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Kickstarted cozy MMO Loftia recaps worldbuilding and MMO-inspired social systems

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Kickstarted cozy MMO Loftia is back with another development blog this week, this time recapping the last month of effort over at indie studio...

Wholesomeness alert: Sky Children of the Light has a spring-themed collab with The Little Prince

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Now this is some transmedia synergy we can get behind because it doesn't get more wholesome than this: Cozy MMO Sky Children of the...

The reboot of Kickstarted MMO Shards Online, Legends of Aria Classic, is officially sunsetting

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I'm sorry to report this morning that Legends of Aria Classic is closing its doors - again. The news comes via the game's Patreon...

War Thunder has unveiled a new auction house where gamers bid on player-created cosmetics

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Auction houses aren't a new thing to MMOs, but they are something new to the multiplayer military vehicle battler War Thunder. What's more, this...

Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2025?

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You know, you're not reading this piece until January, but I sat down to write it ahead of the turn of the year, when...

EVE Online’s 2025 roadmap promises a pair of expansions in Q2 and Q4

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CCP Games has delivered a solid roadmap for EVE Online today - the punchy short version and the hour-long stream version. So let's get...
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Casually Classic: Ranking WoW Classic’s six starting zones

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Part of the sheer fun of fresh start servers and going through WoW Classic again is becoming reacquainted with that old and welcome friend,...

MapleStory Worlds makes its soft launch as it tries to entice creators with monetary incentive programs

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Korean fans of MapleStory have already had their hands on Nexon's MapleStory Worlds since April, but now it's time for players in the Americas...

Stars Reach’s world reshaping tool test rewarded curious players with ‘spectacular’ death

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Stars Reach is continuing to push onward with playtesting that almost no one is in, but at least we get to hear about it...

MapleStory’s player-made creation game MapleStory Worlds confirms October 16 soft launch in the Americas

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Have you ever wanted to make your own MapleStory game world but couldn't land a job at Nexon America? Well that dream became a...

Social First’s ‘social cross-platform MMO’ Nexus Station is officially announced

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Back in August we got wind of a new Finnish game studio called Social First and its plans to create a "cross-platform social MMO";...

Nightingale previews Realms Rebuilt’s story progression and revamped main campaign

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Last week, Tencent's Inflexion Games took the wraps off a major inbound update for Nightingale dubbed Realms Rebuilt. The update, which is essentially the...

Raph Koster’s new MMORPG is called Stars Reach, and yes, it’s basically Star Wars Galaxies 2

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It's June 26th, Star Wars Galaxies' 21st birthday, and I'm sitting on Google Meet talking to none other than MMORPG founding father (and SWG...

Massively Overthinking: Unfair stigmas that follow MMORPGs

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A few weeks back, our team was discussing the intersection of survival sandboxes, MMORPG virtual worlds, and gankboxes - and how hard it is...

Here’s how to watch the keynote for Black Desert’s Heidel Ball in a French castle this weekend

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In case you have somehow missed in over the last few weeks of mentioning it, Black Desert is holding its summer community spectacle this...

Legends of Aria’s crypto version, Britaria, goes bust over ‘financial constraints’

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When Citadel Studios announced back in April that it was planning to relaunch the Kickstarted MMORPG Legends of Aria (fka Shards Online) as a...

Legends of Aria Classic is running a ‘surprise open beta’ this weekend ahead of its May 9 relaunch

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In the middle of April, pretty much everyone in the MMORPG was surprised to learn that Legends of Aria is getting a revival. Aria,...

City of Heroes Homecoming unveils huge community-driven base building initiative

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If you've been enjoying our tours of our favorite City of Heroes supergroup bases and portal hubs on the officially licensed Homecoming servers, then...

Kickstarted MMORPG Legends of Aria is relaunching as Legends of Aria Classic on May 9

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When last we looked in on Legends of Aria, it was fading fast into unfortunate obscurity. The Kickstarted MMORPG - originally known as Shards...

Second Life begins beta testing terrain updates, 2K textures, and mirrors for creators

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The toolset for creative players of Second Life is seeing a number of interesting updates, as the sandbox is running some beta tests that...

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