This week, Black Desert Mobile made some overhauls to Maegu to increase her combat efficiency, adjusted Nightmare level progression, and started the Moonlight Festival.

The Guild Wars 2 team announced this summer that they were working on a new borderlands map. Now, they're looking for help beta testing it in November. 

The Pax Dei team is making progress on horses. The latest development update addresses some feedback and questions about the R48 update, and gives us lots of info on the in-depth horse and riding system on the way.

Dune: Awakening is now live on consoles, along with the new Filmic Archive DLC. The release also means that single-player mode, and a series of overhauls have also come to the PC version.

The major update for EVE Online's summer expansion, Cradle of War, has officially been released, bringing major changes to force projection, as well as changes to content around the New Eden star cluster.

Season 5 will kick off with a race to first Pinnacle Morditas kill and Last Epoch announces significant marketplace, and Item Faction updates.

RuneScape is previewing Havenhythe Part II ahead of its release next week. The new lore preview gives us a taste of what we'll experience when the full island is open.

As part of the 'reset' announced in the summer, Xbox has laid off a further 268 employees across its gaming division, while it made a couple of moves to further consolidate its portfolio.

Back at BlizzCon 2026, Matt had the chance to sit in on a group interview all about Diablo V's deep dive panel. Here are five takeaways from the interview.

Bungie's studio head and GM are acknowledging their mistakes, lost trust from the community, and sharing what they will do to regain it. In short, Marathon is evolving after underperforming, and "We are not done with Destiny".

With World of Warcraft Forever, Blizzard wants you to stick around for a while. Now, the team revealing the ruleset choices you can make to customize your experience and even find like-minded players. 

RuneScape is doing some extensive quality of life improvement work in The Deep Clean, launching today to improve the player experience, reduce some redundancies, and polish up your Skillcapes.

Next month, Once Human's Isles of Abyss update will expand the world with a huge sea with five regions and lots of secrets, adding new mechanics and challenges.

Monsters & Memories is headed into Early Access on October 1st. The team has just opened the subscription page and shared lots of info to know about Early Access, from content included, to the team's plans.

On September 29th, Fatshark will release Depths of the Damned, a new free update for Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. 

Brewfest is back in World of Warcraft, with quests, activities, and lots of food and drink. Plus, there are all new transmogs and decor items to collect.

This week, Palia kicks off the Halloween season, Eldramoor prepares for the Steam Frame, and Loftia shares a big announcement at the PC Gaming Show.

Camelot Unchained's Early Access servers are open again for another weekend, with a new update that improves NPC behavior, in particular for combat purposes, bug fixes, and some lighting and visual adjustments.

We've finally got our first full trailer for Last Epoch Season 5: Rage of the Frostborn, along with some details about the season. Morditas, the Demigod of Bloodshed returns. Plus, Last Epoch names a new game director.

The Elder Scrolls Online team has begun setting things up for the upcoming High Seas of Tamriel event. There's a new lore entry introducing us to the mysterious Baron-Captain Olsien Guy Mard.

The Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen team is following up on last week's layoffs and need for "course correction" on the Combat and Progression Update with some concrete ways they are working to do just that. 

Last Epoch is celebrating the upcoming launch of Season 5: Rage of the Frostborn! They've partnered with us here at MMORPG to give away 10 copies of the game, as well as the Enraged Legend Pack!

Palia is settling into all things spooky, with next week's update: Fall's Faire: Frights & Delights. Spiritfest is returning, a new Lunar Path, Path of the Ghastly, a haunted new Landscape, new friendship quests, and more are on the way.

After a decade, the final chapter of Act 1 of Black Desert Online is here, with the latest update. Yes, we're facing Hadum, hunting monsters, and even enjoying fall foliage with this week's update.

John checked out Star Wars: Zero Company for our Strategy Session column. Turns out Star Wars with an XCOM formula is actually pretty great.

