Pearl Abyss revealed today that Shadow Arena, the Black Desert Online Battle Royale mode, would be shuttered on April 10th. The short notice caught many off guard, but the BDO team promises compensation packages to make up for that. Shadow Arena was first revealed in a Developer Letter published on January 8, 2019 and has thus proved a short-lived experiment. [...]
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Robox revealed on April 7th that the casual kid-friendly mini-game platform now has over 90 million monthly active users (MAUs) worldwide. Just to put that figure into context, League of Legends peaked at 100 million monthly active users in 2017 and that figure has declined since, which makes Roblox more popular than League of Legends today. The continued growth of [...]
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Mob Wars: La Cosa Nostra is a spin-off of the original Mob Wars, one of the most popular games on Facebook back in 2008. Work your way up from a petty thief to a major crime boss by completing jobs and heists. [singlepic id=76529 w=428 h=240 float=left] Publisher: Kano Playerbase: Medium Type: Mobile RPG Release Date: 2009 Pros: +Low system [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #188 February 25, 2019Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #188 - February 25, 2019 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending February 25, 2019. This is episode 188 in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games covered this week were: [...]
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The 2019 Industry bloodletting continues. Leaks of a massive round of layoffs at ArenaNet were leaked on February 20th and were confirmed by NCSoft which owns ArenaNet, on February 21st. The layoffs are likely due to stalling revenue across NCSoft's PC lineup, and ArenaNet's inability to finish several projects which have been under development for a number of years. The [...]
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When PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) launched in 2017 it catapulted the niche Battle Royale genre into the mainstream. Its success was quickly followed by Fortnite which grew so fast that it transcended the video gaming industry and became a cultural phenomena, not unlike Pokemon in the early 1990s. With so much hype around Fortnite and PUBG, it was easy to assume [...]
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Less than a week after announcing that Rose Online would be shutting down, WarpPortal made it known via the official forums that development on Ragnarok Online 2 has ended as of January 16, 2019. The forum post made it clear that while development would cease, the game is not closing down. Players will be able to continue enjoying the game, [...]
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Remember Record of Lodoss War Online? The isometric MMORPG launched in the West back in April 2017, following a successful release in Korea and Japan back in 2015. As of Jan 15, 2019, the free to play MMORPG is available through Steam. While the graphics and slow paced progression wont' appeal to everyone, its clear Record of Lodoss War Online [...]
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En Masse, the Western publisher for Closers, made an announcement today that they would be merging the European and North American servers for the game on January 29, 2019. The official announcement includes a lengthy FAQ which contains most of the usual merger related instructions: delete unused characters to ensure character count doesn't exceed max slots (20), name priority, rank [...]
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Anime inspired action MMO KurtzPel launched a Steam store page today. Developed by Korean studio KOG, the same company behind Elsword and Grand Chase, KurtzPel promises fast paced gameplay in both PvP and PvE missions. As with previous KOG titles, Kurtzpel will make heavy use of instancing and stage based missions. While the Steam page is currently sparse on details, [...]
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