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Vague Patch Notes: The open cheating of MMORPG...

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2025/11/13

So in case you somehow missed it, Blizzard has managed to make people do a big mad once again by wedging a new microtransaction currency into World of Warcraft’s housing system. This has prompted a lot of discussion from people about what the game’s subscription fee is paying for, how this is meaningfully different from […]

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Stars Reach’s latest patch adds Star Wars...

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2025/11/13

If, like me, you have fond memories of staying up all night with your guildies and rushing to craft mounts so we could speed our way to training a politician and claim the first city on a Star Wars Galaxies planet, then you’re going to want to point your eyeballs at what Stars Reach is […]

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Perfect Ten: 10 ways to refresh your love of MMOs...

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2025/11/13

There used to be a time when I’d get a little miffed to read posts of burned-out people leaving an MMORPG I was playing. How dare they betray the game that provided so much enjoyment! But now I get it — it’s almost impossible to play the same game forever without the magic fading and […]

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Kakao Q3 2025: Chrono Odyssey plans beta in early...

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2025/11/13

When last we checked in on Kakao Games during its Q2 2025 financial report, its two big inbound MMORPGs, both Chrono Odyssey and ArcheAge Chronicles had been delayed. The Q3 report doesn’t change any of that, but it definitely sheds some more light on what is going on over – and also what isn’t. First, […]

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NCsoft’s MMO shooter Cinder City takes us to grimy...

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2025/11/13

Horizon Steel Frontiers isn’t the only upcoming NCsoft MMO that’s looking for attention at this week’s G-Star. “Large-scale MMO shooter” Cinder City sought to raise awareness of its brand by dropping a new cinematic trailer at the game show. The trailer begins with a look at a destroyed Seoul (then how’s this game going to […]

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RuneScape officially ends lockbox monetization...

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2025/11/13

The players have spoken through Jagex’s favorite data collection method and now the studio has nailed down the official end date for the Treasure Hunter lockbox monetization model: Monday, January 19th, 2026, will be when lockboxes will be removed from the MMORPG forever after fans voted overwhelmingly in favor of the move. As Jagex explained […]

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Sony and NCsoft’s Horizon MMORPG, Horizon Steel...

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2025/11/13

The long-rumored MMORPG under development with Sony and NCsoft based on the former’s Horizon franchise since 2022? It’s real. Specifically, the game is Horizon: Steel Frontiers and it’s being developed for mobile first (which is probably not the news most players here are hoping for), with release planned for Android, iOS, and PC (no, not PlayStation […]

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The Daily Grind: Do you plan to pick up a Steam Machine?

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2025/11/13

In case the Steam Deck isn’t enough for folks, Valve took yesterday to announce its latest effort to give you a games-only device with the Steam Machine, an itty-bitty potentially teeny-weeny yellow polka dot black box for you to use as a Steam console and machine. It’s got solid hardware, it’s got the benefits of […]

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The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming goes criming in...

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2025/11/13

Sometimes, it’s good to be bad, and while MOP’s MJ and Chris don’t really have a bad bone in their bodies, they’ll get to live vicariously through some digital criminals as they watch other people’s footage from within Grand Theft Auto Online! It’s sure to be a crime spree of fun, so join them for […]

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Final Fantasy XI’s latest update revamps login...

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2025/11/13

The newest patch for Final Fantasy XI makes a lot of changes to the game’s login campaigns. Players will now receive only 50 points per login for the first 14 logins (down from previous rewards), with a 500 point reward at the 15th login. So that means it’s harder to accumulate points… but items that used […]

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MMO Week in Review: Visions of Eternity’s premiere,...

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2025/11/03

What should’ve been a glorious week for the MMORPG genre thanks to the launch of Guild Wars 2’s Visions of Eternity – which is gorgeous, by the way – was instead a downer as Amazon announced its pullout from gaming and the maintenance moding of New World, which itself got a well-received and highly populated […]

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Animal Crossing New Horizons is getting a new patch...

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2025/11/02

Next January, it’s time to get revenge on the beach. Stormwater Slabfist has crossed almost every animal on the mainland. But when Tom “Matchstick” Nook offers him a chance to cross all kinds of new animals, Slabfist needs to strap on a gun and start crossing all new animals. That’s not even remotely the plot of Animal […]

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The MOP Up: RIFT hosts a player housing contest

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2025/11/02

From now through November 29th, plucky not-completely-abandoned RIFT is hosting a player housing contest with prizes: “Welcome to Dimension Bonanza, the dimension contest where anything goes, and you are the master of your own theme. Within the entry period, create a dimension with any items of theme of your choice, or simply go with no […]

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The Stream Team: A return trip through the Pilgrim’s...

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2025/11/02

While MOP’s Chris and his Porg Squadron might have poked at the Pilgrim’s Traverse deep dungeon in Final Fantasy XIV before, it was more of an exploratory journey – and it wasn’t with the full crew. But now that everyone’s back in line, they’re ready to dive in once again and try to make some […]

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Massively Overthinking: How do we unshittify the...

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2025/11/02

The first thing I read this week was a blog post about unshittification. Not enshittification, but the opposite. Cleaning up messes. It has absolutely nothing to do with video games, mind you; the author is talking about the internet, how everything from independent websites to microblogging and social media is slowly degraded from greed. That […]

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Black Desert adds an attendant for PC, launches...

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2025/11/02

Having a companion along for your adventures in Black Desert can never be a bad thing, but instead of party-based shenanigans, the latest patch for the PC version of Black Desert has introduced a town attendant feature to the MMORPG. So it’s kind of like a companion, only for more laid back matters. The so-called […]

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One Shots: All hail Sir Bucket Head!

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2025/11/02

When times are darkest, when hope is in danger of being snuffed out, when evil looks to triumph, and when the McRib goes off the menu — that’s when we need his courage and tenacity the most. That’s when the call goes out for Sir Bucket Head! “One of Blue Protocol’s quests offered a bucket […]

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The Daily Grind: When do you play MMORPGs on...

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2025/11/02

If you wake up at 8:00 a.m. and then go to work until 6:00 p.m. you have a certain obvious restriction about when you’re going to be playing MMORPGs. But if you wake up at the same time on Saturday and don’t have chores that need to be done at certain times, you can log […]

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Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s early access, Stars...

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2025/11/02

Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP’s long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older games long past their fundraising. Camelot Unchained is marching forward with plans to launch early access this year, as Unchained Games dropped an early access teaser trailer just yesterday with […]

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World of Warcraft China details changes to raids,...

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2025/11/01

A couple of months ago we reported on the upcoming Titan Reforged server opening up exclusively for the Chinese version of World of Warcraft. If you happen to be following along with that server’s release, or if you happen to be a Chinese player visiting our site (hey, it might happen), then we’ve got a […]

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