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The Stream Team: The further escapades of two cats dressed in pirate costumes in Cat Quest III

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MOP's Chris and his best friend are dressing up like pirates! OK, technically they are pirate cats in the co-op RPG Cat Quest III,...

Dungeons and Dragons Online’s first 64 bit server and Lanterns of the Mist event are live today

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Cormyr is officially here in Dungeons and Dragons Online today - that's the first 64 bit server the 18-year-old MMORPG has ever had. Studio...

NCsoft MOBA Battle Crush will sunset in November without ever leaving early access

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With all the bad news out of NCsoft this week - and MMORPG players' fixation on the fate of NCsoft's core MMORPGs - it...
Kit!

Final Fantasy XIV updates its website Community Finder to help players start groups more easily

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Finding members to start your Free Company or PvP team can be tricky in Final Fantasy XIV, but the game's website is here to...

World of Warcraft DPS players stage group finder protests over recent balance changes

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When World of Warcraft kicked off its latest patch, it was ostensibly focused on the MMORPG's 20th anniversary, which is pretty understandable. However, there...

Lost Ark cracks down on Ignite reward chest exploiters, launches Aegir raid

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Lost Ark fans have been up in arms the past week over a nasty exploit with the brand-new Ignite reward chests - and now,...

The Daily Grind: Which upcoming MMOs do you hope will be released next year?

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The other day, for some random reason, I was reminded that Hello Games announced Light No Fire late last year, got us all hot...

One week into Aeternum, how is New World doing? Here’s what we know

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Let's take stock of New World Aeternum one week into launch, shall we? Or at least of what we can know for sure, which...

Choose My Adventure: The final push to level cap in Throne & Liberty

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This is probably one of the few times in my personal history with Choose My Adventure when I hit the level cap in the...

Obituary: The man who made Warframe’s art style a legend has passed away

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I'm sorry to convey some sad news this morning: Original Warframe art director Michael "Mynki" James Brennan has passed away from cancer at the...
Boat.

The Daily Grind: What very un-you-like MMO content do you play anyway?

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Guild Wars 2 has somehow gotten me into fishing again. I generally have less than zero interest in fishing, in video games and in...
I see.

No Man’s Sky’s soundtrack is on the bill for a November 4 charitable games music concert

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If you can travel to the Electric Theatre in Guilford, UK, like the music out of No Man's Sky, and are looking to help...

Helldivers 2 completes sweeping buffs and commits to more comms as jump-jetting Automatons menace players

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Last month brought some big changes to the co-op shooter Helldivers 2, as Arrowhead Studios deployed a huge buff-granting update that brought the "power"...

Ashes of Creation players spill the beans about pre-alpha testing as verbal and written NDAs lift

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If you've got Ashes of Creation targeted in your gaming news and social feeds, then you probably woke up to a deluge of information...
Go over there!

Albion Online players are not happy with new P2W bundles that fast-track skill learning

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Last week, Albion Online decided to offer up something new for players to purchase: warden mastery packs, a series of four new bundles with...

The Daily Grind: How detailed should MMORPG character creation sliders be?

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A few weeks back, there was a fabulous thread on Twitter that dug deeply into the concept of character creation in video games, specifically...

The Stream Team: Entering a goth phase in Final Fantasy XIV’s All Saints’ Wake event

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It's Halloween time in Final Fantasy XIV, and this year's event is getting into a pop goth phase. Or maybe it's not a phase?...

One Shots: Come into my lair, sweetling

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As we creep toward Halloween, our crack One Shots photojournalists were on the ground in various games grabbing us first-hand demonstrations of the season's...
Blues?

The Daily Grind: Do you fight wipes or try to reset in MMO group content?

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So a mechanic just turned half of your group from being participants in a fight into rapidly expanding clouds of vapor. There are two...
Hi-lacine

WRUP: Serious version experiment two – factual animal science news

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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 our longest-run with a fandom.