Events

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Diablo IV’s launch event is stirring up controversy – and it hasn’t even started yet

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With Diablo IV's head start kicking off Thursday evening, the race will be on to see which players are crazy and dedicated enough to...
Glitzy.

The MOP Up: Netmarble and Take-Two finances are powered by MMOs

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We have a couple more earnings reports to, er, report to you today. Netmarble's Q1 2023 financials reported $472.4M in revenue, with MMORPGs making...

Diablo Immortal goes all-in on Lilith in honor of Diablo IV

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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, right? That's the strategy for Diablo Immortal, which isn't so much attempting to compete with the imminent...

Trove announces plans for a weekend network test intended to ‘help shape the future’ of the MMO

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Psst. Hey, Trove player. Yeah, you. You wanna "help shape the future" of your colorful little voxelbox world? Then you should totally check out...
I WANT THINGS

World of Warcraft celebrates the Diablo franchise with the Greedy Emissary event

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Fans of the Diablo series are likely familiar with the Treasure Goblin that can pop up while delving the maps of the ARPG, but...

Funcom belatedly remembers Age of Conan’s 15th birthday with dev blog and event

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Yesterday, we cheekily pointed out that Funcom appeared to have forgotten Age of Conan's 15th birthday back on the 20th of May, in spite...

Wayfinder’s largest global beta test to date kicks off today and runs all weekend under NDA

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Wayfinder's multiple-times-delayed global beta is finally underway today, inviting back all past participants as well as some additional testers. Apparently, the latter type of...

Embers Adrift discusses player feedback and moderation while preparing events for its free weekend

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The weekly community show from Embers Adrift is now online, and once again it has some useful information for players of the MMORPG, as...

The MOP Up: Don’t fear Last Epoch’s Reaper form

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Last Epoch's Reaper is getting a glow-up with this week's update! The studio said that it's improving the visual effects, outfit, and groovy scythes...

Dauntless celebrates its fourth anniversary with a returning quest, double XP, and bonus bounties

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Despite the woes befalling developer Phoenix Labs of late, the fourth anniversary of the multiplayer RPG Dauntless has arrived, as this year's annual event...

Genshin Impact’s in-game TCG is getting an in-game tournament, more modes, and more cards May 24

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The Genius Invokation trading card game-within-a-game of Genshin Impact is going to see a whole bunch of updates on Wednesday, May 24th. That's when...

TibiaME celebrates 20 years and its place as ‘one of the first MMORPGs for mobile devices’

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MMORPG fans of a certain age will already be familiar with Tibia, an MMORPG that's been going on for over 25 years now, but...

Warhammer Return of Reckoning celebrates Sigmartag events with nice crispy bacon

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Rogue server Warhammer: Return of Reckoning is not running an event about sausages, but also it kind of is! Happy Friday: It's Sigmartag. "Bells toll...

Warframe sells out of TennoCon physical tickets but promises free virtual access

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For Warframe players, we've got a bit of the ol' good news/bad news mix to deliver at the end of the week here. Let's...

The Stream Team: Playing D&D in Neverwinter

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Neverwinter is now metagaming itself! Day of the Dungeon Master has returned, and this event actually has Massively OP's MJ playing a tabletop game...

PlanetSide 2 celebrates the franchise’s 20th birthday with the Fortification update and an album release

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Daybreak successfully released PlanetSide 2's Fortification update for PC yesterday, ringing in what will - in two days, anyhow - be the franchise's 20th...

Embers Adrift tees up another free-play weekend starting June 2

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Stormhaven Studios has been teasing another freebie weekend for the buy-to-play-plus-sub MMORPG Embers Adrift, and now popular demand has made it happen, though oddly...

Toontown Rewritten’s fan festival will host original Toontown Online devs on panel

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At the top of the year, we shared the news of an in-person return for ToonFest, a fan festival for Toontown Online that is...
I'mma do it for the vine.

New World’s Fury of the Spriggan event descends upon players next week

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Just in time for the Memorial Day holiday here in the US, Amazon is launching the Fury of the Spriggan event in New World....
This is going great.

BlizzCon 2023 has been announced for November 3-4 in Anaheim

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Well, here we go. The past couple of years have not featured a celebration of Blizzard as a company because... well, we have a...