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Mortal Online 2’s next refinement patch adds an aggressive flag, new spells, and house customization
The Era of Refinement continues apace for Mortal Online 2, as the PvP sandbox is already preparing its next tuning update that brings some new features, new adjustments, and of course, a bunch of quality-of-life once again. At the top of the list for this next update is the…
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BitCraft Online brings updates to claim stability and claim maintenance costs November 10
At the tail end of September, BitCraft had outlined some planned updates to town claims and their stability, which were aimed at preventing some cheesing and other bad player behavior related to the system like placement to save on tiles or making “snakes” that bar other players…
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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen notes progress on Faerthale creatures, Badia de Cara caves, and quests
This past weekend has once more seen Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen mark progress on many of the things that developer Visionary Realms said it was doing during its Q&A. So, yes, that means the latest progress report is about the Badia de Cara and Faerthale zones for the most…
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RuneScape shares the next plugins officially coming to the game and readies another double XP weekend
Plug it in, plug it in. That’s what RuneScape players are able to say now that the sandbox MMORPG is putting an official plugin hub through its paces, and soon, even more plugins will be on the way. At least four more of them, to be exact. The player-built plugins that have…
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Corepunk admits to design and development struggles, but continues to plot a path to its 1.0 release
Corepunk is talking about a 1.0 release again, only this time it’s framed with a bit more contrition and open admittance of problems that have hamstrung the early access development of the MMOARPG. Even so, Artificial Core further assures fans and early adopters that it is…
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Anthropic updates its gen AI coding tool in an attempt to stem the flood of copycat game slop
We’ve reported a few times how generative AI coding tools have unleashed a torrent of decompiled classic games and multitudes of slop clone titles, but now it would appear that, at least in the case of Anthropic’s Claude coding tool, an attempt is being made to limit people from…
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After months of silence, Ethyrial Echoes of Yore refreshes character models, gear, and gameplay
It has been just about seven months since Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore, the sandbox MMORPG that was acquired by an angel investor back in 2024, has had any sort of update. Apparently that’s because developer Oath Games was busy with a significantly larger patch that has reworked the…
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EVE Online takes a closer look at Fractured Skies’ opt-in preview of its new HUD
If you’ve been playing EVE Online, you might be the sort of person who’s not a fan of major changes to the fundamental experience of the sandbox. That might be why the Fractured Skies expansion is making its updated HUD a purely opt-in feature to test and try out, but even…
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Warframe preps its huge free Tau update for December
Hope you haven’t already made travel plans for December, because Warframe wants to take you to a completely new star system for the holiday season. Digital Extremes announced that its upcoming Tau update will hit sometime in December as a completely free content drop for the…
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Wisdom of Nym: Reacting to Final Fantasy XIV: Evercold’s final reveals in Tokyo
As happened after the prior fan festival, I have a lot to talk about after Final Fantasy XIV‘s most recent fan festival… and sadly, not all of it is positive. Specifically, the negative has to do with the delay, which I did predict was a possibility but it’s less about the delay…
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Indie MMO Monsters & Memories has over 30,000 subscriptions after its first month of early access
Many MMOs do everything in their power to hide and obfuscate their actual player engagement numbers. Monsters & Memories, on the other hand, has a dedicated page showing you exactly how many players are on what server at any given time. Mad respect for that. And mad respect for…
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Stars Reach adds swimming and orienteering as its early access period flounders
What can Stars Reach do that SWTOR and LOTRO cannot? The scifi sandbox can go swimming underneath the surface of the water thanks to last Friday’s Making Waves content update. Swimming should function as expected, although players might be interested to hear that they can…
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Guild Wars Reforged datamining uncovers new assets that hint at an unreleased expansion’s return
It looks as if Guild Wars Reforged is spinning up to release some new content sometime in the very near future, as players in a mod’s Discord community have been doing quite a bit of datamining and unearthed some very intriguing additions. Word of this discovery was first shared…
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World of Warcraft Forever’s beta saw over 8.8 million characters created
While Blizzard isn’t releasing hard numbers for how many players pre-purchased World of Warcraft Forever and played the beta, the studio did put out a stat sheet that backs up a recent claim by Xbox’s CEO that the title is already setting records for the company. As you can see…
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ArcheAge Chronicles talks content cadence, design, and pushing the MMO genre forward
With ArcheAge Chronicles only a day away from its early access release, executive producer Yongjin Ham sat down for an internal interview video to talk about the game, its development track to this point, and a bit about what he’s hoping to achieve with its early access release…
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City of Heroes Homecoming appears to be testing a live Vault database with stats and badges
If you’ve been playing City of Heroes in any depth lately, you’ve probably ended up on the City of Heroes developer website, which plays host to multiple resources for the game, including the primary modding database and tool that we’ve showcased before here on MassivelyOP (and…
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The Daily Grind: What kind of truly unique MMORPG holidays would you want to see?
We’re just about past the flood of MMO Halloween events, and while that and other in-game holidays like it are a good time, there’s also an argument to be made in favor of virtual worlds creating their own bespoke holidays. After all, these are supposed to be virtual worlds,…
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MMO Week in Review: Zephyrs and wolves
Halloween brought both treats and tricks for the MMORPG genre this week. On the cruel trick side, the Star Trek Online community is mourning not one but two Trek actors. But on the treat side, we’ve been digging into Aion 2 and ArcheAge Chronicles and WoW Forever, Lord of the…
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Battle royale tower crawler Arkheron enters early access November 27 on PC and consoles
The time for occasional testing is over, and soon the doors to the tower will open. And the tower will be technically built but also under construction. That’s because Arkheron, the battle royale tower climbing ARPG from Rob Pardo’s Bonfire Studios, is set to launch into early…
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The MOP Up: World of Warcraft comes to… Sega Dreamcast?
Here’s our official salute to the always-ingenious console homebrew communities out there who are always pushing the limits of what older hardware can do. One of these caught our attention this past week when someone set up a fully functional multiplayer homebrew port of World…