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MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars Reforged, Hytale restored

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2025/11/24

The MMO fall season has been a rollercoaster of really great news and really terrible news, and we’ve got a bit of both this week. Not only did the Hytale devs rescue the MMO and platform from the dead with a plan to get it into early access soon, but EVE Online successfully launched Catalyst […]

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Black Desert adds naval PvP on PC, new tutorials on...

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2025/11/23

We’re all pretty lucky in that the Thanksgiving holiday doesn’t involve fighting turkeys to dress our table (and ideally also doesn’t involve us fighting over turkeys in the shops). However, if you happen to yearn for the thrill of combat and the seasonal feeling of this feasting holiday, then you should fire up your copy […]

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The MOP Up: Overwatch 2 readies its first-ever melee...

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2025/11/23

December 9th is the date to track for Overwatch 2 because on that day Blizzard shall unleash its first melee DPS hero for the game: Vendetta. “Introducing Vendetta — Overwatch’s first-ever melee Damage Hero,” the studio said. “With her Palatine Fang greatsword in hand, along with her lightning-fast mobility, Vendetta dominates close-range encounters with raw power […]

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The Stream Team: Gearing up in preparation for...

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2025/11/23

The month of December will be here before MOP’s Chris knows it, and that means he’s got to try to get some better gear to be ready for Final Fantasy XIV’s next content update. So what does he do? Why, recruit his Porg Squadron to do some roulettes and get some tomestones! Join the gang […]

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Fellowship plans holiday event, character reset, and...

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2025/11/23

Last time we peeked in on Fellowship, we noted how updates to this point were more focused on adjustment and fixing over additions. While that cadence continues in this week’s updates, the devs at Chief Rebel have put out a video outline that promises more content is on the way to the early access co-op […]

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Final Fantasy XIV’s next live letter – and trailer...

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2025/11/23

Normally, the second live letter before a major patch in Final Fantasy XIV is when we find out the patch release date. Not so for the next update; we already know that patch 7.4, Into the Mist, will be releasing on December 16th. But we can still see the trailer and more details of upcoming content […]

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One Shots: Welcome home, Azerothians!

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2025/11/23

I anticipate we’re about to see a flood of player housing pictures when World of Warcraft opens the doors next month for its new system. William is a little ahead of the curve here with a picture of an abode he made in the beta. “In housing systems like those of ESO or City of […]

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The Daily Grind: What single-player game would you...

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2025/11/23

I would love to see Hollow Knight: Silksong crossover material in an MMORPG. That’s not the same as saying that I want an MMORPG set in that world; while I wouldn’t say no to that, I don’t think it’s inherently necessary. But a crossover in an online game that lets you dress up in masks and shells […]

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Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation’s looming early...

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2025/11/23

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. All eyes are on Ashes of Creation right now as Intrepid stunned the genre by announcing it will enter early access come December 11th, with […]

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Mecha BREAK launches Season 2’s new mechs and...

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2025/11/22

It’s been a little while since any major news came out of the team vs. team PvP mecha shooter Mecha BREAK, but that’s because the game has been in its first full season since last month. Well, the seasons are changing – or at least moving onward in numerical order – starting this week, as […]

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The Stream Team: Opening a Planet Crafter bakery

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2025/11/22

With her Planet Crafter base is more organized, Massively OP’s MJ can focused on more important matters. Matters like opening a bakery at the end of the galaxy! Fresh-bake cookies are the best reason to terraform a new planet, right? MJ used her Terra Tokens to buy a cooking station, cocoa, and wheat then built […]

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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen reconfirms December...

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2025/11/22

Next month will be upon us like a big wet bundle of snow before we know it, which means that fans of the early access sandbox MMORPG Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen will soon be able to enjoy the sound of stomping hooves, neighing, and very possibly loud horse farts. That’s because the December major […]

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WoW Factor: How World of Warcraft’s housing system...

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2025/11/22

December 2nd is coming awfully fast — just two weeks now! — and the excitement for World of Warcraft player housing is hitting a fever pitch, especially with many testers exploring the system in beta. It’s great to see the creativity of this community spring up around the system, and I look forward to even […]

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Players continue to revolt over Aion 2’s Korean...

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2025/11/22

Last week we reported on the chaotic Korean launch of Aion 2, which caused South Korean and Taiwanese fans to revolt over its sloppy launch, connection issues, and extreme layers of monetization. The chaos drove lead devs of the project to Twitch to apologize and promise updates, while NCsoft’s stock took a potentially unrelated but […]

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WRUP: Byuog edition

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2025/11/22

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

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The Daily Grind: What MMO inventory features are a...

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2025/11/22

Not every MMORPG inventory system is built the same, with some being an outright headache to use and some designed smartly to be something approaching enjoyable. And then there’s Bethesda’s scrolly scrolly format that assumes you’re using a console and controller because PCs don’t exist. Or something. OK, it’s not time to grouse about inventories […]

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The Stream Team: Bounding back into Jumping Jazz Cats

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2025/11/22

Massively OP’s MJ played the demo before, but now she’s leaping into the unrestricted version of Jumping Jazz Cats. What crazy antics can she discover in the full game? Just how fluffy can she make her kitty? These are all very important questions that will be answered when you tune in live at 8:00 p.m. […]

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Betawatch: Hytale gets a second lease on life, Aion 2...

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2025/11/22

Recently we’ve seen a lot of games go from being things that people might look forward to enthusiastically to just nonexistent. So it’s nice to hear that Hytale followed that arc and then immediately subverted it, as it is now apparently back with the original founders getting control of the project from Riot, so it’s […]

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Space FPS Wildgate drops its first major content...

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2025/11/21

Space is large, strange, and untamed — and that’s just the way Wildgate likes it because it gives this extraction shooter a broad canvas in which to play. In fact, Moonshot Games just expanded this universe with Wildgate’s first major content patch, called Emergence. The Emergence update flings out a new prospector named Charlie, the […]

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Survivalbox Lightyear Frontier adds road building,...

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2025/11/21

The big stompy mech suit that’s central to your survival sandbox life in the multiplayer title Lightyear Frontier is already pretty handy and multi-duty, but now it’s getting a bunch of additional functionality thanks to the Country Roads update, which effectively lets players haul even more than before thanks to trailers and custom roads. The […]

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