While it may have fallen into obscurity in the West, Allods Online is still doing quite well in Russia. So well, in fact, that it is still being updated with major expansions regularly. The latest of those major expansions, 8.0: Immortality, made it to the game's Western service today. We've talked a bit about the update in the past, but the core [...]
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Elsword's latest character, Ain, went live today and he brought with him an "unorthodox" sort of caster class. Rather than focus on keeping distance from his enemies, Ain excels at "summoning and projecting ethereal weapons from the God's Realm," effectively "controlling his opponent's position by restricting their options." His weapon of choice is a pendulum, which is quite unlike anything I've [...]
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Usually, we consider games that have entered Open Beta to be officially launched, but that's more often than not not actually true. While they are open to the public, they still aren't considered to be a finished product by their developers. Today, a game that has been in Open Beta for three years, War Thunder, has officially launched. Today's update [...]
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Want a chance at winning a Founder's Pack for Gigantic, the winner of our award for "Best Graphics in an MMO" for 2016? Join Matt tonight as he plays the game and gives away five Founder's Packs live. Each Gigantic Founder's Pack includes the following. 16 Original Heroes 4 New Heroes (Released at a later date) 2 Limited-Edition “Imperial” Skins [...]
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MMOs.com Podcast - Episode 83: Game of the Year Edition, Bless, Star Citizen, & MoreWatch this video on YouTube MMOs.com Podcast Episode 83 - Omer (@remotayx), Erhan (Ehaltay), Matt (@Mattchuranu), and Sean (@sean_sulliva). This is episode eighty-three of the MMOs.com Podcast and we look at the most recent news and happenings in the MMO and gaming world. We started off with [...]
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Black Desert Online's final set of Awakenings is here. The Witch and Wizard have awakened and their elemental magic is ready to be used to rain fire and stone down upon their enemies. Both classes also gain the ability to summon new elementals known as "Keepers." The full description of the classes' Awakenings is as follows. Now through the power of [...]
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While I've long been a believer in free to play since the days of MapleStory beta in North America (2005), I never expected it to be this successful so quickly. According to a recent report by SuperData, free to play MMOs have 92% of the playerbase and 87% of the revenue of the entire MMO market. Keep in mind though, [...]
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Despite Youtube being the king of trailers and pre-recorded content, Twitch is the king of gaming revenue by a fairly wide margin in 2016 according to the most recent data by SuperDataResearch. Youtube had $1.6 billion in gaming related revenue while Twitch hit $1.9 billion. The numbers are broken down as such: Combined Viewers: 258M Entire Gaming Video Content Market [...]
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Guide on How to Play Bless Online with a Free VPNWatch this video on YouTube How to Play Bless Online with a Free VPN Update: Bless RU Shut Down on May 25th, 2017 The video above shows how to play the Russian version of Bless using a VPN and an English patch. The official Russian website's homepage is here, BLESS [...]
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The Lord of the Rings Online Executive Producer Severlin may not be popular with the Asheron's Call community right now, but the same can't be said for the Lord of the Rings Online community. He revealed in a forum post earlier today that the game may very well be getting an avatar revamp as part of the upcoming Mordor expansion. The [...]
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