MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #234 February 24, 2020Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #234 - February 24, 2020 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending February 17, 2020. This is episode 233 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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TERA Hero, the Korean mobile spin-off of TERA, will be launching in Korea next month and MMO Culture has been gracious enough to provide fans with a pair of new trailers, the latter showcasing the game’s PvE and PvP gameplay. TERA Hero, previously known as TERA Frontier, is a character-based MMORPG with 18 playable characters. All characters can be unlocked [...]
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Bandai Namco has two new Bless Unleashed dev blogs out now which gives fans their first look at the MMORPG’s in-game Lumena cash shop. The first dev blog previews cosmetic items such as mounts, costumes, and dyes while the second dev blog spotlights convenience items like boosters, additional character slots, bag expansion tickets, and portable mailbox tickets. Premium currency can [...]
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After two years, Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games and Crytek have finally agreed to settle their differences. Crytek filed a lawsuit against Cloud Imperium Games in December 2017 over CIG’s alleged breach of contract on the use of their proprietary CryEngine. Apparently, Crytek only gave CIG license to use the engine for Star Citizen. The project, however, eventually evolved [...]
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NCSoft has just published a new Blade and Soul Producer’s Letter from Senior Producer Nico Coutant. The letter starts off with a look at the past year before moving on to reveal the studio’s plans for the game in 2020. “Looking back on Year 3, we had some great updates. The Zen Archer was an extremely popular class for players [...]
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Don’t you just wish you could jump right back into a ship and rain hell on whoever blew up your prized battleship in EVE Online? Well, you’ll be able to just that when the Fight or Flight Quadrant update rolls out in March. The update will introduce the new Frigate Escape Bay feature which will automatically be added to all [...]
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Three-man independent development studio Envision Studios has just announced that they’ll be delaying the launch of their Minecraft MMORPG Hegemony by two weeks. The game was initially scheduled to come out this weekend but had to be pushed back due to “two major hitches”, the first being performance issues. “This is purely on us. We did not start stress testing [...]
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Bandai Namco has just revealed the business model for their upcoming cel-shaded MMORPG Blue Protocol during the developers’ second YouTube livestream. Fans will be happy to know that the game will be free-to-play at launch and possibly cosmetic microtransactions and season passes as a form of monetization. The developers also talked about the upcoming closed beta test in Japan. Bandai [...]
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Enplex Games’ sci-fi survival MMO Population Zero is heading to Steam Early Access on May 5th. The game was initially planned as a free-to-play game but will be launching as buy-to-play instead. The game will also feature microtransactions in the form of cosmetic items and gear. The developers, however, assure players that these items will have no effect on gameplay. [...]
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If you’ve always wanted to roll a cute little bunny-eared assassin in Blade and Soul, now’s the chance to do so. NCSoft has just rolled out the Shroud of the Assassin update which comes with the Lyn Assassin race/class combo and the Assassin class’ third specialization – Way of the Phantom. “The darkness beckons—it is time for Assassins to learn [...]
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