While BlizzCon 2026 focused on the future of the Diablo franchise as a whole, Matt took part in a group interview about the future of Diablo IV itself. Here are four takeaways we had from that interview.

Fenris Creations is opening up EVE Vanguard to 24/7 paid alpha access in November. The extraction-adventure FPS will get the new access option, which will let players help shape development ahead of Early Access.

Discover new secrets and high-stakes decision in Where Winds Meet's final chapter of the Hidden Mountain expansion. The update adds two story campaigns, new world bosses, and a new extraction mode on the way.

Following the recent ArcheAge IP sale, a new ArcheAge Chronicles producer letter covers the recent network test, XL Games self-publishing, Early Access, and criticism of gender-locked classes

World of Warcraft Forever was only announced last weekend, but you can actually play it today thanks to its Beta access - provided you can make it past the server queue.

Star Wars: The Old Republic's most recent PTS build got some changes, mostly adjusting many mechanics in the encounter with the Force Beast.

Dune: Awakening's head start access has, well, started on console today. Bradford had the chance to check out Arrakis ahead of today's launch, and while it's a solid port, it does have some quirks to deal with.

Console head start begins in Dune: Awakening, with a major new update that brings Dune: Awakening's story to a close, and makes so many additions and overhauls, it's a new era.

ArcheAge Chronicles' latest class introduction is all about the Mage, with their elemental powers and ability to create massively damaging chains or to gain, and tighten, control on the battlefield.

Latest Throne and Liberty update adds two new field bosses to Nix, raises gear Item Level cap to 90, adds new gear, events, and progression improvements.

Recently, Once Human teased Beast Riding was on the way, and it's coming in today's update. Also in the patch are improvements to combat, animal ranching, Scenario server merge update, and a pioneer test for the new Survival Scenario, Isles of Abyss. 

Mortal Online 2's PTR has opened for new Sarducaa content, including the promised new material up for test, a bunch of new mountable creatures, and Star Vault's new analytics system.

The World of Warcraft team looks ahead to Midnight Season 3's returning dungeons & their goals, addressing pain points, and changes planned to encounters, pacing, enemies, and more.

Code of Creation is now live in Guild Wars 2, bringing Visions of Eternity to a close, and adding a new map, new Mastery track, raid, Fracta, Convergence, and additional adjustments.

EVE: Frontier is already producing incredible player-focused stories. We spoke with Rooks and Kings about how they broke the unbreakable in the Frontier by using another alliance's own creation against them.

Frosthaven, Snapshot Games' digital take on the dark fantasy tactical tabletop RPG, got a new gameplay overview video, just a month before the game is set to leave Early Access for a full 1.0 launch. 

After previewing the mysteries, lore, and rewards coming in Update 51's Nowhere Vault feature, The Elder Scrolls Online team is previewing the upcoming Rumors system. 

The Last Epoch team shared a calendar of reveals for Season 5, "Rage of the Frostborn", starting this Friday with the first full season trailer & more.

Before AION 2 launches, NC is making sure their infrastructure and systems are ready.  They've announced an open launch scale test taking place starting tomorrow.

Dune: Awakening's console Head Start pre-load is now open, and a new overview introduces the lore, premise, gameplay, and mechanics for new and prospective players.

The Old School RuneScape team previews the deep Agility course and rewards in November's next Master-level Quest, The Graveyard.

Lost Ark introduces the time and space-bending Dimensionalist class, streamlines progression and honing, raids, and gold rewards. Paradise Season 4 continues, and we also get some progression events.

Bulkhead announced this morning that its tactical multiplayer FPS, Wardogs, has reached 2 million copies sold in just five days from launch.

Preview Throne and Liberty's first Colossus, Vegamor, The Primordial Wanderer, ahead of the encounter's release next week.

Today, RuneScape: Dragonwilds is now out of Early Access, getting its 1.0 update and a wide release across PC and consoles. A major launch update, "Scorned Wilderness", is also here, completing the Dragon Queen Kuldra Saga, and much more.