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The Stream Team: Manning a multiplayer spaceship in the full release of Void Crew

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Void Crew, the multiplayer sci-fi game where players man different positions of a spaceship - think Guns of Icarus in space - has officially...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best depiction of pirates?

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I realize that pirates are out of fashion nowadays, but I still really like the motif. I mean, not real pirates; they're scary and...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MOP stories of 2024

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As you're reading this, it's Thanksgiving night, and the end-of-the-year insanity is about to begin. You're going to be treated to a whole ton...
Not paying attention is not a mark of honor.

The Daily Grind: What are the best MMORPG-adjacent Black Friday deals you’ve seen this year?

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When Bree first floated this Daily Grind idea to me, I did not want to make it MMORPG-adjacent because I wanted to hear about...

The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming takes in some high-level Helldivers 2 action

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It's time for a sci-fi action bonanza tonight on Backseat Streaming! MOP's MJ and Chris are pulling into the OPTV Drive-In to watch some...
Reborn as the... uh... team we are talking about.

Palworld teases a collaboration with Terraria in 2025

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Palworld is a survival game in which you collect a number of not-Pokeymans, run around a map harvesting things, put those not-Pokeymans to work...

Overwatch 2 heralds a refined and updated Overwatch Champions Series returning in January

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Regular readers know that Overwatch 2 isn't done with esports; it's just done with swollen esports leagues, having replaced the cancelled Overwatch League with...

The Stream Team: Putting a new Shadow Cat through its paces in MechWarrior 5 Clans

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Last time MOP's Chris and his friend hopped into some multiplayer MechWarrior 5: Clans, he got into the chassis of one of his most...

The Daily Grind: What is the next generation of MMO gamers seeking?

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It's been a privilege to be part of a team tracking the course of MMO news for a decade-and-a-half now. I've often said that...

Choose My Adventure: Red Dead Online is a multiplayer buried treasure

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There's nothing quite as bad in gaming as wasted potential. There are no shortage of MMOs, MMORPGs, and multiplayer games that reached for the...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs have pointless – but fun – PvP?

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Eliot's article about World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary festivities reminded me of something dumb I loved to do back in the olden days of...

Warcraft III Reforged 2.0 has been another buggy mess, Warcraft I and II remaster art draws criticism

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They say you never get a second chance to make a first impression, but there was some hope held among Blizzard fans when the...

Black Desert wrestles with weekend EU node war issues, mod ads, and disruptive players

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This past weekend doesn't appear to have been a particularly sunny one for the PC version of Black Desert, as Pearl Abyss has had...

Tarisland’s top raids are seeing a completion rate under 20 percent, Tencent says

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Tencent is plunging onward with Tarisland development: Last week, we got an abbreviated roadmap consisting of, well, December its winter event layout, but today,...

The Daily Grind: Should MMORPGs get back to offering roleplaying-enforced servers?

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If you have been playing MMORPGs a long time, you probably remember that in the long long ago, it was super common for games...

The Stream Team: The quest for silverware in Final Fantasy XIV

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MOP's Chris and his Eorzea Sunday crew are taking on a noble quest for today's stream in Final Fantasy XIV. They're going to try...

One Shots: The eternal rambler

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Sometimes don't you wish that your character had a "out with it" emote that would make NPCs cut down on their rambling speeches and...
doin a yell

The Daily Grind: What are the MMO projects that you’ve given up on?

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One of the nice things about MMOs in general is that they are games that err on the side of long timetables and long...

Ashes of Creation wipes away assets and eliminates over 100 characters over duping incident

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One has to wonder exactly what sort of benefit someone would get from trying to use dupes to get ahead in a game that's...
eyemas

WRUP: Eliot is probably fine edition

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