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Paragon-spinoff Predecessor has soft launched into F2P open beta early access on Steam (and everywhere else)

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Predecessor - the latest shooter spawned from the ashes of Epic Games' defunct MOBA Paragon - has officially launched into open beta today on a list of platforms as long as my arm: PC, Steam, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. In fact, it's the first chance Xbox players will have to try...

MMO Business Roundup: The Gearbox sale, GDC 2024, and layoffs for SEGA and Smilegate

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Welcome back to another quick roundup of some MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! Embracer - The ailing games giant announced this morning that the rumored sale of Gearbox is indeed happening. The company has sold Gearbox Entertainment to Take-Two Interactive for a whopping $460M. However, the sale does not include Cryptic Studios (Neverwinter and Star Trek Online) or even Gearbox...

Warframe launches Dante Unbound (sans Deep Archimedea) and TennoCon 2024 ticket sales

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Dante Unbound hit Warframe last night - just in time for the game's 11th birthday (it soft-launched March 25th, 2013). "Defend the Leverian from the avaricious clutches of Parvos Granum and the Corpus!" Digital Extremes says in its usual opaque lore-encrusted way. "Drusus, curator and caretaker of the Leverian, requests your help to get out from under Parvos’s gilded...
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Tarisland looks at the Misty Forest in its latest map preview

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Full marks to the Elves of Tarisland, they live in a place called the Misty Forest. That's it. Most Elves, they'd be calling the place Milliulussorieth, and you'd have to look through four translation guides to realize the name translates to "forest what got some mist going on," so it's still basically named Misty Forest, but now you have...
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World of Warcraft’s Holly Longdale reassures players that further PvE-based experiments are coming

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If you're a World of Warcraft player looking at Plunderstorm with some combination of bafflement and trepidation about the possibility that every further "experimental" bit of content will be PvP-focused, you can rest a bit easier. Holly Longdale has put out a very brief statement insisting that there are future bits of content coming which are entirely PvE-focused, including...
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Final Fantasy XIV confirms the most important element of its Final Fantasy XVI crossover

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From the moment that Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida revealed that he had finally made peace with Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida, we have all known we would be getting a crossover event. And the first video trailer made it clear we were getting FFXVI's goodest boy, Torgal, in both mount and minion form. But...

Dungeons and Dragons Online has a date with Fred the Mindflayer, LOTRO updates delving rewards

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Depending on how your romantic life is these days, a date with a very nice mindflayer may be the swoony highlight of your spring. So why not swing into Dungeons and Dragons Online, where Update 67: Slice of Life arrived yesterday with a few unusual quests? The free adventure pack of three quests allows you to "take part in a...

Embers Adrift plots more solo content, additional bosses, new areas, and more in latest roadmap

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What's the state of Embers Adrift? One with lots and lots of plans, according to an address from executive producer John Gust, which features a new content roadmap for 2024 that outlines plenty of updates on tap for the sandbox MMORPG. The roadmap doesn't provide any dates or release windows, electing instead to categorize features by three different development priorities....

Black Desert offers a first look at new areas and features of Land of the Morning Light’s Seoul

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The Land of the Morning Light in Black Desert will soon throw its... uh, morning light across a new area, as Pearl Abyss has provided another peek at the Seoul region that will be arriving to the MMORPG and adding on more gameplay details since the last preview at December's Calpheon Ball. The end of the 20 minute-long dev commentary...
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WoW Factor: Blizzard didn’t reveal World of Warcraft sub numbers – it drew a Mystery Line

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It will not surprise anyone reading this to learn that there are things which upset me. This is just part of being a human being; there's no greater moral architecture to it than that. The vast majority of you do not interact with me on a daily basis and thus do not really see it beyond when I write...

New Hellgate game for PC and console, codenamed Hellgate Redemption, is in the works

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Hellgate: London is mostly known nowadays as the IP that just won't die despite resurrections continuing to prove to be increasingly shambolic - a topic that our Game Archaeologist Justin has covered before. It looks like there's still some meat to pluck off of the title's bones, as developer Lunacy Games has announced plans to make a new Hellgate...

Cozy MMO Palia handwaves its bizarre beta obfuscation on the grounds that it’s free-to-play

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Yesterday, we recapped the ongoing drama with Singularity 6's cozy mini-MMO, Palia. The short version is that the game hit beta last summer and has been launching on different platforms ever since, all while weirdly obfuscating the fact that it's still in beta. For example, as we noted, the game's Steam launch early this week bears no mention of...

Microsoft’s Phil Spencer admits massive layoffs were due in part to gaming’s ‘lack of growth’

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Ever since Microsoft announced a wave of layoffs that would affect 1,900 people - over 800 of whom work for Activision-Blizzard - the officially stated reason for why has changed a couple of times. An interview from Polygon has now brought a third excuse out of Microsoft, as CEO Phil Spencer now says that layoffs were also a result...

Dune Awakening discusses MMO size, PvP and PvE, the deep desert, and getting rid of Funcom ‘jank’

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Funcom's Joel Bylos was among those in attendance at this year's GDC, which is the stage where he answered questions about the upcoming Dune: Awakening that involved the game's population size, its activities for PvP and PvE players, and its plans for release as chronicled by Wccftech. We'll jump to that release timing question first, as Bylos noted during the...

RIFT hosts a server load test party this evening with free level-ups

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Have we said how utterly bizarre it is to see RIFT pop up in our feeds this much recently? Not that we're complaining, mind you; we root for this underdog fantasy MMO to defy the odds and forge a future. And part of that future is making sure that the servers is work properly. To wit, Gamigo is holding a...

Hostile NCsoft shareholder meeting reveals ArenaNet is working on Guild Wars 3

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The topic of Guild Wars 3 has been a common one over the last few years; when I dredged our articles, the first one I found specifically about Guild Wars 3 went all the way back to 2017 as MMO players speculated about the future of the franchise between expansions. But now Korean press have reported on NCsoft's March 28th...
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The Daily Grind: How long can you do the same thing in an MMORPG?

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I have, it must be said, a high tolerance for grinding and repetition. I can handle a very long stretch of doing the exact same thing, over and over, with little to no variation. In fact, I would go so far as to say that I can subsist on the exact same weekly routine with weekly caps and activities...

The Stream Team: A spring (festival) fling in LOTRO

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It's been a while since Massively OP's MJ muddled about in Middle-earth, and she has missed it. With the Spring Festival in full force, it's the perfect time for her to hop right in. (And not just to enjoy spring and flowers, as opposed to the snow still present outside her window.) Join us live at 8:00 p.m. to...

Trove’s spring update adds a gearcrafting skill and overhauls endgame drops

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Gamigo's Trove is continuing to get love regardless of what's going on with the rest of the company's MMORPG catalogue, and for the blocky sandbox, that comes in the form of yet another update called, cutely, the Gear Up!date. "With the new spring update, players can master the latest new profession, Gearcrafting, enjoy dynamic loot, and progress through the Golden...

‘Realtime action-based MMORPG’ Quest Master’s Realm confirms early access launch March 29

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Over the past year or so we've been keeping eyes on Quest Master's Realm, an indie "realtime action-based MMORPG aboard the shell of a giant turtle" that has some sky-high ambitions and has been moving through testing phases. The game's next major phase is soon to happen, as developer Blue Lightning Software has announced a Steam early access...

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