Daybreak Game Company has been hit hard with a round of layoffs affecting around 70 employees. Speculations later arose that the layoffs were due to the US Department of Treasury freezing assets of Russian oligarchs. Among those affected by the sanctions were Russian conglomerate Renova Group and its subsidiary Columbus Nova, which, just so happens to be the parent company [...]
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The once highly hyped Wild West themed action MMO Wild West Online will be leaving Early Access on Steam and fully launching on May 10th. The game is buy to play and is available for $29.99. Ever since ties to Sergey Titov were discovered, a lot of hype behind Wild West Online died down. The fact that the actual game [...]
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SuperData has published their monthly Worldwide Digital Games Market Report for March 2018 and it has a few surprises. League of Legends, which has graced the #1 PC spot since the inception of these reports, has finally been dethroned. The venerable MOBA has fallen to #2, usurped by Dungeon Fighter Online. While this does not necessarily indicate a decline in [...]
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On April 24, 2018 an official post on the WarpPortal forums stated that all games and services to the European region will be terminated on May 25, 2018. An IP block will then be put in place to prevent EU players from accessing WarpPortal titles. Services to Russia and CIS countries (such as Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova) will continue as normal. [...]
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Webzen rolled out its latest content update for their mobile MMORPG MU Origin today which brings with it a new guild competition system, the Corps War. Player level 50 and higher that are members of Guilds above lvl 6 can participate in the weekly territory conquest Corps War which happens every Sunday. MU Origin - Update 2.0 TrailerWatch this video [...]
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MMOs.com Podcast – Episode 146: Battle Royale, MS2, Fractured, & MoreWatch this video on YouTube MMOs.com Podcast Episode 146 - Omer (@remotayx) and Erhan (@Ehaltay) This is episode one hundred and forty-six of the MMOs.com Podcast and we look at the most recent news and happenings in the MMO and gaming world. As always we jumped right into the Weekly [...]
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We all know how popular the battle royale genre has gotten ever since Fortnite and Playerunknown's Battlegrounds launched, but who would have guessed we'd be seeing MMORPGs implement their own battle royale modes. Path of Exile released their own battle royale mode on April fools, League of Angels did their own battle royale PvP mode, and it looks like Moonlight [...]
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The Battle Royale genre has taken the gaming industry by storm. Playerunknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite were the defining titles of 2017 and both continue to increase in popularity well into 2018. They've been joined by a few new comers like Darwin Project and Radical Heights, and there's surely dozens more Battle Royale games currently in development. But does this new [...]
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Legends of Aria announced today that they'll begin open beta testing sometime in June with an Early Access beginning in July. The early access won't be on Steam though, that's set to happen later in Autumn. The final wipe for the game will happen in July and Kickstarters and Founders will begin their 1 week headstart before the game opens [...]
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The SpatialOS powered sandbox MMO Fractured released their first gameplay video today which includes about 15 minutes of "pre-alpha" gameplay in a procedurally generated map. Fractured aims to be an isometric ARPG style game like Diablo / Path of Exile but with persistent open world MMORPG elements. Fractured MMO | Pre-Alpha Gameplay | Hike & SlashWatch this video on YouTube [...]
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