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Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts confirms development is...

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2024/03/15

Last week, one of the developers of Star Citizen made what looked like a passing few references to “SC 1.0” that seemed to suggest that Cloud Imperium Games was moving from alpha to launch. Those plans have now been confirmed by Chris Roberts, who actively talks about the space sandbox heading to release in the […]

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Nightingale expounds on its roadmap and why the...

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2024/03/15

Nightingale has spent the better part of the week focused on clean-up after a bug ate player homes last weekend, but now it’s releasing its first developer roadmap video since hitting early access. Inflexion Games Aaryn Flynn takes the start of the video to admit that there are things the studio isn’t happy with yet, starting […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s the most unlucky MMO?

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2024/03/15

A few weeks back when Fractured Online was contending with yet another round of exploits, rollbacks, and downtime, MOP reader Gidja remarked that perhaps the game deserved an award – and maybe not a nice one. “If you do the most unlucky MMO award, I think you already have a winner,” Gidja quipped on Mastodon. […]

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Massively Overthinking: Are survival games the new MMO?

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2024/03/15

A few Overthinkings ago, a MOP commenter said something that seemed very simple but still hit me really hard, to the point that I’m still thinking about it: “Survival games are the new MMO,” MurderHobo opined. “Have been for a while.” He was echoed by TheDarthStomper in another thread: “I think we’re at the point where […]

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Vindictus’ sequel, Defying Fate, has kicked off its...

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2024/03/14

The storied Vindictus franchise enters into a new era this week as its action RPG sequel, Vindictus: Defying Fate, started pre-alpha testing. Nexon announced that this limited-time test is the first opportunity fans will get to check out the fantasy title. In the test, which ends on March 18th, players can select either sword-and-board Fiona […]

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Destiny 2’s next content drop, Into the Light, is set...

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2024/03/14

When Bungie admitted it was delaying Destiny 2’s The Final Shape all the way to June, that meant seven-month-long Season of the Wish – and prompted a promise from the team that it’d pack much more content into the season. As of today, we’ve gotten a tiny tease about what that entails. And we do […]

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The Steam Spring Sale brings savings for The Elder...

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2024/03/14

Spring is about to spring and be sprung in Spring with… look, it’s time for the Steam Spring Sale, one of the many times every year when Steam puts a whole bunch of games on steep discount so that you can fill your library with more games, some of which you will actually play. And […]

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Fortnite’s Ramadan-themed event, Lantern Fest, is...

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2024/03/14

I think I can count on half a hand the number of online games that even do the barest whisper of an event for Ramadan, but given the rise of Lunar New Year events over the last 10 years, I suspect Fortnite won’t be alone for very long in its efforts to truly embrace major […]

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Camelot Unchained prequel Final Stand Ragnarok...

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2024/03/14

As we noted earlier this week, the Camelot Unchained spinoff game Final Stand Ragnarok is launching today into its most formal early access yet. Readers will recall this is actually not its first rodeo with early access; it entered “first access” in December of 2020 as planned, followed by a $20 Steam early access in November 2021, but […]

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World of Warships March update heralds its April...

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2024/03/14

All right folks, pin a shiny gold star – or a set of googly eyes – on World of Warships, which has already laid the foundation for its annual April Fools’ Day event more than two weeks early: It’s called Piñata Hunt. “It’s no joke, this is for real! Starting at the end of March, […]

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Final Fantasy XI’s developers talk about the process...

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2024/03/14

The Voracious Resurgence was already the post-coda story content for Final Fantasy XI. After the game had already received its last story update, we were getting more additional story after all. So how did it come about? What was the goal? A new interview with the team behind the addition gives some insight into how […]

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Genshin Impact collabs with Discovery Channel to...

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2024/03/14

It’s important to appreciate nature now and again, and even more important to protect it considering the forces that are in the world today. That brings us to a unique collaboration that’s happening between Discovery Channel and the multiplayer RPG Genshin Impact, which sees the unlikely duo team up for several events as part of […]

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Palia has racked up 3 million players since hitting...

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2024/03/14

It’s not every day that we get cold hard numbers from a games studio, but Singularity 6 is providing a very large one today: Palia has apparently hit 3M players total while it’s been in open beta – and that’s without Steam, where it’ll debut later this month. “Singularity 6 is thrilled to announce that […]

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Gameloft unveils co-op Dungeons & Dragons survival...

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2024/03/14

Are you ready for a new game that smooshes together survival games, life sims, action RPGs, and the Dungeons & Dragons IP? Then your very specific tastes are being catered to in a new announcement from Hasbro, which has taken the wraps off of plans to publish an unnamed new cooperative game from Gameloft Montreal, […]

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The Gigantic revival reveals two new maps coming with...

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2024/03/14

You already knew that Gearbox is reviving Motiga’s sunsetted MOBA Gigantic, and you already knew that it’s coming on April 9th. You knew these things because you read our article in which Chris squealed with delight in getting to reveal them to you. And if you read his piece closely, you might have noticed that […]

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MapleStory prepares players for an intense combat…...

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2024/03/14

If there’s one thing that MMORPGs have taught me, it’s that any time a quest sends you to have a meal or picnic with someone, it’s going to end in a bloodbath. I mean, what else is going to happen, someone passes the jam aggressively? You glare at each other over the last scone? That’s […]

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Vague Patch Notes: You might be the reason you no...

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2024/03/14

Despite its ubiquity in sitcoms throughout the ’90s, I have never had a single relationship end with the other person saying, “It’s not you, it’s me.” This is a bit disappointing because I can think of situations when it was definitely not me, but that’s neither here nor there. The stereotype of that kind of […]

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Mortal Online 2 releases a new dungeon, combat...

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2024/03/14

The feature set for the latest patch to Mortal Online 2 might sound like an odd stew since it’s trying to marry riding bears as mounts with dismembering enemies, but that’s just what Star Vault has put out this week. And besides, this is the stuff that was put in the public test realm earlier, […]

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Tribes 3 Rivals hits early access, lays out a roadmap...

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2024/03/14

Everything old is new again, or at least old enough to be a throwback while being new enough to engage FPS gamers. That’s probably the strategy of Hi-Rez’s Prophecy Games as the team vs. team shooter Tribes 3: Rivals made its way into Steam early access this week. Early access has kicked off with some […]

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Predecessor, another MOBA built from the bones of...

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2024/03/14

It appears that we can’t be rid of the ghosts of Paragon, Epic Games’ swing at the MOBA craze that was shuttered in 2018 but not before the company added the game’s assets to the Unreal Engine 4 toolkit. Readers will likely remember that this addition to the engine’s asset store saw a couple of […]

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