oarpg

OARPG stands for “online action roleplaying game.”

Corepunk opens a player survey that seeks thoughts on gameplay, update focus, and Steam release

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Do you have opinions on Corepunk's current and future direction but aren't interested in sharing those in a Discord? Then you're in luck because...
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...

Diablo IV’s Season of Witchcraft finally arrives next week on January 21

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Blizzard has set a hard date for Diablo IV's next season, and it's the witchy one that the studio has already been testing since...

Interview: NCsoft America’s new CEO, Jeonghee Jin, on awakening the ‘sleeping giant in the West’

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A few years ago, I attended Black Desert Online's Heidel Ball, one of the yearly events that Pearl Abyss holds to make major announcements for...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever let someone else level your MMO account? You know, like Musk did in Path of Exile 2

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Claims that tech tycoon and Twitter mismanager Elon Musk is some sort of Diablo and Path of Exile savant gave way last week to...

Corepunk rebalances mana, tunes classes, and makes another set of tweaks to Tier 3 artifacts

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Artificial Core is continuing the work of balancing and adjustment to its early access MMOARPG Corepunk, as its latest patch has focused on tweaks...

Diablo III reruns the Light’s Calling theme for its Season 34 starting January 24

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Thematically speaking, fighting the legions of Hell with the power of divine light kind of makes sense, even if a world like Sanctuary sees...

Path of Exile 2 previews changes to endgame maps, bosses, and leagues as GGG admits to data breach

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One would expect that an early access MMOARPG like Path of Exile 2 would be getting some updates, which means that yesterday's video preview...
In a box.

The MOP Up: Star Trek Online surprises fans with Spacedock revamp

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Star Trek Online delivered a small surprise this past week with visual improvements to its iconic Spacedock: "In essence, we’re replacing the exterior System...

Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2024?

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It's pretty much a given that every year when we announce our MMO of the year, someone's going to hop into the comments and...
So steamy.

Steam saw more games released in 2024 than any other year prior

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We are once again being reminded that Valve's Steam platform is the biggest player in town when it comes to digital storefronts: Fresh data...

The Stream Team: Jumping blind into Path of Exile 2

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What is this hype all about? Larry has no idea, so MJ invited Larry to try out Path of Exile 2. Larry agreed with...

Corepunk hands out mount cosmetics instead of restoring lost items

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Earlier this week we checked in on Corepunk to follow up on earlier server crashes, finding that servers have been mostly restored (albeit with...

Corepunk’s servers return with a small rollback and temporarily lowered player population caps

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Just before the holidays, we kept eyes on Corepunk as it wrestled with infrastructure problems that kept the MMO's servers dark save for some...

The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives, 2024 edition

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While MMORPGs constitute a shifting, ever-evolving market, their history remains surprisingly evergreen. That's what history is: Facts and stories stamped and preserved for our...

PSA: Diablo IV is free to play through the end of the year

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In a move that by no means is counter-programming to Path of Exile 2's recent early access launch, Blizzard announced that it is making...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025

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This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...

Lost Ark’s Winter Soloist update is live with a solo mode expansion and the new ‘destined protection’ system

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Lost Ark's big winter update, Winter Soloist, is officially here today, and that's not a reference to music: It's the introduction to an infusion...
Riders

End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024

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So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
we go

Blizzard’s 2024 infographic is light on useful info, but gamers did play 8.34B hours in Blizz games this year

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Blizzard president Johanna Faries penned a dev blog to the Blizzard community last night, with kind words for players and developers alongside one of...

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