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MMO Business Roundup: The Gearbox sale, GDC 2024, and...

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2024/03/28

Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Embracer – The ailing games giant announced this morning that the rumored sale of Gearbox is indeed happening. The company has sold Gearbox Entertainment to Take-Two Interactive for a whopping $460M. However, the sale does not include Cryptic Studios (Neverwinter and Star […]

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Warframe launches Dante Unbound (sans Deep...

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2024/03/28

Dante Unbound hit Warframe last night – just in time for the game’s 11th birthday (it soft-launched March 25th, 2013). “Defend the Leverian from the avaricious clutches of Parvos Granum and the Corpus!” Digital Extremes says in its usual opaque lore-encrusted way. “Drusus, curator and caretaker of the Leverian, requests your help to get out […]

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Tarisland looks at the Misty Forest in its latest map...

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2024/03/28

Full marks to the Elves of Tarisland, they live in a place called the Misty Forest. That’s it. Most Elves, they’d be calling the place Milliulussorieth, and you’d have to look through four translation guides to realize the name translates to “forest what got some mist going on,” so it’s still basically named Misty Forest, […]

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World of Warcraft’s Holly Longdale reassures players...

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2024/03/28

If you’re a World of Warcraft player looking at Plunderstorm with some combination of bafflement and trepidation about the possibility that every further “experimental” bit of content will be PvP-focused, you can rest a bit easier. Holly Longdale has put out a very brief statement insisting that there are future bits of content coming which […]

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Final Fantasy XIV confirms the most important element...

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2024/03/28

From the moment that Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida revealed that he had finally made peace with Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida, we have all known we would be getting a crossover event. And the first video trailer made it clear we were getting FFXVI‘s goodest boy, Torgal, in both mount […]

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Dungeons and Dragons Online has a date with Fred the...

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2024/03/28

Depending on how your romantic life is these days, a date with a very nice mindflayer may be the swoony highlight of your spring. So why not swing into Dungeons and Dragons Online, where Update 67: Slice of Life arrived yesterday with a few unusual quests? The free adventure pack of three quests allows you […]

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Embers Adrift plots more solo content, additional...

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2024/03/28

What’s the state of Embers Adrift? One with lots and lots of plans, according to an address from executive producer John Gust, which features a new content roadmap for 2024 that outlines plenty of updates on tap for the sandbox MMORPG. The roadmap doesn’t provide any dates or release windows, electing instead to categorize features […]

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Black Desert offers a first look at new areas and...

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2024/03/28

The Land of the Morning Light in Black Desert will soon throw its… uh, morning light across a new area, as Pearl Abyss has provided another peek at the Seoul region that will be arriving to the MMORPG and adding on more gameplay details since the last preview at December’s Calpheon Ball. The end of […]

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WoW Factor: Blizzard didn’t reveal World of Warcraft...

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2024/03/28

It will not surprise anyone reading this to learn that there are things which upset me. This is just part of being a human being; there’s no greater moral architecture to it than that. The vast majority of you do not interact with me on a daily basis and thus do not really see it […]

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New Hellgate game for PC and console, codenamed...

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2024/03/28

Hellgate: London is mostly known nowadays as the IP that just won’t die despite resurrections continuing to prove to be increasingly shambolic – a topic that our Game Archaeologist Justin has covered before. It looks like there’s still some meat to pluck off of the title’s bones, as developer Lunacy Games has announced plans to […]

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Cozy MMO Palia handwaves its bizarre beta obfuscation...

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2024/03/28

Yesterday, we recapped the ongoing drama with Singularity 6’s cozy mini-MMO, Palia. The short version is that the game hit beta last summer and has been launching on different platforms ever since, all while weirdly obfuscating the fact that it’s still in beta. For example, as we noted, the game’s Steam launch early this week […]

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Microsoft’s Phil Spencer admits massive layoffs were...

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2024/03/28

Ever since Microsoft announced a wave of layoffs that would affect 1,900 people – over 800 of whom work for Activision-Blizzard – the officially stated reason for why has changed a couple of times. An interview from Polygon has now brought a third excuse out of Microsoft, as CEO Phil Spencer now says that layoffs […]

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Dune Awakening discusses MMO size, PvP and PvE, the...

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2024/03/28

Funcom’s Joel Bylos was among those in attendance at this year’s GDC, which is the stage where he answered questions about the upcoming Dune: Awakening that involved the game’s population size, its activities for PvP and PvE players, and its plans for release as chronicled by Wccftech. We’ll jump to that release timing question first, […]

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RIFT hosts a server load test party this evening with...

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2024/03/28

Have we said how utterly bizarre it is to see RIFT pop up in our feeds this much recently? Not that we’re complaining, mind you; we root for this underdog fantasy MMO to defy the odds and forge a future. And part of that future is making sure that the servers is work properly. To […]

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Hostile NCsoft shareholder meeting reveals ArenaNet...

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2024/03/28

The topic of Guild Wars 3 has been a common one over the last few years; when I dredged our articles, the first one I found specifically about Guild Wars 3 went all the way back to 2017 as MMO players speculated about the future of the franchise between expansions. But now Korean press have reported […]

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The Daily Grind: How long can you do the same thing...

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2024/03/28

I have, it must be said, a high tolerance for grinding and repetition. I can handle a very long stretch of doing the exact same thing, over and over, with little to no variation. In fact, I would go so far as to say that I can subsist on the exact same weekly routine with […]

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The Stream Team: A spring (festival) fling in LOTRO

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2024/03/27

It’s been a while since Massively OP’s MJ muddled about in Middle-earth, and she has missed it. With the Spring Festival in full force, it’s the perfect time for her to hop right in. (And not just to enjoy spring and flowers, as opposed to the snow still present outside her window.) Join us live […]

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Trove’s spring update adds a gearcrafting skill and...

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2024/03/27

Gamigo’s Trove is continuing to get love regardless of what’s going on with the rest of the company’s MMORPG catalogue, and for the blocky sandbox, that comes in the form of yet another update called, cutely, the Gear Up!date. “With the new spring update, players can master the latest new profession, Gearcrafting, enjoy dynamic loot, […]

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‘Realtime action-based MMORPG’ Quest Master’s Realm...

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2024/03/27

Over the past year or so we’ve been keeping eyes on Quest Master’s Realm, an indie “realtime action-based MMORPG […] aboard the shell of a giant turtle” that has some sky-high ambitions and has been moving through testing phases. The game’s next major phase is soon to happen, as developer Blue Lightning Software has announced […]

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Enshrouded opens the reward-filled Hollow Halls...

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2024/03/27

The survival sandbox world of early access title Enshrouded has gotten that much bigger this week with the launch of the Hollow Halls update, which introduces a wide assortment of new challenges for players to face and new goodies to discover and unlock. The tentpole attraction for the patch are the titular Hollow Halls, a […]

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