PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is continuing its unprecedented rise to the top of the Battle Royale genre, and conversely, the top of the Steam rankings. Steam reports that PUBG reached nearly 2 million concurrent players over the weekend, just a month after breaking the 1M mark last September. According to GamesIndustry.biz, the survival shooter's closest competitor is Valve’s Dota 2. Fortnite is [...]
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A good anti-cheat software is a must-have for any game, especially for a competitive game like Fortnite. Epic Games vowed to crack down on cheating and apparently employed a cheat-detection system to help them carry it out. The problem is that the system turned out to be a bit too aggressive, erroneously flagging and banning players who weren’t necessarily doing [...]
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Diablo 3 Season 11 is in the home stretch. The season ends on October 20th at 5PM PDT which gives you a little over a week to earn those seasonal rewards. If you’re all good then you can just sit back, relax, and wait for the season to close, if not, it’s probably time to kick things in high gear. [...]
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There’s more to eating than just slapping down an unseasoned hunk of meat on the fire and chomping down on it when it’s done. We aren’t barbarians after all. Technically you are one in Conan Exiles, but that shouldn’t stop you from serving that juicy steak with perfectly cooked eggs and a steaming bowl of Darfari Bug soup, and maybe [...]
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In what can only be assumed as a hold-over until the upcoming Halloween event, Fate/Grand Order has launched a ½ AP Campaign on all Ember Gathering missions! Ember Gathering missions allow players to pick up EXP Cards to power up their Servants, and with this ½ AP Campaign, players should be able to accumulate twice the amount of EXP Cards for their [...]
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Finally, after a long three months of waiting, Final Fantasy XIV is finally coming out with its next major content update - Patch 4.1! Earlier, we brushed upon some of the balance changes that will be coming with Patch 4.1, but we also had an incomplete set of patch notes. Now, the real deal is here, and we can check [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #116 October 9, 2017Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #116 - October 9, 2017 by Omer A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending October 9, 2017. This is episode 116 in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games mentioned this [...]
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Lord of the Rings Online is potentially heading down a very dark path. I speak, of course, of the path of "Pay-2-Win" and "Gachas." (Gachas are the Eastern term for lootboxes that contain gameplay-altering items). Nexon games, speaking specifically of Vindictus, are well-known for putting high-tier equipment, or items that are used to make high-tier equipment, in lootboxes that require paid keys [...]
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CCP Games is working on a mobile game! The Iclandic studio behind EVE Online has partnered with Finnish studio PlayRaven for a new project currently known as Project Aurora. PlayRaven has some experience in the mobile realm, they're the studio behind mobile strategy games Winterstate and Spymaster. According to an interview with GamesBeat, Project Aurora is "essentially a condensed EVE [...]
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SMITE is celebrating Halloween with costumes, Halloween-themed chest items, and even more costumes. The latest update, called Departure to the Afterlife, introduces a number of new God skins including Mummified Izanami, Grim Reaper Thanatos, Trick or Treat Cupid, Yurei Susano, Warchief Raijin, and the Hachiman Mastery skin. The update also features new Japanese quests, the return of Scary Potions and [...]
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