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Wayfinder’s Echoes update goes live for founders...

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2024/05/31

If you were among those who bought into the promise of Wayfinder back when it was still angling to be a fully multiplayer experience, then today is the day when you can hop back in to the now multiplayer-optional title once more, as its major Echoes update-cum-business model shift goes into “soft launch” for founder’s […]

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Fallout 76 counts 20 million players as franchise...

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2024/05/31

It turns out that a whole lot of people are willing to crawl out through the fallout… the Fallout 76, that is. The impact of Amazon’s recent first season of Fallout continues to be felt in Bethesda’s games themselves, as the studio reported that it just crossed 20 million players. This marks a three-million player […]

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Digital Extremes’ Soulframe talks prelude testing,...

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2024/05/31

Digital Extremes’ Soulframe has been flying under the radar through development the last year or two, to the point that when we gave it a nod for Most Anticipated MMO, a lot of people couldn’t even remember what it was. That might be changing soon as the studio has delivered the first of what will […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s the worst whaling in a...

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2024/05/31

This week, mainstream MOBA gamers flipped alllll the tables over Riot Games’ gambit to sell a $450 League of Legends cosmetics bundle themed around esports star Faker. Actually, there’s more than one overpriced bundle, but that’s the biggest one and the one collecting headlines, particularly because Faker is ironically well-known for shunning cosmetics. I have […]

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The Stream Team: Wake me up before you go go in DDO

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2024/05/30

With two of the three reagents needed to counter Lord Arden’s sleeping curse in DDO, Massively OP’s MJ just has one more thing to collect. But that last thing happens to be the lord’s true name. Just how easy is it to get the true name of an archfae? Maybe the court doctor Sorghum can […]

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Massively Overthinking: Is tab targeting a problem in...

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2024/05/30

This past weekend, MMO designer Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street lobbed another bomb rather cavalierly into the MMORPG discourse, this one about tab targeting. And maybe unsurprisingly, he’s not actually opposed to tab target in MMOs. “This is the kind of thing we will iterate on a lot, but we don’t think tab targeting is the problem […]

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Diablo Immortal breaks down the design of its new...

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2024/05/30

With last week’s release of the new Tempest class to Diablo Immortal, Blizzard is taking a bit of a victory lap and deep dive in its latest video, which outlines how the devs of the mobile OARPG created the character. The video takes fans through the overall journey of the Tempest, from its conceptualization to […]

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TERA Console pushes out a new battle pass and...

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2024/05/30

TERA is dead — long live TERA Console? We suppose it’s better than nothing, but every time news about the Xbox or PlayStation version of this once-vibrant PC game crosses our desk, it conjures up a weird mix of emotions (honeysuckle, regret, and sorrow). In any case, TERA Console recently pushed out a new patch […]

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World of Warcraft starts The War Within beta next...

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2024/05/30

Starting on June 5th, World of Warcraft players who pre-ordered the most expensive version of The War Within and a select number of people who did not will be playing the expansion early. Not the final version of the expansion, of course; next week kicks off the beta for the expansion, and Epic Edition owners […]

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Skull & Bones adjusts its Season 2 manufactory...

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2024/05/30

Now that Season 2 of Skull & Bones is well underway, it’s time for developer Ubisoft to begin the process of making adjustments based on player feedback, particularly in the case of the manufactory defense activity. Players can expect fewer ship spawns, lowered damage to the manufactory, and lowered ship ranks for each wave. These […]

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Wildermyth developer Worldwalker Games announces that...

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2024/05/30

Here’s the good news about Wildermyth if you’ve never heard of it: The game is out now, and the announcement below comes after the release of the game’s second DLC, so this is not a game which has been cut short. But if you’ve loved the co-op roguelike storytelling RPG, you may have been hoping […]

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Mortal Online 2 improves new player experience and...

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2024/05/30

Ruthless PvP fans in Mortal Online 2 may lift their bloodied axes to the sky and rejoice at the arrival of Patch 2.0.5 this week. The update comes with many welcome quality-of-life improvements, such as the new guild finder that allows players to refine a search for that perfect fit. There’s also the new fishing […]

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Final Fantasy XIV launches its promotional site for...

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2024/05/30

At the time of this writing, there is less than a month to go until Final Fantasy XIV’s next expansion, Dawntrail, enters early access. If you are rabidly waiting for more news on the expansion ahead of that launch, well, there are tidbits to be pulled free of the new promotional site for the expansion […]

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Ship of Heroes talks raid preferences, its new raid...

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2024/05/30

If you’re following Ship of Heroes’ Twitter or official website for updates, you won’t find the latest news there, as Heroic Games has focused its attention on Steam. Last week, it dropped a recap on Steam, covering development of the superheroes-in-space MMORPG from March through May. “In the last few months, we have built and […]

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Wolcen is stripping out multiplayer and heading into...

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2024/05/30

I’m sorry to report to Wolcen fans today that Wolcen Studio has announced the end of updates for the game, essentially putting it in permanent maintenance mode – without multiplayer, which was the whole reason we covered it, obviously. The studio explains that while it has “diligently updated Wolcen, enhancing every facet of the game” […]

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Wisdom of Nym: Hands-on with the Final Fantasy XIV...

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2024/05/30

On some level, the Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG Starter Set was very much a product conceived and released to gauge interest. I don’t need to specify that it does, in fact, overlap very much with my own personal interests; I greatly enjoy FFXIV and I have a large section of my apartment dedicated to roleplaying […]

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Portions of Destiny 2’s Final Shape expansion...

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2024/05/30

We’re reasonably sure that releasing the next expansion for Destiny 2 is a bit more involved than pushing a “go” button, but it looks as if someone at Sony may have accidentally flipped that rhetorical switch, as the shooter’s Final Shape expansion was temporarily playable on PlayStation 5. For several hours. According to D2 subreddit […]

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Casually Classic: Three questions I have for WoW...

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2024/05/30

Oh hey, Cataclysm Classic is here. You can absolutely sense the palpable excitement and community buzz over it, much the same way you can sense my sarcasm at writing this paragraph. I mean, does anyone see this release as anything other than a brief intermission until Classic gets to a “good” expansion? I think even […]

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Black Desert splashes out for its 10th birthday with...

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2024/05/30

Black Desert is fond of celebrating its more unusual birthdays – like its 3000th day – so the 10-year anniversary coming up in December of this year might seem a little mundane, especially since that’s really the anniversary of the game overseas, not here. But it’s certainly worth the celebration, and so Pearl Abyss has […]

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Elite Dangerous introduces its next new ship, the...

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2024/05/30

Space truckers of Elite: Dangerous rejoice because the game’s next new ship is for you. Say hello to the Type-8, a new medium-size cargo hauler that Frontier Developments debuted during the studio’s latest livestream. The Type-8 isn’t a ship variant so much as it is an all-new spacecraft, with industrial design language that fans of […]

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