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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG studios do you consider...

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2026/04/10

Last month, I was reading an article about GDC attendees that was discussing the low count of crypto, blockchain, and NFT gunk at the con, which is a big switch-up compared to the last five years. Don’t get too excited; those scammers have just been replaced with AI grifters. That’s not what I wanna talk […]

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The Stream Team: The rising revolt in DDO’s The House...

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2026/04/09

In her bid to cause mayhem among the drow houses in Dungeons & Dragons Online, Massively OP’s MJ is going undercover as a slave in House Avithoul to spark a rebellion. Of course, just because she and her group break the slaves out of their cages doesn’t mean they will revolt right away; the group […]

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Massively Overthinking: Are you looking for a...

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2026/04/09

Back at the end of March, PC Gamer got a quote from a dev who basically blasted the idea of forever games. “For a long time, many games have been focused on creating these infinitely replayable, high-retention, forever experiences,” Night Signal’s Nick Lives said. “Either their magic works on you and you actually play them forever […]

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Warframe’s latest Prime, Voruna, is on the hunt

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2026/04/09

It is important to understand that Voruna Prime, the latest Prime addition to Warframe, is not hungry like the wolf. She’s hungry like a pack of wolves. Really, she embodies four separate wolves, that is a lot of wolves, and now she’s available in her gold-embossed Prime form to deliver even more savage violence upon her opponents. […]

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Black Desert tweaks the Red Battlefield on PC and...

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2026/04/09

The spring season is sweeping over Black Desert, though that means a couple of different things between the PC and mobile editions of the MMORPG, as the former is making updates to a PvP instance and the latter is covering the land in cherry blossom blooms. Go figure. The main attraction for PC players is a series […]

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Final Fantasy XIV outlines the registration process...

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2026/04/09

The Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival in Fanaheim… sorry, it’s in Anaheim, that was just a lot of Fs in close succession. But it’s starting off on April 24th, just a couple weeks away. And if you’re attending in person, you’ll want to be sure to pay attention to the details of registering as an attendee […]

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Brighter Shores delivers an Easter event,...

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2026/04/09

It’s been almost two months since we peeked into Brighter Shores, the early access MMORPG brought to life by a former RuneScape founder, but the game has gone forward with multiple updates since then. What caught our eye was this week’s update, which includes an Easter event. “Dorothy has been left in charge of the […]

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EverQuest 2 reveals the Wuoshi TLE server for June...

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2026/04/09

Back in January, Daybreak’s Jenn Chan told EverQuest franchise fans that the studio would be skipping a roadmap for both EQ games this year. In retrospect, she probably didn’t want to spoiler that whole EverQuest Legends thing early. But in any case, we’re getting a producer’s letter for EverQuest II out of her this week, […]

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Overwatch debuts its next hero, Diablo IV shows off...

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2026/04/09

Who’s ready for sneak peeks from a pair of Blizzard games? You are, presumably, because you clicked on this article. In which case, have a seat, get your favorite video-watching snack, and enjoy some fresh footage out of Overwatch and Diablo IV. We’ll begin with Overwatch’s new hero premiere, which came online this week just as Blizzard promised. […]

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Pocketpair-pubbed multiplayer pirate survivalbox...

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2026/04/09

A year ago, we first learned about a new pirate MMO called Crosswind from an Uzbekistan-based studio called Crosswind Crew, due out in 2026. By the top of this year, however, the game – and the studio – had gotten a rename to Windrose and Windrose Crew, a publisher in Palworld studio Pocketpair, and a […]

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Vague Patch Notes: No, Epic Games is not the...

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2026/04/09

So I had to read Dr. Joost van Dreunen’s piece about Epic’s recent layoffs for work, and I found myself yelling “citation needed” at an ever-louder volume until I had to talk with the local law enforcement about what the heck was going on in my apartment. (They were very polite.) It’s real bad. It’s […]

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Once Human’s newest update enrages players with tech...

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2026/04/09

The only constant in MMOs and multiplayer titles is change, and change is certainly fine… right until the change in question ends up making players mad. Change did indeed come for Once Human this week with the release of its latest patch, which applied an overhaul to tech trees and specializations that many fans are not […]

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Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s secret weapon is...

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2026/04/09

Following World of Warcraft’s meteoric rise in the early 2000s, there was no end to the analysis of why this particular MMORPG became the king of the hill and captured the attention of so many players. There’s no one simple answer because the truth is that it was a confluence of factors including name-brand recognition, […]

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City of Titans has ‘one main goal’: getting its 5.7...

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2026/04/09

It’s been a few months since we got an update on City of Titans, the biggest and most promising of the City of Heroes spiritual successors that crowdfunded teams in the wake of that MMORPG’s original sunset. Of course, lots has changed since then, including the unofficial and then official return of the OG, and […]

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Dune Awakening is finally splitting its PvP endgame...

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2026/04/09

Funcom has a fresh Dune Awakening dev blog up this morning that portends more big changes coming to the survival MMORPG sandbox. The most important change is that Funcom has, once again, admitted defeat when it comes to forced endgame PvP. “We’ve always envisioned Arrakis as a tense place where players must master the desert […]

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Star Citizen launches the Hull B and Greycat UTV as...

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2026/04/09

Any sandbox worth its salt recognizes that industry and logistics makes the game’s market wheels turn, and so catering to that kind of playstyle is never a bad thing. That’s pretty much the whole impetus behind the return of Star Citizen’s latest promotional event, which calls attention to these Captains of Industry. This miniature event is […]

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Throne & Liberty’s delayed spring 3.28 patch is...

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2026/04/09

Throne and Liberty fans have been through the ringer this spring, first with server merges and then with a brutal last-minute delay for its long-awaited global update. But that update finally arrived to western players this morning, following patch notes that finally dropped last night. The update includes the new Floating Elf Harden battleground map, […]

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Lord of the Rings Online’s Q2 and Q3 roadmap includes...

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2026/04/09

The latest development update for Lord of the Rings Online arrived yesterday as Lead Designer Allan “Orion” Maki posted the roadmap for the game’s second and third quarter updates. Update 48: A Glorious Hunt is scheduled to arrive this month with a new endgame zone (Hatokali Fells), the Elven Rivendell Steadings housing neighborhood, updates for […]

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Final Fantasy XIV launches the special site for April...

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2026/04/09

If you’re a regular fan of Final Fantasy XIV, you already know that the MMORPG likes to open special sites for its forthcoming major content patches. Well, the time for that same bit of preliminary hype-building has come for the April 28th patch 7.5 release as a special site for Trail to the Heavens is indeed online. Naturally […]

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The Daily Grind: Have you ever exploited an MMORPG bug?

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2026/04/09

You know you shouldn’t do it. You really shouldn’t. But… come on. If you stand on this rock, the enemies couldn’t fight back. That was the case until the second expansion, even. And so you never really made a huge thing out of it (it’s a low-level zone, after all) but you could have a lot […]

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