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The Stream Team: Racing through Rodent Rumble’s...

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2025/11/15

Since the game is only in play test phase, the last time Massively OP’s MJ was able to squirrel up and scurry about in Rodent Rumble for Funky Friday was a year ago! But now, there is a new mode that is on even while the servers are offline. Welcome to Target Break! It’s a […]

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Betawatch: Where Winds Meet has met its launch window

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2025/11/15

So Where Winds Meet has launched, with what we’ll call multiplayer ambiguity, which inspires us to play with title ambiguity, such that we introduce you to Where Winds Meat, a game about spinning sausages into tight coils on sticks, or Werewinds Meet, a game about socializing between people who turn into tornadoes under the full moon. Hilarious! […]

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Halo Infinite’s upcoming patch on November 18 will be...

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2025/11/14

The fundamental problem with naming your game with words like “infinite” or “endless” is that eventually you find out that this is not true. Your “endless” updates do end. Case in point: Halo Infinite, after four years of support, is getting its final update on November 18th. Yes, it turns out it was in fact finite! […]

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BitCraft reverts an accidental furniture decay...

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2025/11/14

MMORPG sandbox BitCraft has become an indie darling in the genre this season, owing in part to its frequent updates. We’re getting another one this week as the game patches in new hats. No, really. Every level 20 profession and skill now has a special hat. Plus we’ve got a new cottage furniture set tier, […]

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Pax Dei previews Lyonesse land claiming mechanics...

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2025/11/14

Sure, you could already claim some land in the survival sandbox of Pax Dei, but what if you wanted to hold sway over portions of the PvP zone of Lyonesse instead? Well soon your very weird and likely extremely fight-hungry desire will come true when Verse 5 goes live with a feudal sovereignty system. As […]

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Rockstar faces legal challenge from UK union and...

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2025/11/14

The rancor between developers at Grand Theft Auto Online studio Rockstar and its leadership is only beginning to grow in the face of the unionbusting-scented firing of 30 workers, as now the company is facing a legal challenge from the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) and pressure from workers to reinstate the affected […]

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Wizard101 brings gothic horror to November with its...

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2025/11/14

Maybe it’s a little late to the Halloween party, but Wizard101 is bringing all of the deliciously dark sweets anyway — and we’re not complaining. This week, the spell-slinging MMO released Darkmoor, a brand-new zone that’s more spooks and monsters than jingle bells. “Built around gothic horror and dark fantasy, Darkmoor is a land where […]

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The Stream Team: Racking up hunter ranks in Monster...

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2025/11/14

MOP’s Chris is once again out on the hunt in Monster Hunter Wilds this afternoon, but this time with a pretty specific goal: to help his best friend Britarnya get some more hunter rank levels in order to open up more hunts, both now and in the immediate future! Join the duo today at 2:00 […]

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Kickstarted cozy co-op survivalbox Solarpunk has...

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2025/11/14

There are multiple solarpunk MMOs and multiplayer titles on our horizon, but to complicate things, only one of them is actually named Solarpunk. It’s a cozy co-op survival game that was Kickstarted for $330,000 all the way back in 2023 and then got delayed, as it was supposed to launch in 2024 (and did not). […]

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KinForge aims at the Pokémon market with a co-op...

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2025/11/14

Just last month, one of our MOP readers asked our podcast why there weren’t more Pokémon MMOs in existence. Someone somewhere must’ve heard that plea, because Seeker Games revealed that it’s creating a creature collector RPG called KinForge that might be worth a look for the Pokémon addicts out there. “KinForge is a co-op creature-collector […]

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Star Wars The Old Republic begins testing Update 7.8...

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2025/11/14

The next chapter of Star Wars: The Old Republic’s galaxy-spanning saga has gone into testing, as Broadsword announced that Update 7.8 arrived on the public test server yesterday. The big feature here is the new Dantooine Crash Site dynamic encounter designed to get players grouping as they explore a trio of strange mini-biomes: “The more […]

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Storyboard: How MMORPG housing is important for...

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2025/11/14

If you read back through the various things I have written about roleplaying over the years, you will probably find discussion about how important having housing is for roleplaying. This is still true. However, I also don’t think I’ve ever really talked to it directly, or if I have, I’ve only mentioned it as a […]

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Multiplayer Wuxia RPG Where Winds Meet makes its...

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2025/11/14

Is it an MMO? An MMO-lite? A co-op open world multiplayer RPG? Whatever it is, it’s absolutely oozing with Wuxia style, and it’s officially launched today. Make room on your drives for the absolute unit that is NetEase and Everstone Studio’s Where Winds Meet, a game that we’ve been following for several months now. As […]

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Fight or Kite: ARC Raiders refines extraction...

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2025/11/14

Welcome one and all to another exhilarating session of “Did you really forget that you stink at shooters?” for I have, once again, fallen into a trap of my own making. See, I actually do still get hyped up for new games, particularly ones that appear to have a good mass of positive early feedback building […]

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Fantastic Pixel Castle dropped another Project Ghost...

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2025/11/14

A few days ago, we glumly covered the final podcast from Fantastic Pixel Castle, whose MMORPG Project Ghost is in limbo following the collapse of NetEase’s western ambitions and the struggles facing all game devs in the modern gaming industry when it comes to funding. Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street did say that the company is still […]

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NCsoft says Horizon Steel Frontiers will bring core...

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2025/11/14

With Horizon Steel Frontiers officially revealed as an NCsoft/Sony MMORPG, the recurring question for MMORPG fans so far has been just how MMORPG-like it’s going to be. Oh, sure, NCsoft has been making MMORPGs for decades, it has said repeatedly that the game is an MMORPG, and it’s even got the word “MMORPG” right in its […]

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Destiny 2 finally shares a roadmap for Renegades,...

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2025/11/14

It would appear that Bungie has realized that it was using the most sawed-off of shotguns to blow Destiny 2’s feet apart. After a long bout of nervous waiting, the studio has finally put out a roadmap of updates and events that will be arriving with the release of the Renegades expansion, but not without […]

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Raph Koster’s Stars Reach releases a new roadmap and...

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2025/11/14

Stars Reach is having a helluva week: First it began testing for its Star Wars Galaxies-esque player city system, and now it’s dropped a new video and roadmap. The roadmap is one of those Trello-like boards common to indie outfits that trade digestibility for detail. There aren’t any dates here, but the content is broken […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the least challenging?

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2025/11/14

I don’t mean today’s Daily Grind question in a negative way at all, so bear that in mind. I’m not judging anyone. I don’t actually think every MMORPG needs to be super challenging or super easy. I like having that spectrum. And some days, I just want to log in to an MMORPG and not […]

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The Stream Team: Dungeons & Dragons Online, with a...

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2025/11/14

Arachnophobes, beware! The next step in Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Web of Chaos quest arc includes the big eight-legged boss itself. The imprisoned Demon Overlord, Spinner of Shadows, is set to be freed by the alliance of drow and raksash — unless, of course, Massively OP’s MJ can prevent it. So while the Church of […]

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