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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best new zone or map of 2024?

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The last couple of years, I've come full circle back to being a hardcore explorer in MMORPGs, and it's led me to some games...

The Stream Team: Night Falls on Stormreach in Dungeons & Dragons Online

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The healers of House Jorasco in Dungeons & Dragons Online discovered that a cult called the Disciples of Rage plan to attack the Night...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025

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This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
No pretty for you

The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the worst for letting you earn (rather than buy) in-game cosmetics?

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Every MMO on the market these days will let you slap down some money to look prettier. This, in and of itself, is fine....
Spooky.

MultiVersus welcomes Adventure Time’s Marceline into its roster

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It's not really Marceline's fault that at this point, "vampire queen" isn't even the scariest theoretical thing to fight against in MultiVersus even on...

The Stream Team: Taking on the Illuminate with a battle buddy in Helldivers 2

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It's time for MOP's Chris to strap on his armor, pick up his favorite guns, and ready his stratagems once again, as he's hopping...

Pax Dei plans another ‘cleaning session’ to wash away inactive build plots tomorrow morning

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If you've been away from Pax Dei for a while but were keen on coming back at some time later, then this alert is...

Helldivers 2 makes fans mad with pricing for its limited-time Killzone collab cash shop offerings

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Don't look now, but Helldivers 2 has stepped in it with its playerbase again: A new offering added to the in-game cash shop today...

The Daily Grind: Do you stick to a uniform naming convention in MMOs?

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Names are always a contentious and personal topic for MMORPGs, as they are our "face" by which others know us. And there are really...
Blow this up.

War Thunder’s Storm Warning update brings new vehicles and maps to the fray

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In the real world, if tanks were rolling through Attica in the southeastern portion of Greece, it would be a loss to humanity on...
DEATH STALKS YOU AT EVERY TURN

World of Warcraft is surveying players on removing the Mythic+ timer and replacing it with a death counter

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In any sort of combat-focused gameplay, the player character is generally seeking to not die. (Also during non-combat-focused gameplay, to be fair, but the...

Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions

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Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...

Star Wars Galaxies Restoration’s new playable species, combat tree revamp, and Life Day are live

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When Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Restoration announced a major customization and combat tree overhaul earlier this month, we didn't imagine it was...

Dauntless details plans to change rewards, progression, and gear after Awakening’s player backlash

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Both gamers and our own writers agree that the Dauntless Awakening update is just plain awful, with limited weapon options, hamstrung build crafting features,...

Elite Dangerous celebrates devs and players in its 10th anniversary retrospective video

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This week in 2014, Elite: Dangerous officially released on PC, and despite its ups and downs, the game is closing out 2024 in an...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best event of 2024?

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I'm well aware that this is going to be a hard Daily Grind to answer because it used to be an award, and it...

Elder Scrolls Online compensates players for server outages and toasts an in-game play

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It was a frustrating couple of days for the players and the devs of Elder Scrolls Online, as the MMORPG's servers were knocked out...

Lord of the Rings Online’s map of the Shire was used in a War of the Rohirrim film promo

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We named the maps in Lord of the Rings Online somewhere in the middle among the worst to best maps in MMOs, but apparently...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best character customization as of 2024?

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Star Citizen has an unfortunately bad reputation... well, kind of everywhere, including among its own dearest fans, but today I want to call out...
Super.

Square-Enix’s multiplayer arena shooter Foamstars is entering maintenance mode after less than a year

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Did you know that Square-Enix released a 4v4 arena shooter in the vein of Splatoon for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 less than...