With 2017 coming to a close, we're left still waiting for the majority of MMORPGs that have been crowd funded over the past few years. Just last month, Crowfall announced they would miss their 2017 soft launch window. Shroud of the Avatar is still awaiting release, despite having an estimated release date of 2017. Camelot Unchained, Chronicles of Elyria, Dual [...]
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Gold farming is a term often associated with China, but it can become a major source of income in any country facing financial hardship. Venezuela's ongoing economy crisis has led to hyperinflation in the local currency, and most Venezuelan's have their salaries fixed in Bolivars. As of December 4, it took an astonishing 108,279 Bolivar to buy a single US [...]
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Albion Online launched with a bang back in July, but the PvP centric sandbox MMORPG has suffered from a steeply declining playerbase ever since. Reddit user exploitedgg has charted this decline by pulling data from the in-game fame charts. Posted on the Albion Online subreddit, the line and bar graphics show a percpitious decline after week 2. The total number [...]
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One of the unique properties of MMORPGs as compared to other genres is the social and economy hierarchies present in their persistent worlds. We all start at the bottom, but how high and how fast we rise is only tangently related to the hours we put into a game. We all know the perpetual peasant, the friend whose played since [...]
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We recently announced that Tencent had secured the Chinese publishing rights to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, now we have a better idea on what Tencent's plans are with the lucrative contract. Besides publishing the PC version of PUBG, after making minor revisions to please the Chinese censors, Tencent is already hard at work on a mobile port of the popular Battle Royale [...]
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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is finally getting an official Chinese release. PUBG has been available to Chinese players since its Early Access launch back in March through Steam, but it had never been official sanctioned by Chinese authorities. Those issues can be put to rest since Tencent has secured the license to publish the game in China. Tencent had been gunning for [...]
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Nintendo surprised us yesterday by releasing Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp a day early! Originally slated to launch today, the game showed up on the iOS App Store and Android Google Play store yesterday, November 21, 2017. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is Nintendo's latest mobile release and follows in the footsteps of Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem Heroes. Fans of [...]
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The recent drama surrounding Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been one of the biggest gaming stories of the year, often leaking into the mainstream press and even into the financial news. As soon as that happened, Electronic Arts was quick to back peddle, removing micro-transactions from the game entirely. Many across the gaming media shared in on the outrage, but [...]
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The studio behind the highly popular mobile game Summoners War has a whole slew of additional games under development. We were treated to 5 game announcements at this year's G-Star convention in South Korea. The biggest of the game reveals was undoubtedly a Summoners War MMORPG. The other games include: Birdie Crush - a fantasy golf game. Not unlike Pangya [...]
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This year's G-Star convention took place over the weekend and mobile games took center stage. Netmarble was among the most prolific exhibitors, with several mobile MMORPGs available for hands-on play at their demo booth. Tera M, the mobile sequel to the 2011 PC MMORPG was one such game. Tera M will be a traditional fantasy MMORPG with the standard mix [...]
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