After playing quite a bit of Revelation Online since it entered Open Beta, I feel we need to have a discussion about daily quests. RO's primary way to level is completing the same dailies, every day, to earn experience and items. If you're not doing your dailies you're playing it wrong. But man oh man, more than a week in [...]
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Imagine the wacky and creative worlds of Second Life but as a virtual reality experience and you end up with Sansar: Linden Labs' next project that is coming soon[ish]. A few hundred creators—people who make assets to be used in the world—were recently invited to test out Sansar, according to VentureBeat. As with Second Life, players with some artistic [...]
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It's the only podcast intelligence agencies tap because they enjoy listening to it: the MMOs.com Podcast! Where: https://www.twitch.tv/mmosdotcom When: That depends on where you live: 7PM EST 4PM PST On tonight's episode we're recapping our experience with Revelation online, talking about the money-minting-machine Dungeon Fighter Online, the development cycle of PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDs, and more! If you can't make it you can [...]
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After just over a year and a half in Early Access, LEGO Worlds launched today on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The title is a procedurally-generated LEGO sandbox in which you can create whatever you want without worrying about not having enough blue LEGO bricks—you also don't have to worry about stepping on LEGO bricks that you drop on the [...]
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Bethesda Softworks' announced today that Closed Beta sign ups have opened for its "highly anticipated" AAA resurrection of the arena shooter genre, Quake Champions. The game is said to be bringing back the classic Quake formula with the new twist that there are "Champions," which essentially equate to classes. Quake Champions will be a free to play game with an [...]
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In the past year alone, Crytek has failed to make payroll, subsequently shut down five of its studios, and handed over Warface's NA/EU publishing rights to My.com, after which it let fifteen members of Warface's previous publishing staff go. Now, according to GamesIndustry.biz, the company has sold its Crytek Black Sea studio, which is located in Bulgaria, to SEGA, who [...]
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Motiga's had a rough go of it in the past. Last February, the developer of Gigantic saw "significant layoffs" that could have affected the game's release. Yesterday, Motiga CEO and founder Chris Chung confirmed to Destructoid that another round of layoffs, totaling "15 of the studio's 82 employees" were laid off. The following quote was provided. Any kind of layoff is [...]
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If there's one thing that it seems that we can always count on, it's that we'll be asking "so...where's Dark and Light?" for some time to come. Snail Games USA Associate Producer Horsejoke answers questions in the Pre-Early Access FAQ Steam Discussions thread from time to time, but we still don't have an estimated release date other than "later this year." [...]
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Ubisoft's open world shooter, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands, was released earlier today. The game challenges players to take on the Santa Blanca cartel in an open world rendition of Bolivia. Along their way, they can choose to either go it alone or join up to three other players in online co-op. Whereas the Open Beta had not-so-positive reviews, the release version [...]
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According to Defiance lore, after nine years of fighting in the Pale War, the Humans and the Votan joined forces to save civilians against a bigger alien threat. This became known as the Battle of Defiance, which later led to the ratification of the Pale Wars Armistice. The annual month-long Armistice celebration commemorates the momentous event. Here’s how the celebrations [...]
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