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The Daily Grind: Why did Red Dead Online fail?

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Last week, Rockstar delivered the distressing news that it's essentially putting Red Dead Online, the MMO version of Red Dead Redemption 2, into maintenance...

Ubisoft plans to yank multiplayer from 15 more of its games this fall as devs scramble to preserve them

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If your game library is full of Ubisoft titles, you may want to reevaluate which of them you'll actually be able to play come...
HELLO FROM THE OTHER SIIIIIIIIIIDE

Blizzard shifts Heroes of the Storm into maintenance mode, gives lizards to all

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Quick: What's the one live service Blizzard game that nobody ever talks about, thinks about, or apparently plays? The correct answer is, of course,...

One Shots: Songs for a sinking ship

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Maybe it's just me, but whenever I see a screenshot with a Dutch angle, I naturally assume that either a ship or the entire...

Rockstar Games outlines new content for GTA Online, confirms the end of major updates for Red Dead Online

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Players of both Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Online have both gotten a community update post, and it spells good news for...

Why I Play: What keeps me coming back to The Secret World

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Now and then I'll allude to being the weirdo who's still playing The Secret World -- not Secret World Legends, but the original. I've...
Always the level.

Vague Patch Notes: A love letter to the people going above and beyond in the MMO genre

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Let's just lead off with a very simple statement. Hey there, teams out there working on MMOs and doing more than you need to?...
Honse

The Daily Grind: Would you start playing an MMO in soft maintenance mode?

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Some games officially announce when they're going into maintenance mode. (And some games then update more than some non-maintenance titles, but that's an exception.)...
Roguish.

MGI & Gamigo Q1 2022: Atlas Rogues is dead

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I'm sorry to report this morning that Gamigo is sunsetting Atlas Rogues. The news came on Memorial Day when nobody in the US was...
NO NOT THIS EMOTE

Vague Patch Notes: The specter of MMO persistence in single-player games

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Recently, we got a great letter from a listener asking about an issue that he'd been having with single-player games compared to MMOs. Essentially,...
Oh no.

Four Winds: Remembering TERA’s wild start and in-game politics

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Well, the TERA sunset thing caught me off guard. I don't play TERA, but I was always under the impression that the game was...

Scavengers enters PC maintenance mode and cans console development as its studio gets sold by Improbable

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Over the past year, we've been following the development of Scavengers, a multiplayer PvPvE survival shooter that entered early access last April. Gameplay involved...

Choose My Adventure: Final Fantasy XI’s PlayOnline decides to not let me play online

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This was not how I was expecting to return to Final Fantasy XI. I always knew about the completely goofball account system that is...

Elite Dangerous halts developer livestreams [Update: Aaaand now they’re back]

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The open comms out of Elite: Dangerous are closing once again. The game's senior community manager posted brief alerts on the forums that developer...
Good plan!

Square-Enix’s president is still bullish on the prospect of NFTs and blockchain in gaming

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Have you forgotten about president Yosuke Matsuda's buzzword-laden blockchain pitch from the start of the year? It's entirely possible you have, since in the...

Online TCG Spellweaver goes into maintenance mode following ‘final update’

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A six-year-old online trading card game that once had aspirations of MMOhood is calling it quits, in a fashion. Spellweaver's team announced that the online...
I realize that in this article I raise the prospect of someone liking the combat in any version of The Secret World, which is really quite funny.

The Daily Grind: What should Funcom do with Secret World?

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There's nothing that makes my eye twitch faster than when someone brings up a beloved MMORPG that was either cancelled, abandoned, or neglected. So...

Ubisoft maintenance-modes Ghost Recon Breakpoint following failed NFT scheme

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Let us take a moment to chronicle the brief history of Ubisoft's Ghost Recon Breakpoint. The game actually launched back in 2019, though it...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking Guild Wars 2’s post-End of Dragons roadmap

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Last week, we got a tsunami of good news from Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet. Studio directors Colin Johanson and John "JT" Taylor, along...

Elite Dangerous puts console to PC wealth transfers on hold to assess possible changes

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Before Elite: Dangerous studio Frontier Developments elected to put the kibosh on content development for consoles, it allowed players a one-time transfer of wealth...

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