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OARPG stands for “online action roleplaying game.”

Lost Ark’s Korean class balance updates won’t land in the west until January 2024

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Last week saw a bit of bad news for western fans of Lost Ark when Amazon Games confirmed that class adjustments made to the...

Massively Uplifting: MMO gratitude, goodness, and giving, from Elder Scrolls Online to Guild Wars 2

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Today is a big day for your belly! If you celebrate Thanksgiving, chances are you'll have/have had a table overflowing with delectable dishes today...

Diablo IV runs another free trial promotion on Steam and launches the Mother’s Blessing boost event

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Blizzard is once again sounding the promotional horn for DIablo IV, only this time it doesn't involve chicken, laundry, or Sarah Michelle Gellar; it's...

Diablo Immortal ushers in Season 20 and teases ‘something familiar’ coming to the MMO

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How are we already at Season 20 for Diablo Immortal? Maybe we entered a time anomaly and skipped ahead a bit. Look at the...

Choose My Adventure: Character and comfort levels continue flowing in Tree of Savior

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I don't know whether I really like Tree of Savior yet, but I also have to admit that the dopamine hit of making it...

Smilegate unveiled a playable version of Lost Ark Mobile at G-Star 2023

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Remember back in 2019 when we were all still waiting on Lost Ark's arrival to the west? Then you perhaps also remember that we...

Path of Exile announces Affliction expansion arriving December 8, promises more details November 30

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Yes, Path of Exile is doing the "announcement of an announcement" thing, but at least this announcement has a bit more information to it...

The Daily Grind: What’s the most excessive whaling you’ve ever seen in an MMO?

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Every time I think whaling in the MMO industry can't get any worse, some game comes along and proves me wrong. That was the...

Lost Ark launches the Souleater and jump-start server reconnections in today’s Soul Harvest update

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This week has been a bit of bad news/good news for Lost Ark, as Amazon and Smilegate admitted earlier this week that the balance...

Choose My Adventure: Levels and confusion come fast and thick in Tree of Savior

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So as the headline suggests, the game we're starting November off with is Tree of Savior, an anime-styled OARPG that I've played a couple...

Lost Ark confirms its Soul Harvest update will not feature KR version’s latest class balancing

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There will always be some gulfs between the Korean version and western version of Lost Ark no matter how much Amazon Games wants that...

Amazon Games is hit with another round of layoffs, but the MMORPGs are not affected

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Amazon Games is queueing up its second layoff of the year: According to Aftermath, the company has laid off another 180 games workers, adding...

ARPG Grim Dawn preps its ‘most comprehensive free update ever’

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Now that the new ARPG smell has faded from Diablo IV, it's entirely possible that fans of the genre are looking to branch out...
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Vague Patch Notes: BlizzCon 2023 wasn’t a disaster, but it needed to be better

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The last live BlizzCon in 2019 was not a great show, but it was fundamentally a hype festival for Blizzard just like they've all...

Massively Overthinking: Did BlizzCon do what it needed to do?

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Given the last couple of years, which have been inarguably rocky for both the company and its games, Blizzard needed a big win at...

Diablo Immortal readies the Harvest Bounty event, Hearthstone sets the table for Showdown in the Badlands

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Two of Blizzard's two major mobile games - Diablo Immortal and Hearthstone - are getting themselves a pair of content updates, as the former...

The Soapbox: Will Diablo IV’s Vessel of Hatred be a sufficient answer for Path of Exile 2?

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Everyone loves a good enrage timer, right? It puts pressure on everyone involved in a raid or boss fight to pull their weight and...

‘We never intended to create a hardcore game’: Corepunk devs recap playtest

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Corepunk already shared some initial player feedback from its second playtest - "challenging and punishing" was used a fair bit - but now developer...

Lost Ark shows off the Souleater arriving on November 15

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The latest player option for Lost Ark arrives in the game on November 15th, the Souleater. And she's a very original class the likes...

Choose My Adventure: Swamps, spicy fights, story, and technical issues in New World

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Just in case anyone was worried, no, I didn't abandon Choose My Adventure; I was just busied by reporting on a space game and...

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