With 2017 being the year of Mobile MMORPGs, 2018 looks like it will be...once again, the year of Mobile MMORPGs. That isn't very surprising, but 2018 will also have many things in store for player's favorite MMORPGs. Especially now, during the holiday season, many devs will want to take this time to outline their plans for the upcoming year. World [...]
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Slowly making its way towards the "longest time spent in development" record (though that will be hard to top when compared to Duke Nukem Forever), Star Citizen has released its 3.0 Alpha to all of the people who backed the game. To Star Citizen's credit, though, it appears as if they are making steady progress towards a release. Accessing the PTU will [...]
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Black Desert Online has sent out a press release, stating that their newest class, the Mystic, will Awaken on January 3rd, 2018. The Mystic will gain the ability to channel the power of the ocean, with a set of water-based skills in combat. The fast-paced martial artists will utilize her Awakening Weapon, the Cestus, to fight with the force of [...]
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While Aion has been free-to-play in the West for a long time now, the Korean servers of Aion stuck hard to a subscription-based service, a la World of Warcraft, or Final Fantasy XIV. However, starting on January 17th, 2018, the REFLY update will come to Aion, bringing with it balancing, new PvE and PvP, a new server, and a Free-to-Play [...]
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Class awakenings are common in Eastern MMORPGs, where developers often look to the system as a way to buff classes and give them new skills to play with. At the same time, it also gives players a goal to strive towards, and ultimately rewards them with a stronger character. TERA has just received class awakened, and MMO Culture reports that [...]
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ARK: Survival Evolved is a game on a mission. A mission to help further gameplay between platforms - in this case, Xbox One, and the Windows 10 platform. That's right, ARK: Survival Evolved is now available on the Windows 10 store, and is an "Xbox Play Anywhere" title. That means if you have purchased the game on Xbox One, you can [...]
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Piggy-backing off of Live Letter XL, which you can read here, Final Fantasy XIV has launched the Patch 4.2 mini-site - known as Rise of a New Dawn. Based on the mini-site, the highlights of the Patch 4.2 series are- Main Scenario Quests Omega: Sigmascape The Jade Stoa New Dungeons Forbidden Land, Eureka Anemos The Feast (PvP) Beast Tribe Quests (Ananta!) [...]
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In a breath of fresh air, a powerful platform owner has updated their policy in a way that is beneficial to customers. An update to the Apple App Store Review Guidelines states that all apps offering "loot boxes" or similar mechanics must disclose the odds of receiving each type of item prior to purchase. The full text, from the official [...]
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Arena of Valor Gameplay First Look - MMOs.com (Mobile MOBA)Watch this video on YouTube Arena of Valor Gameplay First Look Arena of Valor is a free to play 5v5 mobile MOBA developed and published by Tencent Games. It plays a lot like League of Legends, but streamlined for mobile play with things like auto-targeting. Despite being designed for mobile, Arena [...]
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Lets not kid ourselves here - PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS is the butt of many jokes for being buggy, unoptimized, and at times, hard to play - most notably at the start of matches, when all 100 players are running around and looking for weapons to kill each other with. Despite its technical hitches, the people at Bluehole have decided that PUBG is [...]
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