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The Stream Team: Jumping blind into Path of Exile 2

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What is this hype all about? Larry has no idea, so MJ invited Larry to try out Path of Exile 2. Larry agreed with...

The Stream Team: A new year means trying a new game with a friend in Marvel Rivals

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It's 2025 and MOP's Chris is facing the all-new year with a new-to-him game: Marvel Rivals! While his twitch reaction shooter years are well...

The Daily Grind: How often (if ever) do you rebuild your MMO house?

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If an MMORPG has a robust housing system, that probably means that you could take a long, long time in setting up the most...

Happy New Year to all the uplifting things in MMOs, 2024 edition

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So last night, as is tradition, we posted our list of all the reasons we can't have nice things in MMOs and torched them...
Did we get a dragon?

Goodbye to all the reasons we can’t have nice things in MMOs, 2024 edition

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Listen, I'm not going to pretend 2024 was great. It wasn't great in the real world, and it wasn't great in the games industry...

Choose My Adventure: All of the MMOs you made us play in 2024

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This past year was full of ups and downs. You could arguably say that about any year, sure, but I felt it much more...
This seems less punk than advertised.

NetEase shooter FragPunk is officially launching on March 6 in 2025, pew pew

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Maybe the real punks were the ones we fragged along the way. If you've lost track of the various games promising a punking good...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the brightest future heading into 2025?

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Consider this end-of-the-year Daily Grind a sort of hopeful counterpart to the "stormiest future" fauxward, as instead of talking about the MMOs we're worried...

Lord of the Rings Online explains why it announced the new 64-bit servers early without all the details

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The recent furor over Lord of the Rings Online's surprise -- and partial -- announcement that new 64-bit servers are coming to the game...

The Daily Grind: Will you Kickstart any MMOs in 2025?

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It's actually been several years since we had a pure MMORPG blow up on Kickstarter, but we've certainly seen survival sandboxes and mini-MMOs do...

The Stream Team: Closing out a year of Final Fantasy XIV adventuring

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It's nearly the end of 2024, and MOP's Chris and his Eorzea Sunday crew have been goofing around together in Final Fantasy XIV for...

The great and majestic One Shots Awards of 2024

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Forget all of those other Massively OP awards you've seen cross your desktop for the past few weeks -- we all know that there's only...
At the end of one journey...

The Daily Grind: What do you do after you accomplish a goal in an MMORPG?

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The thing about MMORPGs is that they are a constantly ongoing journey, and whenever you accomplish one thing... well, there's another thing to do....
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WRUP: The annual apology edition

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Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about... um... old furniture.

The Daily Grind: Do you play only one MMO combat archetype or roam the field?

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When we distill combat styles in MMOs down to their most crude categories, we usually end up with three: melee fighting, ranged physical attacks,...

The Stream Team: Exploring the newly added Feybreak island in Palworld

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It's time for OPTV to revisit Palworld and delve the newly added island of Feybreak! MOP's Chris is geared up with his best weapons,...

Corepunk hands out mount cosmetics instead of restoring lost items

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Earlier this week we checked in on Corepunk to follow up on earlier server crashes, finding that servers have been mostly restored (albeit with...
There are wolves out here.

Tree of Savior to merge its Brazilian and North American servers together

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It feels as though it was just yesterday -- but in actuality, it was last August -- that Papaya Play opened up a special...

Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWGEmu begins a three-part video series about its history and development

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While much of the attention of the Star Wars Galaxies fanbase arguably aims in the direction of rogue server SWG Legends, there is another...

Publishing of Tower of Fantasy Global will revert to Perfect World in 2025

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It looks as if Tencent's Level Infinite is going to be passing the Tower of Fantasy football back to its home company, as the...