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Temtem marks two million total users, celebrates by deflecting player requests for content updates

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Temtem continues to prove to be a more popular game overall than any of the side projects its development studio has deigned to work...
This is probably fine.

End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2025

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I am the sort of person who derives no small amount of ongoing satisfaction from the idea that I have had an influence upon...
Right, this is... what we wanted?

Temtem Swarm gets a minor quality-of-life patch while promising a content update preview this week

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The players who have decided that Temtem Swarm is indeed their jam would like some new content. The players who are more dedicated to...
Every so often.

Casually Classic: What does WoW Classic’s future look like?

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Welcome to 2025, WoW Classic fans! What began as a somewhat reluctant legacy version of this MMO a little over five years ago has...

Heroes of the Storm’s next patch brings back Brawls – permanently – after nearly five years

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As has now become almost a regular habit, another patch has gone up the test realm for Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard's ostensibly maintenance-moded...

Splatoon 3’s Frosty Fest brings a few gifts to the new year

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Yes, the game may be in maintenance mode, but Splatoon 3's still making good on its promise to hold certain seasonal events, and we've...
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Valve’s maintenance-moded TCG Artifact saw a bizarre surge of thousands of players last week

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When a game enters maintenance mode, there's always the brief hope that it will suddenly garner wider interest and see at least a small...

Tamriel Infinium: I’m no doomer, but I’m worried about the future of Elder Scrolls Online

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If alarm bells were faintly ringing over Elder Scrolls Online owing to events transpiring early in December, now they're blaring klaxons with the release...

Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions

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Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
It's a jumping off point.

Elder Scrolls Online ends its chapter-based cadence in favor of a seasonal model in 2025

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We've been speculating for the last few weeks on what would be in the Elder Scrolls Online end-of-the-year letter and whether it would portend...
Super.

Square-Enix’s multiplayer arena shooter Foamstars is entering maintenance mode after less than a year

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Did you know that Square-Enix released a 4v4 arena shooter in the vein of Splatoon for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 less than...
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Temtem Swarm gets a patch with backup files and bug fixes

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It would perhaps be fair to say that Temtem Swam - the multiplayer shooter that came out following the maintenance mode of the original...

Temtem the MMO has more Steam players than Temtem Swarm despite being in maintenance mode

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Last September saw the final content update for Crema Games' "MMO-lite" Temtem, with the game entering into maintenance mode while the studio shifted most...

Heroes of the Storm closes out 2024 with its fourth balancing and bugfixing patch of the year

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The tail end of 2023 saw something pleasantly surprising out of Blizzard (for once): A sudden series of patches for its MOBA Heroes of...

Elder Scrolls Online’s 10th anniversary fizzles as ZeniMax cancels its North American meetup

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Hope you weren't planning on attending the big anniversary bash finale for The Elder Scrolls Online because ZeniMax Online Studios just abruptly canceled it. Readers...

Deceive Inc. developer dissolves after hitting a ‘breaking point,’ but the game will stay online for now

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We've got some disheartening news for anyone who was enjoying the spy vs. spy team shooter Deceive Inc.: Developer Sweet Bandits announced on its...
Pay to lose.

Perfect Ten: Lessons from unsuccessful MMORPGs that I wish designers would learn

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I have been writing about this genre for far too long now and seen far too many games with genuinely good elements completely fail...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you feel is spinning its wheels these days?

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When we think of MMOs that have stalled out or are spinning their wheels doing a lot of nothing in particular, often our minds...

Bethsoft’s Elder Scrolls Legends will sunset on January 30 after five years in maintenance mode

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It's been quite a while since the PC and mobile collectible card game Elder Scrolls Legends crossed our desk, but that would make sense...
Nadir.

Zenith shuts down legacy shards for PS VR 1 and Quest 1 on November 6

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It's bad enough that Zenith fans have had to deal with the game hitting maintenance mode just a couple of months ago, but it...

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