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It’s been a long, long time since Massively OP’s MJ has streamed some Viking survival with Valheim. But today is launch day, and that’s reason to celebrate! (Do Vikings need much of a reason to celebrate?) Yes, Valheim has launch-launched, sloughing off early access like a tattered bear pelt. Not only that, but the Deep North has opened up. Now MJ likely wont make it far into the Deep North — there as so many other new things to look at and be distracted by — but she will at least get a glimpse.

It appears that things are moving swiftly for Drimage/Dream Age and its PC and mobile MMORPG Architect: Land of Exiles. Just weeks after the game had confirmed its global release, we now have a firm calendar date for that launch of Wednesday, September 16th. Ahead of this global release, interested players can pre-download the game on September 14th, with the PC version available from the official site and mobile versions from the Google Play and App Store respectively.

It’s easy to wonder why anyone would want to open themselves up to voice comms with randoms in League of Legends, but evidently that is going to be a thing in the MOBA in the very near future, according to the latest dev update video. The upcoming proliferation of in-game voice chat will allow all members in a team to open up their mouths and ears instead of making the feature available to premade teams.

Anyone who earns the title of “god butcher” is probably bad news, but in the case of the superhero PvP shooter Marvel Rivals, the arrival of a god butcher is a good thing, at least if you like playing the Duelist role. That’s because Gorr the God Butcher will be arriving to the game with the release of Season 10: Butcher’s Blasphemy on Friday, September 11th.

Prelude 16 for Soulframe wants you to not lose your Tempers. You need those Tempers, in fact. Every weapon has Tempers, and collecting Tempers is a core part of the gameplay loop, as previewed in the newest entry about the Temper system. Whenever you dismantle a weapon, you make progress toward learning the Tempers on that weapon permanently, with each Temper requiring 30 points to learn. Amped Tempers make the process twice as fast, to boot.

Sometimes an MMORPG needs to pause between content releases to regroup and take stock of how all of the classes and systems are doing. That’s what Dungeons and Dragons Online is up to this month, as the fantasy MMO kicked off the first preview of Update 82 and a “major balance pass” that’s on the way.

Most of the time when a game enters early access, it does so at a reduced price and then raises its cost when it makes it to a 1.0 launch. Not so with RuneScape: Dragonwilds, which Jagex has confirmed will remain at its current price point of $30, even after it hits 1.0. “Since we launched into early access, we’ve been extremely proud of the amazing work that has gone into RuneScape: Dragonwilds,” the studio writes.

So, do you want the good news or the bad news first? Wait, why are we asking that, you can’t answer. The bad news is that Gods, Death & Reapers is aiming for its early access release in February of 2027 rather than any time this year; the stated reason is to create more room for playtesting and development. The good news is that you will get a chance to take part in the sixth closed alpha on September 24th, and that includes a lot of things including new characters and the new map of Asgard.

Here’s the real question to ask about Wakfu’s Ivory Season: Why is the season themed around snow and ice when ivory traditionally comes from elephants, which are famously not creatures found in abundance in icy environments? Probably because of the color, but still, it’s a touch odd. Still, as you walk in the footsteps of the Bellaphones to cooperate and communicate with other players on community objectives that fill a mysterious island, maybe that isn’t such a big deal after all.

Have you ever dreamed of yeeting yourself into a sun in No Man’s Sky? Thanks to the newly released Cosmos update, you absolutely have the option to do so, though we might suggest that you check out all of the other things that you can do in the sprawling sci-fi survivalbox first. Especially since this 10th anniversary update has brought a massive amount of features.