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Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild...

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2024/02/27

Can you believe it has been more than half a year since we took our first steps into the mysterious, long-teased Wizard’s Tower in Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure? This expansion’s structure has been different to say the least, with an initial release that was noticeably lighter, with just enough content to justify […]

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Albion Online’s Foundations patch incentivizes guilds...

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2024/02/27

Apart from the Crystal Raiders update at the top of the year, Albion Online has had a slow 2024 so far – and even Crystal Raiders was fairly low-key, with content aimed chiefly at guild territory raiding. That was probably to be expected, as at the tail end of last year, Sandbox Interactive told players […]

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Not So Massively: Last Epoch is a potential gem in...

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2024/02/27

Originally Kickstarted in 2018, Last Epoch has been in early access on Steam for about five years, but the developers at Eleventh Hour Games have now finally decided the game is ready and released their 1.0 version, to a rush of players that resulted in server crashes. Leading up to launch, they were kind enough […]

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Project Gorgon’s February update buffs the in-game...

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2024/02/27

Should it be illegal to put out an MMO patch and patch notes at 7:25 p.m. on a Friday night? Yes, definitely, tar and feathers and all that, but since it’s Project Gorgon, we’ll totally let it slide and catch it up as soon as we see it anyway. Yep, our Indie MMORPG of 2023 rolled […]

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Zenith OARPG Infinite Realms launches today as Steam...

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2024/02/27

There wasn’t much lead-up to this – indeed, the world has known it was happening for less than a month – but Zenith’s new spinoff game, Infinite Realms, is officially launching today. Well, it’s launching on Meta and Steam today, anyway. We still don’t know when it’ll come to PlayStation. Studio RamenVR calls it a […]

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New World talks cooking, PvP metrics, and Amazon’s...

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2024/02/27

So, who’s hungry?! You, hopefully, and if not, you will be by the time you make it through the newest New World dev blogs – and there are actually two to feast your eyes and ears on so far this week. The first is focused entirely on the cooking overhaul; Amazon says the devs now […]

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Temtem subreddit mods temporarily close the sub...

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2024/02/27

So hey, things with Temtem are just going absolutely super. Last week, Crema Games insisted that it was still working on the main game in addition to Temtem Swarm and that the latest spinoff game wouldn’t mean the end of updates for the MMO you Kickstarted. Apparently, the kerfuffle over this particular issue has led […]

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The Daily Grind: Have you ever gone a long period...

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2024/02/27

I was thinking about this topic a few weeks ago when chatting with MOP’s Eliot about some of our formative experiences in the genre. I never really got on with EverQuest 1; I found it deeply disappointing after my time in a sandbox like Ultima Online (and later, Asheron’s Call), and if it hadn’t been […]

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The Stream Team: Investigating Elder Scrolls Online’s...

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2024/02/27

Although a bit disappointed that both weren’t traitors, Massively OP’s MJ did root out Dralys in Elder Scrolls Online’s Necrom story arc, as well as get to speak with the avatar of the Hermaeus Mora. But she still needs to unmask more conspirators to eradicate the threat to the mortal world and Apocrapha. Her next […]

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Embers Adrift’s latest dev stream discusses how the...

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2024/02/27

The weekly community livestreams from Embers Adrift are continuing to pour forth, and this week’s episode is talking about items, or specifically the new categorization features that are being implemented in the sandbox MMORPG. CM Elloa brought on developer Adric to discuss the matter, who explains this categorization feature as a color-coded system to differentiate […]

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Freaky shooter Once Human aims for a multiplayer beta...

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2024/02/26

Just because the world has ended in such mind-boggling horror that it would erode your very soul doesn’t mean you can’t grab a good friend or two to come along for the ride. The post-apocalyptic shooter Once Human is gearing up for a new beta test with a broader focus than ever before. Starry Studios […]

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Co-op survival RPG Coreborn permanently slashes...

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2024/02/26

Developer Blankhans is once again reaffirming that its multiplayer survival RPG Coreborn: Nations of the Ultracore didn’t quite meet its initial standards: The studio has announced on Discord that the game will be permanently discounted to $15 on Steam, encouraging existing players to “share with [their] friends and start your town at a much lower […]

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Palworld celebrates 25M players in its first month,...

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2024/02/26

The hot iron of Palworld might have cooled just a bit, but the quirky survival sandbox has still drawn in some big numbers overall. Developer Pocketpair celebrated another player number milestone last week, heralding 25M players across both Steam and Xbox, with 15M on the former and 10M on the latter. Even as the new […]

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Helldivers 2 players decry mission farming and...

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2024/02/26

This past weekend in Helldivers 2 was significantly more stable as far as the game’s servers are concerned, which has now opened players up to fresh new problems: the “fun” of having to deal with others’ poor behavior in a co-op shooter game with friendly fire. Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt proudly declared victory against server […]

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Warframe preps its Dante Unbound update and 11-year...

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2024/02/26

The month of March is going to be here before you know it, and when it does arrive, it’s bringing plenty of new content for players of Warframe in the form of the Dante Unbound update as well as a celebration of the looter shooter’s 11 years of operation. Dante Unbound will bring another bundle […]

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EVE Online adjusts spaceship balance as CSM member...

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2024/02/26

With ships and interstellar warfare being expanded in EVE Online’s Havoc update, it was only a matter of time before some adjustment knobs were turned by CCP, and sure enough that tuning occurred last week as the internet spaceship gankbox applied several tweaks to weapons and ships. The latest patch notes as well as a […]

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LOTRO and DDO’s Standing Stone Games invites fans to...

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2024/02/26

If you’re heading out to PAX East next month and have any affinity for Lord of the Rings Online or Dungeons and Dragons Online, you are cordially invited to hang out with the developers of those MMOs. Boston-based Standing Stone Games welcomed fans to join the team for a meetup on March 21st at the […]

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Old School RuneScape elevates its fight against...

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2024/02/26

Bots continue to be a constant source of conversation and presumption among the players of Old School RuneScape, particularly as Jagex made changes to the Wilderness zone that appeared to benefit bots and had to push back against player belief that Jagex is allowing bot accounts to flourish to help pad player numbers ahead of […]

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New Gigantic vid sees current and former devs discuss...

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2024/02/26

With news of the MOBA Gigantic making a return as the buy-to-play Gigantic: Rampage Edition, many fans are probably curious exactly how Gearbox, Abstraction Games, and Motiga came together to make the revival possible. That’s the subject of a recent dev diary video that brings together current and former devs to talk about how Rampage […]

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Wisdom of Nym: The franchise references for monsters...

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2024/02/26

Final Fantasy XIV has no shortage of references to prior series enemies, but as with so many things, lots of those references are not worth talking about. Yes, tonberries are here! (One is even in the title art.) But there have been tonberries in lots of games in the franchise, and while it is worth […]

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