Gamers will be happy to hear that Discord will finally be adding the much-needed videochat feature to its popular voicechat platform. According to a recent blog post, Discord has announced that 5% of its users will have access to the testing phase of its newly-added videochat and screenshare functions. Videochat will be limited to DMs and group DMs. Up to [...]
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Webzen reported Q2 2017 earnings today and while revenues increased 1% quarter over quarter, they were down 19% year over year. Total game revenue for the quarter was $38.19 million. The Mu Franchise continued to bring in the vast majority of the company's revenues (Mu Origin, Mu: Online, Mu Legend, etc) at 77% of total revenues. Unfortunately, we still have [...]
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Titanfall 2? On my mobile device? It may be more likely than you think! Titanfall: Assault is the latest attempt to bring the Titanfall franchise to mobile devices, after Titanfall: Frontline closed down. It isn't a first person shooter, but neither is it one of those crummy "BUILD YOUR EMPIRE TODAY!" mobile games. No, Titanfall: Assault is an RTS. “Titanfall: Assault combines the [...]
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Soon after Google's DeepMind AI project beat the world's best Go players, the company announced a partnership with Activision Blizzard. Deepmind's target this time was the RTS Starcraft 2. That was back in November 2016. Fast forward to today and we're finally seeing the fruit of that partnership. Blizzard has just released a public API (application program interface) with an [...]
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All alliterations aside (that one wasn't intentional, I swear), Worlds Adrift is planning to release Update 0.1.4 next week. Focusing heavily on ship building, the dev team plans to make it easier to access parts necessary to create the aircraft of your dreams. Similarly, ships setting sail soon shall not have to worry about grappling hooks - an ability to add temporary [...]
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Esports is officially becoming the next big thing. Hot on the heels of Madison Square Garden's recent acquisition of Counter Logic Gaming, the possibility of an Esports Olympic event is currently in consideration for the Paris 2024 Olympics. In 2016, global Esports viewership had reached an impressive 320 million people worldwide, with over £400 million ($520M USD) in revenue generated. [...]
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Israel-based mobile gaming studio Plarium has been acquired by the Australian casino firm Aristocrat for $500 million in cash plus performance based earn outs spanning the next two years. Plarium runs a portfolio of browser and mobile strategy games including: Throne: Kingdom At War Vikings: War of Clans Sparta: War of Empires Stormfall: Age of War Pirates: Tides of Fortune [...]
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Objective based gameplay helps built team spirit. But sometimes you just want to frag people. To help meet that itch, Overwatch is adding two new game modes: Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch. Both modes ditch payloads and control points, allowing players to focus on getting as many kills as possible. The free for all mode (Deathmatch) has a maximum of 8 [...]
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We've been waiting for the third mainline Lineage MMORPG, aptly titled Lineage Eternal, ever since it was first revealed back in 2011. That wait just got longer. Citing a Korean source, Steparu reports that NCSoft has decided to scrap the existing Guild Wars engine that Lineage Eternal was using and start over with Unreal Engine 4. While the news of [...]
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After being announced just over a month ago, Hearthstone's latest expansion, Knights of the Frozen Throne, is now live! Players who log in will receive 3 free Knights of the Frozen Throne card packs, though they must be claimed before October 31st, 2017. Besides free card parks, players can now experience the all-new free Missions that accompany this expansion! Journey to Northrend, [...]
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