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Indie MMO Spotlight: 100 Weeks Of Indie MMO News And Counting

The Indie MMO Spotlight Celebrates 100 weeks of Indie Coverage with this week's news!


Gloria Victis Releases Roadmap, Plans Server Merges, and Announces New Features

Gloria Victis by Blackeye Games recently released a new roadmap alongside a long missive to the community detailing some of the upcoming changes headed down the pipe.


Will Survival MMO 'The Day Before' Be Delayed Again?

The Day Before initially unveiled to the gaming world with a bang in January 2021, but has since been met with uncertainty. With a lawsuit pending, will The Day Before delay again, or change the name entirely?


Tower of Fantasy Rubilia Showcase Shows Off Her Skills and How to Manage Them for Max Enemy Pain

Tower of Fantasy's next simulacrum arrives tomorrow, and Rubilia's showcase dives into her kit, her mastery of the Grayspace Entities, and her special weapon, Lost Art. 


The Tides of War Summer Event, Improvements, and Name Reclaims Arrive in DC Universe Online Update

DC Universe Online's Update 135 is now live, adding new feats with The Tides of War Summer Seasonal Event, new emotes, Pride Month gifts, and quality of life improvements.


Guild Wars 2 Is Giving Away A Colorful Free Macaw Wing Glider Combo To Celebrate Pride Month

Guild Wars 2 is celebrating Pride Month by giving players a colorful free Macaw Wing Glider Combo. These colorful wings are free for anyone who logs into the MMO during the month.


Tarisland Drops Two Lore Trailers Talking About Its Story And The High Elves

Tarisland has dropped a few videos this week, highlighting its story as well as the origin of one of the races in the world, the High Elves.


Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore Will Merge Some Servers, Make Improvements, as Outlined in 2023 Roadmap

The launch of Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore has been bumpy, but the team is offering a packed summer roadmap, with both improvements and new features, as they continue to build out the game.


Diablo 4's Early Access Launch Hits Some Snags On PlayStation 5 Due To License Errors

Diablo 4's launch has been rather smooth for a large, always online game. But that doesn't mean it's not had some setbacks, especially if you're on PlayStation 5.


War of Dragnorox Devblog Highlights Significant Development Progress Over the Past Several Months

The War of Dragnorox team has made significant progress after several months of all-in focus on development.


Another Palia Tech Test is Happening Next Week, as a Continuation of the May Test

Palia is holding its second in a series of technical tests next week, with a new round set for June 8th.


EVE Online's Upwell Structures Are Getting More Personal In Viridian Expansion

EVE Online is continuing its push towards its first of two expansions this year, Viridian, which is out later this month. This time the CCP Games team is showcasing some ways in which Upwell Structures are getting a little more personal with some more customization options.


Diablo 4 Lore Recap: The Story So Far

Diablo 4 just launched into its head start access with the official release next week, but if you're needing a brief refresher on the story so far, Kanishka has you covered.


Phantasy Star Online 2 NGS's Creative Space Update Could Revolutionize the Series

On June 7th PSO2: NGS will release their 2.0 update, and with it will come a complete content shift, allowing players to make their own Creative Spaces. Could this revolutionize the game?


Ashes of Creation Updates on Alpha and Shows Off Massive Cyclops World Boss Fight

 Ashes of Creation held its latest development stream this week, and it featured development updates and a special preview of Alpha Two's Cyclops boss fight.


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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Review

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum launches today on PC and consoles, following the titular character's journey leading up to the events of the War of the Ring. However, crashes and bugs have made Gollum's progress back to his Precious slow and tedious.


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Star Trek: Resurgence Review

Dramatic Labs released Star Trek: Resurgence, a narrative-driven title set in the Star Trek universe. How does it fare, and should you boldly go ahead and grab this Star Trek title? Here is our review.


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Side Quests: System Shock (2023) Review

Nightdive's System Shock remake is finally here and SHODAN is ready to greet you. How does the remake stand up, and does the iconic gameplay stand the test of time?


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Wartales Review

Light on story and deep on game mechanics, Wartales is a grand open-world adventure where you take a band of budding mercenaries and try to achieve a single goal - survive. Mitch spent the last few weeks exploring what Wartales has to offer, and meeting that goal isn't as easy as it might seem.


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Side Quests: After Us Review

What comes after humanity? Exploration adventure title After Us aims to give us a bleak hypothesis on exactly what does come after us. Here is our review.


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Redfall Final Review

After more than 20 hours with Arkane Austin's latest Redfall, Bradford came away incredibly frustrated and disappointed. From its earliest moments, Redfall fell flat. With the uninspired world building to the lackluster gunplay and brain-dead enemies, almost every aspect of Redfall was a miss. 


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Honkai Star Rail Review - Come on, Ride the Train

In our Honkai Star Rail review find out if you should board the Astral Express and travel the universe, or if you should pass on getting a ticket to this particular train?


