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Lord of the Rings Online is now selling Corsairs of...

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2024/05/05

As Lord of the Rings Online wraps up its anniversary celebrations this weekend, one welcome addition arrives for patient players to partake. That’s right, both the Corsairs of Umbar expansion and the new Mariner class finally can be purchased for LOTRO Points in addition to actual money, so if you’ve been saving your points in […]

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Marvel Snap previews its May update with five more...

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2024/05/04

Marvel Snap is about to take May by storm thanks to its A Blink in Time season. Second Dinner’s Ben Brode — as hyper and charismatic as ever — delivered a developer update for what’s coming over the course of this month. As the title of the season implies, Marvel Snap is headlining the addition […]

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The Quinfall takes you on a tour of its villages and...

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2024/05/04

While the natural landscape of MMOs tends to get a lot of coverage in preview videos, one should not overlook the centers of civilization in these virtual worlds. To spark your imagination for its future potential in this area, The Quinfall posted a new video about its cities and towns. In the video, a character […]

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The Stream Team: Star Trekking through World of Tanks...

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2024/05/04

Strange IP mash-ups are not too uncommon, but when you can mash in yet another thanks to the date, well that’s a rare treat! And Massively OP’s MJ is doing just that. The moment World of Tanks announced its Star Trek tank event mode, she knew she had to play. But even better is playing […]

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PSA: Pantheon Rise of the Fallen grants weekend...

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2024/05/04

Update: Looks like the fun is over – code is now nonfunctional. Hope some of y’all got in! :) The original post follows. Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is in a promotional mood, which is ostensibly directed at fans of Twitch streamer CohhCarnage but really can be used by any new player, as Visionary Realms […]

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Helldivers 2 PC players are furious over returning...

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2024/05/04

It would appear that Sony has elected to call down a 500kg bomb strategem on the PC-using playerbase of Helldivers 2, as a previously optional requirement for Steam players to enjoy the popular co-op shooter will soon no longer be optional. On Thursday evening, the game’s Steam page shared an announcement from Sony that the […]

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WRUP: Unexpected crossover farm life games edition

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2024/05/04

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about our favorite movies and TV shows that came out before we were born.

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The Daily Grind: What does your ideal space sim MMO...

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2024/05/04

Even a quarter-century into the MMORPG revolution, we still haven’t seen an interstellar MMO that really fits what I’m seeking in a space sim. EVE Online is too cold and PvPy, Star Citizen is this giant unrealized mess, Star Trek Online is flashy fun on rails, Elite Dangerous is too obtuse and empty, No Man’s Sky never clicked with […]

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The Stream Team: May the 4th be with you in AQ3D

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2024/05/03

May 4th may not be until tomorrow, but since when did Massively OP’s MJ conform to the notion of celebrating things for just one day? And AQ3D agrees! May the 4th Be With You is a a month event — not a single day — and MJ is there for it. Bonus, there’s also Revenge […]

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Betawatch: SMITE 2’s first alpha, Legends of Aria’s...

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2024/05/03

Good morning, SMITE 2. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to enter your first testing phase this weekend. Your continuing mission is to justify your status as a sequel and delight your fans. Your other continuing mission is to have more bizarre crossovers like turning Odin into a ninja turtle (disclaimer: I […]

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Multiplayer maritime sim Ships at Sea delays its...

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2024/05/03

This past March saw a distinct new game cross our desk known as Ships at Sea, a multiplayer game that’s all about simulating life in the Norwegian Sea around Lofoten, Norway, letting up to four players take on nautical tasks like commercial fishing, running service ships, or hauling cargo. The game was set to arrive […]

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Osiris New Dawn returns from the dead with ‘enhanced...

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2024/05/03

Back in April, we were genuinely surprised to see Osiris New Dawn return from the dead, though given a name like that, we should’ve known. Lil Egyptian mythology mom joke for your Friday there. Anyway, after nearly a year of public quiet following the game’s early access launch and then abrupt removal from Steam last […]

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Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff puts out a quality-of-life...

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2024/05/03

Quality-of-life is the name of the game for the adorably boxy multiplayer RPG Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff. The game’s latest update is full of new things that are meant to ease existing in the game’s colorful little world, including a new wardrobe feature, inventory improvements, the ability to create endless custom loadouts (though pre-existing […]

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Warhammer Online Return of Reckoning begins public...

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2024/05/03

The world of Warhammer Online rogue server Return of Reckoning is a pretty fighty place. That’s not really a surprise considering the setting of the MMORPG, but that does mean that when combat is being changed, players will likely want to take notice, which brings us to some pretty sweeping changes in the test server […]

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EG7’s 2023 annual report claims Daybreak and SSG...

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2024/05/03

Swedish gaming conglom EG7 released its annual report this week, and while there isn’t a ton of new-new in it for those of us weirdos who care about Daybreak’s MMORPGs and dig into each quarterly investor report as it releases, there are still some tidbits worth highlighting. EG7 reiterates that Big Blue Bubble’s My Singing […]

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The Stream Team: The continuing adventures of a new...

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2024/05/03

Monster Hunter Wilds isn’t due to release until sometime in 2025. But MOP’s Chris is hungry for some monster hunting action now. So what does he do? Start a new character in Monster Hunter World, that’s what! Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as he continues his journey through the game from the beginning! […]

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IGDA survey casts a light on game devs’ impressions...

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2024/05/03

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has put together the 2023 version of its game developer satisfaction survey, which continues to take the temperature of game devs’ thoughts on the industry as a whole, specifically on matters of diversity in the office and in games, their experiences with crunch, and general job security and relationships […]

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League of Legends asserts that its new anti-cheat...

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2024/05/03

Earlier this week saw patch 14.9 roll out to League of Legends, which included the release of Vanguard, Riot’s bespoke kernel-level anti-cheat program. Unfortunately, its release has not gone over well, as some players report that the anti-cheat bricked their machines (and required some pretty deep tech knowledge to fix) or disallowed game streaming services […]

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Star Wars Galaxies Legends celebrates May the Fourth...

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2024/05/03

In case the internet has somehow not already baked this into your brain, tomorrow is May the Fourth and Sunday is Revenge of the Fifth, and that means you’re going to put on your Star Wars shirt and do nothing but Star Wars. Actually, that doesn’t sound half bad. And naturally this means that the […]

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‘Evergreen titles and robust content pipelines reign...

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2024/05/03

We conveniently had a community discussion on the meaning of old-school when it comes to MMOs earlier this week, so consider that required reading for this piece on Newzoo, whose recent market research report suggests that most of y’all are out there playing old games. OK, maybe it’s not much of a revelation for the […]

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