South Korean studio Smilegate has announced the closure of the tactical shooter CrossFire in its home market. Despite grossing over $1 billion last year, CrossFire has only found success in Mainland China where it is licensed by Tencent. The success of this licensing partnership has made the founder of Smilegate a billionaire and Korea's 8th richest man. An English language [...]
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En Masse Entertainment has just released a press release with information on the upcoming TERA Crescent Sea update. The update will feature the new Elin Valkyrie class, additional character slots, and the new Sea of Honor five-man dungeon. “This update also takes max-level players to the open ocean in the Sea of Honor five-player dungeon. Having already taken to the [...]
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Birds of Prey assemble! With DC Films’ and Warner Bros’ Birds of Prey movie set to hit theaters worldwide next week, it’s only a matter of time before natural that DC Universe Online would want to share in the hype. Daybreak Games’ new mini-studio Dimensional Ink announced its plans to release a Birds of Prey update sometime in April for [...]
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Last year, Perfect World Entertainment announced that they were working with Cryptic on a Magic: The Gathering-inspired MMORPG. But, much to the disappointment of MMORPG fans, the game ultimately turned out to be an online isometric ARPG with a Diablo-ish vibe rather than a traditional MMORPG. Today, the developers give fans a little insight into the design philosophy that went [...]
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Today marks the start of the Bless Unleashed Server Stress Test Weekend. As we previously reported, both new and open beta players are invited to help push the game’s servers to their limits. All progress from the Open Beta will carry over to the stress test. The servers go live today at 10am PT until February 3rd at 10am PT. [...]
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As the number of persons infected by the coronavirus continues to rise, governments, medical institutions, and other organizations are taking steps to prevent the spread of the virus. This includes Tencent, and more recently, Blizzard Entertainment who has just announced the cancellation of Overwatch League matches taking place in China in February and March. pic.twitter.com/nLEPHrJZXS — Overwatch League (@overwatchleague) January [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment is once again in the crosshairs of the gaming community over their recently launched Warcraft 3 remake, Warcraft 3: Reforged. Both the game’s forums and subreddit have been flooded with complaints that the finished game’s quality is a far cry from the videos shown during the BlizzCon 2018 reveal. According to VG247, it looks as though the opening [...]
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Novaquark’s sci-fi sandbox MMO Dual Universe is getting a bunch of new features today with the release of the game’s biggest update to date, the Alpha 3 update. The studio has been talking up these new features for the past several weeks which include revamped visuals, improvements to the games economy and industry system, new ship piloting features, and the [...]
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Garena, the Southeast Asian tech company, announced today that they purchased Phoenix Labs, the Canadian developer behind Dauntless. No purchase price was disclosed, however according to The Straits Times, the purchase price was ~$150M USD. Nothing is expected to change for Dauntless right now, but the official announcement did include this sentence "Both parties will build on Phoenix Labs’ world-class [...]
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Perfect World Entertainment announced today that the third game in the Torchlight franchise has had its name changed from Torchlight Frontiers to Torchlight 3. Besides improving clarity, the new name also marks a significant change in focus. Torchlight Frontiers was to be a much more MMO like experience than the previous titles in the Torchlight series. The plan was for [...]
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