Amazon initially made a big splash with its entrance into the video games industry. The eCommerce giant bought Twitch for $1 billion back in 2014, launched a new game engine called Lumberyard in Feb 2016, and announced a major new MMO project called New World in September 2016. Sadly, they've had a few setbacks since. Amazon stopped development on Breakaway [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #130 January 15, 2018Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #130 - January 15, 2018 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending January 15, 2018. This is episode 130 in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games mentioned this week are: [...]
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Tiger Knight Empire War relaunched today, a mere 1 day after its publisher shut it down on Steam. The game's new publisher is its developer, NetDragon Websoft. Given that the game is now being self-published, I suspect not only will the game get updated more frequently, but it also likely won't be in danger of closing down anytime soon. One [...]
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Chronicles of Elyria announced today in a lengthy post that they will no longer be using SpatialOS and will instead work on in-house solutions. The game's developers cited "financial viability" of continuing to work with the folks at Improbable (SpatialOS Owner) to solve various problems that arose while using SpatialOS. Chronicles of Elyria Head Honcho (Founder) Jeromy "Caspian" Walsh explained: [...]
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Earlier, we talked about how Vindictus took NA by surprise, by announcing the Aes Sidhe update was coming, and it was coming much quicker than anyone would have expected it. As part of its January 11th Update, better known as the Aes Sidhe Update, there are a multitude of new events to experience. Gallagher's Dice Game, a Niflheim Domination Event, the "Kick [...]
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Though we may be nearing the halfway mark of January, Kritika Online plans to start 2018 off right, with an early version of Build v100 up on the Public Test Server now! The Monk has been added to Kritika Online The Imprint System has been added for all classes, giving players more control over their character skills to better fit [...]
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With the next Letter from the Producer LIVE coming up in just over a week, Final Fantasy XIV has once again updated their Patch 4.2 mini-site. This time, the information brought to us involves the new Feast PvP map, new Beast Tribe Quests, the Glamour Dresser, and "Additional Updates" - Subaquatic Voyages. Though already well-known information, the Feast has been re-vamped, with [...]
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Playerunknown's Battlegrounds released a new update today titled 1.0 Update #2 which introduced 2 new Loot crates to the game, the Desperado crate (requires key to unlock) and the Biker crate (free to open). Like previous loot boxes, these crates contain a mix of items of various rarities spanning from the common items worth a few pennies to the ultra [...]
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Free to play action MMORPG Neverwinter announced its latest expansion today, The Lost City of Omu, and it's set to launch on February 27th, 2018 on the PC. Like previous expansions, the console version is set to launch sometime afterwards (usually 1-2 months). The Lost City of Omu expansion continues the game's story from where Tomb of annihilation left off [...]
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No matter the MMO, no matter the game, players everywhere struggle with the age-old problem: "Do I wear this item for the stats, or should I take this other item and look good?" Black Desert Online's latest update, a revamp for Set Effects for Outfits, should help fix that. Previously, players had to equip a certain amount of the same [...]
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