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Rockstar is accused of union-busting after firing a...

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2025/11/01

Usually when a wave of game devs are suddenly handed their pink slips by a studio, red flags get thrown in the air because plenty of companies have fired people for pointless reasons – especially in the past couple of years. So it was when Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar fired over 30 employees across […]

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The Stream Team: Facing the final three in V Rising

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2025/11/01

It’s down to the final three. Before Massively OP’s MJ can take the fight to Dracula himself in V Rising, she needs to face Solaris the Immaculate, Megara the Serpent, and Adam the First Born. After their (surprising) performance last week, the players have a bit more confidence. Can they recreate that clean-sweep? Tune in […]

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Casually Classic: Six questions about WoW Classic...

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2025/11/01

Despite the release of Phase 6 on the Anniversary Realms and the release of Mists of Pandaria Classic this past summer, it’s felt like Blizzard’s almost completely ignored WoW Classic in favor of retail in its messaging for this second half of 2025. Day after day I keep checking the forums and fansites to see […]

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Path of Exile brings back the Breach and adds new...

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2025/11/01

The time has come for players of original taste Path of Exile to once again deal with the malevolent forces of the Breach yet again. This week brought the launch of the Keepers of the Flame update, bringing back some familiar problems that promise new and spicy wrinkles to deal with. After all, it can’t […]

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WRUP: The ghost moved out edition

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2025/11/01

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

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The Daily Grind: What tiny but noticeable detail does...

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2025/11/01

Scabbards. They simply don’t exist in any MMO for active weapons (sometimes for costume pieces, though). No game bothers to include them, probably because of the headache for the art team, so instead we get characters made of magnets that have various naked weapons stuck to their backs and hips. Let’s have some fun being […]

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The Stream Team: This year’s Ghost Town Pumpkin...

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2025/11/01

Since she discovered it in 2023, Massively OP’s MJ has spent every Halloween enjoying The Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival. And every year, the festival adds even more to do! Last year saw the addition of a puzzle haunted house and more that ghosts could experience and collect badges from. This year, there are new […]

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Betawatch: World of Warcraft Midnight dates its beta,...

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2025/10/31

I feel like this week’s big beta news is a conspiracy to just irritate me. Like, World of Warcraft: Midnight is starting its beta on November 11th, and that is inarguably big beta news, but we don’t list expansions and I don’t want to make a header just for that. But the other big news is Stars […]

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Survival sandbox ICARUS confirms a console version...

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2025/10/31

Are you looking for some sci-fi survival sandbox gaming on your Xbox X|S or PlayStation 5? Then you’re in luck because Dean Hall-run developer RocketWerkz has announced that its four-player survivalbox ICARUS is headed for consoles in the first quarter of 2026 thanks to help from Czechian developer GRIP Studios in the form of ICARUS: […]

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Camelot Unchained drops an ‘early access teaser’...

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2025/10/31

Earlier this year, when Camelot Unchained first resurfaced months after Unchained Games pulled the test offline for a major rework, the team told MMORPG players that the game had a real chance of making it to early access by the end of this year. We’re not sure how many people believed that, given the advanced […]

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Once Human releases its Palworld crossover, tests...

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2025/10/31

You would be forgiven for believing that those three headline pieces are entirely disparate things, but you’d be wrong: They’re some of the tentpole features for Once Human’s latest content patch, which adds all of those things and a few other updates and adjustments on top. We’ll start with the first one on the list, […]

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BitCraft Online introduces the ability to create...

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2025/10/31

The use of the term “artisan town” by the sandbox MMORPG BitCraft isn’t to suggest that players can create some bougie area where people pay exorbitant prices for dinner rolls because the package has the word “artisanal” written on it. An artisan town in the context of the game is a specialized outpost or a […]

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LOTRO hastens legendary server progression, players...

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2025/10/31

Lord of the Rings Online’s two newest progression servers, Angmar and Mordor, are picking up the pace as they look toward the new year. Standing Stone Games posted an updated schedule for the server unlocks over the next few months, with the level cap going to 85 in December, 95 in January, and 100 in […]

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The Stream Team: Slaughtering more zombies with a...

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2025/10/31

That’s right, MOP’s Chris and his bestie Britarnya are once again heading into Marvel Rivals’ Halloween-themed PvE mode! Why? Well, they had such a good time slicing and dicing zombies that they need more, and the day of the holiday is the perfect time for it! Join them for more manic fun today at 2:00 […]

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Arcany, a new cozy MMO with a two-person dev team, is...

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2025/10/31

If the word “cozy” and some nice pixel art serves as a siren’s song to you – and we have to be honest, it often does to us – you will want to turn your eyes to Arcany, a new game that’s being developed by a husband-and-wife development team. The game started existence three years ago […]

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Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go pitches Wild November...

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2025/10/31

If you were disappointed by Pokemon Go’s events last month, this month is sadly not looking much better, unless you want more reasons to stay in and play Pokemon Legends: Z-A. Admittedly, this may be due to this month’s Wild Area event, which we may cover more in depth later, but the first one felt more […]

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Chronicles of Elyria boss claims he’s still working...

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2025/10/31

When last we checked in on Chronicles of Elyria – the Soulbound Studios MMORPG that took in over $14,000,000 in crowdfunds, failed to deliver, and was unsuccessfully sued by its own backers – was supposedly back in development again. Almost a year ago, the lead dev, Jeromy Walsh told fans that he was still working […]

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Dune Awakening is planning character transfers and...

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2025/10/31

Funcom has apparently picked Halloween day to unleashed its October dev blog for Dune Awakening, now that everyone is too busy talking about Amazon’s implosion to remember Funcom just had mass-layoffs of its own. In our estimation, the big news here is character transfers and server merges, which look to be en route in the […]

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Warframe’s Starfinder module, Operation Orias, is out...

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2025/10/31

Players who have been in Warframe for a while probably know what to expect from an operation. A whole lot of grinding a mission for rewards, to be direct. But Operation Orias isn’t about that; it’s a new adventure crossing over Starfinder 2nd Edition with Warframe to let players at the tabletop take a jaunt through the […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Why Amazon killed New World when...

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2025/10/31

Amazon deciding to toss New World into maintenance mode is not really what I would call a tragedy. It’s a shame and something that didn’t need to happen, though, and I think at least one of the most interesting elements to come out of this is a discussion that was started in our comments about why […]

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