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Warhaven’s first pre-season arrives October 18 with a Halloween event and a new Bard class
What would happen if Jack Black and Ozzy Osborne were mashed together, thrown into a medieval world of endless warfare, and told to bring...
Diablo Immortal brings Hallow’s Wake event October 18, Diablo IV primes players for Season of Blood
The Diablo franchise is already a Halloween-adjacent sort of experience, but that's by no means a reason for the mobile version Diablo Immortal to...
Lost Skies showcases creatures, materials, ship progress, and player-built islands
The past couple of weekly dev blogs from the airship PvE sandbox Lost Skies have both been kind of similar in terms of format,...
Grand Theft Auto Online celebrates Halloween with thematic modes, extra rewards, and a spooky mask
The world of Grand Theft Auto Online is dangerous enough without Halloween hijinks complicating matters, but that's precisely what's happening across Los Santos as...
Crossout introduces armored aerial vehicles in this week’s Sky Raiders update
The multiplayer custom vehicle battler Crossout hasn't pinged our radar too often, but it has most certainly gotten updates, with its most recent patch...
Nightingale shows off more new estate styles, more new POIs, and very shiny minerals
Nightingale continues to try and put its prettiest foot forward as Inflexion Games works on its stated polish in preparation for its February 2024...
Top-down PvPvE extraction shooter Return Alive brings its open beta back for Steam Next Fest
The beginning of June saw another game arrive aboard the burgeoning multiplayer PvPvE extraction sub-genre: Return Alive, a top-down shooter from developer KOG Games...
Redfall reawakens with a new patch that improves stability, combat, enemy spawns, and gamepad control
The post-launch life of the multiplayer FPS Redfall has been one marred by an icy reception from critics and gamers, reports of a chaotic...
Destiny 2 outlines upcoming changes to exotic focusing costs, weapons, and armor
This week's Destiny 2 newsletter is mostly for the PvPers again, as the vast majority of its digital ink is spent on mid-season updates...
Fractured Veil shows off the in-game social hub of Lahaina while honoring the real-life location’s legacy
Readers are likely familiar with the devastating wildfires that roared across Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, which marshaled multiple MMO studios to pitch in to help...
Overwatch 2 Season 7 adds a Diablo-themed Halloween event, reworks Sombra, and tweaks Route 66 map
We already knew that more information about Season 7 in Overwatch 2 was on the way from Blizzard, and now we have the full...
Mad World’s latest patch adds harder dungeons, new gear attributes, and its newest battle pass
Mad World is still doing its thing - albeit not on Steam still - with another weekly content patch that applies a variety of...
Sega’s cancelled PvPvE shooter Hyenas was reportedly a doomed project from the very start
Have you heard about Hyenas? It's OK if you didn't, as this PvPvE shooter from developer Creative Assembly and publisher Sega had a pretty...
MMO Business Roundup: BioWare lawsuit, Nintendo multiplayer sunset, Twitch layoffs
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Numbers numbers numbers.
BioWare
Remember the hefty BioWare layoffs back in the summer? A group...
Diablo IV internal test build gets a 2.0 version designation, suggesting work on its first expansion
Are you ready to soar into the skies of wild presumptions and lofty assumptions? Then feast your eyes upon the latest scuttlebutt out of...
Overwatch 2 hints at a spook-filled Season 7 release with a teaser trailer
While Overwatch 2 might have already confirmed that a new control map is coming to Season 7, there was already going to be more...
Into the Echo’s worldbuilding narrative website Journey Across Raava leaves early access
Early access for a website is over and a full release is now. This is the unironic announcement heralded by Into the Echo developer...
Terraria talks up mod development, culling Unity from mobile, and an upcoming board game
We already know that Terraria developer Re-Logic has tried - and failed - for eight years to stop developing the multiplayer survivalbox, and no...
Realm of the Mad God Season 8 brings a tavern brawl mini-dungeon, new battle pass, and new crucible
It's time for a new season in the bullet hell dungeon crawling MMORPG Realm of the Mad God, and this season has a little...
Fae Farm launches cross-promos with fast food and grocery chains, heralds strong initial sales
Any game is happy to herald that it's doing big things, but how many of those games are eager to announce partnerships with Dippin...