After extensive testing Blade and Soul will finally be launching in NA and Europe on January 19, 2015 beginning at 12AM EST/ 9PM PST—it looks like I'll have at least one birthday gift guaranteed this year. Impatient players can still purchase a Founder's Pack and access the game's world starting January 15th. Higher-tier Founder's Packs will enable players to reserve their [...]
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Reto-Moto has released their Young update for Heroes and Generals (named after US brigadier-general Gordon Russell Young), featuring a new map, new game mode, new weapons, and adjustments to the first person experience. Immersion is intensified thanks to camera shakes, and on-screen effects will taint your camera with blood and dust. Adjustments to movement have also been made to provide a [...]
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Eager players will have another chance to jump into Blizzard's team shooter Overwatch this weekend, starting November 20th. The game will be undergoing a stress test, pushing servers to the limits. But not everyone will be able to play. You'll still have to sacrifice a console to the RNG gods and cross your fingers, hoping Blizzard selects your Battle.net account [...]
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Dota 2's popularity continues to lag after the International 2015 tournament in October 2015, according to SuperData Research. The market analyst firm provided a screenshot of the industry for the month, revealing some interesting facts. The second most popular MOBA Dota 2 can't catch a break. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has regularly encroached on its territory as the number 1 top player [...]
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Runewaker Entertainment and Daybreak Game Company announced that Dragon's Prophet would be shutting down in October and the time finally arrived this past Monday. It's always sad to see an MMO close, but also not surprising. Updates had ceased in the preceding months of the announcement. The Asian and European servers are still operating, but all official remnants of the North [...]
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Ar:piel was a top-down action MMORPG set in vibrant environments where players select a character imbued with animal characteristics and defeat countless waves of monsters. [singlepic id=67581 w=428 h=240 float=none] Publisher: Nexon Type: Action MMORPG Release Date: December 03, 2015 Shut Down: April 30, 2019 Pros: +Unique animal-inspired classes. +Anime aesthetic. +Player housing. Cons: -No Western release date.
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The Jane Austen inspired RPG Ever, Janes has begun it's closed beta testing period. Funded on Kickstarter nearly two years ago, the non-combat MMO deviates almost entirely from standard genre paradigms. Rather than joining raids and slaying creatures in Mansfield Park, players will utilize the weapons of gossip and subterfuge. "Instead of raids, we will have grand balls. Instead of [...]
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Pangaea: New World is an upcoming survival MMO developed by LVR Studio that aims to incorporate RPG elements and an interdependent ecosystem in a post-apocalyptic landscape. The game boasts an enormous world to explore, approximately 90km² (or ~60 miles), and is built on Unreal Engine 4. Based on the description the game is clearly influenced by single-player apocalyptic series S.T.A.L.K.E.R.; [...]
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Electronic Arts' Star Wars: Battlefront has released today, November 17, 2015, but will players flock to a far away galaxy or are they too distracted by other titles? Superdata Research asserted last month that the fantasy–sci-fi Battlefield title would be a financial disappointment and I argued that Battlefront would benefit from a free-to-play payment model (not that such a transition [...]
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is easily one of the most popular games on Steam, holding a position in the Top 2 highest player-bases. The tactical shooter resonates with an urge to pop heads like FPS Doug using cooperative tactics and precision aiming. Many shooters opt for team deathmatch gameplay, with character classes and zany abilities. But Counter-Strike has always remained true [...]
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