There is a bundle of news about ARK today as Studio Wildcard launch the Survival of the Fittest battle mode and their mod kit in one day, and Alienware announce a mod contest at the same time! After waiting a few weeks, The Survival of the Fittest mode can now be downloaded from the Steam Workshop. It is a total [...]
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At long last, the update that brings passive skills and the first pass at buildings to Gloria Victis with it is now live. After what was supposedly a "long fight with animations system," the developers have pushed the update to servers, allowing players to upgrade gates, defensive objects, farms, mines, and guards in their settlement, as well as unlock their [...]
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It seems that Otherland is more than just alive. Rather, it's close to launching. After six years in development, two of which have been spent with Drago Entertainment, on August 26th, the game will hit Steam Early Access. The team has decided to go through Early Access rather than "the traditional closed beta phase" because they believe that it will [...]
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Earnings for Nexon's second quarter, which ended on June 30th, have been published. The highlights of this quarter include a 42.7 billion yen increase in revenues, bringing them to a 16% increase year-over-year, a 10.2 billion yen increase in mobile revenues, a 32.5 billion yen increase in "PC online game revenues," and an 11.3 billion yen increase in operating income, [...]
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Following a successful initial test involving those that received alpha keys, the Rising Thunder newsletter was sent out last night telling those on their mailing list that the alpha is now open to everyone. You can now log in and play all six characters immediately without waiting. Along with the public launch, two new variants were announced. Talos received the move [...]
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Darkfall has just received a patch that aims to give players a reason to go out in the world and actively play the game, as well as give the game's full loot system meaning again by making players value high-level items more. The game server has essentially undergone a "soft wipe" in which all rare resources and gear are now [...]
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Fans of the Otherland MMO that is still yet to be released, fear not. After a prolonged period of silence following the closed beta this past spring, yesterday, the team at Drago Entertainment broke the silence. Otherland has not entered another long period of silence before disappearing like it did while at Gamigo. So what have they been up to [...]
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One Thumb Mobile have launched Celtic Heroes' Summer event, Beltane, alongside a massive seasonal update. This update features new content in which players must aid the Sages of Brath to help defeat the Morcas, War, Pestilence, Famine, and Death, and defend Dal Riata. The new content is available to players at any level and supposedly features "remarkable rewards." New mounts [...]
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Funcom aren't the world's favorite developers currently, what with the eons it took for the Anarchy Online engine update to release and players claiming that no new content has been added to Age of Conan since before it went free-to-play. It seems all the perceived missteps are catching up to them as the company is currently "[initiating] review of strategic [...]
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Neverwinter's Strongholds are one of the coolest features I have seen in an MMO in some time. Not only do guilds get their own slice of land, when guilds battle, the guild lands of both guilds fuse together and guilds fight 20v20 in MOBA fashion. They're not alone in the upcoming patch, though. Yesterday, Perfect World and Cryptic posted the [...]
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