Phoenix Labs, the studio behind co-op action RPG Dauntless, announced that the game will enter Open Beta testing on May 24. Over 100,000 players have taken part in the game's ongoing Closed Beta and 700,000 have signed up for the upcoming open beta. Dauntless is heavily inspired by Capcom's Monster Hunter franchise and will beat the PC version of Monster [...]
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MMOs.com Podcast 144: Meaningful Gameplay, Bless, Radical Heights, & MoreWatch this video on YouTube MMOs.com Podcast Episode 144 - Omer (@remotayx) and Erhan (@Ehaltay) This is episode one hundred and forty-four 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 Raid, [...]
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Bless is still scheduled to launch on Steam early access as a buy to play title in late may, and to keep us excited Neowiz released some new information today outlining the differences between the Steam version and the base Korean / Russian versions of the game. There's been a lot of changes to the game since I first played [...]
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MMORPGs have been called treadmills and walking simulators. These remarks come from both fans of the genre and its detractors. There is certainly some truth to these claims, many of the core gameplay loops in MMORPGs require repetition and very slow progress. The question this week is whether the genre is doomed to suffer such monotonous and meaningless gameplay, occasionally [...]
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Bosskey Studios, the company behind Lawbreakers, revealed their newest project today - Radical Heights, an 80s-infused cartoony battle royale game set in a game show. Not only did they reveal their new game, but early access is set to begin tomorrow on April 10th. Given how many battle royale games have been announced since Fortnite and Playerunknown's Battlegrounds popularized the [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #142 April 9, 2018Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #142 - April 9, 2018 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending April 9, 2018. This is episode 142 in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games covered this week were: [...]
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Nexon America posted a job for a Localization Coordinator this last week, which further strengthens my theory that MapleStory 2 is set to be announced for a Western release on April 14th, 2018 during the first ever MapleStory fest. We'll have to wait for official confirmation, but the evidence seems to be mounting that a MapleStory 2 announcement in the [...]
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Stunlock Studios, the company behind Battlerite, announced this week that they partnered with Twitch and Nexon to help them bring the competitive Battlerite scene worldwide. Twitch will be the game's exclusive streaming partner for the game's first 3 seasons while Nexon will be responsible for producing the events in South Korea. Anyone can sign up for the league qualifiers up [...]
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The studio behind Lawbreakers, Bosskey, made a studio announcement earlier this week basically admitting that Lawbreakers has been a failure and that they're pivoting to a new project. They also made it clear that the game won't go free to play. The fact is LawBreakers failed to find enough of an audience to generate the funds necessary to keep it [...]
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The free to play Vehicular shooter Crossout joined the battle royale bandwagon this week with the launch of patch 0.9.50. The game introduced its own 32 player battle royale mode called "Crossout Royale" which utilizes all the basic elements of battle royale that you'd expect. Players start off with a basic vehicle with a single light weapon and must scavenge [...]
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