Upcoming anime-cyberpunk VR MMO Zenith was one of the most successful crowd-funded games last year. The game reached their initial $25,000 funding goal in just four hours and managed to raise over $280,000 in development funds during their month-long Kickstarter campaign. Indie-developer Ramen VR talks about what they’ve been up to since then in their first ever Dev Blog. According [...]
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Last year Riot Games was slapped with a sexual discrimination class-action suit following Kotaku’s exposé of the prevailing “bro culture” in the studio. Riot Games agreed to a $10 million settlement in August 2019, the details of which were released in December later that year and is now awaiting approval by the court. Apparently, the drama doesn’t end there. According [...]
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Like every other online game launch, yesterday’s Temtem Early Access launch on Steam was plagued with server problems, bugs, long queues, and a myriad of other issues. Luckily, the developers were standing by to take care of the problems as soon as they appeared. They were also extremely forthcoming about everything that was happening on their Twitter page, including the [...]
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The hard-hitting Guardian has taken up her massive axe and shield as she joins the other classes in Black Desert Online. Her highly-awaited debut also comes with in-game events to help new characters catch up. “Guardian has finally arrived in the world of Black Desert! Guardian wields a powerful battle axe and shield to crush her enemies without mercy. Also [...]
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Tencent is at it again. They're expanding their vast gaming empires with yet another acquisition. This time around they're purchasing Funcom, the Norweigan game developer best known for Conan Exiles and Anarchy Online, for $148M. While the deal was just announced and hasn't closed yet, Funcom's board of directors unanimously approved the detail and encouraged shareholders to vote in favor [...]
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Over the past few days, Donkey Crew has been publishing a series of dev vlogs that focuses on how to survive and stay safe in the harsh desert world of their upcoming nomadic woodpunk sandbox MMO Last Oasis. The videos give players an overview of bases, walkers, clans, raiding, and how the safe logout feature works. The studio posted the [...]
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This weekend, Amazon Game Studios revealed that they were ditching their initial plans for an open-loot free-for-all PvP system in New World and making PvP an opt-in feature instead. Why the sudden change of heart? Well, apparently testers and devs ran into a little problem called griefing, and they weren’t too happy about it. “One of the problems we observed [...]
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Sandbox Interactive brings a number of big changes to Albion Online with the launch of the Queen update today. Queen is the fantasy MMORPG's “biggest-ever” update and features major changes to the Outlands, the new Hideout System, along with a powerful new faction called the Avalonians. “This update brings a complete rework of the Outlands continent along with fully revamped [...]
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It’s always a good habit to have some kind of plan for the year ahead, or at least the first half of it just like Black Desert Online developer, Pearl Abyss. The studio has just released a roadmap for the first 6 months of 2020 which includes the release of the Guardian class on January 22nd and the Guardian Awakening [...]
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Gameforge announced on Facebook and Twitter today that the action MMORPG Guardians of Ember will be shutting down on February 14, 2020. Developed by the Taiwanese studio Runewaker, Guardians of Ember was first published in the West in 2016 by incelGames. Gameforge picked up the license and re-launched the game as a free to play title in January 2019. Unfortunately, [...]
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