After almost three years online, Aeria Games has made the decision to shut down Scarlet Blade on March 31st. According to Aeria, the past year has been "especially tough" due to a lack of content updates and server instability. After the "mixed feedback" that followed the last major content patch, the developers ended up cutting their staff. As a result, [...]
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With Trinium Wars' March 2nd release only a week away, Hanmaru Soft and InselGames have revealed the classes that you will be able to choose from. The three classes are Warrior, Ghost, and Esper. Each character possesses a completely different set of skills, rounding out their part of the Holy Trinity. Each class' skill tree will allow players to tune [...]
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The Kindred is a voxel-based sandbox survival game from Persistent Studios and Nkidu Games that launched on Early Access today. Unlike other sandbox survival games, however, The Kindred is a strategy game that challenges players to keep an entire civilization of "Kin" alive. Players must build a city, craft items, hunt, farm, and just generally keep the Kin alive. At [...]
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WildStar's massive PvE content update Destination Arcterra is just around the corner, but what about players that care more about PvP? What does the future of WildStar have in store for them? A new blog post from Game Director Chad Moore explains what the team has planned. WildStar's PvP servers have seen significantly lower player numbers than their PvE counterparts. [...]
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I love bad voice acting in MMORPGs. When I talk to an NPC and he greets me like a sophomore stoner my ears perk up. There’s something magical about an unqualified actor making their video game debut. And MMORPGs are the one sphere of entertainment where I want bad voice acting to shine. Like watching a trainwreck B movie, I can’t [...]
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Nutaku are continuing their steady rate of DMM localizations as they announce today that they will be releasing a localized version of Shooting Girl in March. Shooting Girl takes place in an alternate reality version of Tokyo in which enemies called the Unknown have destroyed the city of Tokyo. A group of school girls called "Shooting Girls" is all that [...]
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Classical RPG fans rejoice as the widely-popular console game Breath of Fire finally finds its way to Windows, Android, and possibly iOS devices. After more than a decade, Breath of Fire 6 emerges from dormancy much like Ryu’s dragon form finally breaking out of its mortal shell. Unfortunately, the multi-platform MMORPG is still in its infancy and currently undergoing testing, [...]
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It's been some time since Power Rangers Online—the ill-fated Korean MMO based on the popular sentai series—was shut down by its original host, GameTree, but Move Games appears to be making an effort to bring it back. The game showed up on Greenlight yesterday promising both English and Korean language support. In addition to that, the official Move Games Steam [...]
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Aura Kingdom's latest update is here and it has brought new dungeons and new zones, as well as raising the level cap to level 90. Players level 75 or higher can now venture into Viridian Steppe, "a once-bountiful area now fallen into decay" and the Desolate Valley, "an ominous realm haunted by demons." There, they will encounter new monsters and [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV Patch 3.2 "The Gears of Change" launched earlier today, bringing with it "loads of new content." This update introduces two new dungeons, new main scenario quests, a new raid, and more. The story in this update moves even closed to "the climax of the Dragonsong War." Change is coming to Ishgard. A side story sees players joining [...]
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