The MOP Up: Phantasy Star Online 2 hands out more treats than tricks

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Phantasy Star Online 2 fans can log in this week to enjoy a nice burst of additional content, including the fourth and fifth chapters for Episode 5, the Halloween event, a couple of new campaigns, and a pair of trick-or-treat urgent quests. And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for a roundup of other smaller...
Lies and the lying liars who tell them.

Make My MMO: TitanReach turns to Indiegogo after Kickstarter ends unsuccessfully

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, indie MMO Titan Reach admitted defeat on Kickstarter, having only $131,525 pledged toward its $416,118 goal, and the devs mapped out a plan for an Indiegogo launch instead, which will fund the game's alpha. But that was far from the only big news! Albion Online suffered a nasty data breach, Ashes of Creation forecasted its...

Global Chat: Comparing SWTOR’s and Star Wars Squadrons’ space battles

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With Star Wars Squadrons now on the scene, a comparison between that game and SWTOR's galactic starfighter content was all but inevitable. MMO blog Galactic Antics took on the challenge of the comparison, saying, "I do honestly feel that the argument could easily be made that an experienced GSF player will have little trouble adjusting to Squadrons. They have their distinct differences, of...

Albion Online’s forum database was breached, exposing user passwords and emails

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If you're a user of the Albion Online forums in any capacity, then you're going to want to take heed of an alert shared in a thread posted this Saturday. Part of the forum's database has been breached, with the intruder gaining access to user emails and encrypted password information. No payment information was accessed, but those with particularly...

One Shots: Disco dunking

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Just because the career possibilities are limited for monsters with gigantism who have rage issues doesn't mean that they don't have feelings. Passions. A desire... to dance? That's how Minimalistway is interpreting this World of Warcraft screenshot: "The Abyssal Maw sounds so dreadful, but the place is so beautiful! Look at this faceless one dancing, it’s almost a disco, just...
Now don't kiiiiiiiss

The Daily Grind: What’s your preferred way of learning about a major MMO patch or expansion?

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I don't know when we're going to hear about the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion. I know that it's going to happen, considering that Naoki Yoshida mentioned it specifically back in July, but the lack of a fan festival this year means that it's still up in the air about when we'll get our formal announcement or even when the...

Atlas Reactor’s revival is actually a story-driven co-op game that was part of original prototyping

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Gamigo surprised a lot of gamers this week when a number of confirmed Twitter accounts started stirring the pot for a return of Atlas Reactor, the turn-based strategic team PvP game that it sunsetted last year. However, developer announcements from a community-built Discord of the game have now unveiled that this Atlas Reactor will be an entirely different game...

Ashes of Creation first pre-alpha preview test is slated for December

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A letter from creative director Steven Sharif has offered up some most interesting tidbits for Ashes of Creation followers. The letter first starts off with an expected look back at "rapid" development progress and touting several 4K resolution gameplay videos, but the real meat of the post comes in the form of a schedule for alpha one. The alpha test...

The Stream Team: A first look at Torchlight III

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Torchlight III has launched, and Massively OP's MJ is heading in to check it out. She never played Torchlight or Torchlight II; her only real experience with this IP is interviewing Echtra back when it was still Torchlight Frontiers. Still, she's interested to see what it's all about now. Tune in live at 4:00 p.m. as Massively OP's Stream...

The Stream Team: A supply run from the sky with Conan Exiles Isle of Siptah’s surges

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On the Isle of Siptah, a surge is a special supply run! Thralls are important in all of Conan Exiles, and the only way to acquire them in the isle is through a surge. Thralls just rain down form the magic portal in the sky. Even better to Massively OP's MJ, sometimes those thralls have pets from the exiled...