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EA’s Battlefield 2042 schedules open beta test for early October

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Friends aren't real friends unless they let you shoot them in the face -- digitally, that is. EA is going to be testing the...

2-D retro MMO Mirage Realms is once again under heavy development

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Back in 2016 the 2-D retro-styled MMO Mirage Realms crossed our notice; it's a single person project that sought to take an old school...

Halloween returns to PlanetSide 2 as Nanite of the Living Dead on Friday

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We realize it's not October yet, but we're just a few days off, which means the spoopy season is about to get underway in...
Factured.

Fractured fires out patches left and right for its fall alpha

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If you were expecting a quiet and calm fall alpha test for Fractured, this sandbox MMO is bound to disappoint. Nearly every day since...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 340: New World cometh

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Justin and Bree discuss New World's launch, Diablo II Resurrected, LOTRO's Gundabad, Warhammer Online's Return of Reckoning, Book of Travels, and Ultima Online, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on New World's infrastructure and LOTRO's closed servers.

Nexon announces plans to globally publish PC and mobile MMO Heroes of Incredible Tales 2

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Do you remember a game known as Heroes of Incredible Tales? It was a mobile multiplayer ARPG from developer NAT Games that made its...

Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King returns next week with a bonus XP event

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You know, if you suffer from karamelokalampokiphobia - or more colloquially, candycornphobia - you're not going to enjoy a lot of MMO Halloween events,...

SWG Legends caught exploiters mass-deleting ‘thousands’ of game objects

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If you got booted out of Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends yesterday, know that a malicious exploit was the reason, and while...

Elite Dangerous unveils plans for a new SRV, four-player multicrew, and interiors for megaships and Fleet Carriers

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Frontier Developments has kicked out the September development update for Elite: Dangerous, and this one is full of tidbits for the upcoming Update 8...
Other glows.

World of Warcraft will add glowing hand customizations to Nightborne characters in patch 9.1.5

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Do people refer to your Nightborne character in World of Warcraft as "Ol' Glowyhands" or "McGlowhands" or "Captain Glow of the Hand Brigade"? Of course...

New World is live around the globe as some queues cap at 25K and concurrency passes 700K

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Amazon's New World is officially live everywhere now as the West coast servers have just gone live, and it's blown way past its beta...
spooky, kinda

Regulators in China and the UK turn their eyes toward streaming, gaming currency

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China isn't content to bulldoze its own local gaming industry by freezing game approvals, blocking kids from gaming outside of tiny windows, and freaking...

League of Legends’ animated series gets a November 6 release date on Netflix and a new trailer

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At the beginning of May, League of Legends unveiled a teaser trailer for an animated series known as Arcane, which provided just a few...

Neverwinter says its Demogorgon trial isn’t ‘harvesting enough tears’ from players

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Neverwinter has had enough with players slapping around its supposedly fearsome Demogorgon. Citing that the trials isn't "harvesting enough tears" from players, Cryptic is...

VR MMO Zenith raises $10 million from investors, says ‘not much’ will change about development

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We've been a little skeptical about the long-term prospects of Zenith, but the virtual reality MMORPG has a better chance today of making it...
The Olympic committee looks really different now.

Activision-Blizzard says it’s settling with the EEOC, committing $18M to victims and charities

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Last week, we covered the revelation that multiple federal agencies, including the US Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were...

Project 1999 players race to fight EverQuest bosses in a charity drive for a family

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Regular readers will recall that we've previously reported on Project 1999, an officially sanctioned player-run private emulator for EverQuest, primarily regarding things like its...

Soul Kingdoms is a self-described ‘MMO-lite’ offering battleground PvP ‘without the grind’

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What if MMORPG PvP battleground maps and modes were the entire game itself? That appears to be the overall summary of Soul Kingdoms, a...
Sandy sand.

AdventureQuest 3D releases the finale of the Sandsea Saga and prepares for Mogloween

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The ongoing adventure of AdventureQuest 3D's desert epic has reached its apex with the finale of the Sandsea Saga, which features a fight against...
Cows.

Craftopia patches up stability and performance for Xbox players with content arriving on September 30

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Xbox players are just like any other group of players insofar as they like their games to perform well, be free of bugs, and...