CCP Games is working on a mobile game! The Iclandic studio behind EVE Online has partnered with Finnish studio PlayRaven for a new project currently known as Project Aurora. PlayRaven has some experience in the mobile realm, they're the studio behind mobile strategy games Winterstate and Spymaster. According to an interview with GamesBeat, Project Aurora is "essentially a condensed EVE [...]
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Its a feature, not a bug. No game is immune from bugs, but the effects a bug can have are magnified by the multiplayer, persistent nature of MMOs. Often bugs go unfixed for months, if not years. Whether its not developer's inability or ignorance of such bugs, they often end up being fixed features of a MMO. Something for players [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment posted a job opening on their website for a mobile game developer proficient with Unity to help develop an unannounced mobile MMORTS. Beyond the actual job listing, there's been no official announcement. Check out the actual job listing (link 404s now, but we have it saved here): Given the immense success of mobile strategy games like Game of [...]
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Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has taken the PC gaming scene by storm this year and continues to make new highs every week. It recently surpassed Dota 2 as the most popular game on Steam, reaching peak concurrent player numbers exceeding 1.5 million. With that sort of success, PUBG and the Battle Royal genre it popularized was sure to draw copycats. We saw [...]
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This week marked the passing of an era in online gaming. Everyone's favorite lawless sandbox Eve Online was hit by another in-game political scandal. A major player Alliance called Circle of Two (CO2) was betrayed by a high ranking insider and subsequently fell apart. Over a trillion in ISK along with the Alliance's Keepstar Citadel capital HQ was stolen in [...]
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On September 14, 2017 Pearl Abyss, the Korean studio behind Black Desert Online, went public. Two weeks prior, the company held a news conference detailing their history and their plans for the future. As part of that conference, the company released a slew of interesting numbers pertaining to their business. These included revenue numbers, unit sales, staffing numbers, and so [...]
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Pearl Abyss, the Korean studio behind Black Desert Online is preparing to go public via an initial public offering (IPO). This process requires certain financial disclosures and gives us a chance to see just how well the company is performing. We're happy to report that our 2016 MMORPG of the year is is doing just fine. Black Desert Online has [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #112 September 11, 2017Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #112 - September 11, 2017 by Omer A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending September 11, 2017. This is episode 111 in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games mentioned this [...]
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Omer published a column yesterday claiming "We need more aspirational content in MMORPGs." The post sparked quite a discussion on the MMORPGs subreddit so we thought we would revisit the subject this week on the podcast. There's been a steady lowering of difficulty in modern MMORPGs. In the past, less than 1% of the WoW playerbase even attempted the original [...]
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Today marks the start of the Founders Program for The Amazing Eternals, a first person hero shooter by Warframe developer Digital Extremes. While we have no hard number on the level of interest for this title, the fact that their homepage crashed day one indicates at least some buzz. The Amazing Eternals follows a in the footsteps of several hero [...]
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