In January last year, Fukong Shanghai, the owner of RuneScape developer Jagex, announced their plans to sell the studio as the Chinese company struggled to survive against the gaming bans in China. In July of the same year, Fukong revealed that it was selling Jagex to the private equity investment firm US Platinum Fortune for $530 million. Jagex, however, issued [...]
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A little over a month ago, indie-developer Soulbound Studios announced that they were shutting down Chronicles of Elyria and laying off all their employees because they ran out of funding. This happened just a few days after they ran their first-ever limited closed beta test. To top it all off, the studio refused to give refunds and even removed account [...]
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Earlier this month, Riot Games’ upcoming shooter Valorant broke the Twitch record for the most number of hours watch in one day for a single game. Twitch streamers raked in a total of 34 million hours on April 7th and peaked at over 1.7 million concurrent viewers even though the game is still in a limited closed beta. The record-breaking [...]
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It’s been a while since we covered Astellia Online, and it seems that the game has had a recent change in management. In a forum post earlier this month, a community manager revealed that Barunson E&A has handed over control of the game to its developer Studio 8 who will be managing the game’s operations along with a new partner. [...]
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Enplex Games’ sci-fi survival MMO Population Zero will officially be launching on Steam in a week’s time. But before that, the studio is giving players a glimpse into the all the hard work that went into their flagship game, specifically how the game’s visuals evolved during its development. “For nearly three years, developers at Enplex Games have been hard at [...]
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Over the past few years, lootboxes, lockboxes, or whatever you want to call them, have become extremely controversial owing to the fact that players have to pay real money for a chance to get random items. The ESRB has even added a new rating for games with randomized elements that players can buy with real-world cash. With that in mind, [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #242 April 27, 2020Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #242 - April 27, 2020 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending April 27, 2020. This is episode 242 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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Square Enix has just released new information on the next major update coming to Final Fantasy XIV in the latest Letter from the Producer livestream. Patch 5.3 “Reflections in Crystal”, will conclude the Shadowbringers storyline and will rework the A Realm Reborn storyline to allow new players to easily transition into the next chapters. “The main scenario questline in A [...]
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Colin Campbell, a veteran developer who previously worked on a number of big projects for BioWare, has taken a job at ZeniMax Online Studios as Lead Level Designer for a new game. This is the same game that the studio has been hiring for since 2018. Based on the job postings, it will in all probability be an MMO. Campbell’s [...]
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Over the past few weeks, Nintendo has received numerous reports and complaints of accounts being hacked and unauthorized credit card use. The company responded with a statement saying that they were investigating the problem and advised account holders to enable two-step authentication in the meantime. Nintendo confirmed today that there was indeed a massive security breach that possibly affected over [...]
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