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Oh behoove! RIFT brings back its Unicornalia event

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2025/11/21

It’s turning out to be one of the most strangely active years in modern RIFT history, what with patches, a community-led revival, a player housing contest, and even a vote on the return of the XP locking feature. Now stack on top of all of that a pile of unicorns, and this MMO is hot […]

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Hytale devs invite player builders to join and shape...

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2025/11/21

If you’re a fan of blocky sandbox grinder RPGs with a hefty dose of modding that enables people to make their own custom servers and MMOs, then you’re having a spectacular week. As we’ve been covering, the Hypixel founders have rescued the Hytale MMO from cancelation at Riot Games, having rehired dozens of its devs […]

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Blizzard addresses drama over World of Warcraft’s...

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2025/11/21

As the next World of Warcraft expansion rolls onward through testing, game director Ion Hazzikostas took the time to opine once more about why Blizzard is overhauling the ways that addons work and reducing the number of raid addons players are expected to use. Hazzikostas brings up several elements like how addons could often muddy the […]

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Brass Rain is a new military MMOFPS from Yarnhub...

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2025/11/21

MMOFPS fans and military sims, I have something intriguing for you today, and it is a real MMO shooter and not another extraction clone: It’s called Brass Rain, and studio Yarnhub has just announced it as a properly funded free-to-play UE5 title coming to early access early next year. “Yarnhub, the animation studio behind high-quality […]

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The Daily Grind: Have the terms sandbox and themepark...

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2025/11/21

A while back, MOP’s Justin penned a Daily Grind about the themepark/sandbox spectrum, asking where our readers would put their alignment. I’ve written before about how we’re losing both concepts from the MMORPG lexicon, very steadily, and that I’ve had newbie developers insist very loudly that their obvious sandbox isn’t a sandbox. It’s led me […]

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The Stream Team: Looking for Lolth in DDO rift spaces

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2025/11/21

So the big spider boss in Dungeons & Dragons Online wasn’t the big spider boss. Nope. That title belongs to the demon goddess herself, Lolth — who just happened to poke her head through the rift ripped in dimensions. Now what will Massively OP’s MJ do about that giant, supposedly stabilized rift? Why, head into […]

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Massively Overthinking: The MMORPG cash shop stuff we...

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2025/11/21

I was flipping through the Guild Wars 2 cash shop the other day when I was reminded that the game actually sells hero points. ArenaNet actually started selling them about two years ago, but I had completely forgotten about them because I can’t really think of a compelling reason to buy them. The playerbase was […]

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Raven2 marks the arrival of its new Gunslinger class...

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2025/11/20

If your idea of dealing with MMORPG enemies is through an overabundance of firepower, then this week’s new patch for Raven2 might just have your huckleberry. Netmarble’s grimdark MMO has introduced the new Gunslinger class, which never met a problem it couldn’t handle by wielding more guns in its face. This new class brings a […]

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Wolcen Studio’s PvPvE extraction RPG Gods Death and...

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2025/11/20

They say that you never get a second chance to make a first impression, but clearly that axiom was written before the advent of alpha testing for MMOs and multiplayer games. Case in point: There’s a fourth closed alpha test now available for Gods, Death & Reapers, the PvPvE “ExtrAction” RPG from Wolcen developer Wolcen […]

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Roblox has begun rolling out its automated age...

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2025/11/20

It is doubtlessly a good thing that Roblox on a whole wants to limit the ability of adults to interact with children on the platform, and the fact that it is putting restrictions in place based upon age verification is ultimately a good thing. That being said, the fact that said restrictions are based upon automatic […]

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Wuthering Waves introduces two more characters and a...

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2025/11/20

What do a Taoist wielding a thunder ribbon, a schoolgirl who kicks a sword around, and a city locked in a neverending time loop have in common? They’re obviously the major parts of the latest content patch for the multiplayer gacha RPG Wuthering Waves, which introduces a new story, new area, and the aforementioned two […]

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Horse mystery MMORPG Equinox Homecoming adds new...

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2025/11/20

You know, I didn’t really enjoy my early time in Equinox Homecoming, but I sure am glad to see that Blue Scarab Entertainment is apparently still funded well enough to be cranking out early access updates here in November. In fact, today’s update is actually the “biggest patch” the horse mystery MMORPG has gotten all […]

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Funcom’s Dune Awakening kicks off its third free...

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2025/11/20

Funcom is plainly aware of the growing perception that Dune Awakening is struggling, and if you weren’t sure before, you can be now: The studio is launching another free trial as well as a sale, though you might have expected a sale next week ahead of the holiday weekend anyhow. “Arrakis is closer than ever […]

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Vindictus opens a new raid and overhauls stats in...

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2025/11/20

In Vindictus, trees chop you. That’s one of the conclusions we’re coming to thanks to the action MMO’s Season 4 Episode 13 patch, which is headlined by a new raid in the form of the Forest of Abundance and the big weapon-wielding tree beast that you see in the header image up there. The fight […]

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Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s 2025 Wild Area was...

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2025/11/20

Pokemon Go’s recent Wild Area 2025 event didn’t have to do much to improve upon last year’s. It did, so kudos to Niantic on that, but also it aimed low enough that it would be easy to achieve. In fact, I’ve previously noted that the people who frequent the paid events seem to believe that […]

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PSA: Lord of the Rings Online extends its free...

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2025/11/20

There’s some great news for those who missed out on Lord of the Rings Online’s big ol’ quest pack giveaway that supposedly ended a little while back. Standing Stone Games announced that it’s extending the code through December 7th, so make sure you log into the game and use “EXPLOREOURWORLD” in the shop to unlock […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Path of Exile 2 shows why MMO and...

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2025/11/20

It’s pretty clear to say that Path of Exile 2 was meant to be a big deal. And it was big news when it released into early access, but as we reported earlier this week, those player numbers for the sequel are not doing great. You would expect some turbulence here and there, sure, but this is […]

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Digital Extremes says Soulframe Founders Packs will...

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2025/11/20

Maybe you’ve been in testing events for Soulframe and love it. Maybe you are still kicking yourself for not getting in on the ground floor of Warframe and refuse to make that mistake again. Maybe you’re just a sucker for anything with a three-headed bear (there aren’t many games that offer it). Whatever the case, if you’re […]

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Guild Wars Reforged will set up the game for future...

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2025/11/20

This week’s surprise announcement that ArenaNet and collaborator 2weeks are launching what is effectively a free mini-remaster or “modernization” of Classic Guild Wars 1 on December 3rd took MMORPG players by surprise, and the aftermath has been a torrent of questions. Kind of a lot of folks were apparently confused about whether they’d have to […]

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EverQuest and EverQuest II host expansion preview...

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2025/11/20

Daybreak Game Company is poised to hit December with a one-two punch of EverQuest expansions, starting with EverQuest: Shattering of Ro on December 2nd and EverQuest II: Rage of Cthurath on December 10th. And what better way to celebrate the occasion than by the purchase of your very own official expansion desk mat! Actually, there […]

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