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The Stream Team: How is Gigantic’s Rampage Edition...

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2024/06/14

It’s been some time since the shooter MOBA Gigantic returned to us in the form of the Rampage Edition, which means it’s high time for MOP’s Chris to step inside and see just how things are shaping up for the game. Join him live today at 2:00 p.m. EDT for some Mozu time! What: Gigantic […]

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Pax Dei bluntly outlines what it is – and is not –...

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2024/06/14

In a world where games have waffled about their MMO-ness, the devs at Mainframe Industries have made it very clear what kind of gameplay to expect in Pax Dei – and especially what kind of game it isn’t. The post opens with several very clear lines in the sand: It is not a themepark, a […]

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EVE Vanguard brings a new map, customizable weapons,...

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2024/06/14

It’s probably been the burning question on the lips of those who have been playing EVE Vanguard: When will the FPS hold its next test? We now all have an answer to that question, as well as feature details that mark this as the shooter module’s largest update yet. First, the dates: Testing will run […]

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With June patch inbound, Project Gorgon is safe and...

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2024/06/14

Project Gorgon got a lot of attention at the tail end of last year, owing to the fact that its husband-and-wife dev team – the latter of whom has been battling cancer – told their small fanbase that the game was running out of money and would need to switch to part-time development and maintenance […]

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Massively Overthinking: The New World Aeternum debacle

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2024/06/14

You know that feeling when you can see a trainwreck coming, but you know you can’t do anything to stop it or even warn everyone that it’s coming? That’s how we felt last week ahead of the New World reveal of Aeternum at the Summer Game Fest. It went… actually it went even worse than […]

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Final Fantasy XIV reveals its Dawntrail launch...

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2024/06/14

If any Final Fantasy XIV fans were worried about a last-minute Dawntrail delay you can breathe easier after today’s Live Letter; director and producer Naoki Yoshida confirmed that everyone is on-track for the expansion to start early access on June 28th with the full release on July 2nd. That goes hand-in-hand with the full launch […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Housing is really back in MMORPGs

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2024/06/14

I haven’t really had anything to say about Guild Wars 2’s upcoming Janthir Wilds expansion thus far because… well, I’m not our GW2 columnist, it’s not one of my main games (I have three, there’s not much space left), and thus my opinion is almost entirely of someone looking in from the outside. Just liking […]

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World of Warcraft general manager John Hight leaves...

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2024/06/14

The World of Warcraft team and Blizzard at large has seen another one of its long-standing senior devs leave the company. After 12 years, general manager John Hight announced on Twitter that he’s leaving the company. “It was a tough decision, but I feel like now is as good a time as any: Warcraft is […]

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SGF 2024: Hands-on with PvE-centric sci-fi horror...

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2024/06/14

For those who saw Once Human and thought, “Gee, that kind of looks like a mix of H1Z1 and The Secret World,” you’re not wrong based on what I saw during my hands-on with the game during last week’s Summer Game Fest. A bunch of “stardust” basically ends the known world, and as a “meta-human,” you’re trying to […]

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‘Multiplayer conquest adventure’ MMO Havenhold...

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2024/06/14

If you like a good dose of martial arts with side portions of PvP and coop PvE, then we’re here to put Havenhold on your radar. This “multiplayer conquest adventure” transforms players into warrior monks on a journey through a mystical land that it must save and perhaps destroy in part. Havenhold appears to be […]

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Star Citizen suspends over 600 accounts over...

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2024/06/14

It would appear that some mass gold duping was going on in Star Citizen recently as a result of an exploit found within the recently released alpha 3.23.1 patch, which resulted in CIG suspending over 600 player accounts. The specifics of the exploit were obviously not detailed, but CIG claimed that it was severe enough […]

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The Daily Grind: Are MMOs suffering from the ‘tyranny...

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2024/06/14

Back in May, a Sony Pictures executive did a one hell of an interview on Deadline that, among other things, complained about the “tyranny of IP.” “The trends in audience affection we’ve had the last 15 or 20 years has been the great IP era, where everything is a movie of something else. A movie […]

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The Stream Team: Searching for info on the needle of...

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2024/06/13

As soon as Massively OP’s MJ discovered that the troublemaker Hyrsam hid his immortality in a needle in Dungeons & Dragons Online, she knew she’d have to find it. But forget a haystack, she needs to search through all of the Feywilds! The only clue she has to go on is to find the old, […]

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Lost Skies recaps shipbuilding, sky bosses, and the...

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2024/06/13

Video game logic often dictates that if a tree falls on top of a house, that house will remain unfazed as the felled tree bounces off of it. That likely won’t be the case in the PvE airship survivalbox Lost Skies, which begins its May 2024 development report by confirming a unified damage system is […]

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Helldivers 2 adds visible supply lines and makes...

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2024/06/13

The landscape of the co-op multiplayer shooter Helldivers 2 is getting changed yet again, except this time it’s arguably for the better: The game’s latest patch has applied at least one much-wanted feature as well as another massive suite of changes to weapons, strategems, and maps, all of which are aimed at making things more […]

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Final Fantasy XI rolls out a new version update with...

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2024/06/13

For far too long, Final Fantasy XI has suffered from the fact that you can log into the game and not be immediately granted a shield upon doing so. What if you needed a shield? So it’s nice to know the game’s most recent version update gives you an Ark Shield just for logging in. […]

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5v5 hero shooter FragPunk starts taking names for a...

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2024/06/13

Earlier this week we reported on the reveal of FragPunk, another NetEase 5v5 hero shooter that leans into a colorful visual style and a shard card mechanic that applies game-changing effects during matches meant to “bend the rules of combat.” Apparently the news out of this one wasn’t quite finished, as the game is now […]

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MapleStory’s ‘exclusive, localized updates’ begin...

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2024/06/13

MapleStory has been making a lot of noise about the fact that its western version will be completely separate from the Korean version, starting with its earlier presented two-part Go West update. This week has started the side-scrolling MMO’s stride to what Nexon calls “exclusive, localized updates” with the first part of Go West’s content. […]

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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen heralds the arrival of...

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2024/06/13

The Seasons – better known as pre-alpha builds – continue to turn in Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. With Season 3 nearing its close, Visionary Realms is now turning to its next release, which features a pretty descriptive title: Summoner and Ranger Enter the Fray! Exclamation point theirs. As the season’s name suggests, this will […]

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Guild Wars 2 details spear techniques for Warriors,...

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2024/06/13

The next Guild Wars 2 expansion has the wrong date listed because Janthir Wilds should obviously be coming out in October. Why? So you can have a Spear-It Halloween, of course! We have fun here. But you can have more fun with spears once the expansion launches on August 20th, giving everyone access to land-based […]

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