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Exploring the MMO Phenomenon: What Keeps Players Hooked?

In video game vernacular, MMO stands for massively multiplayer online. MMO games, or simply MMOs, make up the most popular ...
MMORPG

Best PvP MMOs To Play In 2025

Typically, MMORPGs put a majority of their focus into building a living world, crafting an epic storyline, and/or creating in-depth roleplaying elements. However, sometimes players get tired of ...

Escape from Tarkov owners will have to buy it again if they want to play through Steam, and the Steam version will require a Battlestate account anyway

This will be most exciting if you don't own Escape from Tarkov yet and have been holding out for this very moment. If you ...
Game Rant

New Steam Game Is Essentially a Single Player MMO

Erenshor is a single-player MMO with all the genre perks - quests, raids, loot - minus time commitments. Simulated AI players enhance the MMO experience in Erenshor, adding authenticity with unique ...
The Escapist

Fellowship Open Beta times and dates – get ready to go dungeoneering

Fellowship's open beta starts Sept 18 with global access. Playtest the MMO-style co-op dungeon crawler and try new characters ...

Bandai's canceled anime MMO Blue Protocol gets launch date; it's officially back

Blue Protocol, Bandai Namco Online and Amazon's shuttered MMO, is back in the guise of Star Resonance, and it just got a ...
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Dune: Awakening dev says "when we do bring stuff like sandworm riding into the game, it'll feel like an epic moment like in the movies," but you can't "trivialize the sandworm ...

MMO Games Dune: Awakening is a bit more “like a Dune survival RPG” than a full MMO, with multiplayer driving "that feeling of the universe being alive” Survival Games Dune: Awakening devs reveal new ...
MMORPG.com

WotC President John Hight Would 'Love' To Have A New D&D MMORPG, But The Genre Will Require A 'Rethink'

In a new interview with GamesIndustry.biz's Lewis Packwood, Wizards of the Coast president John Hight said he would 'love' a ...

I Still Want to See Blizzard’s Cancelled MMO Game That They Spent 7 Years Making

Following World of Warcraft's success, Blizzard devs began work on another MMORPG to follow it, but it never saw the light of day.
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MMO dev admits egregious microtransactions are "harming" its game, the player base "isn't really growing," and it's time to clean up: "The era of a tainted RuneScape 3 is ...

RuneScape developer Jagex has apparently gotten new glasses and suddenly realized that its MMO is infested with obtrusive microtransactions that are materially hurting the game, as new CEO Jon Bellamy ...