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Funcom’s Dune Awakening MMO is finally promising...

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2024/02/28

Throughout the length of the Dune MMORPG’s development, it’s seemed weird that Funcom and Tencent didn’t push harder to link the game more directly to the Villeneuve movies, which are critical darlings as well as financial blockbusters. But so far it’s been a lot of short Tiktok noise promoting a niche-y survivalbox for a 60-year-old […]

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Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with interesting Guinness World...

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2024/02/28

I never quite know how much stock to put in Guinness World Records. I guess it’s somewhere between “for amusement value” and “stone cold authentication.” But these awards are always interesting and can highlight achievements in different areas of life. Such as MMORPGs! Over the past few decades, several MMOs have racked up various Guinness […]

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Black Desert celebrates 55M registered players and...

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2024/02/28

It’s not every day that we get hard numbers out of MMORPG studios, but Pearl Abyss has brought some big ones for Black Desert today. “Korean developer and publisher Pearl Abyss revealed a new major milestone on Black Desert Online’s eight-year PC anniversary today, amassing more than 55 million registered online players across all platforms […]

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Casually Classic: Is it worth playing into World of...

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2024/02/28

Do you know that feeling of flipping through cable channels or endless Netflix menus only to suspect there’s nothing on that would hit the spot? I kind of feel like that in World of Warcraft lately. We’ve never had so many versions of the game than we do right now, and yet none of them […]

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Nightingale teases storage and crafting QOL plans as...

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2024/02/28

A week into its early access launch, Nightingale studio Inflexion has very briefly addressed the community on how the rollout went – and what’s next for the game. “As you may have seen us discuss recently, we have several big and small updates that we’re working on right now. The most significant of which is the […]

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LOTRO goes into a fourth round of Update 39 testing

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2024/02/28

Extensive testing of Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 39 continues, as a fourth round of the beta activated this week. The promising news is that the final dungeon, The Streets of Râhal Bakh, is now available to test after missing out on the first three rounds; it’s open through Friday, March 1st, around 3 […]

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World of Warcraft previews eight more Hero Talent Trees

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2024/02/28

If you’re eager to check out the Hero Talent Trees in World of Warcraft’s next expansion, well… you’re going to have to wait until it’s in testing, at least, but you can get an idea from the latest preview. Eight trees are up in early forms for players, including Templar Paladins, Trickster Rogues, and Elune’s […]

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Embers Adrift’s latest patch preps an unlimited free...

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2024/02/28

While Embers Adrift most definitely is not the MMORPG for lone wolf players, Stormhaven Studios made some concessions for soloers with the February patch. The update, which is now live, includes a new solo loop through the Ember Vein for those who can’t or don’t want to find a party. The studio also added behavioral […]

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The Daily Grind: Is gliding a good compromise to...

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2024/02/28

By now, we all know the pros and cons of inserting flying into MMORPGs. Such systems can offer unparalleled freedom and be a great chase reward, but they can also trivialize too much of the world’s difficulty and pull players out of immersion. But looking at games like Guild Wars 2 and Palia that offer […]

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The Stream Team: Cat chairs and Guild Wars 2’s Realm...

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2024/02/28

There’s brand-new content in Guild Wars 2’s Secrets of the Obscure today! What is it about? You’ll have to read Flameseeker Chronicles if you want to be spoiled. Massively OP’s MJ hasn’t been yet; she’s just glad for the break in the rift-grinding monotony. (Don’t tell her there’s more rift grinding.) But at least there […]

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Pokemon Day’s Pokemon Presents kicks off new events,...

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2024/02/28

It’s Pokemon Day, and The Pokemon Company has a slew of events and updates for us as teased in today’s Pokemon Day update video. While not everything mentioned may be of particular relevance to our readers, there are a few new events up in various online Pokemon games and a future game that – even […]

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Pax Dei floods Discord with screenshots of wildlife,...

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2024/02/27

The sandbox MMORPG Pax Dei is extremely proud of its plantlife and animal life, and just in case you doubt us, then you need to only look at the massive gallery of images that the devs shared on Discord over the past few weeks, offering a look at a wide assortment of life from its […]

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EverQuest II adds the remainder of its tradeskill...

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2024/02/27

All right, so if you’re playing EverQuest II, you have plenty of achievements tracking throughout the entire year as the Year of Darkpaw rolls on. But if you’re not a big fan of wondering what in the world the year’s achievements will look like, you can be happy that the entire year’s worth of tradeskill […]

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Massively OP Podcast Episode 459: A Gigantic return

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2024/02/27

Justin and Bree discuss Nightingale's launch, Gigantic's return, Guild Wars 2's Realm of Dreams, and Last Epoch's launch, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, City of Heroes, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on Wagadu Chronicles and TTRPG-MMO crossovers.

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SWTOR initiates a pirate-laden PvP season as S5...

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2024/02/27

Star Wars has had its fair share of pirates and scoundrels over the years, and for 12 weeks this winter, SWTOR players are invited to dip into the underworld to grab some new rewards as they duke it out in the PvP scene. PvP Season 5: Pirate’s Pluder begins today and will run over the […]

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Palworld races to squash bugs and balance gameplay...

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2024/02/27

With 25 million players behind it and all sorts of publicity, Palworld isn’t hurting for momentum at the moment. Helping out in this regard is this week’s Patch 0.1.5 and a spate of fixes and adjustments to various issues across the game’s scene. With Tuesday’s update to PC, Palworld began to backup save data on […]

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Age of Empires announces multiplayer mobile version...

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2024/02/27

Oh man, Age of Empires II was my jam back in the early 2000s. Along with many of you, surely, I sunk in so much time playing Microsoft’s hit RTS civ game. But the question is, will the Age of Empires format translate well into a mobile experience? Let’s hope so, as Xbox Games subsidiary […]

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Skull and Bones hauls Season 1: Raging Tides to the...

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2024/02/27

When you think about it, “Raging Tides” is an apt description of the unstable flow of Skull and Bones’ gameplay these days. Ubisoft’s pirate simulator got off to a wildly uneven start this past month, with multiple issues and mixed reviews holding this title back. However, it’s not all doom-and-gloom for Skull and Bones, as […]

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Choose My Adventure: The Wagadu Chronicles’...

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2024/02/27

The Wagadu Chronicles has kind of made me sad. I wasn’t really expecting this game to be some arbiter of a new age for early access MMORPGs, but I was expecting so much more. Once again, I repeat that the intent of this column isn’t to pass final judgment on a game or give a […]

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Sony is laying off nearly a thousand workers – 8% of...

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2024/02/27

We’re starting to suspect that companies choose these layoffs chunks of 900 people to stop headlines from saying “a thousand,” but it’s bad no matter what, and Sony is the next gaming company to axe big numbers of the very game developers who propelled it to success. In a memo dubbed “Difficult News About Our […]

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