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This past March saw a distinct new game cross our desk known as Ships at Sea, a multiplayer game that's all about simulating life in the Norwegian Sea around Lofoten, Norway, letting up to four players take on nautical tasks like commercial fishing, running service ships, or hauling cargo. The game was set to arrive to early access on May...

Back in April, we were genuinely surprised to see Osiris New Dawn return from the dead, though given a name like that, we should've known. Lil Egyptian mythology mom joke for your Friday there. Anyway, after nearly a year of public quiet following the game's early access launch and then abrupt removal from Steam last year, studio Fenix Fire...

Quality-of-life is the name of the game for the adorably boxy multiplayer RPG Swords 'n Magic and Stuff. The game's latest update is full of new things that are meant to ease existing in the game's colorful little world, including a new wardrobe feature, inventory improvements, the ability to create endless custom loadouts (though pre-existing loadouts had to be...

The world of Warhammer Online rogue server Return of Reckoning is a pretty fighty place. That's not really a surprise considering the setting of the MMORPG, but that does mean that when combat is being changed, players will likely want to take notice, which brings us to some pretty sweeping changes in the test server right now. Some of the...

Swedish gaming conglom EG7 released its annual report this week, and while there isn't a ton of new-new in it for those of us weirdos who care about Daybreak's MMORPGs and dig into each quarterly investor report as it releases, there are still some tidbits worth highlighting. EG7 reiterates that Big Blue Bubble's My Singing Monsters is still making absurd...

Monster Hunter Wilds isn't due to release until sometime in 2025. But MOP's Chris is hungry for some monster hunting action now. So what does he do? Start a new character in Monster Hunter World, that's what! Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as he continues his journey through the game from the beginning! What: Monster Hunter World Who: Chris...

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has put together the 2023 version of its game developer satisfaction survey, which continues to take the temperature of game devs' thoughts on the industry as a whole, specifically on matters of diversity in the office and in games, their experiences with crunch, and general job security and relationships with management. The data gathered...

Earlier this week saw patch 14.9 roll out to League of Legends, which included the release of Vanguard, Riot's bespoke kernel-level anti-cheat program. Unfortunately, its release has not gone over well, as some players report that the anti-cheat bricked their machines (and required some pretty deep tech knowledge to fix) or disallowed game streaming services like Nvidia NOW from...

In case the internet has somehow not already baked this into your brain, tomorrow is May the Fourth and Sunday is Revenge of the Fifth, and that means you're going to put on your Star Wars shirt and do nothing but Star Wars. Actually, that doesn't sound half bad. And naturally this means that the Star Wars MMOs are getting...

We conveniently had a community discussion on the meaning of old-school when it comes to MMOs earlier this week, so consider that required reading for this piece on Newzoo, whose recent market research report suggests that most of y'all are out there playing old games. OK, maybe it's not much of a revelation for the MMORPG playing commentariat, as even...