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Black Desert tweaks PC’s Arena of Solare, begins...

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2025/10/23

It’s time for another dose of weekly Black Desert medicine, and for once the biggest injection is coming from the console version of the sandbox MMORPG, which has brought on a bunch of Halloween goodness just as promised. So really it’s less like medicine and more like candy. For those who haven’t been following along, […]

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Throne and Liberty’s Haunted Harvest has officially...

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2025/10/23

Did you know that you’re not allowed to run an MMORPG if it doesn’t have a Halloween event? It’s true! Throne and Liberty’s Halloween event has been described as “spooky, mandatory fun” by some, possibly, and who are we to argue with it? You must take part in this event now that it’s live. You don’t get […]

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RuneScape Dragonwilds is making base difficulty tier...

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2025/10/23

Jagex is continuing its efforts shoring up RuneScape Dragonwilds’ early access with the 0.9.2 update that rolled out this week. Don’t get too excited; it’s not a Halloween update. In fact, it’s mostly focused on an AI revamp. The mob kind of AI. “We found some players are having a brutal and frustrating time navigating […]

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Star Trek Online remasters the Gladius and fixes bugs...

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2025/10/23

A lot of Halloween fun does not naturally map to Star Trek Online. It’s hard to get the same charge of decorative gourds and fake plastic skeletons when you’re flying spaceships in the far future, after all, and your Klingon crew members are asking why you put an orange vegetable with its rind carved on the […]

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Medieval MMO Past Fate announces its early access...

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2025/10/23

This past July, the open-world medieval MMO Past Fate said that it was “close to something special,” giving fans hope that they’d be seeing the game for real before too long. And in fact, we now know that the wait to experience this fantasy title is pretty much over. This week, Icy North Games announced […]

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Albion Online starts another faction warfare playtest...

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2025/10/23

The last faction warfare playtest for Albion Online went pretty well, and as you can imagine, that means developers are eager to start another round. Said playtest is taking place on October 24th on the European test server, with all five factions participating and a greater cap on overall participation (as Sandbox Interactive is expecting a […]

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Halloween returns to TERA for the 2025 season, at...

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2025/10/23

Does Halloween in TERA feel the same without the PC servers western players knew and loved? You’ll have to tell us, console players, because you’re the only ones who will see Halloween arrive to Arborea. Well, you and the rogue servers, we suppose. “We would like to announce the details of the HALLOWEEN EVENT starting […]

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Enshrouded delays Wake of the Water update to...

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2025/10/23

Way back in August during Gamescom, Keen Games Studio unveiled the next major update for multiplayer survival RPG Enshrouded, Wake of the Water, with a release window of sometime in October. Well, we’re nearly at the end of the month, and if you suspected the lack of a firm calendar date meant that a delay […]

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Hoyoverse’s cozy life sim RPG Petit Planet dates its...

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2025/10/23

At the end of September, we first got word about Petit Planet, Hoyoverse’s swing at the cozy life sim RPG genre that invites players to cultivate their own comfy little planet. At the time of our reporting, it appeared as if the game was only going to have a singular social hub, which suggested that […]

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WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s housing could become...

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2025/10/23

When I was talking with a friend about World of Warcraft’s upcoming housing system the other day, he made a comment that has been pinging around in my skull. He said, “I would’ve been more than happy if we had gotten some bare-bones housing. That would’ve been better than the nothing we’ve had for two […]

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Pax Dei says it’s ‘seen more than 90,000 active...

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2025/10/23

When Pax Dei announced early access and then launch, I have to admit I was more worried for the game than excited. But I’m happy that at least so far, I’ve been wrong, and the game is actually holding a significant number of players since its release earlier this month – a situation that Mainframe […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The third place that MMORPGs were...

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2025/10/23

So anyone who has read anything that I’ve written in the past several years know that while I don’t have any issue with nostalgia as a concept, the fact of the matter remains that there’s a lot of nostalgia for periods of time that did not exist. No, you did not originally know everyone on […]

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Project Gorgon kicks off Halloween, acknowledges...

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2025/10/23

Does your MMORPG of choice have a public nerf policy? Project Gorgon does, or at least it does now. In the patch notes that dropped last night, studio Elder Game admitted to a round of nerfs to “some systems and treasure effects that are too problematic to work around” – the last round of nerfs […]

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Genshin Impact adds new character, new weapons, new...

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2025/10/23

This week has brought on another major update to the gacha RPG Genshin Impact, and if you’re the sort of person who likes new story, another new character to roll for, or a UGC portal that’s built within the game, then you are going to be pretty pleased with what’s available. And if you’re not […]

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Lost Ark’s American region merge has already dragged...

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2025/10/23

What’s worse than a 20-hour downtime for a region merge? A 20-hour downtime for a region merge that stretches into 30 hours and counting. That’s the situation Lost Ark is currently faced with; the American regions were supposed to go offline at 3 a.m. yesterday morning and should’ve been back up late last night, but […]

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Nightholme is a new horror-themed PvPvE extraction...

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2025/10/23

Did you need another extraction game? Maybe not, but announcing a horror-themed one the week before Halloween is pretty smart all the same. We’re talking here about Nightholme, a newly unveiled PvPvE extraction RPG from Studio Ellipsis, a group led by former Assassin’s Creed Revelations/Unity creative director Alexandre Amancio. “Set in a corrupted fantasy world infested […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG zone has the biggest...

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2025/10/23

There are MMORPG zones that look absolutely gorgeous and those that look like someone had to texture the entire zone in the time between breakfast and lunch to make launch. Or the texture work is technically competent but it just looks ugly or repetitive or somehow off. There are a lot of possibilities. Which makes it […]

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‘Science-driven’ co-op survivalbox Astrobotanica...

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2025/10/23

Last month, developer Space Goblin Studio confirmed that its ‘science-driven’ co-op survival RPG Astrobotanica would be heading for early access sometime this winter. We now know precisely when in winter that will be, as the game nailed down a calendar date of Monday, February 16th. The early access launch date was heralded with a new […]

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Trove revives Shadow’s Eve with new mount rewards as...

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2025/10/22

One of the most amusing Halloween events of the MMO fall season is Shadow’s Eve in Trove, and it officially kicked off last night. “Shadow’s Eve is back!” Gamigo intones. “The veil between living and the dead is lifting, and it’s getting Lost Souls tangled up in the living’s business. In this year’s event, Shadow’s […]

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Sky Children of the Light starts its Season of...

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2025/10/22

With everything that’s going on, we’d be remiss if we didn’t peek in on Sky: Children of the Light, particularly since it’s having a busy October with updates that are either out now or just on the horizon. Leading things off is this week’s Season of Migration, which tasks players with guiding migrating animals along […]

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