After nearly a year and a half of testing, Gaijin Entertainment and Targem Games announced today that Crossout is set to launch as a free-to-play game on May 30th. While testing has been conducted exclusively on PC up until now, the game will be launching on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Crossout blends elements from several different genres. It [...]
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The first half of 2017 turned out to be a bit slow with the only major MMORPG release being Revelation Online. But so far the second half is shaping up to be very different. The much anticipated Morrowind expansion for Elder Scrolls Online launched for PC today and Destiny 2 reveal just a few weeks ago. Final Fantasy 14 Stormblood [...]
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During a recent RuneScape livestream, Jagex Mod Shauny accidentally leaked a logo for something called "NextGen." While it was accidental, and Shauny immediately attempted to cut the stream off after realizing his mistake, this is the internet and the incident was saved and the relevant footage can be found embedded below. While we have absolutely no details about the potential [...]
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Thanks to Nexon Developers Conference 17, we've known since late last month that LawBreakers' second Closed Beta weekend would be held this weekend, but it wasn't until today that Nexon America finally confirmed it and unveiled what new content would be included. Surprisingly, there's quite a lot of new content to look forward to. A new role called the "Wraith" [...]
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Funcom's weekly Answers of the Week thread was posted to the Conan Exiles subreddit yesterday and it covers a few interesting topics. The company's own Joel Bylos discussed some of the team's goals with Conan Exiles' combat system and stated some of the ways that it is working to fix it, as well as further siege weapons, defenses, some of [...]
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Naruto Online publisher Oasis Games announced today that its mobile MMORTS Glory Ridge has officially launched. The game features base building, base raiding, and hex-based tactical combat all in one game. Players can work to either take down other players' cities or take down "powerful PvE bosses," the latter of which will provide them with "legendary loot." Interestingly, unlike many [...]
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Earlier this year, we reported on a new post-apocalyptic tactical strategy game called The Cleansing. The game, which had just been posted to Greenlight at the time, would see players choose a "feudal house," form a five-character party, and head out into either single-player or multiplayer battles, the latter offering 1v1, 2v2, or 3v3 matches. Each match would see players [...]
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Dark Quarry Games announced today that, at long last, its dark, gory tactical RTS Deadhold will be launching on Steam Early Access this summer. The Steam store page states that it will be launching in July, but the press release doesn't specify. Regardless, the game has been in Closed Alpha testing since at least mid 2015, so it's nice to [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #95 May 15, 2017Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #95 - May 15, 2017 by Omer A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending May 15, 2017. This is the ninety-fifth episode in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games mentioned [...]
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Chinese tech giant Tencent is investing $90M in Pocket Gems, the studio behind the fast-growing success of War Dragons, a 3D mobile game which revolves around realtime strategy and PvP play. Having already invested an initial $60M for 20% of Pocket Gems, this current investment of $90M pushes Tencent's ownership of the mobile studio to 38%. Pocket Gems is now [...]
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