On June 5th, a city that RuneScape players have been able to see, but never visit, for more than twelve years will open its gates for the first time. Players will finally be able to explore Menaphos: The Golden City, a massive city that features hanging gardens, streams, and even a pyramid. Menaphos will feature a story of corruption, new [...]
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Following several months in Closed Beta, Lightbulb Crew's cross-platform competitive online top-down shooter Games of Glory has officially launched. Games of Glory pits two teams of either three or four against each other in a MOBA-like setting. They will shoot each other and try to time the use of their abilities well as they attempt to take various capture points [...]
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In a recent forum post, an Overwatch player expressed concern over the current cycle of map releases. Since launch last year, only two new maps have been released, which caused the player in question to ask whether it was enough. In response to this concern, Game Director Jeff Kaplan responded, stating that there were three new "standard" maps in development [...]
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It’s been about two weeks now since I finished The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and one thing that I can’t seem to get out of my head is the notion that MMOs could stand to learn a thing or two from the latest in Nintendo’s long-running series. There were a few aspects of the game I was [...]
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It's been a while since Project Genom's last patch, but it seems that the team might be slowly making progress towards the next one. According to the latest weekly newsletter, the team "conducted the first internal test of the open world this week." Also completed in recent times is a set of new zones, such as the one shown above, [...]
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Most people are shocked to discover that they share a birthday with Snoop Dogg or Miley Cyrus or perhaps even that one guy that appeared in a popular movie once 20 years ago that hasn't had a role since. Me? I share a birthday with The Lord of the Rings Online and today, the long-running MMORPG hit double digits, the [...]
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It's no secret that Bless wasn't exactly finished when it launched. It is said that the initial level cap was intended to be 60, but the game launched with a total of 45 levels of content. Due to the fact that the game was launched in an unfinished state, Russian publisher 101XP has decided to close the game and send [...]
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links was originally released on Android and iOS on November 17th, 2016. Since then, it has been downloaded a total of 40 million times worldwide. The mobile Yu-Gi-Oh card game has been so popular that it has ranked as the number one free game in the App Store in France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, the United States, and 60 [...]
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ChangYou seems to be on somewhat of a major downturn right now, as its first quarter 2017 revenues are showing non-trivial decreases year-over-year. In total, the company made $120 million in revenue, an 8% decrease year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter. Online game revenue was a mere $85 million, a 17% decreases year-over-year and an 11% decrease quarter-over-quarter. ChangYou claims that the decrease [...]
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You may remember Arcfall developer Neojac Entertainment from one of its other projects that never came to fruition, Islands of War or Neo's Land. The developer of the Unity-based Atavism MMO Creator has yet to actually put out an MMORPG, despite having created an MMO engine and worked on several of them. It's looking to change that with the release [...]
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