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Massively Overthinking: How long should it take MMO...

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2024/04/11

With Throne & Liberty’s latest global underway, I want to point back to something Amazon said about the test for our Massively Overthinking discussion this week. Amazon said it had dropped the level block for the test and would be boosting players so they could “explore the early-mid game, and also begin participating in end-game […]

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Star Wars Galaxies Legends teases ships, city...

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2024/04/11

Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends has dropped its spring newsletter, with a few teases about the future of the game – in some cases, just images really, feelings. We spy what looks like a new droid, a new vehicle, new ships, and more player city structures – new parks and a landing pad, […]

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V Rising teases Dracula, new difficulty modes, and...

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2024/04/11

V Rising is barreling along toward its May 8th launch and 1.0 update with a new landing page that outlines what players can expect – including Dracula. I mean, who else, really. It’s a vampire survivalbox. “Dracula has been biding his time and gathering his power in the depths of the Shadow Realm. His servants […]

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Boxy MMORPG EverCraft Online announces a weekend-long...

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2024/04/11

Last week we first got word of EverCraft Online, a boxy 3-D sandbox MMORPG that aims to be “a demanding, yet rewarding, multiplayer experience.” If its voxel visuals and urge to recreate a rose-tinted genre past have you curious, intrigued, or skeptical, then you might be the sort of person who will want to join […]

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After months of retooling, Evercore Heroes comes back...

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2024/04/11

Back in October 2022, we were all first introduced to Evercore Heroes, an isometric “competitive PvE” title that tasked opposing teams with completing PvE combat objectives as fast as possible. The game began paid closed beta testing last June, but despite it making a strong case for its style of gameplay according to our own […]

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Old School RuneScape unleashes undead pirates on the...

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2024/04/11

The Wilderness zone in Old School RuneScape is already a dangerous place on account of it being a PvP location, but thanks to this week’s patch, things have gotten more dangerous on account of the arrival of undead pirates. This can not be good for property values. The sudden appearance of these zombie scallywags is […]

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Palworld unveils plans to release a PvP arena feature...

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2024/04/11

Yes, you read that headline correctly: The PvE-minded co-operative survivalbox that is Palworld is going to be getting a PvP arena, which will let players face off with their best critter teams in direct combat – and it’s arriving sometime this year. The teaser trailer hitched to the reveal doesn’t provide too much in the […]

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Co-op roguelike 33 Immortals debuts new gameplay...

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2024/04/11

Last June one of the Not So Massively games we highlighted was 33 Immortals, a co-op action roguelike from Canadian developer Thunder Lotus that lets up to 33 players team up to fight their way out of hell in what was described as “a lean, mean distillation of the MMO raid experience.” If that sounded […]

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Roblox walks back statements that children earning...

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2024/04/11

Roblox’s PR department has found itself in the unenviable position of providing cover for some dumb nonsense an executive said at GDC this year. During an interview with Eurogamer, Roblox Studio head Stefano Corazza attempted to argue that earning money from and paying creators a portion of those earnings for games crafted on the platform […]

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Fallout 76 kicks off free-play week in celebration of...

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2024/04/11

Bethsoft knows how to work some transmedia synergy: It’s running a bunch of Fallout 76 promos in conjunction with the premiere of the Fallout TV series this week. For starters, Fallout 76 is kicking off a free-play week right now, starting at noon EDT today and concluding April 18th. “Beginning on April 11 at 12PM […]

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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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