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Lord of the Rings Online begins testing Update 48’s Rivendell housing and Pahar Hatokáli zone

The spring content patch for Lord of the Rings Online is shaping up to be both cheerful and ambitious. Update 48: A Glorious Hunt went up on the Bullroarer test server this week with the new Rivendell housing zone, support for UI scaling in plugins, and the final Umbar zone, Pahar Hatokáli. Rivendell Steadings is […]
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Final Fantasy XI revamps tutorial quests and makes Skirmish easier to access

If you’ve tried to go back to Final Fantasy XI at any point or even tried to start the game completely new… well, you know it’s not an easy thing to do. The game has a tutorial quest, but it hasn’t been updated in years, and that’s without dealing with things like maps being expensive. So […]
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Pantheon Rise of the Fallen teases its upcoming Paladin class refresh

Where my Paladins at? You’re next up for Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s series of class refresh dev blogs, and Visionary Realms is hopeful you’ll like what you see. The new Pally is still basically a tank or healer who deals with the Wrath combat resource, and Pallies will still be able to spec into […]
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Elder Scrolls Online previews Season Zero, plus future seasons and a return to Skyrim

This afternoon, Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax Online took the wraps off of more content coming over the course of 2026, including the Night Market. Ahead of the reveal today, we attended a press event to introduce more details for the upcoming Season 0, as well as tease a bit of what’s coming beyond that in […]
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Mortal Online 2 discusses party system developments, journal UI overhauls, and a new PvP flag

It’s time for Mortal Online 2 to discuss things that are coming in THE FUTURE. Flying cars! Linoleum countertops! Double ovens in the wall! OK, so maybe not all of that is coming to the PvP sandbox, but there are new developments to talk about all the same. First off, the results from player polling about the […]
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Spirit Crossing is changing friendship gems and proximity chat access in its next update

It looks as if Spirit Crossing is making its way closer and closer to its next alpha patch release, as the game’s latest post is once again focused on a feature update in 14.9. And this one is for the social butterflies in the room. First off, players will gain access to the proximity chat sooner, unlocking […]
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Throne and Liberty delays global update a week, players resort to peeping the Korean patch notes

If you were gearing up for the April 2nd Throne and Liberty patch, go ahead and gear back down because it’s been delayed without any reason other than that Amazon says it wants to “ensure a smooth release,” which you would think would always be true. And unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be an April […]
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Indie MMO Drakantos reveals its hella ambitious PvP modes ahead of May beta

Drakantos is one of the cuter indie MMORPGs we’ve been keeping an eye on over the last few years, so we’re happy to hear that it’s gearing up for yet another beta test in May. Unlike the last one, this test will focus on PvP tuning, though you don’t have to engage and can play […]
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A community-run Pride event in World of Warcraft is getting officially supported in patch 12.0.5

Regular fans of World of Warcraft are probably familiar with the annual Running of the Trolls, a community-led charity event that both celebrates Pride month and helps to raise money for The Trevor Project. Well, it looks like the 2026 version is getting official backing from Blizzard, as it’s being made an in-game event in patch […]
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Genshin Impact’s April 8 update expands Mondstadt, adds a new character, and brings new events

Genshin Impact already gave players a reason to return to the starting area of Mondstadt back in February, but now it’s giving those folks a reason to stay with its next update scheduled for Wednesday, April 8th, by way of a new part of the region to explore. The zone will expand northward into a region […]
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Black Desert PC begins testing PvE buffs and preparing an esports event for next Heidel Ball

How about we move over to the other desert that Pearl Abyss makes for a little while, shall we? You know, the MMORPG one? We’re talking Black Desert on PC, obviously, which is in the headlines for some PvE-centric updates available in its Global Lab public test server. As is very often the case for Global […]
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Pantheon takes a deep-dive into how combat updates will affect the Warrior specifically

We’ve already been informed about how Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen will change attributes and damage mitigation with its big beefy combat update coming down the pike, but now it looks as if Visionary Realms is looking to get hyper-granular, as its latest dev blog is outlining how these changes will affect the Warrior class. “Not everything is going […]
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Pirate sandbox Skull and Bones recaps ‘ambitious step forward’ in year two, but it’s scrapping land combat

The second year of piratey naval conflict wrapped up in Skull and Bones, and Ubisoft said that it couldn’t be more pleased with how the title developed during the time. The studio posted a retrospective for Year 2’s accomplishments, including adding the Schooner, World Tiers, and the much-vaunted Faction War. “Year 2 was designed as […]
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Corepunk Q&A discusses recent layoffs, future updates, and challenges with funding and perception

Last month we were all given some worrying news about Corepunk developer Artificial Core, as the studio suffered some layoffs that led players to assume the worst for the early access MMO’s prospects of crossing the finish line. And while the studio has already made sure to state that the game wasn’t abandoned, it still continued to […]
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Spirit Crossing shares updates coming to its equipment progression in the next open alpha patch

Spirit Crossing, the still-developing cozy MMO from developer Spry Fox, has been kicking out a lot of dev blog jams recently, and it’s done so yet again this week, only this time around the topic is more focused on a system update due in its next alpha patch. Specifically, the game’s equipment progression will be shifted […]
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Soulframe shows off its next pre-alpha build and wolf mount, Warframe dates its next prime for April 8

With everything else going on, it’s easy to have missed that PAX East was kicking off over the weekend, which is where Digital Extremes dropped some new details for its games Warframe and Soulframe during its panel at the convention’s main theater. A large number of reveals were made for Soulframe at the event, chief among them being […]
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EverQuest Legends details monetization, class switching, races, zones, and more in new FAQ

When EverQuest Legends was announced earlier this week, fans were talking about… well, a lot of other stuff, but there were also some regular questions that were raised among the lot. As such, Game Jawn has assembled an FAQ in Discord to provide a bit more granular detail about what to expect when the new-old MMORPG launches […]
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Skate highlights the cosmetics in its first skate pass and heralds over 15M players since early access

This week saw the first season arrive to the early access mulitplayer sandbox of Skate, and like all games that run a seasonal model, this one is once again making sure that players are made aware that it has a battle pass – sorry, skate pass – that offers up cosmetic goodies to earn. The […]
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Elder Scrolls Online’s partially paywalled Battle for the Writhing Wall finally begins next week

All the way back in April and long before the summer’s devastating studio layoffs, ZeniMax Online Studios revealed a major cadence shift for Elder Scrolls Online that aimed to do away with the old chapter system and introduce special seasons, including one-time FOMO-ish events. The first core event of that new system is a player-vs.-wall […]
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Lost Ark will finally merge North American regions on October 22, followed by the October 29 patch

If you’ve been waiting on the big North American region merge in Lost Ark, your moment has almost arrived: Amazon has set the date for October 22nd. That means the patch itself will roll out October 29th. “NA West will be merged into NA East on October 22. The full policy will be released on […]
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