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World of Warcraft continues to clean up its act with surgical replacements to characters and quests

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We have been watching with some degree of fascination the Great World of Warcraft Purge of '21 that's come in the wake of Blizzard's...

As Steam heads off blockchain games, the Epic Games Store welcomes them

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At this point in my life, I don't fully understand how cryptocurrency and NFTs work, but there's no shortage of explainers out there, and...
Dare to be stupid!

MMO Week in Review: Everything Endwalker

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This week, MOP's own Final Fantasy XIV expert Eliot Lefebvre got his hands on Endwalker as part of the massive media tour that wallopped...

The MOP Up: Profane pitches its ‘true sandbox’ design to you

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Citing buzzwords like "true sandbox" and "player freedom," upcoming MMO Profane hopes that it can grab your attention long enough to read this Reddit...

Star Citizen financial report outlines over £1M in paid dividends to investors as of last year

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Since CIG is a UK company, the studio is required to share its fiscal filings, and so it has with the Star Citizen developer's...
Specter of fun.

Elyon’s headstart is live this morning, Kakao elaborates on the Luminus system

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With Elyon's free-to-play launch date quickly looming on the horizon and its headstart live as of this morning, Kakao Games is eager to drum...

Palia promises plenty of customization for characters and homes in Twitter thread

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We all know that customization is the true endgame in MMOs, but just how much of that will be present in Palia, the in-development...

EverQuest II’s Nights of the Dead Halloween event is officially live

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The time for PTS testing is over and the Halloween season is now descending upon players of EverQuest II. The Nights of the Dead...

Paladins art director responds to anti-anthro character skin petition by making another anthro skin called Salt

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This story is the level of professional pettiness that I aspire to. Let's cast our minds back to June 2020, when a streamer shared...

Fallout 76 gets players in on the trick-or-treat action

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Halloween in the wasteland is set to arrive next week, as Fallout 76 activates its spoopy activities on October 19th through November 2nd. During the...
And again.

New World delays server transfers again to avoid disrupting weekend play

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Last week, Amazon Games had announced that server transferring for New World players would be pushed back to fix some "edge case" problems that...
Sidelined!

Betawatch: Ghost Recon Frontline announces abrupt and indefinite beta delay

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Remember Ghost Recon Frontline? The answer is either "no" or "yes, and I hate it," based around general reaction to Ubisoft's abruptly announced battle royale...

Atlas brings its MMO to port for Halloween activities

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Halloween, ho! Atlas' motley crew of pirates, scallywags, and scum of the earth are taking a break in their routine of pillaging and terrorizing...

Dark Age of Camelot adds pumpkin patches, ghostly quests, and more for Halloween

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The Halloween season has arrived to the world of Dark Age of Camelot, bringing with it all sorts of seasonally spooky goodies for players...

Indie superhero MMO City of Titans shares map progress and new screenshots

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Nine times out of 10, an in-house interview with a developer can be extremely thin on information, but that is mercifully not the case...

Animal Crossing New Horizons adds cooking and island design in major update and paid DLC

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If you thought Animal Crossing: New Horizons was effectively dead lately, you're not alone: The updates for the last six months were unhappy times even...

Aion Classic adds new quests and instances in the 1.5 update, challenges players to a server first race

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The progression server of Aion Classic has gotten some new content. Well, new to the server content - this stuff already arrived to the...

PWE has put Torchlight, Torchlight II, and Torchlight III on sale for the franchise’s 12th birthday

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It's hard for me to even look at the word Torchlight nowadays without thinking about all the lost potential of Torchlight III and Torchlight...

Trove’s newest patch reworks the Lunar Lancer and adds new dungeons and gear styles

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Back when I was exploring Trove for Choose My Adventure, I had a lot of love for the Lunar Lancer, finding it an extremely...

Lord of the Rings Online’s revamped legendary item system is a hot mess

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Lord of the Rings Online's long-awaited and much-needed overhaul to its legendary item system arrived earlier this week. But instead of succeeding in its...