MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #40 April 25, 2016Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #40 - Apr 25, 2016 by Omer A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending April 25, 2016. This is the fortieth 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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Studio Wildcard announced yesterday at PAX East that it is launching the ARK: Official Mods Program, a new initiative in which mods are made into official content. The first addition will be a map called The Center, which will be added in May. The Center features "tons of new biomes, dungeons, floating islands, end-of-the-world waterfalls, massive ancient ruins, along with [...]
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Phantomers Gameplay First Look HD - MMOs.comWatch this video on YouTube Phantomers Gameplay First Look by Omer Phantomers is a free to play tactical FPS published by NTTGame - the same studio best known for publishing Knight Online. The game was developed by a Korean studio called Dream Execution Technologies, which also made War Rock. The game is in Turkish [...]
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Soulbound Studios took a combat prototype for their upcoming title Chronicles of Elyria to PAX East this year. Today, the studio tweeted some footage of a match that was played at the convention, which you can find below. In the video they tweeted, combat looks a bit like an awkward series of dodges and slashes. A Reddit user picked out [...]
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Florensia Gameplay First Look - MMOs.comWatch this video on YouTube Florensia Gameplay First Look by Omer Florensia is a free to play fantasy / nautical MMORPG published by Inflame Entertainment. It was originally released in 2008 by Alaplaya, but after the company was acquired by Aeria Games, it looks like Florensia didn't make the transition to Aeria. The game features some [...]
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River of Blood, the "monumental" conclusion to RuneScape's Myreque saga, will be released on April 25th. In it, Venescula prepares "her forces for a full invasion of Misthalin." She is looking to war to bring them peace. To drum up interest in the Myreque saga's final quest, Jagex has released a new trailer for it, which you can find below. [...]
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According to GamesIndustry.biz, the Japanese mobile game developer and publisher gumi has shut down its Vancouver, Austin, and Hong Kong studios. Furthermore, it has "withdrawn entirely from Canada, Sweden, and Germany." The Vancouver studio, in specific, was only two years old at the time of closure and had yet to publish anything. While the exact reason for the closures has [...]
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As a part of ongoing efforts to improve Guild Wars 2's WvW experience, ArenaNet is testing World Linking this weekend. World Linking will allow worlds to link together in order to stabilize WvW populations. The manner in which worlds are linked is dependent upon their "factors like the world’s current rank and population numbers." NA has an even number of [...]
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Yesterday at EVE FanFest, CCP officially unveiled Project Nova, the free to play FPS that has been in development at their Shanghai studio. The Unreal Engine 4-powered game is a 6v6 shooter set in the EVE universe. Unlike its recently axed predecessor, DUST 514, the game does not connect to EVE Online in any way. CCP supposedly said at FanFest [...]
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Now that the Battleborn Open Beta has ended, 2K Games and Gearbox have seen fit to release stats in the form of an infographic. The stat that we're all interested in is how many people played the $60 retail FPS/MOBA hybrid during its Open Beta. The answer is "over 2 million." It was also revealed that over 57 billion health [...]
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