Blade and Soul's Eternal Night update officially went live today. It introduces several new end game dungeons and raid content for players to enjoy as well as some quality of life adjustments. The new 6 player heroic dungeon is called Sandstorm Temple and the new 12 main raid is called Nightfall Sanctuary. Blade & Soul: Eternal Night Official TrailerWatch this [...]
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South Korean gaming giant NCSoft reported their Q1 2018 earnings today with total revenue coming in at 475,159M KRW ($444M USD), down 11% quarter over quarter and up 98% year over year. As with their previous earnings reports, take a look at sales by game: Despite a slight dip from last quarter, mobile games continued to dominate, bringing in over [...]
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Little Orbit announced today that they acquired GamersFirst.com and APB Reloaded along with it. While GamersFirst is billed as a global games portal with 30+ million registered users, it's a shell of what it once was. It used to be a thriving game portal that published numerous successful games like Warframe, Mu Online, War Rock and other titles. GamersFirst today [...]
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The English version of MapelStory 2 officially began its closed beta testing today (at 10AM PST) and it will run until May 16th. As with any highly anticipated beta launch there were some launch issues, but they got resolved pretty quickly. While there will be a wipe after closed beta testing, this is the first time players can try the [...]
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While we haven't heard too much about New World since Amazon Game Studios first announced it and several videos about it leaked, we do have another nugget of information to report (though we are a bit late in doing so). Lethality, an MMO gamer and influencer, posted that Amazon would be flying him in to playtest New World. People! I [...]
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Albion Online, the sandbox PvP focused fantasy MMORPG, is set to launch on Steam on May 16th, 2018. To celebrate the game's launch on Steam the game is giving all players a bonus 25% more fame (experience points) between May 16-22. Albion's Steam launch should help revitalize the game after slowly losing players since its launch on July 17th, 2017. [...]
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It was during the early years of this century that Western gamers first witnesses an influx of Korean games, with the most common genre being MMORPGs. This influx soon became a tsunami that washed literally hundreds upon hundreds of games of varying quality upon our shores. This 'Korean Wave', as I just coined it, left a permanent mark on the [...]
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MMOs.com Podcast – Episode 148: Chinese Influence, MS2, Bless, & MoreWatch this video on YouTube MMOs.com Podcast Episode 148 - Omer (@remotayx) and Erhan (@Ehaltay) This is episode one hundred and forty-eight 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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The free to play anime action MMORPG Soulworker introduced its 5th playable character today Jin Seipatsu, which is a fist weapon user. Jin belongs to the Fistfighter class among the SoulWorkers — a group of warriors with emotions so strong that they’re able to manifest them into powerful weapons. Jin’s particular emotional power is Integrity, which bestows upon him unique [...]
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Alliance of Valiant Arms, the free to play tactical shooter, will be shutting down on June 29th, 2018. En Masse made the announcement last week and it marks the end of a long saga for the game. The game was first available in the West through the now defunct gaming portal ijji (2009) and later moved over to Aeria Games [...]
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