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The Soapbox: Could an official WildStar revival succeed in 2025?
by Justin Olivetti on May 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
WildStar: Carbine’s ambitious, flashy, and flawed MMO that launched in June 2014. A little over a year later, it shifted to a hybrid free-to-play model in September 2015. Then, about four years after the MMO came arrived, NCsoft shuttered the game and development studio in November 2018. We’re now seven years removed from an operational WildStar,
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EVE Fanfest 2025: EVE Online’s Legion expansion gives power to the players
by Brendan Drain on May 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
EVE Online‘s latest expansion was announced today at EVE Fanfest 2025, and this one seems to have a bit of something for everyone. The Legion expansion will drop on May 27th and is all about empowering leaders and organisers with new tools and options, from additional tactical options for territorial warfare to ways to incentivise
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WoW Factor: Down with raid nonsense addons, up with built-in rotation assistance
by Eliot Lefebvre on May 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It might not stun you to learn that when we found out that World of Warcraft is adding a new rotation assistance tool into the game, MOP’s Bree immediately said to me, “So the column for tomorrow is about this, right?” And I informed her immediately that no, it wasn’t, because my column for tomorrow
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MMO Hype Train: What could make EverQuest 3 a future triumph
by Justin Olivetti on May 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
When I think about the gut punches that came as part of crushing MMO news over the years, the announcement that Daybreak was scrapping its highly touted EverQuest Next may be one of the worst of them. I loved everything I was seeing and hearing about this project, including the passionate ambition on the part
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Grand Theft Auto VI delays its release from autumn 2025 to May 2026
by Chris Neal on May 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
If, for some reason, you were building your entire life around playing the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI, we have some bad news for you: Rockstar has officially confirmed that the crime-filled open world title that was originally projected to launch this fall is instead being delayed into next year, launching on May 26th, 2026,