Nexon announced today that MapleStory 2 will be shutting down on May 27, 2020 after launching in October, 2018. The game's demise shouldn't be too surprising as its playerbase on Steam has been falling steadily every month since launch. Despite the game's closure, the original MapleStory remains open and according to Nexon, is actually thriving. Maplestory hit an all time [...]
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We’ve been covering the new Guild Wars 2 Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire episode since it was first revealed in December 2019. Well, the new Living World episode is finally live on the servers today, bringing with it a new type of Living World content that will give players additional insight into Ryland Steelcatcher and his Steel Warband. [...]
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Last week, Blizzard Entertainment announced that they were finally giving all characters in an account access to Rank 3 Essences provided that one character has already earned it the hard way. But, you’ll still have to work for it by acquiring a new form of currency called Echoes of Ny’alotha. “If a Rank 3 Essence has been earned by another [...]
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Just when you thought that the battle royale genre was getting stale, along comes Activision Blizzard with a Call of Duty battle royale game called Call of Duty: Warzone. And, like all Call of Duty games, Warzone drew players like flies to a midden heap when it launched on March 10th. According to an official tweet, the game had already [...]
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It’s been a few weeks since we last heard from City State Entertainment and their medieval fantasy MMORPG Camelot Unchained. Turns out, the studio has been working hard on several new features for the game’s scenario loop, including building out the game’s environment, NPC behavior, and the mechanics of keep lords and realm keeps, as well as a new coastal [...]
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EverQuest is officially an adult and of legal drinking age as the classic fantasy MMORPG celebrates its 21st birthday this month. No, Daybreak Games, or rather Darkpaw Games, won’t be buying you drinks, but you do get a 50% XP boost until the end of the month. Two special player-designed anniversary quests have also been introduced and free level 85 [...]
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Path of Exile reached a record-high number of concurrent players with the launch of the Delirium expansion last Friday. Of course, the spike in players might also have a lot to do with the US being put under a state of emergency on the same day because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, that doesn’t change the fact that over 230,000 [...]
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4Game, a European MMO publisher, announced that they're launching a new version of RF Online titled "RF Evolution" which will be a progression server with some unique features. Despite being nearly 16 years old, RF Online continues to be played world-wide. This new progression server launched on March 5, 2020. Key features of RF Evolution are: Stage by stage development [...]
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Here we are again with your daily dose of COVID-19-related gaming news. More and more video game companies have transitioned to a remote working setup as an increasing number of countries and states are put under strict lockdown to try and put a stop to the spread of the COVID-19 virus. These companies include Hi-Rez Studios, Rockstar Games, Jagex, ZeniMax [...]
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Amazon Game Studios has a new New World dev vlog up for you to watch titled “Call to Arms.” This time, the developers talk about the combat system in the upcoming sandbox MMORPG, which according to Lead UX Designer Dan Henuber, is “100% real-time action combat.” The video also shows off how various weapons and the game’s weapon-based specialization work. [...]
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