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Age of Wonders 4 Review

Age of Wonders IV from Publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Triumph Studios is out on May 2nd. The game has a lot of positives going for it, but it may still need a few more tweaks to make it a great experience. Before setting out as a Wizard-king or mortal Champion, check out Kevin's review of this fantasy 4x strategy game.


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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Review

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor picks up five years after the events of the excellent Jedi: Fallen Order. How does the latest adventure with Jedi Knight Cal Kestis fare? Here's our review of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.


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Total War: Warhammer III - Forge of The Chaos Dwarfs DLC Review

Total War: Warhammer III - Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs is here. Creative Assembly has successfully brought this brutal race into the game. But will everyone enjoy their unique mechanics and gameplay? Check out Kevin's review to learn more.


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Have A Nice Death Review - Roguelike In The Afterlife

Being The Grim Reaper is a hard job! Death incarnate has a lot of souls he's responsible for but that's what delegating is for.  Unfortunately, turning death into a fully staffed operation has come with some downsides. Have a Nice Death takes you through the corporate drudgery with Death himself, and what we have is a competent - if a tad too difficult - roguelike. Here's our review.


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Everspace 2 Review: Blasting Out Of Early Access

Jason goes hands-on with Everspace 2, Rockfish Games' second entry in its sci-fi space shooter franchise, putting the newly out of early access title through its paces. How does it fare? Check out our review.


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Ravenbound Review: A Challenging Scandinavian Roguelite Adventure of Mythic Proportions | Side Quests

Ravenbound by Systemic Reaction is an action-packed roguelite game that bridges an action combat RPG, with a roguelite card battler. Is this new single player RPG worth your time?


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Gloria Victis Review

After a few weeks with the low-fantasy medieval MMO, Gloria Victis, Emily is finally ready to render a verdict. How does it stack up, and are the occassional server issues worth the experience? Here is our Gloria Victis review.


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Remnant From The Ashes Nintendo Switch Review

Remnant: From the Ashes, the incredible third-person, Souls-like ARPG from developer Gunfire Games, has been a personal favorite since its original release in 2019. But how does the Nintendo Switch version hold up? Matt answers the question in his Switch review.


EVE Online's Upwell Structures Are Getting More Personal In Viridian Expansion

EVE Online is continuing its push towards its first of two expansions this year, Viridian, which is out later this month. This time the CCP Games team is showcasing some ways in which Upwell Structures are getting a little more personal with some more customization options.


EVE Online's New Lancer Tech II Dreadnoughts Bring A Powerful AOE Punch To New Eden, Coming With Viridian Expansion

EVE Online debuted new Tech II Dreadnoughts today, which were hinted at by Hilmar during the anniversary stream earlier this month. The new Lancers bring a powerful AOE attack to EVE Battlefields, aiming to shake up capital combat in the spaceship MMO.


EVE Online's Viridian Update Brings More Visual Improvments To Its Internet Spaceships

EVE Online continues to improve the visuals of its game, with the EVE Evolved initiative still in full swing. Viridian, the upcoming expansion hitting the space MMO next month, sees more of these improvements, from volumetric nebula clouds to visual upgrades across ships.


Tarisland Drops A New Trailer And Will Have Full Cross Play Between Mobile And PC When It Launches Later This Year

Tarisland, the upcoming MMORPG from Tencent, dropped a trailer this morning as well as released some new information about the upcoming game, which is launching on PC and Mobile globally this year.


Black Desert's Latest Land of the Morning Light Trailer Focuses On The Darkness You'll Fight

Black Desert is ramping up the hype as it inches closer to its June launch of the Land of the Morning Light expansion, this time with a trailer focusing on the darkness players will encounter.


Redfall Drops Official Launch Trailer And PC Requirements Ahead Of Next Week's Launch

Arkane's upcoming co-op shooter Redfall is fast approaching and the team released its latest trailer celebrating the launch next week. Additionally, we finally have full PC requirements for those looking to take on the Vampires on your fully-tricked out rigs.


World of Tanks Brings Warhammer 40K Tanks To The Fight In Latest Crossover Event

A cosmic conflict is taking over the battlefields of World of Tanks Modern Armor, as a new crossover event brings tanks inspired by the Warhammer 40K universe to the fray.


Indie Sandbox MMO Ethyrial: Echoes Of Yore Launches May 1st

Indie sandbox MMO Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore has been heading towards launch, and now an official date has been locked down. Players can dive into the sandbox on May 1st as it launches on PC via Steam.


Warframe's The Duviri Paradox Is Releasing April 26th

The Duviri Paradox, Warframe's highly anticipated and long-awaited update, will finally release this month. This morning, Digital Extremes announced it would be bringing The Duviri Paradox to all platforms on April 26th.


Star Wars: Jedi Survivor Gets Final Gameplay Trailer Showing Off Some Of Cal's New Moves

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is in the home stretch before its global launch on April 28th, and during the Star Wars Celebration over the weekend, Respawn Entertainment released the final gameplay trailer for the upcoming RPG.


