In an Activision-Blizzard Q2 earnings report that was published today, it was revealed that World of Warcraft is down to 5.6 million subscribers, nearly a 50% drop since November. This number is so low that a graph provided by Statista shows that similar subscriber numbers haven't been seen in ten years. Despite the harsh drop, the report states that "[Fury [...]
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Weekly MMO News Recap #2 - August 3, 2015 ft Omer A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending August 3, 2015. This is the second episode in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates.This week in MMO News we cover updates for: League of Legends, Armored Warfare, Lord of the Rings [...]
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After last week's scare that Riot would actually be removing a champion from League of Legends, an announcement was made that they would not be offering refunds. Now we know why. Gangplank isn't really dead at all and, subsequently, isn't being removed from the game. He returns with the latest patch and will be playable for the duration of the [...]
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Following the end of the Summer Alpha, the founder and CEO of Sandbox Interactive, Stefan Wiezorek, posted a roadmap for Albion Online's closed beta. Some of the highlights of this roadmap include a "flattening" of the gear power curve, the removal of the Silver Tax, and the introduction of Open World PvP events, examples of which include randomly spawning treasure [...]
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Following the announcement that a patch overhauling land ownership, now allowing for shared ownership, had hit Wild Terra's Russian test server last week, the patch is now live and available on the English server. With the announcement of this update, we find out that the new land ownership structure is indeed called the "dominium." You can—and should, as land still [...]
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Despite aiming to be "the perfect slice of Total War gaming on the go," Total War Battles: Kingdom certainly isn't the MMORTS version of Total War that we were hoping for, instead opting for long wait times with the option to pay for them to go away like many other MMORTSes. But the hex-based game is a unique entry in [...]
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5 Nights at Freddy's Gameplay video with Omer It's Saturday so prepare yourself for another indie horror game! This time I took a look at 5 Nights at Freddy's, a game developed by Scott Cawthon. The game originally launched in August, 2014, and was such a hit that the author released 3 additional games. I didn't get too far in this play [...]
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In a recent Kickstarter comment, the developers of Project Gorgon made it known that no wipes are currently planned at all. This includes all of testing through to launch and beyond. They see this as an opportunity to encourage backers to invest time into playing the game throughout testing. That doesn't mean that everything on your character is safe, though. [...]
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In what is undoubtedly an interesting and confusing move, a mere two weeks after launch, the team behind the free-to-play vehicular combat game, Badland Bandits, have already removed anything and everything that could be considered pay-to-win. Gone are the premium vehicles, which were described as "not better, simply different." Gone is the premium currency entirely, actually, converted into in-game currency [...]
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When Eric Heimburg announced that the team behind Project Gorgon were planning to keep adding new content beyond the base goal of $20,000 as stretch goals, I think everyone expected that they would add a new dungeon or a new continent. Previous Kickstarters have given the impression that most teams are going to go big or go home when it [...]
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