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World of Warcraft previews its next major update, The Ghosts of K’aresh
by Eliot Lefebvre on June 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
With World of Warcraft having just deployed its most recent update, you might assume that the game is going to kick back and let everyone enjoy the patch for a bit… but no. It’s time to look forward to the next major update, The Ghosts of K’aresh, with a whole video as well as a news article detailing
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MMO Hype Train: Dune Awakening stumbles, trips, and sometimes sprints in its early experience
by Justin Olivetti on June 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It does seem appropriate that for a series about the fight over a planet filled with a rare resource, Dune Awakening has played tug-o’-war with the interest of MMO gamers ever since it was announced. Funcom’s already a divisive studio with plenty of fans and critics, and the studio’s waffling over whether or not this
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A new RIFT patch is percolating for next week – the first for the MMO since 2022
by Justin Olivetti on June 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Here’s a pleasant shocker for mid-2025: RIFT is preparing to bring an actual patch to bear on June 24th. The Ghar Station reports that Gamigo’s actually been working on a new update for the mostly maintenance-moded MMORPG, the first such patch since May 2022. Now don’t get your hopes too high for a RIFT revival
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Perfect Ten: 10 awesome reasons to go back to older MMORPGs
by Eliot Lefebvre on June 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Because this site is staffed by us Olds, we tend to remember the history of this ridiculous genre pretty well. This is materially helped by the fact that we were there for pretty much all of it. I don’t need to go searching to see what people thought about Final Fantasy XI when it launched in the
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World of Warcraft activates Legacy of Arathor, explains Pandaria Classic’s celestial dungeons
by Justin Olivetti on June 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Don’t let the double decimal points in the update fool you: World of Warcraft’s latest content drop is anything but insignificant. Legacy of Arathor went live last night, bringing the retail playerbase a new branching campaign in the Arathi Highlands, three repeatable Lorewalking adventures, “overcharged” delves with new rewards, and a combat skill assistant for