Overwatch 2's Next Support Hero, Lifeweaver, Debuted Today, Coming With Season 4

Overwatch 2 unveiled its next hero coming to the free-to-play multiplayer hero shooter today. Lifeweaver, a new support hero, is coming with Season 4, and aims to keep allies upright throughout those long, drawn out fights over a payload.


Magic The Gathering's March of the Machines Debuts New Battle Card Type Coming With New Set

Magic the Gathering's climactic battle for the Multiverse comes to a head as the inhabitants of the various planes take the fight to Elesh Norn and her Phyrexian hordes. The newest set, March of the Machines, aims to convey this epic struggle through a new card type - and mechanic not seen before in Magic's history: Battle.


Embers Adrift Wants You to Beware of 'The Threat of Grimstone' in New Update Trailer

Stormhaven Studios, the plucky indie studio behind Embers Adrift, has just released a brand new trailer for the next update headed to the game, The Threat of Grimstone.


Pearl Abyss Shows Off Class Combat for Zayed in Latest Video

Black Desert Mobile, the popular mobile MMORPG by Pearl Abyss, has recently added a new class to its roster: Zayed, also known as The Sand Serpent That Will Devour All.


The Day Before Releases 10-Minutes Of Gameplay To Lukewarm Fan Reaction

After hyping up their delayed 10-minute gameplay reveal, Fntastic finally released the long-awaited gameplay of its survival MMO The Day Before.


V Rising Sinister Evolution Pack Giveaway!

Stunlock Studios and MMORPG.com have teamed up to giveaway 30 copies of V Risings Sinister Evolution DLC pack to help budding Vampires on their survival journey. Enter to win here!


V Rising Game Giveaway!

V Rising and MMORPG.com have teamed up to give away 30 full copies of the vampire-flavored survival game.


Neverwinter Menzoberranzan Launch Giveaway - PC Edition

Cryptic Studios and MMORPG.com have teamed up to give away 200 cosmetic codes granting players a new Arachnoid Wrap to don during their adventures in the Underdark.


Neverwinter Menzoberranzan Launch Giveaway - Xbox Edition

Cryptic Studios and MMORPG.com have teamed up to give away 150 cosmetic codes granting Neverwinter players a new Arachnoid Wrap to don during their adventures in the Underdark. 


Neverwinter Menzoberranzan Launch Giveaway - PlayStation Edition

Cryptic Studios and MMORPG.com have teamed up to give away 150 cosmetic codes granting Neverwinter players a new Arachnoid Wrap to don during their adventures in the Underdark. 


World of Warships PC New Player Content Pack!

Wargaming and MMORPG.com have teamed up to give new players a head start in their journey in World of Warships with a new player invite code, which gives new ships, currency and premium game time for new players in the naval MMO.


Tower of Fantasy Half Anniversary Giveaway!

Tencent and MMORPG.com have teamed up to give away five thousand in-game item codes to celebrate the 6-month anniversary of its mobile/PC RPG, Tower of Fantasy.


Inkbound Technical Test Giveaway!

Inkbound, the upcoming rouglike from Shiny Shoe, is hosting a technical preview of its upcoming game today, giving players a chance to jump and check it out for themselves! We've teamed up with Shiny Shoe to give away codes for the technical test ahead of tomorrow's wider test.


Eudemons Online Holiday Gift Pack

Netdragon and MMORPG.com have teamed up to give players a little holiday cheer from now through January 21st. The in-game gift pack gives special holiday themed decorations, items and more to celebrate in the F2P MMO.


Tower of Fantasy In-Game Gift Key Giveaway

Level Infinite and MMORPG.com have teamed up to giveaway in-game item keys to players, gifting in-game items to help on their journey.


ArcheAge Dark Shaman Raiment Cosmetic Giveaway

Kakao Games and MMORPG have teamed up to give away in-game cosmetic codes for ArcheAge, giving players the Dark Shaman Raiment Outfit cosmetic. This is in celebration of the new Fresh Start server coming to ArcheAge later this month.


ArcheAge Unchained Dark Shaman Raiment Cosmetic Giveaway!

Kakao Games and MMORPG have teamed up to give away in-game cosmetic codes for ArcheAge Unchained, giving players the Dark Shaman Raiment Outfit cosmetic. This is in celebration of the new Fresh Start server coming to ArcheAge later this month.


Blade & Soul Code Giveaway!

NCSoft and MMORPG.com have teamed up to give away 40 codes giving in-game items to celebrate the launch of the Musician class! 


Guild Wars 2 Extra Life Giveaway!

Guild Wars 2 is teaming up with MMORPG.com to give readers a chance to score a nice care package from ArenaNet celebrating its upcoming Extra Life stream this year.


World of Warships Seventh Anniversary Giveaway

World of Warships turns seven this month, and developer Wargaming is celebrating by giving away game codes for new and existing players to get some in-game currencies!