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Roblox introduces a system for using AI to generate...

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2026/02/05

“Everyone” loves generative AI being used for making art, and “everyone” loves how Roblox industrializes its young users to make its game function. Right? Assuming that those statements are true, “everyone” will be over the moon about the title’s new feature, which can create an interactive 3-D model from text prompts. It’s currently in beta […]

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Stardew Valley boss teases new marriage candidates...

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2026/02/05

Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has been working on Stardew Valley for 15 years, and it’s been nearly 10 years since launch. A recent sit-down interview with IGN had him talking about exactly that, and as he noted, one of the big challenges is staying high-energy about the game after a decade. After all, when you’ve been working […]

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Valheim will launch on the Switch 2 this year (maybe...

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2026/02/05

So it looks as if Valheim’s “early axes for early access” joke wasn’t the only news you’re getting as the game turns five: You’re also getting a Switch 2 announcement, courtesy of Iron Gate and Piktiv. “Today we’re happy to announce that Valheim is arriving to a new platform!” Iron Gate says. “We featured in […]

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MMO sim Erenshor’s newest patch adds a new class, a...

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2026/02/05

Is Erenshor an MMORPG? No. It is offline. But the latest update for the game adds guilds because as you may remember, the whole thing is that it’s meant to be a convincing simulation of an MMORPG, right down to the NPC “players” spamming in world chat, even though it isn’t one itself. Now, players will […]

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Once Human opens a Lunar New Year celebration island...

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2026/02/05

Once Human appears to be doing it up big for Lunar New Year, as the game’s latest patch has opened up the Spring Festival Island for players, which brings an absolute smorgasbord of free goodies to get and things to do to mark the Year of the Horse. As one might expect, this new location […]

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The WoW Classic Anniversary servers open The Burning...

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2026/02/05

Are you ready to fling yourself through the green portal into the Outlands, again again again? If you’re on the WoW Classic Anniversary Edition aka WoW Classic Classic servers, The Burning Crusade expansion has now opened for you, complete with a new trailer. We gotta figure the Blizzard staffers who made the video don’t play […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Sifting through the Ashes of Creation

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2026/02/05

So Ashes of Creation has thoroughly imploded now. Bear in mind that when I say that, I don’t mean that the whole thing has really inevitably collapsed at this point because it kind of hasn’t. It is still possible that whoever really owns the game will attempt to keep its development going somehow, although it is probably […]

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Guerrilla formally announces co-op action game...

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2026/02/05

Hey, you know what the games industry needs right now? OK, well it can’t have that. But it can have a tactical co-op action game set in a franchise you already like. “Today marks a monumental step for Guerrilla as a studio, as we announce our new chapter in the Horizon universe: Horizon Hunters Gathering,” […]

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Elder Scrolls Online’s first-ever Valentine’s event,...

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2026/02/05

Elder Scrolls Online has long been the type of MMORPG that sticks pretty darn closely to its lore, and that means its holidays have usually followed suit. Consequently, up until now, the MMO didn’t have much of a Valentine’s Day event, which is fair since a lot of MMORPGs don’t do a whole lot more […]

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Star Citizen marks progress on a fleet of 11...

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2026/02/05

Welcome to February and to Star Citizen’s first progress report of 2026, which once again takes players on a journey through the development efforts of CIG this past January. And this time around, there appears to be a significant focus on vehicles as a major standout headline. The post remarks on a total of six […]

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Rumor: Rust’s COO may actually be in talks to buy New...

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2026/02/02

The middle of January saw a rather odd page added to the saga of New World when Alistair McFarlane, the COO for RUST developer Facepunch Studios, made the half-serious but half-joking suggestion that he would buy the MMORPG from Amazon Games. “A game will live forever in the hands of a dedicated community,” he wrote […]

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Project Gorgon is opening a third server this week –...

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2026/02/02

Project Gorgon’s launch is surely going better than anyone expected, including Elder Game, as this past weekend the devs started planning a third server. On Friday, the studio’s plan was to open a server this coming week, turning veteran players into pigs (yes) to ensure they wouldn’t disrupt newbies’ play. But as we noted Saturday, […]

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The Daily Grind: Have you changed your mind on PvP...

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2026/02/02

When Raph Koster’s Postmortems book came out more than a few years ago now, we covered the Ultima Online section in a long piece that, among other things, related the lessons Koster had learned from the original open PvP MMORPG – specifically, that he had been deeply wrong about how players would behave under such […]

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MMO Week in Review: Ashes to ashes

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2026/02/02

Well, we were all prepared to celebrate this week in the MMO Week in Review, owing to the solid and pig-filled launched of Project Gorgon, the return of Jack Emmert to Cryptic, and the big news from the World of Warcraft State of Azeroth stream. However, Saturday night, Ashes of Creation exploded in a great big […]

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GTA Online adds three new pedestrian odd jobs and...

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2026/02/01

Things just can’t really ever be completely normal in Grand Theft Auto Online, can they? On the one hand, the latest update is letting players take on completely typical vocations among its pre-existing odd jobs, but then on the other hand its Valentine’s Day event is about blowing each other up into meat confetti. No […]

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The MOP Up: Titan Quest II devs say early access is...

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2026/02/01

Titan Quest II’s team started this year with a retrospective look at the online ARPG’s progress through early access so far, saying that player surveys reveal that the game is “on the right track.” However, the team is cognizant that its faster pace of releases have resulted in some issues and said that it “most […]

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Camelot Unchained’s newest zone preview flies through...

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2026/02/01

Camelot Unchained is (eventually) going to be an MMORPG that’s about realm vs. realm combat. So naturally followers of the game are getting a look at another one of those realms, the Camelot Hills of the Arthurian faction. And yes, you can probably guess the whole zone’s vibe before even hitting the play button. In […]

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Massively on the Go: Looking for love in all the...

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2026/02/01

Pokemon Go’s February update may have been at least partially leaked, and the official tweet ended up getting deleted, but unless the upcoming Kalos Tour has some massive surprise for us, there may be some lonely hearts (again) this year, especially as, once again, the team has scheduled events on Valentine’s Day proper and the day […]

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One Shots: The dating life of an MMO player

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2026/02/01

Are you lonely? Do you yearn for virtual passion but fear getting rejected when you hack the Gibson? Then you’ll want to jump into MMORPGs, where manufactured romance is right around the corner! Just ask Greaterdivinity: “Still playing lots of Warframe, here’s my Cyte-09 and Marie. We’re dating (I’m not questioning the ethics of these […]

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The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on consumables in...

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2026/02/01

You know what has always seemed kinda cool to me? Alchemy as a crafting profession in MMORPGs. Like, I always thought it was a neat idea that you might give up on having the easiest curve for gear or whatever, but in return, you had various benefits you could give yourself more or less on […]

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