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Wuthering Waves introduces two more characters and a...

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2025/11/20

What do a Taoist wielding a thunder ribbon, a schoolgirl who kicks a sword around, and a city locked in a neverending time loop have in common? They’re obviously the major parts of the latest content patch for the multiplayer gacha RPG Wuthering Waves, which introduces a new story, new area, and the aforementioned two […]

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Horse mystery MMORPG Equinox Homecoming adds new...

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2025/11/20

You know, I didn’t really enjoy my early time in Equinox Homecoming, but I sure am glad to see that Blue Scarab Entertainment is apparently still funded well enough to be cranking out early access updates here in November. In fact, today’s update is actually the “biggest patch” the horse mystery MMORPG has gotten all […]

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Funcom’s Dune Awakening kicks off its third free...

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2025/11/20

Funcom is plainly aware of the growing perception that Dune Awakening is struggling, and if you weren’t sure before, you can be now: The studio is launching another free trial as well as a sale, though you might have expected a sale next week ahead of the holiday weekend anyhow. “Arrakis is closer than ever […]

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Vindictus opens a new raid and overhauls stats in...

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2025/11/20

In Vindictus, trees chop you. That’s one of the conclusions we’re coming to thanks to the action MMO’s Season 4 Episode 13 patch, which is headlined by a new raid in the form of the Forest of Abundance and the big weapon-wielding tree beast that you see in the header image up there. The fight […]

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Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s 2025 Wild Area was...

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2025/11/20

Pokemon Go’s recent Wild Area 2025 event didn’t have to do much to improve upon last year’s. It did, so kudos to Niantic on that, but also it aimed low enough that it would be easy to achieve. In fact, I’ve previously noted that the people who frequent the paid events seem to believe that […]

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PSA: Lord of the Rings Online extends its free...

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2025/11/20

There’s some great news for those who missed out on Lord of the Rings Online’s big ol’ quest pack giveaway that supposedly ended a little while back. Standing Stone Games announced that it’s extending the code through December 7th, so make sure you log into the game and use “EXPLOREOURWORLD” in the shop to unlock […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Path of Exile 2 shows why MMO and...

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2025/11/20

It’s pretty clear to say that Path of Exile 2 was meant to be a big deal. And it was big news when it released into early access, but as we reported earlier this week, those player numbers for the sequel are not doing great. You would expect some turbulence here and there, sure, but this is […]

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Digital Extremes says Soulframe Founders Packs will...

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2025/11/20

Maybe you’ve been in testing events for Soulframe and love it. Maybe you are still kicking yourself for not getting in on the ground floor of Warframe and refuse to make that mistake again. Maybe you’re just a sucker for anything with a three-headed bear (there aren’t many games that offer it). Whatever the case, if you’re […]

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Guild Wars Reforged will set up the game for future...

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2025/11/20

This week’s surprise announcement that ArenaNet and collaborator 2weeks are launching what is effectively a free mini-remaster or “modernization” of Classic Guild Wars 1 on December 3rd took MMORPG players by surprise, and the aftermath has been a torrent of questions. Kind of a lot of folks were apparently confused about whether they’d have to […]

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EverQuest and EverQuest II host expansion preview...

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2025/11/20

Daybreak Game Company is poised to hit December with a one-two punch of EverQuest expansions, starting with EverQuest: Shattering of Ro on December 2nd and EverQuest II: Rage of Cthurath on December 10th. And what better way to celebrate the occasion than by the purchase of your very own official expansion desk mat! Actually, there […]

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One Shots: We didn’t see nothin’, we were never here!

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2025/11/16

Turn the wrong corner and walk into the wrong room in EverQuest II, and you might see something you really wish you hadn’t. As a silence falls so thick that you can hear the blood dripping off daggers, you raise your palms and back away, hoping that you might live to see another day. You […]

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The Daily Grind: How much of your gaming time is...

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2025/11/16

This might sound weird, but at least in my head, there is a distinct difference between “time spent playing other video games” and “time spent playing MMORPGs.” I can’t really explain why, they are both video games, but somehow my brain just segments the two as being different things. The even more interesting thing is […]

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Trove studio Gamigo says it’s revisiting clubs...

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2025/11/16

If you’ve followed MOP for a long time, you know that several of our writers are huge fans of Trove’s club world system. It’s basically a player/guild housing system, though calling the massive expanses of land houses does a disservice to the maps, as they can grow to be larger than some whole MMORPGs. And […]

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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen confirms server merges...

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2025/11/15

The November 19th update for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is bringing a bunch of things to do on November 19th, but what it’s also going to be bringing server merges to the PvE sandbox as well. Information on how these merges will work and how many servers will remain afterwards is not available right […]

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Cozy life sim RPG Pokemon Pokopia confirms its...

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2025/11/15

Sure, there’s plenty of reasons for a single player to be interested in Pokemon Pokopia, the upcoming life sim RPG coming to Nintendo Switch 2 on March 5th, 2026, but what if you’ve got a bunch of friends who also like cozy RPGs and multiplayer? Well you’re in luck because an extended gameplay trailer about […]

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The Stream Team: Securing a shipshape base in Planet...

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2025/11/15

With so many materials being scavenged from the crashed ships, Massively OP’s MJ really needs better organization in her Planet Crafter base. She’s already rebuilt and consolidated the structure, and she was also able to purchase the blueprint for the bigger storage containers. Now all she needs to do is get stuff situated… so she […]

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Casually Classic: The iconic sound design of World of...

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2025/11/15

A sound is a powerful thing. The right noise in the right ear can transport the listener back in time to a particular place and experience. It can be used to enhance, to entrance, and to bring out a personality that exists solely in the audio realm. Try to imagine Star Wars without its iconic […]

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Ashes of Creation officially enters Steam early...

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2025/11/15

For some time now, Ashes of Creation has been talking up its Alpha Two build, but this week we got a new name for it: Steam early access. That’s right, the next build of the PvP MMORPG is headed to the platform on Thursday, December 11th. An FAQ related to the announcement confirms that the […]

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WRUP: Please press the X key to give money to your...

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2025/11/15

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about large lads. Wait what.

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The Daily Grind: What’s the funniest or coolest...

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2025/11/15

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the MMORPG industry, it’s that developers are bigger geeks than many of us. And because of that, they can’t resist the urge to toss in homages to other IPs in their games. A lot of homages. I’ll always look fondly upon the time that I stumbled upon a Legend […]

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