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Ashes of Creation’s Steven Sharif just resigned ‘in...

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2026/02/01

Kickstarted early access MMORPG Ashes of Creation is on fire tonight as apparently its founder and boss Steven Sharif has abruptly resigned from Intrepid Studios. “I can make a limited statement in my personal capacity and not on behalf of the company, regarding the situation,” Sharif wrote in Discord this evening. “Control of the company […]

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Yep, Anthem fans have been working on a revival, but...

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2026/02/01

So the Anthem servers have shut down, but as we’ve been covering, players were already deep-diving the game’s code trying to pull together fragments and give players a chance to fly around once more. And there’s already a proof-of-concept video in the wild about exactly that. But the team behind that video want to make it […]

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Pantheon calls its upcoming mastery system an avenue...

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2026/01/31

For some time now, Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has been very doggedly designing its classes as a very rigid form of playstyle expression, inspired by EverQuest’s general design ethos of interdependence and specific class identity, so the idea of a mastery system allowing some changes in how a class operates seemed at odds with […]

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World of Warcraft’s Discord-centered ambassador...

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2026/01/31

One of the reveals made during World of Warcraft’s State of Azeroth presentation earlier this week was word of an ambassador program, though all that was known at the time was that it’s an experiment to help players and communities connect with each other and that it was happening soon. Blizzard has now put forth […]

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The Stream Team: Daring to Dinkum

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2026/01/31

Survival Saturday can also be Silly Saturday for Massively OP’s MJ — especially when she is fighting to survive in something as cute as Dinkum. MJ and her friends checked it out this outback themed title during a free weekend, but now they have the full game to explore. And explore they will! Join us […]

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Vitae Aeternum: New World gave us one of the MMO...

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2026/01/31

I’ve been going through the highlights of my time with New World. In the past couple pieces, I talked about some places in that game that felt special to me, but today, we’re changing direction a bit. This column isn’t about a “where”; it’s about a “whom.” There aren’t a lot of particularly memorable characters […]

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Highguard launches a 5v5 mode for this weekend only,...

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2026/01/31

If you’ve been following the reactions, user reviews, and discussions around the team vs. team FPS Highguard, then you’re familiar that one of the most common complaints is that the game’s 3v3 setup is too small for the size of maps that teams battle on. It’s time to perhaps see if that really is the […]

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WRUP: Come down to Butter Dan’s Butter Depot or...

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2026/01/31

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about chairs. Hehe.

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The Daily Grind: When did you last have the perfect...

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2026/01/31

The fact of the matter is that there is more to play than ever before — more interesting and compelling titles to play, I should say — and yet free time seems to be whittled down to almost nothing. I half-jokingly say that I wish I could ship some of these games back in time […]

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The Stream Team: A first look at Horizon Journey on...

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2026/01/31

It’s no secret that massively OP’s MJ enjoys survival sandbox games. And she has enjoyed more than one Mars colonization game before, but they seem to never last. Today, a new one launches in early access: Horizon Journey. MJ is interested in checking it out. Will a new title be added to the Survival Saturday […]

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Betawatch: Project Gorgon launches for real and...

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2026/01/31

This week is a real feast-and-famine week for beta news, I tell you. Like, on the one hand, we have to say goodbye to Project Gorgon because the game has launched, and I’m sad to see it go in the abstract… but it launched. That weird, wonderful, beautiful game has launched for real. Go play it […]

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Former Halo MMO dev shares some memories of the...

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2026/01/30

The Halo franchise has long been associated with online multiplayer, but for several years studio Ensemble Studios was working on building a version of the franchise that would be a full-fledged MMORPG. Developer Rob Fermier took the opportunity to sit down with PC Gamer and share his memories of development on the game, which was […]

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Mortal Online 2 unveils Sarducaa, the upcoming new...

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2026/01/30

When you start life off in Mortal Online 2, you begin in the area of Haven and then move over to the realm of Myrland to begin the rest of your gankbox adventures. Soon, however, players are going to have a new choice after they’ve completed their time in the tutorial realm of Haven: The […]

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Counting half a million players, Eterspire dev teases...

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2026/01/30

A few weeks back, we reported on the wild news that Eterspire, our own indie MMORPG of 2025, had surpassed 500,000 registered players. Now, Stonehollow Workshop lead dev Manu has posted a lengthy dev blog on Reddit to explain how it went from zero to hero. Well, from one guy to an indie darling. “Believe […]

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Palia teases next week’s Lunar New Year event and a...

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2026/01/30

Lunar New Year kicks off this year on February 17th, so you know we’re about to start getting deluged with international MMORPGs rolling out the themed events. In fact, one such event is coming early next week in mini-MMO Palia as Singularity 6 introduces its Winter’s Wonder: Riffrocin’ New Year. Yes, it’s really called that. […]

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Corepunk patches in a half-dozen battle passes and...

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2026/01/30

It’s Battle Pass o’Clock over at Corepunk, as the in-testing MMO has just added in six reward tracks — one for each key activity — with this week’s patch. The battle passes can be progressed every day with three small and one larger task to unlock rewards such as outfits, pets, and hero icons. Of […]

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Lord of the Rings Online community guide-master...

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2026/01/30

Many Lord of the Rings Online fans are very familiar with FibroJedi, an MMORPG blogger who’s provided incredibly detailed and helpful guides to LOTRO’s festivals over the years. He’s been such a staple that even SSG routinely links to his guides when the festivals return. Unfortunately, the author announced that his Fibromyalgia symptoms and pain […]

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Roblox’s Steal a Brainrot landed a movie deal for...

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2026/01/30

Yes, dear readers, Roblox has made stupid headlines once again, but at least this time around they’re not about the game or the company being (allegedly) awful in ways we’ve given up counting. That’s something, right? Look, we’ve got to find the silver lining here as we report on the latest eyebrow-raisers out of the […]

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MapleStory goes to the grand opening of the revamped...

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2026/01/30

MapleStory is off to a strong start in 2026 thanks to a major update, Sengoku Warrior Reawakening, coming out next week. “We’re unlocking serious power with Ascent Skills for Lynn, Mo Xuan, Sia Astelle, Kanna, and Hayato, alongside a total gameplay overhaul for the Sengoku Warriors, Kanna and Hayato,” the devs said. The V.266 update […]

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Google’s AI tool that makes ‘playable worlds’ via...

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2026/01/30

It’s said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but there’s also a point when imitation transforms into straight-up copyright infringement and plagiarism. It looks as if that stupid line has been crossed – nay, cartwheeled over – by Google thanks to its newly introduced Project Genie, a prototype AI tool that lets players […]

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