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Survivalbox Osiris New Dawn, now back on Steam, is...

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2024/06/28

Osiris New Dawn has been one of the more puzzling development stories we’ve covered over the last few years, owing almost entirely to the fact that studio Fenix Fire launched the game into early access and then abruptly removed it from Steam without much explanation, consigning updates only to the official website and mostly hiding […]

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Persist Online gets a new trailer about surviving...

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2024/06/28

If you have forgotten that Persist Online, the new zombie survival MMORPG on the way from developer CipSoft, is a thing that exists… well, hey, here is a trailer for Persist Online, which is the new MMORPG from developer CipSoft in which players need to survive amidst a world overrun with zombies. If you were […]

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Tribes 3 Rivals heads into de facto maintenance mode...

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2024/06/28

There’s bad but perhaps not unexpected news for Tribes 3 Rivals players today as developer Prophecy Games has put out a rather flatly titled “Player Update” that announces compensation for everyone who has paid money for the game. Any money spent on the game prior to June 27th will go toward the developer’s new game, […]

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Black Desert Mobile schedules its own Heidel Ball...

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2024/06/28

Sure, we’ve already had a Heidel Ball presentation for the PC and console versions of Black Desert (and make sure you check out our coverage and some of the sights), but there’s still one last ball to be held for the MMORPG, and that one is for Black Desert Mobile, which has a date of […]

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PSA: New World throttles back on its character...

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2024/06/28

Here’s an important public service announcement for any New World players who are thinking of transferring their characters: Amazon is reverting the cooldown for such actions to a full month. “Region Transfers have returned to a transfer cooldown timer of 30 days. During this cooldown period, you cannot perform another cross-region world transfer until it […]

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The Stream Team: Peeking in to the tiny battle royale...

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2024/06/28

MOP’s Chris is once again taking his stream time to check out something new! Today, it’s Battle Crush, the sometimes mythological team-based battle royale MOBA brawler. What will his first few matches be like? Is the anger coming from Steam users warranted? Tune in today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as he takes a first look! […]

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Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail’s early access sees...

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2024/06/28

Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion, Dawntrail, is weathering its first day of early access. And as with all weather, there are sunny patches and nasty downpours. Probably the worst (if most predictable) problem area that’s arisen are the queues from the crush of players, which may stretch from a small handful of people to several […]

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Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s July spread is...

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2024/06/28

It’s not particularly surprising that, once again, Pokemon Go isn’t really sharing a lot of details about what’s in store for the month of July. Aside from the upcoming Go Fest July 13th-14th, the latest July teaser really isn’t telling us a whole lot. In fact, without any silhouettes to tease potential content, it’s looking […]

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Soulframe discusses new weapons, enemies, and zone...

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2024/06/28

Digital Extremes’ Soulframe is moving forward with what it calls its “prelude” releases, which are basically test builds for players to try out. In its fifth such test release, the game is adding a few new things for players to anticipate — assuming they’re among the testing pool, anyway. Prelude 5 will introduce a new […]

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Albion Online brings an activity journal and Roads of...

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2024/06/28

Whenever Albion Online director Robin Henkys sits in the Comfy Chair™, you know that there’s some news coming to the sandbox MMORPG. And sure enough, fans are getting their first taste of July’s major content update, Paths to Glory. At the heart of this update is the new Albion journal, which offers up lists of […]

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Amazon Games shares its long focus approach while...

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2024/06/28

It can be pretty easy to assume that the strategy of Amazon Games is to throw handfuls of anything at the wall to see what sticks, but according to a Variety interview with the division’s vice president Christoph Hartmann, there is indeed a strategy that’s focused on top-tier games and taking time to release them. […]

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WoW Factor: MMORPG raiding is not special

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2024/06/28

You all remember The Incredibles, right? I know that these days the hot take is to try to spin the film as some sort of revanchist Randian take on superheroes, that the idea is everyone should just get out of the way of The Gifted who are objectively better than others, but that’s not really […]

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This year’s Steam Summer Sale brings another...

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2024/06/28

It’s Christmas in summertime once again, otherwise known to gamers as the Steam Summer Sale, and we’re happy to report that there are some pretty tasty bargains on offer for fans of MMORPG, MMO, and multiplayer genres. So that means it’s time for us to put together a little bit of a roundup: We’ll begin […]

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Heidel Ball 2024: The streets of the real Heidel of...

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2024/06/28

Have you ever wandered around an interesting or beautiful area in a game and wished that you could traverse such a locale in real life? I have! So when Pearl Abyss extended me an invitation to attend Black Desert Online’s Heidel Ball in the very village that the game’s city of Heidel was based upon, […]

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Star Wars: The Old Republic celebrates its first year...

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2024/06/28

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s streamlined dev team faces the daunting task to keep the game looking active and healthy as it crosses its one-year anniversary with Broadsword this month. Executive Producer Keigh Kanneg posted a new letter celebrating the milestone while recapping the many accomplishments that the MMO achieved in Q2 2024. “June 2024 […]

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Raph Koster’s new MMORPG is called Stars Reach, and...

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2024/06/28

It’s June 26th, Star Wars Galaxies’ 21st birthday, and I’m sitting on Google Meet talking to none other than MMORPG founding father (and SWG progenitor) Raph Koster about the new sandbox he’s been working on for five years – and teasing in full force for the last 10 days. “Is this really Star Wars Galaxies […]

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After a delay, WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery...

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2024/06/28

It might’ve taken a little while longer than expected to get here, but WoW Classic’s next Season of Discovery phase is slated to arrive fairly soon. Blizzard announced that Season of Discovery Phase 4 will arrive on July 11th with a level cap increase to 60. This comes with yet another batch of class runes, […]

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The Daily Grind: Are you taking part in Final Fantasy...

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2024/06/28

I’m not going to lie to you, people, I’m writing this post well before the early access period has begun because my primary goals today are playing a whole lot of Final Fantasy XIV and maybe at some point having some dinner. That’s the closing point of my daily plans. But the early access is […]

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Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail is now open for early...

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2024/06/28

Yes, it’s time for everyone who plays Final Fantasy XIV to indulge in tacos, alpacas, and pina coladas as they head off to Tural in Dawntrail. Early access to the expansion begins at 5:00 a.m. EDT this morning for players who pre-ordered the expansion, although everyone who plays will need to download the patch even […]

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The Stream Team: Finding a Needle in a Fey Stack in...

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2024/06/27

Aha! Thanks to the druid Thornwright, Massively OP’s MJ knows where to look for the needle containing Hyrsam’s immortality in DDO. It’s in the Treasure Grove, of course! Now she just needs to find it, steal it, and use it to bargain with Hyrsam for the Codex pages. Hopefully MJ isn’t distracted by all the […]

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