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Betawatch: Chrono Odyssey hits beta and Bitcraft hits early access (presumably)

The beta for Chrono Odyssey has begun and brought with it bugs. Now, this would be completely fine if the game in question was Entomologist Combat Ody

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-06-20 0
Gachapwned: The hollowness of gacha MMO shutdowns and the way you lose

Sunsets are a reality in our line of coverage. Theyre not a constant, of course, but there are a lot of MMORPGs that do not make it to the decade mark

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-06-20 0
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best mascot?

A recent Black Desert tweet using the creepy Black Spirit mascot got me wondering why more MMOs dont have mascots. I mean, BDO deploys the Black Spiri

Bree Royce 2025-06-20 0
Age of Water’s latest patch adds wind turbines and rebalances power consumption

The latest update for Age of Water is all about the balance of power. Specifically, its about the balance of power consumption; you shouldnt be able t

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-06-20 0
Co-op roguelike shooter Terminull Brigade nails down a July 29 release date on PC

Fans of third-person roguelike shooters with oddball spelling choices in their titles, listen up: Tencents Level Infinite publishing arm and developer

Chris Neal 2025-06-20 0
Diablo Immortal’s Prince of Freedom update is live with new quests, items, helliquary, and eve

Its time to re-read the title for Diablo Immortals newest content update released this week and realize that, yes, it is indeed called Prince of Freed

Chris Neal 2025-06-20 0
World War II MMO Foxhole’s latest update lets you build and then breach bunkers

When the bombs start dropping, the best place to be is deep, deep underground. Thats why its welcome news that World War II-themed Foxhole added under

Justin Olivetti 2025-06-20 0
ARK: Survival Ascended launches its ‘first full expansion,’ Lost Colony

The next chapter for ARK: Survival Ascended is here (sort of), as the sandboxs first full expansion arrived yesterday on Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation

Justin Olivetti 2025-06-20 0
Star Citizen updates to alpha 4.2 with new sandbox activity, new vehicles, and ship rebalancing

A storm has arrived to Star Citizen in both a figurative and a literal sense as the spaceship sandbox has released its latest alpha build, aka Storm B

Chris Neal 2025-06-20 0
Mortal Online 2 shows off the new combat abilities and Adrenaline coming with the next patch

Its time for a new evolution of combat in Mortal Online 2, and that evolution involves combat abilities. Players can look forward to a new suite of co

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-06-20 0
Final Fantasy XIV previews patch 7.3, The Promise of Tomorrow, in its latest live letter

The latest Final Fantasy XIV live letter has showed off the games next patch: patch 7.3, The Promise of Tomorrow, is slated for early August release a

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-06-20 0
Dune Awakening’s future plans include a beefy July patch and the start of DLCs

Dune Awakening was one of the more impactful launches this year, but can Funcom keep momentum and interest in the survival SANDbox going? Thats the ho

Justin Olivetti 2025-06-20 0
Massively Overthinking: Finding flow states in MMORPGs

In this weeks Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about flow in MMOs the psychology concept, not zone or progression design flow. Heres Wikipedias

Bree Royce 2025-06-19 0
Vague Patch Notes: Control archetypes in MMORPGs are dead, but also they aren’t

Recently, we got a very fun podcast question from Merp asking if control/debuff archetypes in MMORPGs were dead. This is a good question! Its such a g

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-06-19 0
The Daily Grind: What do you consider the most annoying part of survival sandboxes?

Some people love survival sandboxes and some people do not, but todays Daily Grind is not about that. No matter how much you love or hate the entire g

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-06-19 0
Black Desert adds a new boss on PC, preps current console launch, kicks off an ‘expedition eve

Its another pretty busy week in the worlds of Black Desert as all three versions of the sandbox are introducing new things for players to get busy wit

Chris Neal 2025-06-19 0
Star Wars Galaxies Legends kicks off Empire Day and Pride events and adds three new houses

You might not realize it, but Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends is actually first out of the gate with its Independence Day celebrations thi

Bree Royce 2025-06-19 0
Elder Scrolls Online is putting you to work during the Zeal of Zenithar event next week

Elder Scrolls Online is putting you to work literally with its next in-game event. When the Zeal of Zenithar goes live next week, players will get a

Bree Royce 2025-06-19 0
Lord of the Rings Online welcomes players to the new tropical Midsummer Festival island

Say hello to Lord of the Rings Onlines new Midsummer Festival thats sending you to the brand-new tropical island of Furtherholm! LOTRO officially kick

Justin Olivetti 2025-06-19 0
Fortnite’s various modes add Bruno Mars, a co-op wave survival mode, and the mobile-ready Blit

The distraction circus that makes up Fortnite appears to have gone into overdrive this week, with the multiple modes and variants of the once PvE-only

Chris Neal 2025-06-19 0
Almost-28-year-old MMORPG Ultima Online just opened a Discord and patched in a new event

The grandfather of MMORPGs has fallen! No, I dont mean Ultima Online is sunsetting, heaven forfend. I mean its opened an official Discord.
We have lau

Bree Royce 2025-06-19 0
Once Human officially begins renting out ‘version 1.0’ of its custom servers with the la

The power is now in the hands of Once Human players as the option to rent custom servers for the survivalbox has officially moved out of its early acc

Chris Neal 2025-06-19 0
Elder Scrolls Online’s Seasons of the Worm Cult has finally launched for console fans

Console Elder Scrolls Online fans are finally getting their first crack at Seasons of the Worm Cult this week as the dont-call-it-an-expansion dont-ca

Bree Royce 2025-06-19 0
Sea of Thieves’ mid-season update applies fixes, Cannon of Rage cash-ins, and openable Reaper&

Sure, you could deploy some typical armaments in your Sea of Thieves sessions like firebombs or throwing spears or cannons, but what if you could just

Chris Neal 2025-06-19 0
V Rising’s Stunlock Studios says that whatever comes next for the game, it’ll take a bit

So with the release of the Oakveil region, whats next for the V Rising team? Well the latest post from the developers at Stunlock indicates that they

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-06-19 0

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