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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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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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World of Warcraft’s Holly Longdale speaks to future development: ‘We want to add dazzle to it’

Recently, World of Warcraft Executive Producer Holly Longdale sat down to do one of those fluffy interviews where much was said about the future of the game, almost all of it being very non-committal. You know those kinds of interviews? I think Blizzard gives its staff seminars on how to conduct them. In any case, […]
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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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Palia’s latest patch added player profiles and old-school MMO player biographies too

It floors me to realize how very long MMORPG players have been snooping each others’ profiles in games. In Ultima Online, you had to be careful because a double-click could sometimes turn into an attack and not just a way to check out someone’s paperdoll drip. In EverQuest, it was even considered impolite to check […]
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WoW Factor: Welcome to the age of Midnight

Here’s the crazy thing: It’s October 2025, and it already feels as though World of Warcraft: The War Within is completely over at one year and one month after its launch in August 2024. Back when the Worldsoul Saga was first announced, Blizzard said that these expansions would come faster than normal — but I […]
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Vitae Aeternum: New World’s Nighthaven update is more ambitious than I thought

I’ve been trying to maintain a cautious optimism for New World‘s upcoming Nighthaven season, but after more than a year of neglect and questionable decisions around New World, I admit my enthusiasm for the upcoming update was still pretty minimal. However, the recent developer update video impressed me in a number of ways, and I’m […]
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