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The Stream Team: Seeking out strange sights in No Man’s Sky

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Today's Sandbox Saturday is featuring No Man's Sky once again, but this time MOP's Chris is taking the flight stick controls for the time...
Impending.

WRUP: The show must go on edition

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They hurt you, and they left you afraid, and then they simply left you. And that's where you were at the moment that something...

The Daily Grind: Does cel shading help or hurt an MMO’s appeal and reputation?

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With titles like Tower of Fantasy on the market and Blue Protocol on its way for later this year, I thought it would be...

The Stream Team: Time to return to AdventureQuest 3D’s Oversoul

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It may be springtime in Lore now, but time runs -- and stops -- differently in AQ3D's Oversoul. And that's where Massively OP's MJ...

Star Citizen releases alpha 3.18.2 as players express surprise at a partial wipe and outline several build bugs

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Yesterday saw another Star Citizen patch go live as alpha 3.18.2 hit the PU with nothing more in its notes beyond "general stability and...

Overwatch 2 is fighting cheaters, fixing matchmaking, and saving Lifeweaver

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Overwatch 2 has kicked out multiple dev blogs this week, and they touch on matters that are likely important to a vast swath of...

The Stream Team: Kicking the tires of the new Storm Blaster in City of Heroes Homecoming

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The Homecoming rogue servers of City of Heroes are testing out a new Blaster powerset, and MOP's Chris is eager to throw the weather...
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Global Chat: Black Desert is the MMO sandbox to beat

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Those who wrote off or skipped by Black Desert on the way to other MMOs may be missing one of the best sandboxes on...

Champions Online’s Cryptic says it’ll ‘start exploring more inclusive customization options’

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Over the weekend, a Champions Online player tipped us off to a conversation on the game's official forums in which players are chronicling their...

The Daily Grind: What are the best and worst horizontal progression systems in an MMORPG?

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This morning, I want to talk about horizontal progression systems in MMOs, of which I am generally a fan! And I'm gonna start with...

Massively Overthinking: What should MMOs do when guild leaders vanish?

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Last week, we covered that wild story about a "heist" in EVE Online that allowed the perpetrators to make off with trillions of ISK...

Albion Online begins testing Knightfall midseason patch tomorrow – with WASD movement

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Yesterday, Sandbox Interactive dropped patch notes for Albion Online Knightfall midseason patch, and it's a doozy with a long list of tweaks. When the...

CCP Games is already sunsetting EVE Anywhere after just a year in the wild

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Back in 2021, CCP Games made a big to-do over a browser client for EVE Online called EVE Anywhere - essentially a cloud-hosted version...
All right, you live your truth.

Vague Patch Notes: If there’s any sort of metaverse, it’s already here – and it’s not what you think

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We've had a lot of fun here having a good little giggle about the whole saga (if you want to call it that) of...

New World prepares to merge 11 servers and open transfers from fresh start worlds

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Before the launch of New World's first season, Amazon devs has promised that they would revist the server population situation, and now they've made...
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The Daily Grind: What’s your least favorite sort of thing to farm in an MMO?

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Some MMOs, as we all know, have actual farms. Literally, just a place where you put farm goods and you farm things. But that's...

Splatoon 3 Splatfest collab with Zelda has us fighting for Triforce pieces

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Hot on the heels of Splatoon 3's new (and slightly controversial) event, Eggstra Work, Nintendo dropped news of the next Splatfest, and it's another crossover,...
Marching off to nowhere.

World of Warcraft previews Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible and flight in Zaralek Cavern

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You there! Are you excited for Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible in World of Warcraft? Or, as you more likely remember it being called if...

The Stream Team: Roguelike gun-toting crustacean adventures abound in Crab Champions

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Yes, that headline is correct: There is a game called Crab Champions, it is a multiplayer roguelike, you play as a shotgun-wielding crab, and...
The yeller.

Perfect Ten: 10 ways World of Warcraft feels like a dead mall

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There was a time that I lived next to a very small mall that's tucked kind of out-of-the-way in a part of my state....

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