world of Enroth and the origins of the legendary […]

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WoW Factor: Leaving World of Warcraft’s Dragon Isles...

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2024/08/23

Vallin didn’t like boats. Lots of Dwarves did, he knew he was the outlier in that regard, but he had never cared for them. And so it was that even as the gangplank was extended for the ship, he shot Lia a look. “Ye could teleport us out of here, couldn’t ye?” he asked, half-expectant […]

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Fallout 76 video previews Milepost Zero’s features...

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2024/08/23

Fans of Fallout 76 likely already read about the features for the upcoming Milepost Zero update, but have you watched them told to you in a video from Creative Director Jon Rush while he wears a cowboy hat and tries to say “howdy” convincingly? Well now you have. The video provides a look at features […]

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They are so ugly they are cute: Palia adds potato...

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2024/08/23

It hasn’t even been a month since Palia’s last update, but the beta cozy MMO is already teasing its next patch. Daybreak-owned Singularity 6 (which still sounds wild to me) took to social media last night to tease the Sunset Soiree, which… OK, maybe the word “sunset” is only a problem for MMORPG players, but […]

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Amazon boss: ‘We’re still trying to find the hook’...

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2024/08/23

With 10 titles currently in development, Amazon Games Studio is clearly hoping to diversify into success before sinking into unprofitability. One of the bigger titles that the studio is banking on is its unnamed Lord of the Rings MMO, which it’s developing in conjunction with the Embracer Group. It might be a while yet in […]

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World of Warcraft’s The War Within headstart is live...

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2024/08/23

Depending on how much you shelled out for World of Warcraft’s newest expansion, this is either the best or longest weekend of the year for you. Early access for The War Within kicked off yesterday, with the world-first level 80 happening a shade over an hour later. WoW players who don’t have access to the […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s the most memorable line of...

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2024/08/23

A while back on Twitter, during a discussion about ways in which AI can and can’t be useful in games writing, MMO dev Damion Schubert noted that it’s often the most innocuous lines of dialogue in a game that catch fire. His example? Diablo. “Deckard Cain’s ‘Stay awhile and listen’ is etched into the brains […]

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The Stream Team: Acid Wit in Dungeons & Dragons Online

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2024/08/22

Sometimes, it’s a quest title that just grabs her attention, making Massively OP’s MJ eager to run it. Such is the case with DDO’s Acid Wit. Although the mission involves a Magi of the Twelve who was experimenting with troglodytes hoping to remove their stench (who wouldn’t want that?!), she’s hoping there’s some medieval sarcasm […]

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Massively Overthinking: Frames of reference in MMORPGs

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2024/08/22

Last week on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a heated discussion about terminology in MMORPGs (terminology we’ll probably talk about in a separate thread at some point because it’s one of my favorite things). What I want to dig into for this round of Massively Overthinking is something multiple people brought up: the idea of […]

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Korean side-scrolling MMOARPG Lunia Z returns to the...

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2024/08/22

This is another one of those MMO games that is either going to be a blast from the past or curious new information, depending on you: We’re talking about Lunia Online, a side-scrolling lobby-based MMOARPG that first released in 2008 by ALL-M, was shut down in 2014, and then came back as a mobile title […]

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Tarisland’s Dragon Raid Bounty event invites guilds...

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2024/08/22

Maybe you’re in a guild that’s already running through the raids of Tarisland. Well how would you like some extra goodies for doing so? That’s basically the carrot being dangled by Tencent in its Dragon Bounty Raid event, which will open up a leaderboard and offer prizes to guild members for clearing out raid encounters. […]

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Warcraft Rumble brings a new unit and the Scholomance...

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2024/08/22

Are you ready for a Scholomantic good time? Who cares if that’s not a real word? It’s the best one we can think of to describe the latest addition to Warcraft Rumble, which adds a new unit and opens the Scholomance dungeon with this week’s Season 8 release. The Scholomance dungeon features three arenas and […]

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Elder Scrolls Online teases PvP-centric update 44 in...

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2024/08/22

Elder Scrolls Online is having a big week: Not only did it just launch update 43 with its sweet home tours feature, but now it’s dropped an updated roadmap at its 10-year-anniversary event at Gamescom. Most of what’s en route is actually dungeons and events: ZeniMax Online Studios is running a dungeon-claim event and Gold Road-centric […]

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Nexon’s mobile MMO MapleStory M can now be played on PC

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2024/08/22

Show of hands: Who here was hoping that the mobile MMO MapleStory M would come to their PCs? Look, it’s entirely possible that’s a desire, and now that desire is reality as the mobile title has officially been ported over to PC starting today, August 22nd. This release is effectively a 1:1 version but with […]

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Final Fantasy XIV previews the rewards from the 11th...

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2024/08/22

The Rising is returning to Final Fantasy XIV in the very near future, celebrating the eleventh year of the game’s operation, and that means new rewards for players. This particular year, the reward is a new minion of Krile showing her stuff as a Pictomancer. But did you know that you can get other rewards […]

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