A few days ago, Gamigo announced their plans to charge a small fee for major ArcheAge Unchained updates in the future, starting with Garden of the Gods. Naturally, this resulted in a massive backlash from Unchained players who were sold on the fact that they only had to pay for the game once to get access to all of the [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #246 May 25, 2020Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #246 - May 25, 2020 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending May 25, 2020. This is episode 246 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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Frozen Flame, a new multiplayer survival action RPG, from indie developer Dreamside Interactive is set to hit the Steam Early Access shelves this Fall. Dreamside promises to breathe new life into the survival genre with a deep role-playing experience. The studio is currently running a crowdfunding campaign on fig.co and, as of this writing, has raised over $115,000 to fund [...]
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Gamigo has just announced their plans to make significant changes to the ArcheAge Unchained business model in a new post on the game's Discord channel. If you can remember, Gamigo launched the buy-to-play version of ArcheAge in October last year which gives players unlimited access to all of the game’s content for $25.99. Apparently, the publisher is having problems supporting [...]
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Riot Games’ Valorant is finally launching early next month after nearly two months in closed beta. The studio announced that the highly-awaited competitive shooter will officially be opening its doors on June 2nd. The announcement was made via a new dev update video and a lengthy blog with some pertinent launch information. The blog also goes into detail about the [...]
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Pearl Abyss’ Black Desert Online battle royale spin-off, Shadow Arena, initially started life as an additional game mode for the original game last year. It was later taken down before resurfacing as a standalone game, and after several rounds of open beta tests, is now officially live on Steam Early Access. According to the press release, the Early Access version [...]
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Last month, Kakao Games, the western publisher for the steampunk MMORPG Ascent: Infinite Realm, revealed that they had changed the game’s title to Elyon following major changes to the its gameplay and overall theme. According to the publisher, the new name better reflected the game’s new fantasy action MMORPG design. Since then, Kakao Games and Korean publisher Daum Games have [...]
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Earlier this year, Daybreak Games founded three new spinoff studios: Darkpaw Games, Dimensional Ink, and Rogue Planet Games. Each of these studios was tasked with exclusively handling the EverQuest franchise, DC Universe Online, and the PlanetSide franchise respectively, while H1Z1 remained with Daybreak. Today, we have word that Daybreak registered the trademark for another studio called Wandering Monster Games courtesy [...]
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The final chapter in the year-long Invasion expansion kicks off in EVE Online on May 26th. Invasion Chapter 3 will conclude the Triglavian storyline which has thrown Capsuleers and the whole of New Eden into conflict with the mysterious invaders. The new chapter will be available to all players regardless of level. “As seismic events occur and continue to unfold [...]
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Rocky launch days seem to have become the norm with today’s online games as Amazon Game Studios’ Crucible struggled with login problems and prolonged queues after the game officially opened its servers yesterday. Apparently, the issues were caused by datacenter routing problems. The developers, however, were quick to roll out a hotfix late in the evening along with a number [...]
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