MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #38 April 11, 2016Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #38 - Apr 11, 2016 by Omer A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending April 11, 2016. This is the thirty-eight episode in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games mentioned this week are: Nostalrius [...]
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I recently got my hands on Paragon, the new MOBA from Epic Games, at the beginning of its Early Access phase, and from what I’ve seen, the game already lives up to its hype. I was especially struck by what makes this game different than the deluge of genre copycats I’ve seen in recent years, and each new element made [...]
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You likely remember Derek Smart from the ongoing Star Citizen fiasco. You also likely forgot, due to his pseudo-leadership role in the anti-Star Citizen movement, that he is also working on a game called Line of Defense, an MMO shooter in his studio's trademark style. The game has been progressing at a steady, if slow, rate for several years now [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #39 April 18, 2016Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #39 - Apr 18, 2016 by Omer A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending April 18, 2016. This is the thirty-ninth episode in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games mentioned this week are: [...]
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Perfect World Entertainment announced Livelock's final playable character today. Her name is Catalyst and she inhabits a battle chassis called The Few. Her weaponry consists of various guns, including one that fires a steady laser beam. From what is seen in the trailer, it seems that her abilities are primarily AoEs, including the ability to drop a barrage of rockets [...]
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Orcs Must Die! Unchained Sunday Funday Gameplay Video Orcs Must Die! Unchained is a the latest game in the Orcs Must Die! Franchise and is the first to be free to play. It's published by GameForge and as of this video in open beta. Like previous Orcs Must Die! games, the premise of the game revolves around building defenses against [...]
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Battlestate Games revealed a number of details about Escape From Tarkov's skill system today. All skills fall under a set of five categories—Combat, Mental, Physical, Practical, and Special—and are trained through use. Performing an action will put experience into the skill the action is associated with. Each skill level increase will cause the player character to perform the associated action(s) [...]
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Bandai Namco announced today that it has begun the Open Beta for its free-to-play online co-operative action game LOST REAVERS exclusively on Wii U. LOST REAVERS pits four players against a "series of dungeons," ultimately looking to find the treasure at the end. Once they have found the treasure, they must bring it back to the extraction point. The player [...]
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How would you feel to find out that your level of skill in an MMO wasn’t measured by how long you’ve been playing, your character’s level, or even by how many enemy players you’ve ganked, but by the words you use when talking about the game? A recent study argues that your language—particularly your knowledge of genre-specific vocabulary—is the most [...]
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Project Gorgon's developers know that you want to sell stuff in bulk without manually trading everything. To help with that task, they are introducing vendor stalls. Vendor stalls are NPC-run stalls that will sell whatever you want to sell. They can be rented for 24 hours at a time and their fees increase each day. Vendor stalls have several features [...]
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