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Elder Scrolls Online looks back at ‘a year of contrasts,’ says fewer new game systems in 2021

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Before Elder Scrolls Online calls it a wrap on 2020, Studio Director Matt Firor has a few words to say. Hey! Pipe down, stop...

Wild Terra 2’s latest update adds a new dungeon, new territory buildings, and snow

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The most recent update to Wild Terra 2 has made a new changes, as updates often do. There's now a new Dominium building that...
It's big, yeah yeah yeah, it's not small, etc.

MMO Year in Review: Gaming’s pandemic disruption (March 2020)

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COVID-19 blew up this month, to the point that we had to resort to roundups just to cover all the MMO and online games...

Wizard101 talks up 2021 stat rebalancing and PvP changes, Pirate101 adds a free respec for subscribers

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The producer of Wizard101 really likes the world of Karamelle. That's part of the impression given by her recent producer's letter, which talks up...

Massively on the Go: Understanding what an MMO community will pay for

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Earlier in December, I posted some Pokemon Go news that included player complaints about a recent Mr. Rime paid event. While there was a good...

Star Conflict introduces stage one of its Faction Wars content in latest update

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The game is called Star Conflict, so the fact that there's some conflict brewing in the stars of this space-based MMO shouldn't probably be...

The Stream Team: Celebrating a SWTOR Christmas with snowballs

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You might think that all there is to Christmas, er Life Day, in SWTOR is slinging snowballs at droids. Not that that isn't fun,...

Open PvP MMORPG Profane provides a brief look at creature behavior in a recent video

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What do a guy, a dog-sized porcupine, and a crab that looks like a rock have in common? They all feature in a quick...

MMO Year in Review: A ‘colossal’ announcement (February 2020)

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February began with apologies as the Camelot Unchained team attempted to make amends with its community over the announcement of its second game, Colossus...
Popcorn appropriately.

ToxMod is a new moderation tool that recognizes and reports voice chat hate speech in real-time

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Moderating a game's text chat isn't easy by any means, but at least there are a variety of tools and algorithms that try to...

World War II Online aka Battleground Europe gives two free weeks of play over the holidays

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What better gift to get over the holidays than bloody and unending conflict that harkens back to 80 years ago? That's the joy that...

Warframe studio Digital Extremes promises independent operation and no changes to game direction after Leyou buyout

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2020 was the year in which MMO studios were Pac-Man'd by bigger companies because massive corporations with deep purses do that to break their...

Lost Ark KR shows off new classes, a new continent, and new raids coming in 2021

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While we still don't have any firm word on what the hell Amazon is doing with the possible western launch of MMOARPG Lost Ark,...

Age of Water is an online post-apoc flooded world of custom ships, pirates, and exploration

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Gaijin Entertainment, the publisher and developer of games like War Thunder and Crossout, has announced its first published title under the Gaijin inCubator label...

Exclusive: Ashes of Creation Alpha One preview of the Mage class

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If you lurk around the Ashes of Creation community, you know that this has been a huge week for the game as its alpha...
Venting prevents ex-plo-si-on.

Both sides of EVE Online’s massive World War Bee 2 have agreed to a Christmas truce

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Mark the date of Monday, December 21st, 2020 in your calendar if you're the sort of person following EVE Online history as Internet Spaceship...
Fighty smashy!

Crowfall recaps an eventful 2020 as it pushes forward to launch in 2021

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At one point we used to joke about how many times Crowfall had delayed its full alpha and its beta testing... but no more,...
Nope.

PSA: The Steam Winter Sale is now live, complete with steep MMO discounts

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You probably already learned this from finding that dozens of games on your wishlist were on sale, but the Steam Winter Sale is live...

Star Citizen reschedules its Assault on Stanton server event to next year

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Earlier in the week there was word from CIG that Star Citizen was ready to give its new alpha 3.12 dynamic event system a...

Daybreak’s $300M sale to EG7 is all wrapped up just in time for Christmas

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Just days before Christmas, one of the biggest MMORPG studio deals this year has fully completed. Enad Global 7 announced that it closed the...

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