End-of-Year Eleven: The most surprising MMO news stories of 2025
Welcome to the end of the year, everyone! Somehow we all got here, seriously, and that means it’s time for our annual roundup of stories...
Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys stake strengthens its push into AI-accelerated chip design — partnership to bolster GPU-accelerated EDA tools, but a careful balance is required
Nvidia has taken a $2 billion equity stake in Synopsys, as the two companies announced a long-term collaboration to accelerate electronic design automation workloads on GPUs.
Guild Wars Reforged is officially launching today to modernize the 20-year-old MMO
Classic Guild Wars fans divide neatly into two groups. No, not Kurzick vs. Luxon. No, not heroes or no heroes. No, not runners and runnees....
GeForce RTX 5070 Cracks Top 10 GPU List In Steam Survey, Linux Rising Too
It was only a matter of time before Blackwell would rank as one of the top 10 GPUs on Steam and it’s now official, at least if ignoring the catch-all “AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics” entry. If so, then NVIDIA’s mid-range GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card as the 10th most popular GPU on Steam, based on the latest survey results for November 2025.
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NASA Finds Mysterious Space Gum, Sugars & Stardust In Bennu Asteroid Autopsy
Samples retrieved from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023 have yielded a surprising treasure trove, revealing not just the building blocks of life, but also a mysterious “space gum” and ancient stellar dust.
Researchers have detailed three major findings published in Nature Geosciences and Nature Astronomy. Foremost
Customer buys RTX 5080 from Best Buy, but got rocks instead — $1,200 GPU arrived in tampered box with broken seal
A Redditor who purchased an Asus TUF RTX 5080 from Best Buy for $1,200 received rocks inside the box, which itself was already tampered with. Upon reaching out to customer support, Best Buy told our victim that nothing could be done, and no refund would be issued, despite not getting what they paid for.
Lord of the Rings Online launches its Kingdoms of Harad expansion today
In perhaps one of the quietest expansion releases to date, Lord of the Rings Online welcomed Kingdoms of Harad today. This marks the third and...
Enthusiast adds OCuLink port to Framework 16 Laptop — offering PCIe 4.0 x8 bandwidth for big GPU performance gains
The project has been bandied about for years, but has finally come to fruition thanks to the dedicated efforts of one modder.
Classic EverQuest’s 32nd expansion, Shattering of Ro, has arrived with a level cap bump to 130
On yesterday’s MOP Podcast, Justin was rattling off the immense list of MMORPGs with big launches this week, and among them was EverQuest, whose Shattering...
Kick Rocks? Shopper Claims Best Buy Shipped Stones Inside An RTX 5080 Box
Somewhere out there, somebody is having a good laugh, we’re just not sure if it’s the person who returned a box of rocks inside a $1,200 ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card box, a delivery person who may have made the stone cold swap prior to delivery, or someone at Best Buy’s return department. And that’s all assuming that a poster