Final Fantasy XIV launched patch 4.36 today which included a number of new additions to the game including the previously announced Monster Hunter: World collaboration as well as the new Eureka zone Pagos. Aside from just these 2 goodies, the patch includes new side story quests, housing furniture, new triple triad cards, emotes, and much more. The new Eureka zone [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #159 August 8, 2018Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #159 - August 6, 2018 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending August 6, 2018. This is episode 159 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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Summer is about to end and Final Fantasy XIV is closing down the season with their annual Moonfire Faire summer event. Make your way over to the island city-state of Limsa Lominsa for some much-needed beachside frolicking and acrobatics. Dress up for the event with new summer-themed clothing, and splash water on your friends with a new emote. Moonfire Faire [...]
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Lineage 2: Revolution, the mobile MMORPG based on the Lineage franchise, earned over $1.3 billion in global spending since its Dec 2016 launch according to mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower. Remarkably, despite heavy advertising, the game only earned a bit under 3% of its global revenues from the U.S. (about $30 million). 57% came from South Korea and 26% came [...]
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Activision Blizzard reported their second quarter 2018 earnings report today and surprise surprise, Activision Blizzard is really good at making money. They reported revenues of $1.64 billion for the quarter, up from $1.63 billion for the last quarter last year. Take a look at the company's highlighted statistics from their quarterly investor slidedeck: Hearthstone continues to perform exceptionally well and [...]
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Valve's first new game release since 2013 finally has a release date. Artifact, a Dota 2 themed digital card game, will be launching on November 28th, 2018 and will release with 280 cards. Unlike Hearthstone, Shadowverse, and practically every other digital card game, Artifact will be an actual trading card game - meaning players actually be able to buy/sell/trade cards [...]
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En Masse has announced a round of server mergers for the console version of their popular fantasy MMORPG Tera. The combined number of servers for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions of the game will go from 22 down to 7. The mergers will take place on August 20, 2018 and will take 12 hours to complete. A handy [...]
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Black Desert Online for North Africa and the Middle East region posted an image showing off some of the big changes coming with the remastered version of the game. Most interestingly is that the Remastered version is set to launch on August 23, 2018, at least for the MENA version of the game. I suspect the North American / European [...]
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It's been 18 months since Fire Emblem Heroes launched on mobile devices and the numbers are in - the game has made $400m in worldwide revenue, making it by far the most successful game in the franchise (on a revenue basis). The next best selling game in the franchise is Fire Emblem: Awakening on the Nintendo 3DS which sold 2.1m [...]
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Twitch Prime has been great for getting freebies in Overwatch, Hearthstone, Warframe, and various other games. Today you can add RuneScape to that list as Jagex partnered with Twitch to give away Twitch Prime Packages which include a bunch of in-game goodies valued at $50, inclduing 1 month membership for both RuneScape and Old School Runescape. The package also includes [...]
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