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Black Desert offers a first look at new areas and features of Land of the Morning Light’s Seoul

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The Land of the Morning Light in will soon throw its... uh, morning light across a new area, as Pearl Abyss has provided another peek at the Seoul region that will be arriving to the MMORPG and adding on more gameplay details since the last preview at December's Calpheon Ball. The end of the 20 minute-long dev commentary video...
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WoW Factor: Blizzard didn’t reveal World of Warcraft sub numbers – it drew a Mystery Line

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It will not surprise anyone reading this to learn that there are things which upset me. This is just part of being a human being; there's no greater moral architecture to it than that. The vast majority of you do not interact with me on a daily basis and thus do not really see it beyond when I write...

New Hellgate game for PC and console, codenamed Hellgate Redemption, is in the works

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Hellgate: London is mostly known nowadays as the IP that just won't die despite resurrections continuing to prove to be increasingly shambolic - a topic that our Game Archaeologist Justin has covered before. It looks like there's still some meat to pluck off of the title's bones, as developer Lunacy Games has announced plans to make a new Hellgate...

Cozy MMO Palia handwaves its bizarre beta obfuscation on the grounds that it’s free-to-play

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Yesterday, we recapped the ongoing drama with Singularity 6's cozy mini-MMO, Palia. The short version is that the game hit beta last summer and has been launching on different platforms ever since, all while weirdly obfuscating the fact that it's still in beta. For example, as we noted, the game's Steam launch early this week bears no mention of...

Microsoft’s Phil Spencer admits massive layoffs were due in part to gaming’s ‘lack of growth’

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Ever since Microsoft announced a wave of layoffs that would affect 1,900 people - over 800 of whom work for Activision-Blizzard - the officially stated reason for why has changed a couple of times. An interview from Polygon has now brought a third excuse out of Microsoft, as CEO Phil Spencer now says that layoffs were also a result...

Dune Awakening discusses MMO size, PvP and PvE, the deep desert, and getting rid of Funcom ‘jank’

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Funcom's Joel Bylos was among those in attendance at this year's GDC, which is the stage where he answered questions about the upcoming Dune: Awakening that involved the game's population size, its activities for PvP and PvE players, and its plans for release as chronicled by Wccftech. We'll jump to that release timing question first, as Bylos noted during the...

RIFT hosts a server load test party this evening with free level-ups

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Have we said how utterly bizarre it is to see RIFT pop up in our feeds this much recently? Not that we're complaining, mind you; we root for this underdog fantasy MMO to defy the odds and forge a future. And part of that future is making sure that the servers is work properly. To wit, Gamigo is holding a...

Hostile NCsoft shareholder meeting reveals ArenaNet is working on Guild Wars 3

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The topic of Guild Wars 3 has been a common one over the last few years; when I dredged our articles, the first one I found specifically about Guild Wars 3 went all the way back to 2017 as MMO players speculated about the future of the franchise between expansions. But now Korean press have reported on NCsoft's March 28th...
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The Daily Grind: How long can you do the same thing in an MMORPG?

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I have, it must be said, a high tolerance for grinding and repetition. I can handle a very long stretch of doing the exact same thing, over and over, with little to no variation. In fact, I would go so far as to say that I can subsist on the exact same weekly routine with weekly caps and activities...

The Stream Team: A spring (festival) fling in LOTRO

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It's been a while since Massively OP's MJ muddled about in Middle-earth, and she has missed it. With the Spring Festival in full force, it's the perfect time for her to hop right in. (And not just to enjoy spring and flowers, as opposed to the snow still present outside her window.) Join us live at 8:00 p.m. to...

Trove’s spring update adds a gearcrafting skill and overhauls endgame drops

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Gamigo's Trove is continuing to get love regardless of what's going on with the rest of the company's MMORPG catalogue, and for the blocky sandbox, that comes in the form of yet another update called, cutely, the Gear Up!date. "With the new spring update, players can master the latest new profession, Gearcrafting, enjoy dynamic loot, and progress through the Golden...

‘Realtime action-based MMORPG’ Quest Master’s Realm confirms early access launch March 29

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Over the past year or so we've been keeping eyes on Quest Master's Realm, an indie "realtime action-based MMORPG aboard the shell of a giant turtle" that has some sky-high ambitions and has been moving through testing phases. The game's next major phase is soon to happen, as developer Blue Lightning Software has announced a Steam early access...

Enshrouded opens the reward-filled Hollow Halls dungeons in its latest patch

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The survival sandbox world of early access title Enshrouded has gotten that much bigger this week with the launch of the Hollow Halls update, which introduces a wide assortment of new challenges for players to face and new goodies to discover and unlock. The tentpole attraction for the patch are the titular Hollow Halls, a series of four new "expansive"...

New World’s buffed cross-world expeditions LFG helped players suck less at Empyrean Forge (nice)

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If you're recovered from this week's Forged in Aeternum video, in which New World's devs explained that they still can't tell you what exactly is going on in June, then at least you can gorge yourself on a new Amazon dev blog, as the devs talk numbers... about Empyrean Forge. Amazon level designer Pride St Clair says that the improved...

LEGO Fortnite lets players build their own vehicles in the Mechanical Mayhem update

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While walking the hills and dales of LEGO Fortnite's world is probably fine and dandy for some, there are those times when you just want to get to your destination a bit faster. Enter the Mechanical Mayhem update, which introduces the ability for players to build vehicles for themselves. The game features three premade vehicles players can clap together in...

Wizard101 opens the Portal of Peril that brings a new dungeon delving event in latest update

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Usually opening something known as the Portal of Peril would be ill-advised at least or very bad news at worst, but in the case of Wizard101, it's the name of a new happy fun time event. Though it's also probably still going to be a little perilous; it wouldn't be a Portal of Peril unless there were some danger,...

The Stream Team: Making a return trip to Palia as part of its Steam platform release

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The open beta of Palia has hit new shores as the cozy multiplayer title launched on Steam this week, which is good enough of an excuse as any for MOP's Chris to peer back in and wander around this colorful and comfy world. Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EST for his return visit! What: Palia Who: Chris Neal When: 2:00 p.m....

Overwatch 2 announces nonbinary geotech hero Venture, trialing this weekend

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It surely goes without saying that Blizzard did not see Riot Games announce a non-binary character this past weekend and then decide to announce one of its own for Overwatch 2 today, right? Right? We all know it doesn't work that way, yes? Good. You may, however, speculate on who scooped whom here because yes, Overwatch 2 just announced...

No Man’s Sky launches Orbital update with major upgrades for space stations

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Whenever Hello Games starts sticking little cutesy icons in its tweets, you know a No Man's Sky launch is imminent, so Monday's little start emoji was an obvious clue. That launch is now here in the form of Orbital. "Dock your fully customised starship in the sleek new space stations of update 4.6, ORBITAL!" the studio says. "Space stations have...
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Perfect Ten: MMOs that experienced a surprising comeback

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It's hard to pass up a really good comeback story. We love it when a beloved something or someone is counted down and out... and then returns in a surprising but welcome fashion. In today's list, we're going to look at 10 MMOs that were either canceled and returned or games that experienced a revival along the way. Before we...

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