MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #244 May 11, 2020Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #244 - May 11, 2020 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending May 11, 2020. This is episode 244 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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Novaquark gives alpha players and fans something to look forward to in a new dev video diary that shows off some of the new features coming when the sandbox voxel game hits beta later this year. This includes an offline notification system that will give players a summary of important things that happened when they were logged off such as [...]
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Echtra Games has changed how skill progression is handled in Torchlight 3 with a massive patch earlier this week. Skills were previously unlocked by spending skill points on skills in previous tiers. With the skill rework in place, new skills will now automatically be unlocked at certain levels (currently 5/10/15/20). Skill points will still be used to improve skills but [...]
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As promised yesterday, Enplex Games is back with the Population Zero development roadmap for the month of May. This month, the developers will be focusing on fixing and optimizing various parts of the game starting with a fix for issues when joining a friend and sudden server reboots by Friday, May 8th. Enplex will also be enhancing post-effects and will [...]
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The Xbox Series X won’t be coming out until later this year, but Microsoft is keen to get the hype train rolling with a new 25-minute video that shows off gameplay footage and cinematics from some of the games that are being developed and optimized for the next-gen console. “Developers are using the hardware to achieve their dreams and their [...]
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Webzen’s mobile MU spin-off MU Origin gets a bunch of new PvP content with the release of Update 13.0 today, including a PvP survival instance called Genesis War which rewards players with Mount Seals that can be used to upgrade their mounts. “In the new update, MU Origin will be presenting warriors with a new survival feature, Genesis War. Players [...]
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Population Zero officially launched on Steam Early Access earlier this week, and, like most MMOs, early access or not, ran into multiple problems on launch day, not the least of which are server crashes and issues. Creative Producer Denis Pozdnyakov apologizes for the inconvenience in a letter to the community posted on Steam earlier today. “No sugar-coating and straight to [...]
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Major work is being done to update Klingon environments in Star Trek Online in preparation for the launch of the Year of the Klingon event later this year. Star Trek Online Lead Environment Artist Scot Boyd and Senior Environment Artist Nick Duguid talks about the planned changes in the latest episode of the Ten Forward weekly stream hosted by Community [...]
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When asked about the current subscriber trends in World of Warcraft during this week’s Q1 2020 Earnings Call, Blizzard Entertainment President J. Allen Brack answered with a statement meant as a response to co-founder Mike Morhaime’s comment on the social decline in World of Warcraft a little over a week ago and Lead Systems Designer Greg Street’s defense of the [...]
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SEGA has just revealed a new Total War-inspired free-to-play collectible card game called Total War: Elysium in a new closed beta trailer released earlier today. The trailer gives the gaming community their first look at actual gameplay footage of the new game where players get to play as iconic generals from across history. “Set in Elysium; City of Legends, ELYSIUM [...]
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