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The First Descendant previews November’s packed...

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2025/10/31

We here at MassivelyOP are rooting for The First Descendant to get a real date and channel its obvious pent-up passion into a glorious romance for the ages. But we’ll also settle for a date for the risqué MMO shooter’s next content update, which is coming next week on November 5th with a whole lot […]

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Final Fantasy XIV previews patch 7.4, Into the Mist,...

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2025/10/31

The next patch for Final Fantasy XIV already has a date and a name. Patch 7.4, Into the Mist, is releasing on December 16th, and it will bring some pretty big changes to the game. Not just the continuing Main Scenario along with a new dungeon, the next tier of the Arcadion, and a new trial […]

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World of Warcraft is running a housing neighborhood...

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2025/10/31

You won’t have to wait until World of Warcraft’s November 11th beta test to get another look at player housing — if you move quickly. Through the end of today, Blizzard is running another housing test on the PTR with the focus on guild neighborhood. “Please work together and create guilds large and small to […]

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New World’s first maintenance mode patch literally...

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2025/10/31

Well, Amazon said no new content, but the devs would’ve been working on enhancements to Nightfall before they were fired, and now we have New World’s latest update today, painful as it feels. “There are major content updates to Reekwater including fixes to the Siren’s Call encounter mechanics, barrel explosion systems, and overall territory stability […]

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The Daily Grind: Do you believe MMORPG studios...

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2025/10/31

Back in October, there was a particularly provocative thread on the MMORPG subreddit. I know, that’s just a day that ends in Y. And it was apparently bad enough that the mods deleted it, so I know I wasn’t alone in taking notice. Essentially, the poster argued that “the sudden surge in activity about New […]

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Afterglow aims to ‘fit your schedule’ as a mobile...

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2025/10/31

Just because the world ends doesn’t mean you get to slack off and eat Twinkies the rest of your existence. There’s a world to be rebuilt… whenever you get the time. This laid-back approach is what new idle mobile post-apocalyptic game Afterglow adopts, saying that it’s the the “MMORPG for busy people.” Developer Shadow Council […]

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Ship of Heroes recaps its first month of patches as...

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2025/10/30

Earlier this week, we covered the Ship of Heroes patch and its revived Halloween event. Now, Heroic Games has gone more in-depth on what it entails – including a sale. Let’s start with that. “The post-launch 30 day price freeze window imposed by Steam has ended,” the studio says in its letter to fans. “So, […]

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War Thunder’s November update promises new light and...

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2025/10/30

There’s something to be said for having something big and powerful in your armored war machine, but there are other times when speed and agility can be just as effective of a strategy and playstyle. If you’re the kind of person who’s more into the fast-moving vehicles of War Thunder, then you’ll be pleased to […]

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PSO2 New Genesis releases solo enemy fights, instance...

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2025/10/30

Test your might! It’s not just a command from a bonus stage in Mortal Kombat; it’s also what’s being offered in Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis as part of the anime MMO’s content scheduled for November, starting off with some new solo gameplay offerings that have been released right now. Hey, it’s close enough […]

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Fellowship launches its first-ever Halloween event...

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2025/10/30

No matter how early your access, no matter how small your playerbase, your online game must sport a Halloween event. It’s obligatory. Fellowship understands this, which is why the game’s first-ever Halloween event, the Haunting of Stronghold, arrives now and will stick around until November 13th. Which is a fair bit past the actual Halloween, sure, […]

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Electronic Arts has posted its final quarterly...

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2025/10/30

As Electronic Arts rides off into the privatization sunset following its $55B buyout from multiple investment groups including the Saudi Arabian government, the company has posted what will be its last quarterly earnings call to investors covering the second quarter of the current fiscal year. EA confirmed that it would “forgo its usual quarterly Q&A […]

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Nexon apologizes for MapleStory’s MapleCon LA, sets...

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2025/10/30

We’ve got a raft of MapleStory stories this week, all gathered here in one post! First, Nexon has finally addressed the situation at last weekend’s MapleCon LA event, which as we covered earlier week apparently had the community present pretty miffed. Nexon has now apologized. “An unexpected central server outage of a 3rd party POS and […]

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Albion Online’s faction PvP revamp is so smart that...

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2025/10/30

Earlier this week, we finally got a clear idea of what Albion Online’s next move will be: The Realm Divided update that rolls out on November 24th. The big thrust of the release is the revamp of faction warfare in the game, and now, the devs at Sandbox Interactive have dropped a video explaining what […]

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Blizzard sets World of Warcraft’s closed beta for...

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2025/10/30

The World of Warcraft Midnight test phases march onward in November: Blizzard has just formally announced that the Midnight beta now begins on November 11th. It’s a closed beta, mind you, which means you can opt in, but you still may not be invited. Oh, unless you buy the Epic Edition of the expansion, natch, […]

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Riot Games’ Marc Merrill opens the door for former...

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2025/10/30

Genre fans know by now that a whole lot of developers who were working on Amazon Games’ first-party titles were handed their walking papers in a move that simultaneously sent New World into maintenance mode. But where one door closes for those workers, another may have opened, as Riot Games’ Marc Merrill is on record […]

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Stars Reach’s visual upgrades ensure it barely looks...

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2025/10/30

Most MMORPG players won’t remember this, but when Raph Koster first put a name and a face to his upcoming MMORPG sandbox Stars Reach, the main complaint from the old-school MMORPG guard was that the unfinished pre-alpha visuals were too cutesy and cartoony (don’t believe me? Here’s one of our interviews from last year in […]

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Into the Super-Verse: What should City of Titans do now?

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2025/10/30

We have been covering City of Titans since Massively Overpowered launched back in 2015. No, really, you can go check. It’s been there since very, very early. It is currently 2025, and it is not going to be 2025 for a whole heck of a lot longer, either. And I think it’s high time that we […]

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Two of Nintendo’s anti-Palworld patents face new...

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2025/10/30

Palworld fans are likely familiar with the patent infringement lawsuit Nintendo slapped the survival sandbox with at the tail end of last year: Nintendo claims that three specific patents for game mechanics are directly ripping the Pokemon franchise off, while Palworld developer Pocketpair argues that prior art nullifies the claims. While that lawsuit is still […]

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Vitae Aeternum: New World’s demise is a disaster for...

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2025/10/30

Unfortunately, here we are again. I am once again in the position of reporting on the death of a game I enjoyed. You all know the news by now: New World is abruptly entering maintenance mode mere weeks after a massive and mostly well-received update. It’s a bad week to be a New World fan, […]

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PvPvE extraction shooter ARC Raiders makes its full...

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2025/10/30

While it certainly feels as if PvPvE extraction games are a dime a dozen nowadays, one appears to be gaining a head of steam from the very jump at least. Today is the day when Embark Studios’ ARC Raiders has officially made its cross-platform launch, and early indications from gamers and the media are certainly […]

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