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Sea of Thieves confirms crossplay and...

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2024/04/05

With Sea of Thieves inching closer to its April 30th launch on PlayStation 5, the team at Rare has decided to pull together an FAQ full of enlightening answers, particularly in the case of how the new platform will play nice with others. And it will indeed play nice. The FAQ opens by confirming that […]

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MMO sandbox Anvil Empires previews homesteading...

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2024/04/05

Oh Anvil Empires, MMO players are just not paying any attention to you, but they should be, as Siege Camp’s Foxhole has gained a steady fanbase and the studio continues to pour effort into its purer MMORPG sandbox. The latest dev blog is probably also not going to light the world on fire, although if […]

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Pax Dei’s upcoming 100K-player alpha announces server...

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2024/04/05

The days are counting down to Pax Dei’s second alpha test, officially dubbed the “Wilderness Alpha” and scheduled to kick off this April 23rd. As the studio plans to open this up to “at least 100,000 players,” it listed how it’ll organize the servers so that testers can plan where and how to link up […]

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Elder Scrolls Online celebrates its 10th anniversary...

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2024/04/05

Happy birthday to Elder Scrolls Online, which turns 10 years old this month! As you might expect, ZeniMax is pulling all the stops to make this a memorable occasion for the decade-old MMORPG, starting with a two-day celebration event in Amsterdam. This event includes panels, news, and overviews of the upcoming Gold Road chapter. In […]

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PSA: ARK Survival Ascended is free-to-play this...

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2024/04/05

Who wants free digital dinosaurs? Or if you’re a digital dinosaur, who wants free digital humans to snack on? Either way, the dino survival sandbox ARK: Survival Ascended is hosting a free weekend from today until 1:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 8th, for both Steam and PlayStation 5 players. The promotion is hot on […]

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The Stream Team: Peering into an all-new realm in...

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2024/04/05

MOP’s Chris has made his way further into Nightingale since the last time he played the survivalbox for OPTV – far enough that he’s ready to step into his next new realm! Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as he fires up his portal and walks through time and space into a dangerous new […]

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Ready or not, PvP sandbox Reign of Guilds has...

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2024/04/05

After six years of development, Reign of Guilds opened its doors to early access and live operation. The Russian PvP sandbox is a medieval-style MMO with all the hardcore trappings including friendly fire, open world conflict, and first-person non-target combat. “For our studio, this release is an enormous step, and as it usually is, we […]

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Blizzard starts hiring high-level positions for a new...

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2024/04/05

Just because Blizzard has canceled quite a few promising projects over the years and suffered shocking layoffs in 2024 doesn’t mean that the studio has foresworn new games. As a matter of fact, the studio has started posting several job listings for an unannounced title. The mysterious listings including some high-level positions, including creative director, […]

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Dark and Darker Mobile debuts a new trailer and...

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2024/04/05

“Do you have any games on your phone?” the young boy asks, eyes hopeful and face wearing a friendly smile. “Why yes, little Joey, I do,” I reply just as warmly. “I have a grim and dark extraction RPG known as Dark and Darker Mobile where you have to leave a terrifying dungeon with as […]

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NASA teams up with Epic’s Fortnite and Microsoft’s...

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2024/04/05

If you somehow don’t know about the solar eclipse this coming Monday, then you’re probably not in the US since that’s all anyone here is talking about. The path of totality – that is, the area where people can view the moon completely block the sun – happens to run across a huge chunk of […]

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Once Human finally enters its latest closed beta for...

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2024/04/05

After a rescheduling and then a day-of false start, the PC multiplayer closed beta for the post-apocalypse survival shooter Once Human has begun at last, kicking off last night at around 10:00 p.m. EST. This current test has opened its doors to 150,000 players, all of whom are invited to check out a plethora of […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Game preservation is way more...

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2024/04/05

Before I say anything with this week’s article, I want to make something very, very clear right from the premise: As you have probably gathered by now, I am very much in favor of game preservation. I think that as a concept, Stop Killing Games – one gamer’s educated effort to stop companies from sunsetting […]

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Multiplayer medieval fantasy brawler Warhaven has...

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2024/04/05

Pour one out for the medieval warriors who were fighting it up in the fantasy world of Warhaven, including but not limited to Crud Bonemeal, Kittyman Stan, and Legally Distinct Jack Black. Nexon has put the kibosh on the game as scheduled, turning off its servers and closing down its community channels early this morning. […]

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Classic EverQuest announces two new time-locked...

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2024/04/05

It’d be tempting to assume that EverQuest’s producer’s letter would just mirror EverQuest II’s earlier this week, as Darkpaw head of studio Jenn Chan recaps PAX and Fippyfest sales just the same. But there are a few bits that are different, starting with the fact that Chan says the classic EverQuest team is hiring. “If […]

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Tamriel Infinium: Everything you need to know about...

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2024/04/05

The Elder Scrolls Online celebrated its 10th anniversary just this week, an impressive milestone and a chance to reflect on just how far this game has come. And yet Zenimax Online is showing no sign of stopping, and as such it invited us to preview its upcoming Gold Road chapter. This expansion is certainly worth […]

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Palia studio Singularity 6 has been hit by layoffs –...

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2024/04/05

(This article has been updated with S6’s statement at the end; the original piece is as follows.) Palia studio Singularity 6’s frustrating deceptions regarding the beta status of the game on Steam may have a partial explanation, as last night workers at the studio began reporting that they’d been laid off. Programmer Brian “leetNightshade” Ernst […]

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The Daily Grind: Are you looking for drama in your MMOs?

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2024/04/05

The other day in Lord of the Rings Online chat, the topic of guild drama came up and took one hell of a twist. You know how people always says they want a guild with no drama, to the point that guilds will advertise themselves as drama-free? Well, the joke this time was… what if […]

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The Stream Team: Bashing Baba Lysaga in Dungeons &...

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2024/04/04

After a brief break, Massively OP’s MJ is returning to DDO, and she’s really been looking forward to this next Ravenloft adventure. She gets to bash on Baba Lasagna… er, Lysaga. The old witch in the ruins stole one of the magic gems from the Martikov vineyard, and MJ plans to get it back. All […]

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Massively Overthinking: Would you pay for a Guild...

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2024/04/04

WoodenPotatoes had a fun video this past weekend about Classic Guild Wars 1, and I fully admit I clicked on it just to hear the music again, but I’m glad I did because he cycles through a bunch of predictions and wishes – maybe more wishes than anything – about how ArenaNet might celebrate the […]

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Hearthstone launches co-op Battlegrounds Duos with...

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2024/04/04

Blizzard has taken the stress-free packaging off its new Hearthstone toy, announcing the impending launch of Battlegrounds Duos, which the team first previewed at last fall’s BlizzCon. “The basics of Duos are the same as when we first announced it,” Blizzard says in today’s announcement. “You and a partner queue together in a game against […]

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