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World of Warcraft’s ElvUI mod will be updated for...

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2025/12/05

Back in October, the developer of popular World of Warcraft addon ElvUI announced that because of the changes Blizzard was making to addons, the mod would offer no official support for the game when the Midnight expansion released. There was a great deal of pronouncement regarding the lack of addon support for various frame alterations and […]

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Sci-fi base builder StarRupture runs a co-op test...

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2025/12/05

Colonizing far-off worlds isn’t for the faint of heart or the criminally pure. StarRupture, a forthcoming title from developer Creepy Jar, challenges players to pick up a mining laser and assault rifle to forcibly terraform an alien planet no matter what the cost. The online co-op title is aiming for a January 6th, 2026 release, […]

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The Stream Team: Taking on new challenges and seeing...

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2025/12/05

It’s time for MOP’s Chris to once again hop on his gnarly board and hit the streets in Skate with his best friend! With Season 2 now officially underway in the multiplayer playground, there’s new parks to rip up, new tricks to try, and new challenges to attempt! Join them today at 2:00 p.m. EST […]

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NCsoft’s multiplayer gacha RPG Limit Zero Breakers...

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2025/12/05

For the past couple of months, we’ve been keeping an eye on Limit Zero Breakers, a multiplayer gacha RPG headed to PC and mobile devices from developer Vic Gaming Studios and publisher NCsoft, but most of what we’ve been getting has been demos and trailers. Well, gamers will soon get a more direct peek at […]

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Path of Exile 2 details December 12’s Druid class,...

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2025/12/05

The promised broadcast for the next major update to the early access multiplayer ARPG Path of Exile 2 has come to pass, and indeed it was chock-full of details for the game’s incoming Last of the Druids update ahead of its December 12th release. Obviously the big ticket item is the Druid class, which can […]

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Spirit Crossing developer Spry Fox has been sold back...

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2025/12/05

If you were concerned for the future of Spry Fox and its in-development cozy MMO Spirit Crossing considering its association with Netflix and its shift in gaming strategy, then we’ve got some likely comforting news for you: Netflix has let the studio’s original founders buy itself back from the TV streaming service and go back […]

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The ‘official rebuild’ of Heroes & Generals is...

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2025/12/05

Back in September, we got some welcome news from an unexpected corner of the genre: A gamer named Zackery Oleson had scarfed up the trademark for 2016 World War II MMOFPS Heroes & Generals and planned to revive it for the existing community spread out on rogue servers. Today, we’re getting a little more clarity […]

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After multiple years of development, Star Citizen’s...

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2025/12/05

The engineering gameplay loop has been a carrot dangled in front of the nose of Star Citizen players for some time now – multiple years, seven video digests, and at least a couple of CitizenCons, by CIG’s own admittance. But now, at long last, an actually playable version of the role is finally taking shape […]

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Storyboard: How do you get over shyness for MMORPG...

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2025/12/05

Folks, you may or may not believe me when I tell you this, but I am pretty shy. I know this tends to surprise people who meet me in larger settings in real life because I have long ago mastered the art of managing to be charming and social in unfamiliar settings. (The art, for […]

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Cozy mini MMO Palia teases a refreshed winter event,...

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2025/12/05

Palia studio Singularity 6 must be feeling pretty smug right about now, what with being Daybreak’s top performer, but it won’t be resting on its laurels. Last night, the studio released a smol dev roadmap along with a fireside-chat-ish video outlining what fans of the cozy MMO can expect in the short term. S6 director […]

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‘Demand for Guild Wars Reforged blew past our...

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2025/12/05

The launch of Guild Wars Reforged this week has apparently been a major success, at least as far as ArenaNet is concerned. “Demand for Guild Wars Reforged blew past our projections, causing long downloads for some non-Steam players,” ArenaNet wrote on the remains of Twitter last night. “We’re adding servers & exploring new options to […]

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Final Fantasy XIV offers a trailer and teases for the...

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2025/12/05

This morning’s Final Fantasy XIV live letter for patch 7.4, Into the Mist, did not offer quite as many revelations as some prior streams. After all, the date of the patch release was already known, so that can’t be a big surprise. But it did offer players a new trailer, and that includes snippets of […]

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Arc Games finally confirms it acquired Cryptic,...

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2025/12/05

Well, here’s a little good news for your Friday! Over the course of the last couple of weeks, MMO players including us have been left confused by a series of statements coming out of Embracer and Arc Games about the fate of the former Cryptic MMORPGs. In the original press release, Embracer announced it was […]

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The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG zone or level...

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2025/12/05

I was digging through my Daily Grind ideas bin the other day (yes, this exists) and scrounged up this tweet from last year – a very serious call to “ban all sewer levels from all games.” She earned my like, naturally; City of Heroes’ sewer levels just about did me in. But in all honestly, […]

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The Stream Team: Drow and their Impossible Demands in...

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2025/12/05

After a long journey through Lolth’s Demon Web domain, Massively OP’s MJ and her D&D night crew made it to a new realm and a village called EveningStar in Dungeons & Dragons Online. But they found this place by following drow who plan to attack! Those drow are waging war win search of something called […]

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Massively Overthinking: What were your three...

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2025/12/05

At the beginning of 2025, the MOP team tried to guess what our three most-played MMORPGs would be. It’s sort of like predictions, but personal. And… well, skimming the list, I can see some of us were way off base. This year was weird! So we’re going to revisit this topic with the power of […]

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Viking-themed co-op action RPG Cloudheim officially...

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2025/12/04

Back in February we first reported on Cloudheim, a four-player cooperative action RPG from developer Noodle Cat Games that casts players as unique Viking-themed heroes, casts them in a world of floating islands and a home base atop a flying turtle, and pits them in combo-centric action combat against various foes, along with some more […]

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Mister Freeze cools down DC Universe Online’s holiday...

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2025/12/04

Let it never be said that superheroes and supervillains don’t have a soft spot for holiday festivities. In fact, a familiar face from Batman’s past decided to chill out in DC Universe Online this month: Mister Freeze, who’s a new… ally? Sure, he totally seems like a team player. “The Season’s Greedings event runs from […]

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Blockchain MMO EVE Frontier introduces WASD flight...

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2025/12/04

Some people like controlling their PC games exclusively with their mouse, but other times using the good ol’ WASD control scheme is just more responsive. If you happen to be a tester of CCP Games’ blockchain survival MMO EVE Frontier who falls into that latter category, then the most recent build of the game was […]

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Helldivers 2 is testing a new build that takes up...

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2025/12/04

The Helldivers 2 team has been doing some optimization on an element of video games that is rarely considered, and that is installation size. As it currently stands, the game has a beefy footprint of 154 GB on your hard drive, but the PC version is now testing a new slimmer installation size that will come […]

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