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WRUP: Uncomfortable things I have noticed while...

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2024/03/09

Editor's note: Please do not do this, or any other thing recommended by WRUP. Just tell us what MMOs you're playing this weekend, and maybe answer the bonus question - this week's is about the hardest challenges in MMOs.

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The Daily Grind: Are you an early adopter or late...

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2024/03/09

We’ve been talking in the MOP office and on the podcast about how many buy-to-play online games have hit the scene this year so far, including Last Epoch, Nightingale, Helldivers 2, and Skull and Bones. If you were to drop full price on all of these, that would set you back $165. And who knows […]

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The Stream Team: AQ3D’s March of the Undead Legion...

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2024/03/09

For most folks, March and impending springtime elicits thoughts of flowers, green grass, and cute bunnies. For AQ3D, however, it’s all about the undead! Dage and his Undead Legion, to be exact. And Massively OP’s MJ is ready for all the black and glowy blue goodness. Tune in live at 8:00 p.m. to join us […]

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Betawatch: Dune Awakening shows off but stays...

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2024/03/09

Hey, will you look at that, Dune Awakening finally has some of the forward motion happening! It got gameplay previews! It got film references! It won’t let you be the Sand Messiah to be as spicy as possible! (I might have skimmed parts of the book, but I’m pretty sure that Paul just wanted to […]

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Niantic’s Pokemon GO Fest date announcement was...

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2024/03/08

In true Niantic form, Pokemon Go‘s Go Fest 2024 dates and locations have been officially announced (hot on the heels of datamined leaks), and almost immediately the company ran into problems as players couldn’t purchase tickets thanks to “pricing discrepancies in some regions.” That issue has since been resolved, but also as usual, we’re still […]

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Kickstarted multiplayer sandbox ECO releases a...

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2024/03/08

It’s been a few months since we talked much about ECO, the Kickstarted sandbox that has enchanted pretty much everyone who gives in to pick it up. Way back in 2015, Strange Loop Games raised $202K on the platform to fund the perfect ecosystem-driven survival game, though not the sort where you punch trees and […]

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Overwatch 2 previews a new legendary crossover skin...

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2024/03/08

Sure, Overwatch 2 may not contain the extensive PvE content that was ostensibly the entire reason for the sequel… or a lot of the gameplay modes that were promised… or even happy players. But what it definitely contains is the opportunity for product placement! Just yesterday the game announced a crossover of dubious appropriateness with […]

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EverQuest II opens Brewday festivities ahead of St...

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2024/03/08

We’re not saying Brewday is just St Patrick’s Day with an EverQuest god name on it, but it pretty much is, and it’s returning to Daybreak’s EverQuest II from now through March 20th. “Help us celebrate Brell Serilis in the only way we know how, fill your frosty steins, cups, tankards, or skulls of your […]

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Mobile and PC multiplayer RPG ASTRA Knights of Veda...

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2024/03/08

It is the way of mobile titles to drum up hype for their release through a pre-registration drive. The decree was carved in ancient times by technomages in the Middle DigiVerse, whispering prayers for high MAUs, personal data, and rampant cash shop sales as their dagger-like fingernails scratched their hopes into the ur-tablet’s surface. ASTRA: […]

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The Stream Team: Sharing the classic action RPG world...

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2024/03/08

Sometimes, a game falls into your lap that completely takes a hold of you. MOP’s Chris has had that happen to him thanks to Secrets of Grindea, a multiplayer-optional action RPG romp that just recently left early access. And since he likes sharing what he enjoys with you, that’s precisely what he’ll be doing today […]

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Here’s how Elder Scrolls Online is compensating...

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2024/03/08

Elder Scrolls Online’s big Orsinium DLC giveaway this past week hasn’t gone off as smoothly as ZeniMax Online Studios hoped. The original plan was to grant all players the DLC on their second day of logging in during the promo, as a login reward. On day two, players ran into problems as players couldn’t collect […]

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PlanetSide 2 acknowledges ‘earned consternation’ over...

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2024/03/08

It’s always an unsettling feeling when a game — or its IP, at least — gets sold off but nobody really talks about it afterward and business continues to go on as usual. Or appears to go on as usual. That’s the strange state in which the PlanetSide 2 players find themselves after Daybreak sold […]

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Vindictus Defying Fate spinoff begins alpha testing...

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2024/03/08

Well, it’s not the Vindictus 2 you wanted, but it’s something: As we noted earlier this week, Nexon is barreling onward with Vindictus Defying Fate, its new ARPG based on the IP that spawned the original Vindictus MMO, one of the rare import MMORPGs that actually had legs. Until now, the build has focused on […]

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Even Zeus couldn’t get Fortnite’s Myths & Mortals...

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2024/03/08

You know what the Greek pantheon really needed? More gods and goddesses with guns. If that was the case, then ancient mythology classes would be far better attended. At least Fortnite is rectifying the situation with its Myths & Mortals content update: “Pandora’s Box has been opened on the Fortnite Battle Royale Island, bringing Olympus […]

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EA CEO talks up aspirations for AI tools and...

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2024/03/08

If you need any evidence that the push for AI tools is akin to drinking some brainworm-filled Kool-aid, you need look no further than remarks made by Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson, who used his time in a business conference to espouse the benefits of AI tools and tech, presumably while as glassy-eyed as a […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Sort your own MMO community, guy

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2024/03/08

One of the things I note is that every so often – not all the time, but every so often – something will just stick in my craw. I’ll just see or experience a thing and it’ll just hang with me for the rest of the day. And the other day this happened to me […]

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Star Citizen highlights alpha 3.23’s updates to FPS...

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2024/03/08

There are a lot of times when players of Star Citizen need to clamber out of their favorite internet spaceship in order to get into some FPS combat, and making that combat feel more impactful is a focus for the game’s alpha 3.23 as well as this week’s Inside Star Citizen video, which shows off […]

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Helldivers 2 resolves to address armored spawn...

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2024/03/08

The furor over adjustments made in Helldivers 2 has arguably reached a boiling point. Earlier this week, Arrowhead Game Studios put out a balance patch that bonked highly popular weapons with a nerf bat, ticking off a firestorm among gamers who argued that nerfs didn’t account for the reality of playing the co-op shooter at […]

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Albion Online tackles player concerns over new...

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2024/03/08

When Sandbox Interactive announced a new server to accommodate the burgeoning European population on Albion Online – one intended to balance the existing western and eastern playerbases even more – you might have thought it would be a benign announcement, but nope! Players have been voicing concerns all week, primarily focused on the belief that […]

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Nightingale’s roadmap includes a lot more QOL than...

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2024/03/08

If you were among those grumbling at Nightingale’s mini-patch earlier this week, Inflexion’s latest missive ought to make you feel better – or at least more confident that something bigger is happening behind the scenes. “While we’re happy with some elements of our launch, we’re not satisfied with a number of others,” CEO Aaryn Flynn […]

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