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Stars Reach expands its pre-alpha to Kickstarter followers, begins refinery skill branch testing

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Playable Worlds' Stars Reach has several news bits this week, and those of you tired of hearing about the Kickstarter that hasn't even happened yet will be happy to know that only one of them involves said Kickstarter. Let's start with that one: Playable Worlds announced this week that everyone who follows the Kickstarter - not backs it, but follows...

Throne & Liberty’s lunar new year celebration goes live today alongside the new currency tab and guild buffs

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Throne & Liberty is launching its 1.13.0 update this morning, meaning the Lunar New Year celebration will soon be officially underway. Servers went offline just after midnight this morning as Amazon began patching in extremely important content like a "giant cobra statue in every village." Oh, we're just teasing, though not about the giant cobra statue thing - that's...

World of Warcraft slips a possible player housing preview into Patch 11.1

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With the promise and potential of World of Warcraft player housing on the docket for later this year, players are understandably hungry for more information about this upcoming system. They might have a little more to go on when Patch 11.1: Undermined arrives, as Blizzard appears to be slipping in a bit of a housing preview with the update. As...
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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO patch that punched above its usual weight?

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Whatever your MMO of choice has as a patch schedule, the game has a cadence to it. You expect certain things from a patch. A new area to explore, or new quests to do, or a new dungeon or whatever. It doesn't matter what's in there, just that you expect X new things to happen on a roughly expected...

The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming visits an Enshrouded dragon

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In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers! Here, Massively OP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch the gameplay right along with you; instead of you commenting on their adventures, they will comment on yours! While MJ has played Enshrouded, she definitely gets sidetracked too easily. So the chances of her seeing higher...

Sea of Thieves renews its focus on performance and protecting players from cheaters

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In its first developer update video of 2025, Sea of Thieves production director Drew Stevens is granting players a look at what the developers are focusing on in the new year, with a stated goal of improving game performance, game security, and player safety. Stevens first begins by stating that members of the Rare Ltd. team have been "diverted to...

SMITE 2 details a rotating battle pass feature, commits to one new god a week until ‘at least’ August

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Hi-Rez substudio Titan Forge Games elected to use its recent SMITE 2 esports event as a stage to make a couple of major reveals for the in-development open beta MOBA, as this past weekend the devs unveiled plans for a new rotating battle pass-style feature and laid out some new roster-related information for its fans. The battle pass is called...
Ever finaler.

Terraria plans to release its final update, really, in the near future

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The next big patch for Terraria, patch 1.4.5, is going to be the game's final update. Really. "Wait, didn't that already happen?" you ask, and you're correct; the final update happened back in 2020 with the Journey's End launch. But there's always a more final update and an ever finaler update, and head developer Andrew "Redigit" Spinks basically confirmed...

Overwatch 2 preps seasonal events, starts new 6v6 experimental team comp, and will rerun the ‘moth meta’

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If you're a veteran Overwatch player, the words "moth meta" likely mean something entirely different to you than others; while some people probably envision Mercy bonking her face into a street lamp while looking confused, others recall a time when the character was able to constantly flit around the map and instantly revive teammates with near-impunity. If those times in...

Guild Wars 2’s lunar new year festival will revivify next week, following Friday’s balance patch preview

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When Lunar New Year didn't launch in Guild Wars 2 yesterday, you probably did what we did and assumed it would launch next Tuesday, closer to the actual date. And that's exactly what's happening, as a tweet from ArenaNet this afternoon made clear. "Things are ramping up in Divinity’s Reach with games, fireworks, and new rewards to celebrate The Lunar...
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The Elder Scrolls Online offers gold and shimmery elven costumes with the Golden Pursuits campaign

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It's a new year in The Elder Scrolls Online as well as, y'know, everywhere else. Heck, it has been a new year for a little while now; that's what the increasing date number means. But the Golden Pursuits campaign has just started and will run through February 4th, encouraging players of the game to kick off the new year...

The Stream Team: Heading into high rank in Monster Hunter World

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MOP's Chris has once more been bracing for the next entry in the Monster Hunter series by playing through Monster Hunter World, and right now he's at the point when high rank hunts have opened up to him for the first time. It's a time of new danger and new creatures to slay, so join him today at 2:00...

Albion Online highlights its new season cadence as Rogue Frontier hits the PTS

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With Albion Online now making sure its season releases align with major updates, you might be interested in hearing what head of production Moritz Bokelmann has to say about it in a video, especially since he's the guy whose job it is to ensure content production is on time. "We've had to change a lot of internal processes and structures...

Ultima Online just released a roadmap for updates 119 and 120 and for New Legacy’s next stage too

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You know, I've been watching Ultima Online for over 27 years now, and I literally cannot remember any studio putting out a roadmap for the game. If this week's newly released roadmap is a new trend, then I am a big fan! Yep, Broadsword posted up a roadmap for the seminal MMORPG yesterday. Here's what we're looking at: The Shadow's...

Jonathan Del Arco helms Star Trek Online’s 33rd season, Unveiled, launching February 11

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Everyone's worried about the future of Cryptic's MMOs post-Cryptic, including us, but Star Trek Online is forging onward into 2025 with the promise of a new update next month: Star Trek Online: Unveiled launches February 11th on PC (March 11th on console), just in time for the game's 15th birthday. It marks the sci-fi MMO's 33rd season. "In Star Trek...
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MMO Hype Train: Why it’s hard to hold on to hope for Star Citizen

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My very first PC was a 386 Pentium that I purchased with my own money in the early '90s. And I dearly loved that machine, reveling in the wonders of Windows 3.1, configuring Autoexec.bat, and going on adventures in amazing titles like Star Trek 25th Anniversary, Master of Orion, and Doom. But for a while there, the hot ticket that everyone...

Quinfall moves its early access release date up to January 24 – a full day early

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The middle of December saw sandbox MMORPG Quinfall unveil plans to enter early access on Saturday, January 25th. Well, it looks as if those plans have changed, except they've changed for the better if you're among those anticipating the release, as early access is now confirmed for Friday the 24th instead. "While we haven’t yet presented all the changes we’ve...
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Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs with creative idea hooks

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There's so much blatant -- and lazy! -- copying in the world of entertainment and arts that anything novel is to be cherished. I've always thought that if you're going to make a game, movie, book, or TV series, you at least have to have one creative idea that sets you apart. A "hook" that instantly captures attention and...

Nightingale teases an engine upgrade, dyes, customization, and a new Western tileset

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"Ready to hit 2025 with everything you got and just get through it" - that's Inflexion Games' Aaryn Flynn take on his attitude for the upcoming year in the latest Nightingale video, and it's pretty clear from the look on his face he's talking less about the game and more about, you know, the world, because the game really...

Eternal Tombs shares a two-minute progress video and promises ‘huge’ news for 2025

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When you've been out of touch with a developing MMO project for a while, sometimes all you want is a quick summary to get you up to speed. With brevity and concise information in mind, Triune Studios put together a two-minute video to catch up fans on what's been happening with the hardcore MMO Eternal Tombs in the past...

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