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Lord of the Rings Online begins its EU server and...

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2024/07/03

After a brief delay yesterday, Standing Stone Games is back on track with Lord of the Rings Online’s Mordor server stress test, which means it’s time to go get murdered by Nazgul! I mean, uhh… time to escort the current Ringbearer to reinforce your merry band of Free People of Middle-earth and defeat the Great […]

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EverQuest’s continuing 2024 roadmap teases The Outer...

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2024/07/03

“The Year of Darkpaw has passed the halfway mark and is still going strong!” Daybreak’s Jenn Chan says in her latest EverQuest producer’s letter, and she means it, declaring Fippy Fest a “huge success.” But the stuff players want to know about is what’s coming for the rest of the year, and Chan does that […]

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Perfect Ten: 10 more MMOs you’ve already forgotten...

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2024/07/03

Last year, I assembled a list of 10 former MMOs that not only have ceased to exist but have ceased to be remembered (for the most part). With so many deceased projects littering the past, unfortunately it’s a list that can easily be expanded. So today we’re going to dip into yet another batch of […]

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Layoffs have once again impacted workers at Ubisoft...

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2024/07/03

We have the unfortunate duty to report that layoffs in the gaming industry don’t appear to be abating anytime soon, as there are new reports of job cuts affecting employees at both Ubisoft and Microsoft. We’ll start with Microsoft, which is once again seeing more jobs shed at the company’s Xbox division according to The […]

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The Game Archaeologist: World of Warcraft in the 1990s

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2024/07/03

MMORPGs don’t pop out of nowhere, ex nihilo, to suddenly be enjoyed by players across the globe. Good ones take several years, dozens of developers, and millions of dollars to make. So while World of Warcraft officially debuted to the public in November 2004, this was at the end of over a half-decade of development […]

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RuneScape’s RuneFest is saved as Jagex sets new...

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2024/07/03

Jagex’s RuneScape-themed fan festival RuneFest has not had the best luck the last few years. Jagex had to cancel it back in 2020 for pandemic reasons, and it hadn’t brought back the event until this year. But a few weeks ago, organizers had to cancel this year’s RuneFest abruptly too, owing to the fact that […]

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Funcom marks Secret World’s 12th anniversary with a...

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2024/07/03

Today, July 3rd, marks the launch date of the deeply unique modern world MMORPG The Secret World, which has been online for 12 years now but hasn’t seen any new major updates since 2016. And though Funcom has been more focused on survival sandboxes linked to major IPs, the company did turn its gaze in […]

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Nexon is handing out compensation for The First...

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2024/07/03

So I know you’ll be shocked to hear this, but the launch of The First Descendant yesterday did not go perfectly smoothly. I know, it’s a lot to take in. While nobody is quite to “review-bombing” levels of fury yet, the Steam reviews are sitting pretty at “mixed,” owing to piles and piles of complaints […]

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Black Desert’s latest class, the mist-warrior Dosa,...

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2024/07/03

If you peeped any of the news coming out of Pearl Abyss’ Black Desert Heidel Ball extravaganza in Beynac-et-Cazenac a few weeks back, you had an inkling about today’s launch for the PC version of the game: The Dosa is officially rolling out to players with the morning patch. The Dosa is the game’s 28th […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have the best character...

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2024/07/03

With The War Within pre-patch arriving in late July, World of Warcraft’s character select screen is getting a huge makeover to allow you to show four of your favorite characters lounging about together. It’s a neat little touch that should feel more immersive than a drop-down menu. But it got me thinking about other MMOs […]

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Embers Adrift calls attention to summertime weekend...

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2024/06/30

Do you happen to have any pressing engagements in a couple of July and August weekends? If not, then you’re invited to join Embers Adrift as it hosts some event-filled weekends for players new and old. Just ignore the fact that fireworks have a two-minute cooldown right now. Stormhaven Studios is planning on events during […]

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V Rising is taking ‘a brief respite’ before working...

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2024/06/29

Now that Stunlock Studios has the PC and PS5 release of its vampiric survival sandbox V Rising behind it, the studio is taking a few moments to both look back and ahead in a dev blog by recalling the 1.0 launch and providing a vague look at what’s next. The vast majority of the blog […]

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Anarchy Online gets a nod from Funcom on the occasion...

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2024/06/29

While last year saw an in-game celebration for Anarchy Online’s 22nd birthday, so far there hasn’t been much more than a brief acknowledgement from the studio that the long-lived scifi MMO just reached its 23rd anniversary. Then again, this time last year the studio also axed Anarchy’s great player volunteer program, so perhaps it’s best […]

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The Stream Team: Touring Heidel in Black Desert and...

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2024/06/29

Like many others, Massively OP’s MJ was fascinated to learn that one of the best-known cities in Black Desert Online was actually based on a real village in France. Then she had the incredible chance to go and wander the streets for herself! So just how exactly much does Heidel look like the real life […]

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Four Winds: Wuthering Waves, Genshin Impact, and the...

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2024/06/29

In the early days of the pandemic, I spent a lot of time covering the then newly released Genshin Impact. The first piece was an article about how the game had reinvented the gacha game for a wider audience. The second was about whether or not it was even worth our time. Ever since then, […]

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Kickstarted MMO Fractured Online to fully launch on...

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2024/06/29

While an official launch date is cause for celebration under normal circumstances, it seems doubly so for the rough road that MMO sandbox Fractured Online has experienced. After being Kickstarted for $130K in 2018, the title merged into Gamigo’s fold in 2021 only to be kicked out of it the year after and exit early […]

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WRUP: Jim stole your popsicles edition

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2024/06/29

It's time for our weekly open column about what you're playing, which is not about Jim or popsicles.

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The Daily Grind: Should MMOs show blood and battle...

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2024/06/29

At the risk of sounding like a bloodthirsty gorehound, I do kind of wish that MMOs did more to visually represent the damage that our characters take in combat than sliding a green bar down to nothing. Hit points work well as an abstract representation of real damage, but with the ability to actually show […]

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The Stream Team: Payback in AQ3D’s Deep Grotto dungeon

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2024/06/28

Sadly, Massively OP’s MJ lost out on the participating in the summer war in AdventureQuest 3D while she was out of the country. She’s pretty miffed to miss out on the fun! (As much as having creatures invading from the deep and ruining your summer activities can be fun.) She definitely needs to vent, and […]

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Betawatch: Bree said if I don’t talk about Stars...

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2024/06/28

No, really, I am not kidding. Bree has been freaking out nonstop since she found out literally anything about Stars Reach. It is all she wishes to talk about. When I log on, she wants to share her fanfic about the hirsute lad whom we have named “Tusky McMammoth” and his adventures which, inevitably, involve […]

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