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Final Fantasy XI updates Ambuscade and one of its trust companions

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There are a lot of trust companions in Final Fantasy XI. Seriously, the sheer number is almost baffling. Still, it's a good thing that...

Indie sandbox MMO Profane recaps latest progress in new video

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Most of the time, the PvP MMO Profane has been showing off its development progress via Twitter threads. This time around, however, there's a...

GTA Online plans to mark the 20th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto III with events, goodies, and surprises

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Later this month will mark 20 years since Grand Theft Auto III, the groundbreaking game that set the standard for all entries in the...
And... NO.

Bless Unleashed PC plans new skills and blessings, an Assassin class, and a profession system in roadmap

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Round 8 Studio has a lot of things planned for the PC version of Bless Unleashed. So many things, in fact, that it's laid...

TERA Console preps Halloween event, gives out October surprise

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In the parlance of politics, an "October surprise" is a nasty shock that changes things right before an election. For TERA Console players, however,...
You have to want it.

Final Fantasy XIV’s Tatsuya Okahisa on technical art design and live-service MMOs

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Do you know what a technical artist does in an MMO? If you responded by scrunching your face up and muttering "art... stuff?" that's...
Lot of oh no, but maybe that's to be expected.

Kickstarted tiny MMO Book of Travels has officially launched into early access

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It's early access launch day for tiny MMO Book of Travels, originally Kickstarted back in 2019 for $261,000 with all stretch goals accounted for....

Path of Exile explains how Scourge is balancing auras, curses, and elemental DOTs

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Path of Exile’s 3.16 Scourge expansion inches closer, and we're expecting the big reveal on October 14th. But in the meantime, Grinding Gear has...

Mad World prepares for its next alpha test at the end of October

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If you missed out on your opportunity to play the last alpha test of the multiplayer ARPG Mad World, then you're getting a new...

Elyon delays pre-download and character creation, says launch and headstart are ‘on course’

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Elyon surprised everyone last month when it diverted from its September launch to an October 20th launch, with a change-up for its business model...

Diablo II Resurrected is still suffering from major outages several weeks after launch

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MMO players have been a been preoccupied with the launch of New World over the last two weeks to pay Diablo II Resurrected too...

Stick and Rudder: Recapping everything Star Citizen showed at the latest CitizenCon

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The digital CitizenCon event has, for all intents and purposes, come and gone, lining up a series of seven different video panels that were...

DC Universe Online sets Legion of Doom for December, maps out content for 2022

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With DC Universe Online having released its House of Legends update this past August, it'd be easy to assume most players are curious about...
Hmm.

Crowfall’s latest update adds preset archetypes and ‘substantial’ tutorial changes for new players

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Players that are looking to get their start in Crowfall now have a number of new options as of the game's 7.200 update. Specifically,...

MMO Week in Review: New World’s planned transfer system isn’t ideal

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New World made it through its second week: It implemented detection for "bad-faith AFK players," it saw its queues come way down, and it...

PvP MMO-lite Soul Kingdoms will start crowdfunding November 4 and run a playtest October 26

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Last week we shared some details on Soul Kingdoms, a self-described "MMO-lite" PvP game that promised lots of instanced PvP gameplay modes that can...

The MOP Up: Elder Scrolls Online’s cranky priest

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As all Elder Scrolls Online fans know, whenever a new chunk of content comes out, they'll be encountering some new figures in the game's...

Guild Wars 2 provides a tour of Shing Jea Island in latest livestream

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Guild Wars 2 fans have to wait until February for End of Dragons to arrive. That seems like a long time. Hopefully, the latest...

BitCraft confirms free-to-play monetization and promises to sell ‘Lamborghinis over Medals of Honor’

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When BitCraft unveiled itself to the world last month, it was a generally vague yet intriguing reveal, promising a community-driven sandbox MMORPG that seems...

Elder Scrolls Online’s creative director says New World’s success will ‘shake things up’ and ‘get the creative juices flowing’

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A rising tide raises all ships, and nowhere is that more true than in the MMO genre, as new games succeeding can often mean...