The official site for the Western (US/EU) version of Astellia went live today with the announcement that the game is scheduled for a 2019 launch! The fantasy MMORPG, developed by Studio 8, was first announced back in 2014 under the working title Project A, and is currently in open beta testing back in its home market of Korea. Astellia Bills [...]
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Bungie was founded in 1991, but came to global fame after it was purchased by Microsoft in 2000 and the release of Halo: Combat Evolved in 2001. As the years went by, the relationship with Microsoft grew dull. In 2007, Bungie split from Microsoft and became an independent studio once more. The terms of that divorce meant Microsoft got to [...]
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Its been a good run. Rush On Seven Episodes aka ROSE Online, will be shutting down on February 11, 2019. WarpPortal, the Gravity owned publisher that hosts the game, made the announcement today via the Rose Online Facebook page. The in-game item mall is already closed, and players who still have points in-game will be able to transfer them to [...]
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As gaming has gone from a niche activity to a mainstream past time, developers have come up with all sorts of ways to entice players to either keep playing, or to at least make daily play a habit. MMORPGs were some of the first to play with such mechanics. World of Warcraft's rested experience, and later daily quest feature were [...]
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Kim Jung-ju, the founder South Korea's largest gaming company, is putting his entire 98.64% stake in holding company NXC Corp for sale. NXC Corp itself controls 47.98% of Nexon and ~80% of Korbit and Bitstamp, two cryptocurrency exchanges. The stake is currently valued at ~$10 billion which would make it biggest ever Korean sale of this nature. Kim Jung-ju founded [...]
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Welcome to the MMOs.com Game of the Year Awards 2018 Edition. Note that only games released in 2018 qualify for these awards! Without further ado, I give you our games of the year. MMORPG of the Year - MapleStory 2 2018 was not a busy year for MMORPG releases. While many existing games received major updates, few new contenders made [...]
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Korea has always had stiffer gaming regulations than the West. For years, account registration on Korean portals like Nexon or NCsoft required users to enter their Korean Social Security numbers, something alien to those of us who often use throwaway emails, names, and birthdays when registering. On November 20, 2011, Korea's Youth Protection Revision Act came into force. Commonly reffered [...]
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Studio Wildcard, best known for the survival game ARK: Survival Evolved had a surprise announcement at this year's The Game Awards. Atlas, a pirate-themed sandbox MMO with a game world 1200x bigger than an ARK server map, is coming to Steam Early Access on December 13 for $30. Atlas is being developed by a new sister studio of Wildcard called [...]
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Valve's premier shooter, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) is now free to play. An official news post titled Welcome to the Danger Zone published on December 6, 2018 announced both the free to play conversion and the addition of a new Battle Royale mode called Danger Zone. CS:GO was released on August 21, 2012 as a buy to play game like [...]
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MapleStory 2's first major update, the Skybound Expansion is set to arrive in several phases with the first coming on December 6th. The first phase will introduce a brand new class, the Soul Binder. Wielding a spiritual form of magic called animus, the Soul Binder has trained in the mysterious Halo Mountains and is now ready to join the battle [...]
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