Black Desert Mobile continues content streamlining by removing instances and rescheduling PvP activities

Black Desert Mobile started efforts to streamline content with last week's patch, and this week that work continues by removing a selection of various instances from the game. It doesn't get a whole…

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Eterspire releases roadmap for the rest of 2026 with overhauls of social and combat systems

Last week, as Eterspire studio Stonehollow Workshop was rolling out a new update and preparing its rollout on Apple TV (yes), it was also resetting expectations for the team's roadmap for the rest of…

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Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds returns August 11 with new rewards

Guild Wars 2 fans who aren't all wrapped up in the MMORPG's housing scene right now will be overjoyed to know that they're about to get a new event grinder as the traditional summer festival is about…

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RuneScape hypes plugins and upcoming league, OSRS tweaks Wyrmscraig and Sailing

The month of August is, for the most part, going to be dominated by the Equilibrium league arriving to RuneScape. And if you don't believe us, we have pictured proof in the form of the MMORPG's…

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Perfect Ten: All of the MMORPG expansions from 2003

The year 2003 witnessed a huge boom in the MMORPG genre. It was the year of Star Wars Galaxies, EverQuest Online Adventures, PlanetSide, EVE Online, and Lineage II. It also saw the most MMO…

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Phantasy Star Online 2 NGS preps new main story, more missions, and the Super Phantasy Festival event

We're just into the new month and that means there's a selection of updates planned for Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis, which include a fresh main story chapter, lots of limited-time missions to…

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Lord of the Rings Online’s latest update adjusts the Angmarim Sorceress and the Pelennor instance cluster

Our Lord of the Rings Online fans may already be dreaming of Wolves of Mordor, but Standing Stone Games is in the here and now with this week's update as it shores up its In Good Company patch with a…

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Guild Wars 3 confirms Humans, Asura, and Kodan, plus a mystery species, will be playable at launch

Ever since the first Guild Wars 3 announcement and video dropped, there's been no end to the speculation on what the races will be. Like, we're talking Pepe Silvia levels of zooming in to try to…

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Electronic Arts’ $55B buyout has officially completed – and the company is already plotting layoffs

Gamers who have been following along already knew that this whole thing was academic, but now it is official: Electronic Arts has been bought out for $55B, which has made the games developer and…

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Monsters & Memories delivers a deep dive on its Cleric, Fighter, and Monk classes

As August rolls into town, looking all squinty and steely eyed, indie MMO Monsters & Memories proves that it's not afraid to stare it down and then unleash not one, not two, but three class deep…

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Stars Reach is releasing its final pre-early access update to overhaul crafting, weapons, and the UI

With fewer than two weeks to go until early access, Stars Reach is cranking up the hype machine once again with videos and a patch too. "This is it! We've reached the final major update before Early…

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The Daily Grind: Are you amused or annoyed when MMOs incorporate memes?

From my perspective, this whole "Jimothy" thing's been really weird. I didn't hear anything about it until a couple weeks ago, and then it was everywhere overnight -- including so many MMOs that…

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The Stream Team: Everything is lava in Guild Wars 2’s Thunderhead Peaks

Everything is Lavaaaa, Everything is hot in Thunderhead Peaks. Everything is Lavaaaaa, When you're helping Aurene. Massively OP's MJ has found the Dragonsblood Forge in Guild Wars 2, and it is…

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Gamigo finally restored Trove’s market and introduced the new minipet questing and progression system

Gamigo has officially rolled out the new tiny quests feature to its voxel MMO Trove today, but that isn't even the big story because all year long we've been covering the collapse of Trove's auction…

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Kakao mobile MMO Odin Valhalla Rising merges western servers and implements paid server transfers

After more than a year of live operation, the Korean mobile MMO Odin: Valhalla Rising took action to merge its underperforming servers into fewer but more populated realms. Last week, Kakao announced…

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RUST boss Alistair McFarlane has left Facepunch and will not be saving New World after all

Facepunch Studios, aside from having a charming name that is also very fitting for the developers of RUST, has been directed by Alistair McFarlane for some time. If the name sounds familiar to you,…

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Massively OP Podcast Episode 575: I’m turning this car around and going back to Mordor

Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO Worlds of Mordor, Elder Scrolls Online, Stars Reach, Closers, and ArcheAge S, with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, Eterspire, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on…

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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Eclesiar, Farwoods, and Stalzone

Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you’ve never heard of! And technically speaking, you've heard of at least one of the three games that we're throwing a…

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Early access MMORPG SpiritVale has finally brought its trade system back online after its rocky launch

Since its early access launch back in July, Kickstarted indie MMORPG SpiritVale has been a whirlwind of highs and lows. It peaked at over 20,000 concurrent Steam players, and as I type this, there…

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Critter-catching multiplayer RPG Aniimo shares closed beta stats as it heads to Gamescom

At the top of last month, we saw Aniimo, the cute and colorful creature-catching multiplayer RPG from Pawprint Studio start its closed beta testing. As of July 25th, that testing officially wrapped…

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Guild Wars 2 recaps WvW beta 2’s ‘healthier spread’ for scoring, plans beta 3 for August 11

Guild Wars 2 PvP fans already know that ArenaNet has been hard at work trying to shore up the game's PvP all year and last year too - including WvW. In today's blog post, the studio has popped up to…

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Star Wars The Old Republic rolls out GU 7.9.1 today with Galactic Season 11 coming August 18

As promised, Star Wars The Old Republic's GU 7.9.1 patch, Light and Shadow, is officially live today. The primary content chunk of the patch is actually the new Galactic Season, although technically…

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Escape from Tarkov’s fan-built single-player offline version ends dev following trademark complaint

If you were keen on experiencing the tension of the extraction shooter Escape from Tarkov but didn't want other players ruining the game for you in any number of ways, one of your primary options was…

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Choose My Adventure: ‘Destiny 2.5’ is for the old diehards, not for me, and that’s pretty awesome

As I suggested in last week's edition of Choose My Adventure, I felt like I had pretty much made up my mind about how I feel regarding this return to Destiny 2, but I still wanted to be sure. And it…

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‘This patch concludes the content we have for Book of Travels’: Might & Delight has sunsetted its tiny MMO

'Twas no surprise since Swedish studio Might and Delight had many times reminded us it was coming, but this past weekend saw the final end of Kickstarted tiny MMO Book of Travels - at least, its tiny…

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Elder Scrolls Online has begun public testing part of Update 52, now due out September 28

One of the major updates originally planned to launch in 2026 for The Elder Scrolls Online was update 51, and in spite of all the layoffs, it is still coming, with only a slight delay. And ahead of…

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Lost Ark will merge 12 western servers down to five later this month

The next wave of Lost Ark merges are almost upon us. Last night, Amazon announced that North American servers and European servers are due for some ensquishening, though obviously not together.…

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Elite Dangerous attacks operations issues and teases its next new vessel

If you were having some issues with Elite Dangerous' dungeon-like operations on release last month, you probably already knew that Frontier Developments was trying to address the matter. Since the…

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Final Fantasy XIV officially arrives to the Nintendo Switch 2 console today – here’s what to know

Today is the day when Final Fantasy XIV pulls wide the floodgates and lets another fresh gaggle of sprouts rush into Eorzea. That's right, the MMORPG has officially arrived to the Nintendo Switch 2…

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World of Warcraft’s Update 11.1 gives you better tools to track cooldowns and consumables

World of Warcraft players have a lot to anticipate with next week's arrival of Update 11.1: Curse of Ula'Tek, including a new zone, storyline, delves, and housing improvements. But wait, the…

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