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Viking-themed survival ‘tribe builder’ ASKA begins multiplayer closed beta August 11

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Last November we first heard word about ASKA, a "multiplayer Viking survival tribe builder" from publisher/developer Sand Sailor Studio that lets up to four...
War-filled.

Warhammer Return of Reckoning’s three-year-long ability rework is ‘nearing a release-ready phase’

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It's taken the player developers of Warhammer Online's Return of Reckoning rogue server three years to rework the MMORPG's massive number of abilities, but...

Guild Wars 2 shows off the landscapes and points of interest in latest Secrets of the Obscure trailer

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Time to get hyped for Secrets of the Obscure: The Guild Wars 2 team at ArenaNet has dropped a new flip-through trailer highlighting "some...

New World’s Luck of the Bones portal-summoning event looks somehow familiar

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If you're starting to feel a little sluggish about New World's current season, fear not because Amazon is preparing a little pick-me-up in the...

Monsters & Memories spends July refining a dungeon, zones, character models, and backend tech

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Throwback MMORPG Monsters & Memories has once again started this month with a look back at progress made this past July, with most of...

Single-player MMORPG Erenshor prepares for a demo release this fall, previews gameplay

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A couple of weeks ago we threw a spotlight on Erenshor, a single-player game from Burgee Media that seeks to recreate the classic MMORPG...

EverQuest II brings Rise of Kunark to Varsoon server, reschedules Shattered Overture open beta to August 29

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It's not often that a beta test gets pushed to an earlier date instead of a later, but that's just what has happened for...

Pirates of the Burning Sea improves visuals, tweaks gameplay, and brings back a server from the brink

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The player-run Vision Online Games studio that's kept Pirates of the Burning Sea afloat since its near-sunset back in 2019 continues to be hard...

Indie time-travel MMO Into the Echo releases interactive lore website experience

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If you've forgotten all about time-travel MMO Into the Echo, we'll totally forgive you because we had too. And that's because we haven't heard...

Lost Ark’s August-December roadmap heralds new continents, jump-start servers, and more

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Yesterday, when Amazon finally put a date on the release of Lost Ark's Aeromancer, it also teased more information en route. That info is...

Guild Wars 2 previews Secrets of the Obscure’s skyscale skills and implementation

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One of the key highlights of Guild Wars 2's impending Secrets of the Obscure expansion is easily the overhaul of the skyscale mount, the...

Blue Protocol JP shows off high-level Blitz Lancer gameplay ahead of its August 16 arrival

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Blue Protocol developer Bandai Namco has once again come together for its 10th livestream to talk about features arriving August 16th for the Japanese...
Oh, yeah, things are going super, we lied.

Overwatch 2: Invasion gets a trailer ahead of its release on Thursday

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We don't really need to recount the whole saga of how badly Overwatch 2 has bungled things with its PvE content because we've been...

Lost Ark’s Aeromancer finally launches with the next update on August 16

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MMO gamers have been waiting - not particularly patiently - for the Aeromancer to finally launch in the global version of Lost Ark, and...

Pixelart MMO Tales of Yore officially launches out of early access

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It's been months since we last peeked in on Tales of Yore, the goofy but detailed retro 2-D MMO from indie studio Coke and...
Sunset on original ideas.

Here’s how WoW Classic’s hardcore mode will work when it launches August 24

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With World of Warcraft Classic's hardcore realms now officially launching August 24th, Blizzard has penned a dev blog reminding players just what to expect....

Solarpunk MMO Loftia nears $500K on Kickstarter, addresses stretch goals and pledge tiers

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As Loftia inches ever closer to the $500K crowdfunding mark after its blowout Kickstarter debut, the "medium-ly multiplayer" solarpunk game has offered up some...
Inherited.

World of Warcraft is delivering its next patch, Fury Incarnate, on September 5

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If you're sitting in your computer chair vibrating excitedly for Night Elf and Forsaken heritage armor to be in the live version of World...

The Walking Dead Betrayal takes the popular zombie IP into multiplayer deceive-em-up territory

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Take the gameplay mechanics of a multiplayer deception title like Werewolf, Town of Salem, or more famously Among Us, toss in the Walking Dead...

Genshin Impact releases a new nation, new characters, and underwater exploration August 16

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There's a whole lot of water-based stuff headed to Genshin Impact on Wednesday, August 16th. That's when the single-player/multiplayer RPG will introduce Version 4.0...

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