Chris Neal

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Wolfy is totally a pink wolf and not someone who just adores his avatar so much that he's lost touch with reality. He's been playing games since the days of Atari 2600 and when PCs had to be booted up in a specific sequence. He can be found in a variety of different MMOs and multiplayer games, including Final Fantasy XIV, Dauntless, Black Desert, and many others.

Myth of Empires previews Greek buildings and armor, opens Jade Era servers to help new players

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The survival MMO Myth of Empires is going Greek for its most recent previews, as Angela Game has put out a couple of sneak...

The Stream Team: Chilling out with friends in the Final Fantasy XIV roulette

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MOP's Chris and his family and friends are coming together yet again for their time-honored, weekly Final Fantasy XIV pastime: the duty roulette. There...

Elder Scrolls Online restores accounts following its PTS bungle, hands out a Mountain Dew wolf

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Normally a public test of a much-anticipated update for Elder Scrolls Online is a happier occasion, but as readers know that's not been the...

Hearthstone’s latest balance patch focuses on nerfing cards that ‘remove player agency’

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If you've played a collectible card game of any stripe, you're probably familiar with card combos and deck strategies that effectively make it impossible...

Multiplayer medieval brawler Mordhau marks fifth anniversary with April 29 demon attack

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The multiplayer PvP-focused medieval brawler Mordhau doesn't often hit our news desk except when it's promising to fight toxicity or when modders transform the...

Roblox game Piñata Smashlings announces collab event with Care Bears in September

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We assure you, that headline wasn't generated by some LLM plagiarism dispenser; this was written by an actual human who is here to inform...

The Stream Team: Heading into Nightingale’s multiplayer Watch hub

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MOP's Chris has come pretty far in his climb through Nightingale. After lots of crafting and hunting and trying to find one tree beast,...

Destiny 2 outlines changes to character power, grouping, and legacy gear updates for The Final Shape

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An expansion's release is generally a time to make some foundational shifts to a game, something that Destiny 2's The Final Shape appears to...

MMO shooter Line of Defense confirms a switch to UE5, lets former early access buyers set up private servers

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It's been almost another four years since Derek Smart last talked about his efforts to resurrect the MMO shooter Line of Defense, but this...

Stick and Rudder: So let’s talk about those Elite Dangerous pre-built ships

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Over the past couple of days, I've been watching and writing about the fun little tire fire that Elite: Dangerous ignited when it announced...

Star Citizen brings new race tracks and a first look at engineering to alpha 3.23’s Arena Commander

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While many of the reveals shared by Star Citizen for alpha 3.23 have been focused on the persistent universe portion of the game, the...
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Escape from Tarkov causes firestorm by locking PvE mode behind $250 special edition

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Battlestate Games has decided that access to a PvE mode for its otherwise PvP-centric shooter Escape from Tarkov is worth a whole lot of...

V Rising details gameplay waiting in the Ruins of Mortium, Valheim continues its Ashlands test

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This is either a tale of two games that start with the letter V, two games that are working on new zones, or two...
It's all fine.

Embers Adrift puts a stop to its content compression plans after player feedback

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Last week saw Embers Adrift begin testing of a "content compression" adjustment that would see the MMORPG's max level lowered in order to get...

Elite Dangerous provides an elaborate deep-dive on how Powerplay 2.0’s mechanics and rewards will work

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Despite the backdrop of Frontier Developments setting Elite: Dangerous players on fire with talk about cash shop ship bundles, the studio came together for...

Seafaring survival MMO Age of Water hits Steam early access, addresses premium perks

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After a week-long false start, publisher Gaijin Entertainment and developer Three Whales Studio have brought Age of Water into the roiling and (arguably) crowded...

Elite Dangerous shares additional details on engineering updates and pre-built ship bundles

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Yesterday saw Frontier Developments enrage the Elite: Dangerous playerbase when it announced plans to sell pre-built ship bundles in its cash shop, with many...

Former Fortnite lead dev talks about how live events were sacrificed to build a multi-game metaverse

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As most people have now noticed, Fortnite has made some pretty sweeping changes, from a survival shooter to battle royale to a place where...

Sea of Thieves previews April updates, elaborates on PS5 server woes, and confirms the return of six ship servers

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The new and the next are once more available to Sea of Thieves fans in moving pictures form, as the sandbox's latest news digest...

Game devs are concerned about the sustainability of live-service titles

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It certainly feels like live service is being tacked on to many recent game releases (whether it makes sense or not), which of course...

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