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Nintendo announces Pokemon Home as a central trading service with Pokemon Go

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Have you caught them all in Pokemon Go? Quite possibly not, some of them are really hard to catch. But you'd probably like to keep the...

Not So Massively: First impressions of Conan Unconquered

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I don't have any particular attachment to Conan the Barbarian as a franchise. I'm barely even familiar with it, in fact. But I do...

New MMO Starbase pretty much sounds like EverQuest Next in space plus robots

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Finnish developer Frozenbyte just dropped a brand-new MMO on the Steam store: It's called Starbase, and it's set to launch into early access "later...

Wild West Online rebrands as New Frontier, now with steampunk and alien monsters

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You know what they say: When a horse is beaten to death, that's just a good opportunity to reanimate it as a steampunk monstrosity. The...

Conan Unconquered slides its release date ahead a day to May 29

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Well, this is a pretty different sort of release date adjustment. Conan Unconquered has decided that Thursday, May 30th, is just too round a...

Webzen is porting mobile MMO MU Origin 2 westward next week

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You'd be forgiven for being confused about the MU franchise, given just how many titles Webzen has pumped out using that IP. There's MU...

Fresh off its Kickstarter, indie MMO Oath has opened its forums and pledge website

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The MMORPG Oath saw a flurry of coverage this past spring as it wound its way through Kickstarter: It's a free-to-play indie sandbox MMO...

Not So Massively: Eden Rising provides a low-stress riff on survival games

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Somehow I hadn't heard of Eden Rising until it launched out of early access as a free-to-play title, so to me at least it...
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League of Legends is destined for mobile, Reuters reports

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Remember all the thinkpieces years back about the rise of the MOBA? The industry's been through several bubbles since then, between survival sandboxes and...
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Newly announced MMO Eternal Magic has something ‘for the girls’

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Game developer Duoyi and distributor 101XP announced today that they're developing a free-to-play MMORPG that sounds far too good to be true. Eternal Magic,...

Dauntless launches on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and the Epic Games Store with full crossplay functionality

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It's been a long and occasionally bumpy road for Phoenix Labs' free-to-play action-MMORPG Dauntless since it was first announced back in 2016, but after...

Armored God is a mobile MMORPG that lets you summon angry monsters

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If you like the idea of Pokemon but would rather your summoned monsters have a harder edge (or at least more spikes and pointy...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Dark Domain, Habbo Hotel, Project Eternal, Stein.world, Zezenia, LaTale W

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Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've never heard of (or have totally forgotten about!). We've got a few...

The Elder Scrolls: Blades focuses on player feedback and its place at E3 this year

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Apparently, Bethesda wants to talk to players about its mobile game The Elder Scrolls: Blades that was launched to early access last month. The...
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First impressions: World of Warcraft Classic is exactly what it says on the tin

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The simplest analogy I can think of for World of Warcraft: Classic is being served a breakfast of toasted plain white bread with a...

Nexon announces new crossplatform multiplayer shooter Rocket Arena, with closed beta in May

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So this Nexon game came a bit out of nowhere this week: It's called Rocket Arena, and it's essentially a slick multiplayer shooter with...

Durango: Wild Lands has officially launched to US Android users

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One of the arguably larger sandbox MMORPGs to come to mobile gaming -- a sentence I never thought I'd type if I'm honest --...

Mobile MMORPG World of Kings enters open beta on May 30

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Developer Loong Entertainment has announced that its upcoming mobile "Western Fantasy MMORPG" World of Kings will be heading into open beta at the end...

World of Warcraft Classic launches August 26, with CBT tomorrow and stress tests beginning next week

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Here we go, folks: World of Warcraft Classic is now set to launch on August 27th - actually, in the US, it's the evening...

Anime MMO Caravan Stories announces July 16 beta, July 23 launch on PlayStation 4

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When Caravan Stories was announced for the west just a few weeks ago, several of our writers went nuts for it. So we're stoked...