To start off our small news roundup this weekend, let’s head over to co-op farm sim My Time at Sandrock, where the devs talked about the game’s new pet-collecting Monster Whisperer DLC .
“But the fun doesn’t stop at just catching these critters. Our new nurturing system lets you truly make these pets your own. Give them new names, change their colors and accessories, and unlock awesome traits.”
And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for a roundup of other smaller MMO news stories and videos from this past week in this edition of The MOP Up (and if you don’t see a news story that we should have covered, drop us a tip)!
EverQuest II lugged out a small patch on May 29th with some foxes to the Masquerades of Divinity event.
Final Fantasy XI is re-enabling Visa Debit cards as a payment option.
ARK: The Animated Series is now up on Paramount+: “21st century paleontologist Helena Walker finds herself resurrected on a mysterious primeval island populated by prehistoric beasts.”
Neverwinter’s late May patch allowed for some PvP team swapping: “Match leaders can now swap players between teams during a match, through the Queued Instance Management window, in queues of more than five players.”
Deceive Inc. flung a new content update to all of its platforms: “The latest update introduces veteran spy Vigil, a cunning professional who literally wrote the book when it comes to these operations, alongside fittingly superhero-themed cosmetics for players to earn in Seasonal Catalog 4 and a range of gameplay improvements, map updates and bug fixes.”
Valheim is testing out a small patch: “It’s time for a patch with some Ashlands fixes! There are tweaks to both weapons and building pieces, and there should now also be some improvements to the loading screen.”
Overwatch 2 posted its scheduled plans for June’s Pride Month.
Albion Online’s third Foundations patch added the new pegasus skins for EU silver or crystal founders and made a bunch of combat changes.
Aion Classic’s latest Daeva Pass season is here, with rewards to be earned through June 17th.
Erenshor, a game where it’s you and an MMO’s worth of AI-controlled characters, showed off some raw combat footage:
Lost Ark’s team talked about the Thaemine Legion raid and fashion police: