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MMO Week in Review: Visions of Eternity’s premiere,...

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2025/11/03

What should’ve been a glorious week for the MMORPG genre thanks to the launch of Guild Wars 2’s Visions of Eternity – which is gorgeous, by the way – was instead a downer as Amazon announced its pullout from gaming and the maintenance moding of New World, which itself got a well-received and highly populated […]

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Animal Crossing New Horizons is getting a new patch...

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2025/11/02

Next January, it’s time to get revenge on the beach. Stormwater Slabfist has crossed almost every animal on the mainland. But when Tom “Matchstick” Nook offers him a chance to cross all kinds of new animals, Slabfist needs to strap on a gun and start crossing all new animals. That’s not even remotely the plot of Animal […]

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The MOP Up: RIFT hosts a player housing contest

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2025/11/02

From now through November 29th, plucky not-completely-abandoned RIFT is hosting a player housing contest with prizes: “Welcome to Dimension Bonanza, the dimension contest where anything goes, and you are the master of your own theme. Within the entry period, create a dimension with any items of theme of your choice, or simply go with no […]

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The Stream Team: A return trip through the Pilgrim’s...

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2025/11/02

While MOP’s Chris and his Porg Squadron might have poked at the Pilgrim’s Traverse deep dungeon in Final Fantasy XIV before, it was more of an exploratory journey – and it wasn’t with the full crew. But now that everyone’s back in line, they’re ready to dive in once again and try to make some […]

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Massively Overthinking: How do we unshittify the...

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2025/11/02

The first thing I read this week was a blog post about unshittification. Not enshittification, but the opposite. Cleaning up messes. It has absolutely nothing to do with video games, mind you; the author is talking about the internet, how everything from independent websites to microblogging and social media is slowly degraded from greed. That […]

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Black Desert adds an attendant for PC, launches...

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2025/11/02

Having a companion along for your adventures in Black Desert can never be a bad thing, but instead of party-based shenanigans, the latest patch for the PC version of Black Desert has introduced a town attendant feature to the MMORPG. So it’s kind of like a companion, only for more laid back matters. The so-called […]

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One Shots: All hail Sir Bucket Head!

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2025/11/02

When times are darkest, when hope is in danger of being snuffed out, when evil looks to triumph, and when the McRib goes off the menu — that’s when we need his courage and tenacity the most. That’s when the call goes out for Sir Bucket Head! “One of Blue Protocol’s quests offered a bucket […]

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The Daily Grind: When do you play MMORPGs on...

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2025/11/02

If you wake up at 8:00 a.m. and then go to work until 6:00 p.m. you have a certain obvious restriction about when you’re going to be playing MMORPGs. But if you wake up at the same time on Saturday and don’t have chores that need to be done at certain times, you can log […]

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Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s early access, Stars...

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2025/11/02

Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP’s long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older games long past their fundraising. Camelot Unchained is marching forward with plans to launch early access this year, as Unchained Games dropped an early access teaser trailer just yesterday with […]

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World of Warcraft China details changes to raids,...

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2025/11/01

A couple of months ago we reported on the upcoming Titan Reforged server opening up exclusively for the Chinese version of World of Warcraft. If you happen to be following along with that server’s release, or if you happen to be a Chinese player visiting our site (hey, it might happen), then we’ve got a […]

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Rockstar is accused of union-busting after firing a...

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2025/11/01

Usually when a wave of game devs are suddenly handed their pink slips by a studio, red flags get thrown in the air because plenty of companies have fired people for pointless reasons – especially in the past couple of years. So it was when Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar fired over 30 employees across […]

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The Stream Team: Facing the final three in V Rising

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2025/11/01

It’s down to the final three. Before Massively OP’s MJ can take the fight to Dracula himself in V Rising, she needs to face Solaris the Immaculate, Megara the Serpent, and Adam the First Born. After their (surprising) performance last week, the players have a bit more confidence. Can they recreate that clean-sweep? Tune in […]

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Casually Classic: Six questions about WoW Classic...

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2025/11/01

Despite the release of Phase 6 on the Anniversary Realms and the release of Mists of Pandaria Classic this past summer, it’s felt like Blizzard’s almost completely ignored WoW Classic in favor of retail in its messaging for this second half of 2025. Day after day I keep checking the forums and fansites to see […]

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Path of Exile brings back the Breach and adds new...

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2025/11/01

The time has come for players of original taste Path of Exile to once again deal with the malevolent forces of the Breach yet again. This week brought the launch of the Keepers of the Flame update, bringing back some familiar problems that promise new and spicy wrinkles to deal with. After all, it can’t […]

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WRUP: The ghost moved out edition

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2025/11/01

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about scary movies.

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The Daily Grind: What tiny but noticeable detail does...

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2025/11/01

Scabbards. They simply don’t exist in any MMO for active weapons (sometimes for costume pieces, though). No game bothers to include them, probably because of the headache for the art team, so instead we get characters made of magnets that have various naked weapons stuck to their backs and hips. Let’s have some fun being […]

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The Stream Team: This year’s Ghost Town Pumpkin...

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2025/11/01

Since she discovered it in 2023, Massively OP’s MJ has spent every Halloween enjoying The Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival. And every year, the festival adds even more to do! Last year saw the addition of a puzzle haunted house and more that ghosts could experience and collect badges from. This year, there are new […]

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Betawatch: World of Warcraft Midnight dates its beta,...

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2025/10/31

I feel like this week’s big beta news is a conspiracy to just irritate me. Like, World of Warcraft: Midnight is starting its beta on November 11th, and that is inarguably big beta news, but we don’t list expansions and I don’t want to make a header just for that. But the other big news is Stars […]

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Survival sandbox ICARUS confirms a console version...

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2025/10/31

Are you looking for some sci-fi survival sandbox gaming on your Xbox X|S or PlayStation 5? Then you’re in luck because Dean Hall-run developer RocketWerkz has announced that its four-player survivalbox ICARUS is headed for consoles in the first quarter of 2026 thanks to help from Czechian developer GRIP Studios in the form of ICARUS: […]

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Camelot Unchained drops an ‘early access teaser’...

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2025/10/31

Earlier this year, when Camelot Unchained first resurfaced months after Unchained Games pulled the test offline for a major rework, the team told MMORPG players that the game had a real chance of making it to early access by the end of this year. We’re not sure how many people believed that, given the advanced […]

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