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Pixel Starships adds new level cap and rooms for internet starships, launches a Double Dragon crossover

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It's been quite a while since any major updates have come out of the 8-bit styled sci-fi strategy MMO Pixel Starships - we wondered...

Bohemia officially moves Vigor from PC early access to launch as Steam reviews tank

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Bohemia Interactive's free-to-play multiplayer looter-shooter Vigor officially launched on PC this week after a console launch and then a run in early access for...

Perfect Ten: The 10 crafting and gathering professions you find in every MMO

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Despite the common perception that MMORPGs are only about smashing, slicing, and blasting foes to oblivion, these games typically offer a whole lot in...

Trove launches UP vs Down event and expands Rising Tide with Release the Kraken update

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Gamigo's voxel sandbox MMORPG Trove has loosed a new event as of today, dubbed Up vs. Down. Actually UP vs. DOWN. Intriguingly, this even...

Massively Overthinking: Monetization dealbreakers in MMORPGs

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A few weeks back, I overheard my kids complaining about some custom Minecraft server that was apparently trying to monetize survival mode, which seemed...

Minecraft is getting a live action movie April 4 and it looks like a fever dream

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It's impossible to deny that Minecraft is a juggernaut IP, but is it ironclad enough to withstand the withering potential of box office failure?...

SkyVerse is a new Bohemia-pubbed Minecraft-esque multiplayer survival sandbox

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Of everything that's been newly announced during Gamescom so far, Bohemia Interactive's SkyVerse caught my attention quickest as a the type of cute voxelbox...

Trove bids PC players join the Sun and Moon alliance in the Lunar Plunge event

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Hot off the belated arrival of a ton of catch-up of content for console players, Gamigo has kicked off a new event in Trove......

Fight or Kite: Necesse is a cute retro survival game for Minecraft and Terraria fans

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I’ve never been one to make very good use of Steam wishlists – or any wishlists, for that matter. I’m weird in that way,...

Trove finally rolls out its spring and summer updates on PS4, Xbox, and the Switch

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If you're a fan of Trove as I am, you're surely aware of the dark cloud that's been hanging over the console version of...

Necesse is a 2-D multiplayer colony building and dungeon delving RPG featuring new graphics

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Here's one that's been out for a while but hasn't crossed our desks until recently: Say hello to Necesse, a 2019 single-player and multiplayer...

The Daily Grind: Would you play a player housing-only MMORPG?

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A few weeks back, MOP reader Stormwaltz teased Neverness to Everness' goofy name by proposing a new isekai-style game dubbed Adventure in Another World!...

Warframe of Mind: Partying like it’s 1999 at TennoCon 2024

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TennoCon is always a hotbed of Warframe (and now Soulframe) reveals, from new frames and primes to skins to the next content drops. But...

Ultima Online’s New Legacy and crackdown on third-party clients have vets rioting

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Ultima Online is a very old and fairly small MMORPG nowadays, but even so you probably knew that it has a thriving emulator community,...
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The Game Archaeologist: A look back at proto-MMOs through the 1980s

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Today I want to try something a little different as we look at MMORPG history. Rather than focus in on a single title or...

Stars Reach’s Raph Koster: ‘We’re going into space, and it’s going to be awesome’

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Playable Worlds' Raph Koster is back with yet another batch of Stars Reach game pillars, the driving concepts behind the MMORPG sandbox's design. We've...

Stars Reach’s Raph Koster argues that a persistent virtual world is ‘too powerful an idea’ to dismiss

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Those watching the online gaming genre with a growing sense of dismay at everything drifting away from large, persistent MMO worlds may find solace...

TennoCon 2024: Music, motorbikes, and romance make Warframe 1999

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It's the 1990s! We've heard of snips and snails and puppy dog tails, and sugar and spice and everything nice. But what is Warframe...

Sandbox MMO Dragon and Home adds the Void Isle and photo mode next month

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Looking for a cozy and comfy MMO to augment those summer vibes? You don't necessary have to scan for something brand-new, as indie sandbox...

The Daily Grind: What do you think about floating combat text in MMOs?

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When Trove launched its Rising Tide update back in June, Gamigo's PR included a ton of screenshots, including several of a character with massive...

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