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Impending.

Naoki Yoshida dismisses Final Fantasy XVI directorship rumors

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The rumors have flown around about Naoki Yoshida being attached to Final Fantasy XVI as the game's director. In fact, the rumors have been flying...
My name is might have been.

Kingdoms of Amalur is getting an updated re-release in August

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So here's your surprise thing to look forward to in a couple of months: Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. That's a pretty awful title, but it...

Valorant officially launches with new map, new agent, and a beta of the new Spike Rush mode

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Today is the day for another team-based multiplayer FPS to arrive on the scene. This time it's Riot Games' turn on the sub-genre with...

Frozen Flame is a multiplayer survival RPG in a world constantly teetering towards a cataclysm

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Surviving in a magical world with spells against monsters? No, it's not Citadel: Forged with Fire, it's Frozen Flame, an in-development multiplayer survival RPG...
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Phantasy Star Online 2 is a fun treasure buried under antique contrivances and inconveniences

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When I first booted up Phantasy Star Online 2, the only way to get to a suite of visual options that included making the...

Darkest Dungeon’s Butcher’s Circus DLC and PvP mode are live for bloodthirsty fun

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Darkest Dungeon is generally not a game we'd cover here on MOP, since it's been a single-player RPG for most of its long life....
No screenshots yet, obviously.

Raph Koster’s dev studio Playable Worlds opens a new website and begins the search for game devs

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While the world waits to learn more about what Raph Koster has in store for the MMORPG world with his game, we can at...

Nordic-themed MMO Odin: Valhalla Rising gets a publishing deal with Kakao Games and a gameplay trailer

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You'll never guess the setting for the upcoming MMORPG Odin: Valhalla Rising. Admittedly, it couldn't be more on the nose unless it were called...

Veterans Online is a top-down twin stick 5v5 PvP shooter

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When I spotted this game in our newsroom, I was a bit confused by its title; Veterans Online doesn't sound like a particularly good...

Elteria Adventures is a Landmark-like MMO of cute but deadly critters and fully destructible environments

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Assuming this press release in front of me is to be believed, this new title might be the closest thing we get to seeing...

Funcom is set to reveal an ‘unannounced game’ on June 5

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Does Funcom have another game up its sleeve? It appears so, as the Oslo-based developer broadly hinted that it is getting ready to make...
HA HA SCREW YOU JERK

Phantasy Star Online 2 has finally launched on PC in the west after eight years

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As promised - and after so many years of waiting that many folks had long since given up on it - Phantasy Star Online...
Team play.

Co-op roguelike Minecraft Dungeons is live today on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and the Switch

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Don't tell my kids, but I'm getting them Minecraft Dungeons this week. I mean, really I'm getting myself Minecraft Dungeons this week, but they're...
This is the only one we have.

Star Sonata 2 plans a June 12 release on Steam

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Steam, the platform of kings! Or the platform that almost everyone has installed on their PCs, making it vital for obtaining widespread notice; one...

Black Desert spin-off Shadow Arena has just hopped into Steam early access

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If Crucible isn't cutting it for you, Shadow Arena would definitely like to have a go at your time right about now. The Pearl...

Amazon’s Crucible struggled with logins last night, but it’s up with a new patch now

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So the Crucible launch didn't quite go as planned. If you tried to hop into Amazon's new team shooter last night, you already know the...
Oh no.

Amazon Games’ team shooter Crucible is supposed to go live this afternoon

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We've teased Amazon Games Studio plenty for canceling games and postponing them and changing them into something else, but today, it's finally doing something...

Everland is a sprite-based social MMO about logging in and hanging out with friends

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If you're looking for a 16-bit-styled MMO that's less about being an adventuring murder hobo and more about just hanging out with others, then...

EVE Echoes confirms August 2020 launch window, debuts new gameplay trailer

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Well, it wasn't exactly a launch date as originally believed, but we at least now have a launch window for EVE Echoes. The livestream...

Elder Scrolls Blades has just launched for the Nintendo Switch

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Welp, I know where I'm probably spending some time this weekend: The Elder Scrolls Blades. MMO players will recall that the game initially launched...