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The MOP Up: Blizzard adds five of its titles to GeForce NOW

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Blizzard helped beef up GeForce NOW's library in March with Heroes of the Storm, Warcraft Rumble, and the three remastered versions of its Warcraft...

Multiplayer team vs. team shooter Star Wars Hunters announces plans to sunset in October

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Have you ever heard of Star Wars: Hunters? You would be forgiven for never realizing this game existed before now: This team vs. team...

Tactical shooter Spectre Divide folds weeks after launch despite $60M in investment

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Another multiplayer game bites the dust -- and this one virtually right out of the gate. Calling to mind the abrupt closure last year of...

The Steam spring sale is upon us with deals on MMOs from New World Aeternum to Pantheon

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Is it actually spring? No. But do you actually need an excuse for a Steam sale? Also no! But that's exactly what we got...

Not So Massively: Comparing the grinds of World of Warcraft and The First Descendant

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Lately most of my gaming time has gone into two games: World of Warcraft and The First Descendant. They're both very grindy games, but...

Defiance’s revival team didn’t get the database, will start with the final patch, and can’t commit to major updates yet

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Back on Tuesday, we reported on the news that Fawkes Games - which in the past has picked up multiple discarded Gamigo MMORPGs -...

Destiny 2 opens the Court of Blades and the Guardian Games’ return in Heresy act two

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It's time for some more heresy in Destiny 2! All right, maybe not specifically heretical acts - the guardians are still valiant folks after...
And on and on and on...

Perfect Ten: The strangest weapons you wind up using in MMORPGs

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Human beings have been using things as weapons for about as long as human beings have had hands and needed to hit stuff. That's...

Trion’s 2013 transmedia synergy MMO Defiance is being revived by Fawkes Games

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Two days ago I was explaining to my gen alpha children the origins of Trove's Heckbugs event and how the whole game was a...

Marvel Rivals players are suffering an uptick in racist and sexist slurs – and a lack of moderation

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Competitive shooters aren't usually what one would call friendly places to be in the best of times, but players of Marvel Rivals are finding...

Warframe hypes up its 12th anniversary, TennoConcert ticket sales, and PAX East devstream

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As we slide into the spring season here in our portion of the globe (and muddle through daylight saving time's return in the US,...

The MOP Up: Diablo IV ups its treasure goblin game

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Diablo IV doesn't have a treasure goblin any longer. It has treasure goblins, plural, as Blizzard introduced several new variants to these popular loot-spawning...
Luck of the something

Warframe kicks off its St. Patrick’s Day sales along with a special color lineup

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Real Warframe fans are mostly looking forward to the game's next major event being the anniversary festivities starting off on Friday, but that doesn't...

The First Descendant previews next week’s update, confirms the end of older console support in June

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The First Descendant is continuing to hype up its earlier previewed March update as this week brought another developer livestream for the Season 2...

Wyld Land is a top-down bullet hell roguelike MMO from a top Roll20 and OrbusVR dev

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If you're into tabletop RPGs, then you're probably familiar with Roll20, the virtual tabletop (VTT) website that lets players enjoy their favorite TTRPGs without...
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Storyboard: How do you roleplay in MMOs that don’t want you to roleplay?

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Readers, I am about to blow your minds. Are you ready to have your minds absolutely blown? It's going to be a huge shock,...

Fight or Kite: Steel Hunters brings mechas to the extraction shooter genre

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I don't think of the giant mecha genre as being a genre I'm wild about, but I've always had a soft spot in my...
Nah, you're gonna make it, buddy!

Vague Patch Notes: The MMO starter experiences that fear new players

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Last week, I talked a bit about power creep. But buried in there was something that you could easily miss as a guideline for...

Destiny 2 previews Heresy act two’s Court of Blades activity and new rewards arriving next week

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It's time for the next act of the Heresy episode in Destiny 2 on March 11th, and that means a new repeatable activity to...

Devolve Online is a vehicular extraction shooter MMORPG that promises a fight for growth among hundreds of players

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Yep, it's another extraction shooter. Only this time it's promising a battleground for hundreds of players at once and instead has people driving vehicles...

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