Nexon's 4v4 side scrolling action MOBA Hyper Universe officially launched into open beta today and is available to everyone for free. The free to play launch has already given the game an enormous boost with the game's concurrent playerbase jumping from a meager 20 players online to over 1,600. This shouldn't be too surprising though, as prior to today the [...]
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MMOs.com Podcast - Episode 134: Benefits of MMORPGs, Fortnite, & MoreWatch this video on YouTube MMOs.com Podcast Episode 134 - Omer (@remotayx) and Erhan (@Ehaltay) This is episode one hundred and thirty 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 [...]
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I don't know about you, but I love me some Black Mirror. Season 4 started with a bang with a plot that could be said to involve a MMORPG of sorts. As per Black Mirror custom, a new technology product was quickly shown to be a hidden horror. But does it have to be that way? Can MMORPGs be used [...]
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Earlier, we covered Mu Ignition, a browser-based version of Mu Online. Today, we have received a press release from WEBZEN, developers and publisher of Mu Ignition. Following the success of the beta test last week, WEBZEN has opened up a pre-registration campaign for Mu Online. From January 16th, until January 22nd, 07:00 UTC time, players can pre-register and receive special [...]
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According to an official 2018 Status Report, Perpetuum will be shutting down after more than 7 years of live service. The science fiction themed MMORPG had players manning giant mechs in a single, open world environment. Many compared the game to Eve Online. Like Eve, character progression in Perpetuum was time based and the open PvP ruleset made player cooperation [...]
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Life is Feudal: MMO has been on the up and up as of late, with the game coming to Steam Early Access recently. With Life is Feudal now on Steam, Steam players and players of Open Beta can now play together, as many MMORPGs already support - such as Vindictus on Steam and the Nexon Launcher, and Final Fantasy XIV, [...]
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Coming tomorrow, World of Warcraft has published their patch notes for Patch 7.3.5. While most of the features have been already publicly known, through data-miners and previous announcements done by Blizzard, these are the official notes. To start off, every zone in Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, Outland, Northrend, Pandaria, and Draenor now use the leveling scaling system that Legion brought to [...]
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Gamigo announced today that the free to play Korean lobby based tactical shooter Ironsight begins open beta on February 1st, 2018. It'll be available on Gamigo's Aeria Games portal. Players who have already purchased a founders pack will gain exclusive access to a "pre-open beta" which begins January 30th, which essentially gives them a 2 day head-start on free to [...]
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Fortnite has enjoyed enormous success since introducing its Battle Royale mode in September of 2017. Fortnite even won our prestigious Clone of the Year award for 2017! It seems Epic's animated third person shooter has kept up the momentum into 2018. As of January, Fornite Battle Royale (now an independent game) has surpassed the 40 million player mark, hitting a [...]
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While we still don't have any concrete release date on Ascent: Infinite Realm in South Korea or North America, Bluehole did release an English dub opening cinematic trailer for the game this week. We previously reported that Kakao Games is aiming to launch Ascent: Infinite Realm in English sometime in the first half of 2018 and this new English trailer [...]
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