Last year, we reported on a small Finnish startup studio called Dazzle Rocks that received $6.8 million dollars from investors to create a voxel-style social sandbox MMO for mobile devices. The game, creatively codenamed Project X, promises a vast and colorful cartoony world built using a custom social MMO Engine where players can build, explore, and go on adventures with [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment just can’t seem to make up their mind when it comes to whether or not they’ll be introducing additional customization options in World of Warcraft. When the Shadowlands expansion first came out, the studio promised that they would be adding more customization options for each of the available races post-launch. They would later backtrack on that promise a [...]
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Saati will be making her way to Paladins as the multiplayer online shooter’s next champion in next month’s update. Saati, a.k.a. the Trickshot, is a nimble bounty hunter with impressive gun skills and a knack for shooting coins from the air and towards her enemies. “No expense is spared to be the best of the best. She may work for [...]
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Remnant: From the Ashes has just turned two years old and Perfect World Entertainment is marking the occasion with a brand new trailer. The studio also announced that the post-apocalyptic supernatural third-person shooter has sold over 3.2 million units since its launch in 2019, which is an impressive number despite the slow roll out of DLCs. “Remnant: From the Ashes [...]
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CODEX, an indie MMORPG running on Legend of Aria’s Shard Engine, has now launched into Early Access after a 24-hour delay. The game features season-based gameplay divided into early-game, mid-game, late-game, and end-game. Upon reaching the end of the season, the game will be reset and all progress will be lost. “CODEX delivers a series of epic massively multiplayer adventures, [...]
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Genshin Impact Version 2.1 'Floating World Under the Moonlight' launches on September 1, 2021 and will expand on the recently released Inazuma area. Genshin Impact 2.1 features the following new content: Landscape expansions (2 major islands) Final chapter of Inazuma's main storyline 3 more playable Inazuma characters (Raiden Shogun, Sangonomiya Kokomi, and Kujou Sara) Liyue’s tradition – the Moonchase Festival [...]
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It’s a slow year for Netmarble as the South Korean mobile game developer reports a 15.8% dip in year-over-year revenue at KRW 577 billion (~ $489 million) compared to Q2 2020’s KRW 686 billion (~ $ 581 million). Quarter-on-Quarter revenue, however, is up by 1.2% thanks in part to the release of the Ni no Kuni: Cross World MMORPG in [...]
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Star Vault has announced the schedule for the Mortal Online 2 final closed beta on Steam. The Steam closed beta will run from September 6-12 with a focus on pushing the servers to their limits and giving players a taste of the game’s skill-based PvP, the crowning glory of the original Mortal Online MMORPG. Developer Star Vault will be running [...]
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Since Naraka: Bladepoint launched on Steam last week, the Asian-themed battle royale has steadily climbed up Steam’s Most Played Games list as its playerbase continues to grow with each passing day. Player concurrency numbers peaked at 105,685 players early Thursday morning with over 100,000 active players as of this writing. For those who aren’t familiar with the game, Naraka: Bladepoint [...]
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PlanetSide 2’s NSO _Integration update will finally be arriving on PlayStation 4 next week, nearly two months after it launched on PC. The massive update will be launching on Sony’s gaming console on August 25, bringing with it a major revamp of the Nanite System Operatives (NSO) faction. As PC players might recall, July’s highly-awaited NSO _Integration update gave free-to-play [...]
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