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Final Fantasy XIV just announced a collab with a… camping gear brand

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We've got a late-breaking candidate for "weirdest cross-promo of the year" right here, and it's all thanks to Final Fantasy XIV, which is apparently...

MMO Business Roundup: NetEase stocks dip over internal fraud and corruption investigation

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news. This edition is all about money, baby. Well, quarterly financials, anyhow. And also...

LOTRO’s Legacy of Morgoth expansion has everyone fretting over the new Elf looks

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The initial release of Lord of the Rings Online: Legacy of Morgoth seems to be going generally fine, albeit with a few bumps and...

Brighter Shores explains its episode-specific professions design and asks players to ‘please give it a chance’

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When Brighter Shores launched into early access this week, many players were surprised at the fact that each episode (aka a major zone) had...

Final Fantasy XIV outlines PvP updates and shows off gear in the preliminary patch notes for Patch 7.1

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Next week will bring new things to do for Final Fantasy XIV players, and that means that Square Enix's Creative Studio III has put...

Stars Reach’s new trailer shows significant visual improvement – and a partial list of professions

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Late last night, Playable Worlds dropped a new trailer for Raph Koster's incoming MMORPG sandbox Stars Reach, along with an update for its NDA. As...

Massively Overthinking: How long should it take to level to endgame in MMORPGs?

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Right after New World's Aeternum launched, we did a piece looking into how the game was faring - and one complaint I saw over...

Star Wars Galaxies Legends is working on two theme parks – including one from an Ewok movie

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Earlier this week, Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends dropped a developer diary for October with several teasers for the content the player...
Eye see.

Final Fantasy XI’s November update adds higher-level Besieged content

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Besieged used to be a big deal for Final Fantasy XI, but in large part the game has moved on from when the content...

NetEase drops a roadmap for EVE Echoes promising more content – but with few timelines

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"Will there be no more content for New Eden in the future?" is probably not the best way to announce your roadmap, but that's...

Dofus updates server transfers and opens pre-registration for its upcoming Unity engine upgrade

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Last week's announcement by Dofus of its move to the Unity engine on December 3rd is now transforming into a whole big event, complete...

MMO sandbox BitCraft is launching its third closed alpha next week

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BitCraft's latest letter from the producer heralds another big milestone for the game, as Clockwork Labs is launching closed alpha 3 as of November...

Riot Games’ Arcane S2 launches this week as new details about an abandoned League of Legends movie surface

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Remember a few years back during the big gaming boom when Riot Games was talking about trying to become a media empire that transcended...

Old School RuneScape gets multiple mobile updates, outlines PvP plans, and adds Curse of Arrav quest

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Old School RuneScape has got a lot of irons in the fire as evidenced by the MMORPG's variety of dev blog posts and updates,...

Wuthering Waves adds two new characters and brings back a roguelike mode November 14

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Without any sort of context, we have to presume that the next content update for Wuthering Waves involves a location with a huge kitty...

V Rising teases a new region, multiple PvP modes, and the Fusion Forge gear feature

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Vampire survivalbox V Rising has been fairly quiet since its official launch last spring (which we loved); Stunlock Studios even told players in June...

Mortal Online 2 adds ranked duels, spider mounts, and the ability to surrender in latest patch

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The newest content patch for Mortal Online 2 is once again a bit of a melange, adding the ability to ride spiders, engage in...

No Man’s Sky is adding full multi-platform cross-saves, a PS5 Pro edition, and an old Mass Effect ship

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Whenever Hello Games' Sean Murray starts dropping teasers on social media, you know something good is coming to No Man's Sky: Today, the studio...
YOU AND HIM FIGHT

Throne & Liberty’s latest patch will let guilds fight over a castle and try to deliver tax money

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It was already outlined, but now it's here: The guilds of Throne and Liberty are now able to take part in a tax delivery...

Crimson Desert unveils a fight against Black Desert’s Hexe Marie in its new G-STAR playable demo

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First off: No, we still don't know whether the current version of Crimson Desert has retained any of its originally planned multiplayer features, nor...