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Who’s a good doggy? RIFT is because it’s hosting...

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2026/06/04

Long-time fans of RIFT know that the game has a peculiar preoccupation with corgis — which is, in part, due to former Trion Worlds’ Scott Hartsman guidance and his passion for the dogs. Well, now the little doggos are all over the place in the game, thanks to Corgi Month this June. “It’s once again […]

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Subnbautica 2, counting 4M players, teases...

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2026/06/04

Krafton’s Unknown Worlds has surfaced for air this week following the whirlwind launch of Subnautica 2, which apparently four million of you decided to buy in early access. In a brief dev vlog out this afternoon, lead designer Anthony Gallegos first recaps the patches the team has done to date before finally getting into what’s […]

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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Roads & Riches, The Story...

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2026/06/04

Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you’ve never heard of! Trust us this time, folks, you have absolutely never heard of these games before now. One of them is best described as a Frankengame. It’s pretty wild. Roads & Riches We begin with Roads & Riches, a self-described “traveling merchant simulator” […]

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Dungeons and Dragons Online tests Terror of...

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2026/06/04

The terror is real — but so is the anticipation for Dungeons and Dragons Online’s big summer expansion. The second round of testing for Terror of Demogorgon is happening from now through Friday afternoon as SSG puts Update 80 through its paces. While it doesn’t look as though this test includes playable adventures, it does […]

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Pantheon’s test realm bumps the level cap to 20 with...

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2026/06/04

Do you consider being unable to rise above level 10 to be “falling” in Pantheon? If so, you could say that the latest update to the game’s test realm does indeed ask the fallen to rise. Specifically, it asks them to rise by 10 levels to level 20, with every class getting 10 new levels of […]

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The indie team that spun out of Project Blackbird...

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2026/06/04

Remember last fall when Microsoft flippantly and ignorantly canceled an almost-finished and genuinely good MMORPG being built by ZeniMax Online Studios, leading to mass layoffs and the frustrated departure of one of the actual big brains of the MMORPG genre? One of the only good things to come out of the whole Project Blackbird debacle […]

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Having now fully acquired the Gloria Victis license,...

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2026/06/04

At the end of 2025, we covered the surprise news that PvP MMORPG Gloria Victis, which closed down back in 2023, was making a comeback under a new publisher. By February of this year, we learned Gamigo was that publisher, and in April, the game was running playtests on Steam. Now, it’s nearing relaunch for […]

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Star Citizen recounts May development, outlines alpha...

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2026/06/04

We’re back to once more do our monthly Star Citizen duty and summarize the spaceship sandbox’s past, present, and future development plans as the billion dollar project inches onward through its multi-year alpha. We begin with the past, or more specifically the game’s May progress report, which called attention to the work needed to bring several […]

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Some Assembly Required: Could MMORPGs benefit from...

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2026/06/04

I think we all have at least one non-MMO that we’ve sunk an unholy number of hours into, and for me, that game is definitely Rimworld. Rimworld is my jam, a colony simulator that’s technically a real-time strategy game but is actually a “story generator” that’s designed to tell a huge tale of struggle, triumph, and tragedy […]

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Throne and Liberty talks up the new ‘small-scale’ but...

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2026/06/04

What better way to warm up while wandering Throne and Liberty’s Frozen Divide: Nix update than with some hot PvP action? If that’s the sort of thing you’re in to, then you’ll want to know more about Remnants of Nix, the new PvP zone that will be coming online with the expansion’s arrival. Described as a zone that’s […]

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Take-Two CEO balances AI optimism against industry...

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2026/05/25

We are once again all forced to listen to an executive honk into a proverbial microphone while some people nod and conflate it with wisdom. In its “big Strauss Zelnick interview,” GamesIndustry highlights the thoughts of Take-Two’s CEO about AI tech in video game development, which toe a line between support of the tech while […]

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Wisdom of Nym: How different will ranged and magical...

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2026/05/25

Last time, we covered the jobs that get into the paint in Final Fantasy XIV. This week, we’re staying out of the fray. Can I stop the column introduction with that? Do I need to write more? I guess I do, but fortunately, because of the way that this is set up, it makes sense to […]

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World of Warships preps its Longest Night of Museums...

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2026/05/25

While naval battleships might not be overly fond of torpedoes, war historians certainly are, which is why museums across Europe will be focusing on the 160-year history of the weapon with next month’s Longest Night of Museums event. Coming alongside of the museums is World of Warships, which plans to participate by hosting a mega-stream […]

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Corepunk devs plan to wipe the entire game next month...

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2026/05/25

Assuming that you’re playing this early access hybrid MMO, we sincerely hope you weren’t too attached to any of your Corepunk characters because they’re all going away next month. Yesterday, developer Artificial Core announced that it’s planning to perform “The Great Reset” on June 25th with a full progression wipe. Yeah, perhaps another name would’ve […]

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Star Citizen has officially raked in over one billion...

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2026/05/25

Star Citizen was already one of the biggest crowdfunded MMO projects in history, owing to a massive haul during its Kickstarter drive and continued sales of internet spaceships all throughout its multi-year alpha development. Even so, the game’s all-new high water mark for crowdfunding is still astonishing, as total funds raised have now hit $1,004,888,971 at […]

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The Daily Grind: Do you ship any NPCs in MMORPGs?

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2026/05/25

A while back, MOP’s Eliot wrote a piece about Warframe having a lot of the hallmarks of a gacha game without, you know, actually being one, and one of those hallmarks was “elaborate shipping between characters.” In my head, shipping is usually about obsessing over fictional characters’ relationships (real or imagined) in movies, books, etc., […]

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MMO Week in Review: Your light fades away

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2026/05/25

MMO-adjacent fans are mourning Destiny 2 this week, thanks to Sony/Bungie’s decision to put a halt to updates after one final release in June. The game will stay playable, but that’s cold comfort to players who were hoping for better than maintenance mode – or workers now being slammed with layoffs in an industry that […]

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EVE Online has already nailed down a date for its...

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2026/05/24

Did you catch your breath from all of the Fanfest reveals that came out of EVE Online? Well too bad, bucko, because the 2027 edition already has a calendar date. You do not get to rest. You will buy tickets early for an event happening a year from now. Sure enough, Fanfest 2027 will run from May 13th […]

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The MOP Up: Conan Exiles Enhanced has saddles to dye for

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2026/05/24

Conan Exiles Enhanced charged forth with Patch 1.0.1 this week, which “improved performance, [added] new features and changes, and [made] exploit fixes.” Also in for this patch — color dyeing for saddles, a long-time community request! And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for a roundup of other smaller MMO […]

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Lost Ark previews some new cosmetics arriving...

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2026/05/24

Most of the time when we discuss exclusive items for an MMO that’s come from outside of the west, those unique goodies are wholly unique to that game’s home territory. However, global fans of Lost Ark are getting more unique cosmetics in 2026, and Amazon has shared a preview from Smilegate RPG ahead of time. The Korean […]

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