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Hytale devs are working on minigames and social...

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2026/01/15

Hytale’s early access launch has rumbled on this week without too many mass casualties so far – welcome news for a game that just six months ago was dead in the water and still expected to be “rough and unfinished” with a potentially “bumpy” release. In its launch memo to players, Hypixel Studio clarified that […]

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World of Warcraft’s crackdown on guidance-based...

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2026/01/15

A lot of digital ink has been spilled over the World of Warcraft design team’s goals to do away with having addons explicitly guide players in raid content in Midnight. This has resulted in a lot of addons being removed or otherwise rendered obsolete, but has it also meant that players have to play the game differently? […]

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Star Citizen plots new missions for alpha 4.6 and...

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2026/01/15

CIG is back at its splashy and over-decorated office and back to work on Star Citizen this week, as the internet spaceship sandbox is engaging a mini-event to feed players who are hungry for in-game credits and readying for its next alpha build. This week brought on a fresh roadmap roundup post that highlights some […]

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Genshin Impact expands its map and brings back the...

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2026/01/15

Genshin Impact’s first big content update of 2026 is here along with the annual Lantern Rite festival. The holiday improved over last year, with “a new Lantern Rite story [that] reveals more about Zibai, alongside festive events offering 1,600 Primogems, 10 Intertwined Fates, a brand-new outfit for Yaoyao, a free 4-star Liyue character, a special […]

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Medieval MMO Past Fate resets character levels a week...

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2026/01/15

As if people stuck swimming through the air wasn’t enough of an ignominious start for medieval MMORPG Past Fate, studio Icy North Games announced that it will be resetting levels yesterday for all characters because of a fundamental redesign. Does the “it’s only beta!” defense work in this case? “Unfortunately this patch will reset everyone’s […]

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Blizzard teases the future of World of Warcraft...

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2026/01/15

To the absolute surprise of no one who has paid any attention, housing in World of Warcraft has proven incredibly popular with players, which means that the developers are still trying to figure out which features to implement next and how to make the feature the best it can be. And that is an ongoing conversation: […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite cozy activity...

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2026/01/15

Sometimes it’s nice to just queue up an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, log on to Final Fantasy XIV, and craft while I watch. Crafting a whole pile of high-end food doesn’t exactly tax the old noodle, so it’s ideal and cozy to just watch a show I enjoy, tap at my crafting macros, and […]

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The Stream Team: Digging holes to Return to Moria

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2026/01/15

The Stream Team returns to Moria in Return to Moria. Last week, the team fell down a hole, and for the next several weeks, they will do their best to dig themselves out. If for some reason they can’t, there will be a good amount of mining ore and singing songs, at least. The singing […]

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Nested Lands is a co-op survival RPG of greed,...

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2026/01/15

What better way to encourage people to band together than to face “bandits’ greed, deadly plague, mud and madness”? If that sounds like your idea of a good co-op time and not a team-building exercise straight from the deepest pits of hell, then you’ll want to keep your eyes on Nested Lands, a new multiplayer […]

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Path of Exile 2 tackles bug fixes, adjustments, and...

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2026/01/14

It’s time yet again for another hyper-granular knob turning patch for Path of Exile 2, as this week is bringing a fresh round of adjustments for the early access multiplayer ARPG that will likely matter deeply to those entrenched in the game right now. Among the changes coming are a variety of quality-of-life additions for […]

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Lawful Neutral: The biggest MMO and multiplayer legal...

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2026/01/11

The last few years have been quiet on the legal issues in games, but in true 2025 fashion, this year was a legal drama-llama. Granted, maybe a little bit more on the “Ally McBeal” side of legal drama than the “Matlock.” But hey, I’m here for it. From corporate-facepalm shenanigans to Roblox spending another year […]

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Vein is an early access co-op multiplayer sandbox...

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2026/01/11

If you can’t possibly get enough of zombie apocalypses and survival sandboxes made by small developers, then you’re in luck because we’ve found another one of ’em for you. Say hello to VEIN, a new early access title being developed by Ramjet Studios that doesn’t appear to rock the boat but seems to have been […]

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One Shots: Making this up as we go along

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2026/01/11

No time for love, Doctor Jones, but there’s always time to plunder a newly discovered ancient tomb in Star Wars: The Old Republic! We begin our One Shots column today wheezing and coughing at all of the dust that Lucky Jinx kicked up in the latest pursuit of some Sith Artifact or maybe a Hello […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMORPG ability...

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2026/01/11

There are some very fun abilities to use in Warframe, but one of my favorite is Mesa’s fourth ability, Peacemaker. In a game full to the brim with guns, a Warframe has an ability that is just “draw more guns.” And it’s actually very useful, arguably up there with any other games the game has to […]

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Elder Scrolls Online details Update 49’s Dragonknight...

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2026/01/11

The informational hits keep on coming for Elder Scrolls Online’s big ol’ March content patch, and while most of the attention has been centered on its seasons and monetization reshuffling, there’s a variety of things also landing in Update 49, namely a refresh of the Dragonknight class. The tweaks to the Dragonknight primarily focus on […]

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A look back at the MMO and gaming science topics of 2025

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2026/01/10

So 2025 marks the 11th year in a row when we have put together a roundup of all the MMORPG-tinged science topics we covered this year, and I’m noticing two trends worth pointing out. First, the number of MMORPGs that are running polls and surveys to actually ask their players what they think about things […]

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January brings updated dungeons for Blade & Soul and...

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2026/01/10

Yesterday was the official start of 10th anniversary celebrations for Blade & Soul here in our corner of the world, and NCsoft marked the occasion with a celebratory livestream that primarily focused on looking back at the game’s decade of operation with various devs and its players but also looked forward to a couple of […]

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PSA: AdventureQuest 3D is handing out free cash shop...

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2026/01/10

We’re not usually in the business of promoting cash shop anything – if you spend in an MMORPG, that’s your call – but we also would be remiss if we didn’t call attention to an opportunity to get free cash shop currency for simply logging in to a game too. That’s just what’s being offered […]

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Casually Classic: Would WoW Classic’s hardcore mode...

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2026/01/10

As I type this, we’re at the top of January and waiting for two events that should be happening in the WoW Classic space this month. The first is the Burning Crusade Anniversary prepatch on January 13th, which will reshape the systems of those servers and open up some more character options. But the second […]

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MassivelyOP’s 2025 MMO Lifetime Achievement Award

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2026/01/10

Welcome back to MassivelyOP’s annual awards for one more special honoree. Readers will remember that a few years ago, we decided to institute a lifetime achievement award specifically to honor an MMORPG that has made a significant contribution to the genre over the course of its lifetime and the genre’s history but may not be […]

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