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Diablo IV is bringing the ability to craft uber unique items on February 13

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When is a Diablo IV item more unique than unique? When it's uber unique, of course! This tier of item has been a farming...

Warhaven puts out a new character, new pre-season, and Valentine’s Day event ahead of April sunset

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Warhaven is still a multiplayer title that's headed for a sunsetting in April, but you probably wouldn't know that judging by the game's content...

Overwatch 2 previews Season 9 updates to competitive play and characters

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Overwatch 2 has already painted a broad picture of the changes to competitive play due for the shooter's Season 9, but now director Aaron...

Chronicles of Elyria claims that over 90% of fans still want the MMO

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As the saying goes, those who can't make MMOs, talk about MMOs. And so it is with Chronicles of Elyria's Soulbound Studio, which is...
head, shoulders, skull and bones (skull and bones)

Betawatch: Skull & Bones lands washes ashore in open beta at long last

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If you didn't believe that Skull and Bones would ever hit open beta, or really any beta, you aren't alone. I have been making...

Genshin Impact takes cheat makers to court for copyright infringement

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You have to be a special sort of sad to want to cheat in a game like Genshin Impact, let alone one who would...

Closers celebrates its sixth anniversary by handing out character level jumps and login rewards

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Against all presumed odds, Closers has been online for six years, and that merits a whole lot of celebration from the anime MMO, as...
They're friends.

Final Fantasy XI adds a new Master Trial against the guardians of Adoulin

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The next major Final Fantasy XI patch will not actually involve going to war against a month, but it certainly sounds like it will....

Mad World updates UI elements and potential growth system, delays its new dungeon to next week

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This week is bringing another patch to Mad World, and most of its contents are about adjustments to existing features and UI elements, as...

Q4 2023: Nexon, Krafton, and Roblox all posted soaring revenues in 2023

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Welcome back to another MMO business roundup - this one all about financials for some of the companies we keep an eye on 'round...

DC Universe Online reopens Love’s Battlefield and hands out new rewards for Valentine’s Day

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Nothing says love quite like denying a villain his heart's desire because it would destroy an entire city. If that setup sounds familiar to...

Two weeks into early access, Kickstarted survivalbox Fractured Veil patches up and merges servers

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While server merges are sometimes necessary and healthy, they're not the best optics when they happen mere weeks after a game's early access release....

EverQuest and EverQuest II’s Erollisi Day Valentine’s events return with new and returning quests and goodies

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The season of love - or at least the season commanded by Erollisi Marr - has returned once again to EverQuest and EverQuest II....

RuneScape’s Jagex confirms it’s being sold for the fourth time in eight years as it talks up ‘forever games’

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Rumors from earlier this week that suggested RuneScape company Jagex was once again for sale have now been proven correct, thanks to a formal...

Working As Intended: A guide to City of Heroes Homecoming’s best player-crafted portal bases

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A few years ago, I was wandering around in City of Heroes when someone advertised a cool base in chat. All I had to...
It's all the money we don't have!

Microsoft insists Activision-Blizzard was planning on mass layoffs before the merger

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As we've been covering, earlier this week the FTC filed a complaint to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, alleging that Microsoft misrepresented itself...

Star Citizen begins its Valentine’s Day, Lunar New Year, and free fly events for February this weekend

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The month of February is loaded to the gills with events (and shop sales) for the alpha spaceship sandbox of Star Citizen, as CIG...

WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery moves into its second phase with Gnomeregan raid

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It's a little strange to think that WoW Classic's Season of Discovery server is only just now moving into its second phase, but here...
so much better

Former Overwatch 2 lead vfx artist calls out Blizzard for deceptive promotion and pay behavior

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Workers and former workers at the various substudios at Activision-Blizzard have been calling it out as an unpleasant workplace for a while now since...

Massively Overthinking: When the original MMO is better than the sequel

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A few weeks ago, two lovely gamers I follow on Bluesky were discussing how let down they felt by Diablo IV, less because Diablo...

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