For World Poetry Day, tonight's MMOs.com Podcast will be shared entirely in Free Verse: a normal Podcast with a rhyme or two here and there. Where: https://www.twitch.tv/mmosdotcom When: That depends on where you live: 7PM EST 4PM PST On tonight's episode we're talking about the Navy's big-budget-no-product-singularity-combating-MMO, Pathfinder Online's ambitious release schedule, a new studio formed by ex-WoW devs, and [...]
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Welcome to a new weekly editorial (maybe), where each of the MMOs.com crew discusses what we've been playing since the last Podcast. Though we're the MMOs site, we don't only play MMOs in our free time—hence this article's banner—and we want to share those games with you guys and hear about what you've been playing. Especially since we don't always [...]
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The time has finally come. Nexon announced recently via Facebook that its mobile rendition of the Dynasty Warriors series, Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed, is set to launch worldwide on March 30th. The game brings Dynasty Warriors' signature hack n' slash gameplay to mobile devices, allowing players to cut their way through dozens of enemies at a time in a stage-based format. [...]
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Million Arthur is a fairly large franchise in Asia. The Square Enix-published series of mobile games has even received manga and web anime spin-offs. That being said, the series has gained almost no traction here in the West. In fact, neither of the series' games that have been released are available on the North American Google Play store. The third [...]
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It's been a while since the last Master X Master playtest, hasn't it? The last one was in, what, November? Fortunately, we won't have to wait long for the next one; NCSoft announced today that the next playtest, which will mark the beginning of Beta, will begin on April 6th and run through April 27th, giving players a full three [...]
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It's been more or less a year since Blade and Soul first launched in the West. As such, NCSoft Game Producer Nico Coutant starts the March 2017 Producer's Letter off by recapping the past year. As part of the recap, he notes that "over 4 million players have joined the Hongmoon Clan to pursue revenge." While it is not specified [...]
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Blizzard has a long-standing history of including map editors in its games. The inclusion of said map editors even spawned multiple genres that are commonplace today, such as MOBAs and tower defense games. Given that, it's no surprise that Overwatch players are increasingly curious to know if Overwatch will ever receive its own map editor. Fortunately, yesterday, Game Director Jeff [...]
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Path of Exile has just released the first part of yet another comprehensive developer Q&A based on questions that they received in response to their post last week. Unfortunately, players won’t be seeing an auto-sort feature anytime soon, if at all. Grinding Gear Games Producer and Lead Designer Chris Wilson writes: “I had a good conversation recently with David Brevik [...]
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Blizzard is bringing the banhammer and currently seeking a hefty $8.5 million in damages against German-based hack distributor and creator "Bossland GmbH". The ongoing lawsuit, first filed by Blizzard in California on July 1st, 2016 - accuses Bossland of trafficking "circumvention tools" and copyright infringement under the DMCA, as well as unfair competition from the profits of these violations. Despite [...]
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Grim Dawn's next expansion is apparently shaping up nicely, and today developer Crate Entertainment announced the Necromancer mastery. That's right Diablo 3, Grim Dawn will have their very own undead summoner. Who's skeleton army will reign supreme? The aforementioned linked post has plenty of lore to absorb: The art of necromancy has always come with a certain amount of revulsion [...]
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