Over the past few years, RPGs in general have shifted from traditional class-based gameplay to the more freeform open-class or weapons-based systems. Different games, however, have different ways of doing it. In Fractured Online, it’s more skill-based with a focus on using skills and proficiency rather than relying on gear stats and levels as developer Dynamight Studios reveals in their [...]
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Blade and Soul players who rolled the Soul Fighter class now have access to a new class specialization with the release of the Way of the Divine Hand in today’s Soul Resurgence update. The Divine Hand is the third class spec for the heavy-hitting Soul Fighter class and offers a good balance between close-range and mid-range combat. “Using their own [...]
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Amazon Game Studios has disabled character creation on all New World regions and servers due to unknown reasons. Earlier speculation pointed to the studio’s efforts to control botting, RMT, and multiple account exploits that have been a massive thorn on their side since the 17th century survival MMORPG launched last September. A more recent tweet, however, points to an actual [...]
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Guild Wars 2 is gearing up to celebrate the Year of the Tiger with the return of the annual Lunar New Year event on January 25th. As with previous iterations, this year’s festivities will take place in Divinity’s Reach with the usual array of Lunar New Year activities and mini-games along with a few new ones to keep things fresh. [...]
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With New Year festivities over and done with, it’s now time to focus on the next big holiday coming to Final Fantasy XIV – Halloween. Wait, what? Halloween in January? Well, if you’ll remember, last year’s All Saints’ Wake Halloween event was delayed for some reason or other and was pushed back to sometime this month. That time is now. [...]
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While permadeath in Book of Travels has been disabled indefinitely for Early Access, players are still concerned about developer Might and Delight bringing it back in the future. In case you haven’t noticed, the self-described “tiny” MORPG is by no means a conventional RPG and permadeath is apparently an integral part of the game’s core mechanics and lore. “Firstly we [...]
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Players can now pre-download Broken Ranks for PC ahead of the isometric turn-based MMORPG’s official launch next week. Developer Whitemoon Games is also talked about the game’s business model and how premium currency will be used as part of their launch preparations. The team assures players that there will be no pay-to-win mechanics and that they won’t ever need to [...]
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Mobile MMORPG Mu Origin will be closing its doors in just a few short months after nearly six years of live operation in the west. “It has been over 5 years that we have traveled the MU continent with you. We are truly sorrowful to announce you that our long journey with MU Origin has to end,” announced publisher Webzen. [...]
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Valve may have taken down Myth of Empires from Steam but, technically, there’s nothing stopping Angela Game from just selling the Chinese sandbox MMORPG through other platforms, their own website included. This is exactly what the Chinese developer did to work around the DMCA takedown and an International Vanguard Edition of the game is now available for purchase on the [...]
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When Amazon Games launched New World in October it shocked the gaming world with its huge numbers. The game averaged over 410,000 concurrent players on Steam and hit a peak concurrent playerbase of 913,027. These numbers are absolutely staggering. It was the biggest MMO launch since World of Warcraft. Players didn't stick around though; the game averaged 155K players in [...]
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