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Into the Super-Verse: What to pick for your Incarnate...

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2024/04/11

Last week in Into the Super-Verse, I offered a quick explanation for how you can get started with the process of sorting out the Incarnate powers in City of Heroes. This is all well and good, and hopefully it helped people. But just knowing the mechanics doesn’t necessarily help in contrast to, you know, what […]

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Donkey Crew sets Bellwright early access for April 23...

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2024/04/11

Snail Games and Donkey Crew have announced today that they’re pushing gritty co-op survival sandbox Bellwright into Steam early access on April 23rd. The title was only just announced in March of last year and saw a demo last summer. “Following the 72-hour playtest at the end of the last month, we’ve received a lot […]

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KingsIsle announces Wizard101 single-player spinoff...

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2024/04/11

If you’ve ever wanted to dive back into the Wizard101 world without actually being in Wizard101, now is your time, as this morning KingsIsle announced a brand-new game in the franchise, a single-player prequel dubbed Ravenwood Academy: A Wizard101 Story. “Ravenwood Academy is a single-player, self-contained life sim/visual novel. The game’s core is a strong […]

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Overwatch 2 talks up ‘wide group’ matchmaking and new...

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2024/04/11

While Overwatch 2 and Warcraft Rumble don’t have any overlap in terms of gameplay styles, they both have gotten some recent headlines that are worth reporting, so we’re pulling them together here. Also they’re both games made by Blizzard, so that’s another reason for the shared space. Also Bree told me to put them together. […]

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Gigantic readies another attempt at a server fix and...

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2024/04/11

Gigantic continues to unfortunately be caught in the throes of server-related launch problems, but Arc Games and Abstraction believe that they may have a fix that will help. The studios are planning to roll out a patch, which will cause disconnections for about 15-20 minutes but should help the ongoing problems. Ideally, anyway. The devs […]

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Elder Scrolls Online deep-dives the scribing system...

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2024/04/11

Probably the most compelling content coming in Elder Scrolls Online’s Gold Road – and certainly the system that’ll stick to the ribs long after the storyline is over – is the new scribing system. While it’s not exactly the same as the inscription systems in single-player Elder Scrolls titles that aren’t worried about letting you […]

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Star Trek Online reups its First Contact Day event...

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2024/04/11

While First Contact Day is technically on April 5th, players of Star Trek Online will be celebrating the fictional historic event between April 11th (today) and May 2nd because that’s when the First Contact Day event will make its return to the MMORPG. Playable content for the event itself will be familiar to regular players, […]

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The Daily Grind: What would your dream genre be for a...

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2024/04/11

Fantasy, as a genre, is pretty thoroughly represented in games of all stripes. Video games, tabletop games, and so forth. What can you say? It’s just something that we as human beings kind of like to indulge in, for better or for worse. For whatever reason that’s the genre that we head toward when we’re […]

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The Stream Team: SWTOR’s companion date nights

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2024/04/10

Are you a fan of date nights? How about in SWTOR? No, we don’t mean having a date night to play SWTOR with your companion, but a date with your in-game companions! Massively OP’s Larry & MJ haven’t had the chance yet to check out this latest addition to the game… until now. Tune in […]

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Mortal Online 2 tests siege system updates, combat...

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2024/04/10

Evidently, there aren’t enough players in Mortal Online 2 who are taking part in the PvP sandbox’s siege mechanics, which has led to a host of changes to the system’s mechanics that are now available to test on the PTR. Developer Star Vault explains that it’s making these updates with an eye toward ensuring that […]

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Make My MMO: Starship Simulator has pulled in $350K...

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2024/04/07

It’s only April and we might just have our biggest MMO Kickstarter of the year in the form of the new sci-fi multiplayer sandbox Starship Simulator. Indie team Fleetyard Studios sought $82K on the platform and has already blown way past that; as I type this, nearly 4000 gamers have put in over $350,000 with […]

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The Stream Team: A burrito finale for of Astroneer’s...

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2024/04/06

Astroneer’s Breakdown event has been going this whole year, but time has been flying faster than Massively OP’s MJ can keep up! In fact, this is the last weekend: The event ends tomorrow. But MJ hasn’t gotten even close to finishing. Sure, she was disheartened that her world was bugged last time, and the amount […]

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Chronicles of Elyria shifts development roadmap of...

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2024/04/06

Back in January, Chronicles of Elyria began an alpha test of a feedback form, then started to process some of that form’s responses a month later. The breaking down of feedback continues, as Soulbound Studios’ Jeromy Walsh has posted a rundown of what’s been said and what happens next in his Discord. Walsh once again […]

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V Rising has sold a whopping 4 million copies during...

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2024/04/06

With V Rising poised for launch on May 8th – just over a month away, for those of you who are not so good with linear time – it’s important to note how many people are looking forward to the game’s launch. And the answer is… a bunch, as Stunlock Studios announced that the game […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s...

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2024/04/06

Those of you who follow this column know that I’m never in a particular rush to plow through Lord of the Rings Online expansions for the sake of a timely review. I’d rather go at my own pace, explore all of the content, and give a more informed verdict at the end. This is to […]

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Pantheon player hosts a preview of the dangers and...

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2024/04/06

It’s pretty easy to assume a dungeon called Mad Run would be dangerous, but just in case you needed confirmation that Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s big ticket feature for its second pre-alpha “season” will be offering pain aplenty, then there’s some fresh gameplay video designed to ease your mind. Or fill it with concern, […]

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WRUP: Justice for Glort edition

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2024/04/06

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

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The Daily Grind: What’s the first thing you do when...

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2024/04/06

I admit that I have a weakness to MMOs that woo me back into playing them. So when SWTOR changed hands to Broadsword and showed signs of actual life again, I gladly allowed myself to be pulled back into its orbit once more. Of course, it wasn’t as easy as hitting “go!” There was the […]

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The Stream Team: AQ3D mixes Easter Greenwog, April...

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2024/04/05

It’s no joke, AQ3D has gone bonkers and blended a number of events this week! Obviously, Massively OP’s MJ can’t resist, so she’s putting off her trip to the museum (again) in order to participate in the combination of April Fools’ day gifting, Grenwog hunting, and setting up her own Burger Hero franchise in her […]

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Betawatch: Palia’s layoffs, Ghost’s preview,...

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2024/04/05

We aren’t exactly thrilled with the way that Palia’s development team has been dancing hither and yon around the title of beta recently, but that sure as heck doesn’t mean any of us wanted to see that 35% of the development team at Singularity 6 got laid off. That’s just awful news. Our condolences to […]

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