If defending a position against wave after wave of enemies is your idea of fun, then you might want to keep an eye out for the new Secret World Legends scenario type. Funcom is slated to release a new scenario called Stonehenge Occult Defense sometime in the near future. “Your mission: Prevent waves of simulated enemies from destabilizing an occult [...]
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It’s been a little over a week since Forsaken, the latest Destiny 2 expansion, came out bringing with it a ton of new content. This includes a new campaign chapter, a new Patrol Zone, and the new Gambit PvPvE game mode. Of course, there are players who just breeze through new content in no time at all and are eagerly [...]
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China's gaming industry is in for a long winter, as the ongoing embargo on new game approvals by the Chinese government is now predicted to last another 4-6 months. After a recent list of official "recommendations" were sent to various regulatory bodies in China, which included guidelines such as more stringent approval processes and limiting the number of game licenses, [...]
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Who wants massive cakes? Aion is celebrating its 9th birthday and NCSoft West is kicking off the party today with oversized cakes! “The age-old tradition of larger-than-life cakes will be returning to the capital cities. Grabbing a slice of cake will grant you 100% bonus XP and a 20% bonus drop rate for 2 hours. Be sure to swing by [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has just released the new Overwatch map, Busan in the latest update. The new map takes players to D.Va’s hometown in Busan, South Korea and is also the setting for D.Va’s animated short Shooting Star. Busan is a new control map where players fight it out across three distinct environments: a bustling metropolitan city, a high-tech Mecha factory, [...]
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A WildStar player is petitioning NCSoft to save the game following the publisher's announcement last week that they were shutting down Carbine Studios and WildStar along with it. Azami Starflower (her in-game name), started a Change.org petition in hopes of saving the MMO from the same fate that City of Heroes suffered back in 2012. “Please don't let this treasure [...]
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Interplanetary voxel survival sandbox MMO Boundless has officially launched on Steam as part of Square Enix’s indie game publishing project. The game was initially known as Oort Online and has been in Steam Early Access since November 13, 2014. Developer Wonderstruck puts a different spin on the voxel sandbox genre popularized by Minecraft back in 2009. “In a Boundless universe [...]
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MMOs.com Podcast – Episode 165: Regulations, CCP, Pearl Abyss, WildStar & MoreWatch this video on YouTube MMOs.com Podcast Episode 165 - Omer (@remotayx) and Erhan (@Ehaltay) This is episode one hundred and sixty five 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 [...]
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After the Star Wars Battlefront 2 lootbox controversy came to a head last year, the Belgium Gaming Commission had launched an inquiry into whether lootboxes offered by SW:BFII and other popular games such as Overwatch and CS:GO were in violation of Belgium's gambling laws. Having concluded the investigation earlier this year, the BGC found that EA, Blizzard and Valve were [...]
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It has been a bruising month for Chinese gaming hegemon Tencent. First, their US based subsidiary Riot Games was accused of sexism which required major readjustments at the studio. These culture problems also brought to light Riot's declining profitability, with the company on course to run a deficit unless something changes soon. Closer to home, Tencent found itself on the [...]
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