It seems that other players aren't the only threat on your way to becoming the ruler of Archlord 2's world. In a press release that went out today, Webzen detailed what they call the game's most challenging update yet, an update that adds a new dungeon and raid boss. The dungeon, the "Dark Stronghold," is a dungeon for players level [...]
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If you're eagerly awaiting the Warhammer 40K MMOTPS, you will be happy to know that the developers have posted a new State of the Crusade address that covers territory control. It seems to take quite a bit of inspiration from Planetside. It seems there may be a bit more depth, but the core ideas remain the same. You have a [...]
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Following a rocky but undoubtedly successful launch, Skyforge's team is setting their sights on the game's longevity, a goal detailed in the latest Producer's Letter. Aiming to "[ensure] there's always a different activity available," Skyforge's latest update will focus on different events that can show up on the tactical map of Aelion. It is a content-focused update with a few [...]
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Drakensang Online is rarely mentioned but the online edition of the well-known action RPG series is indeed still going. A press release sent out today announced that next month marks the launch of their biggest expansion yet, which will bring with it a new Aztec and Polynesian-inspired continent, the tropical rainforest of Lor'Tac. This new continent will feature ten new [...]
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Wild Wolf's new free-to-play vehicular combat game, Badland Bandits, launched into Early Access just over a week ago to comparisons to Twisted Metal, Borderlands, due to its art style, and World of Tanks, among others. Unfortunately, it launched with only a European server cluster and high ping for those playing on that cluster from outside of Europe is all too [...]
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An innovation largely credited to EvE, offline training has slowly taken its place as a staple of the MMO genre. Since EvE’s release, we have seen games as old as Tibia and as new as Age of Wushu use similar mechanics to allow players to progress their characters even when offline. The alternative form of leveling is often associated with [...]
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The upcoming Loot and Survive patch for Dungeon Defenders II, due out tomorrow, has been detailed in a new Steam Community update. The patch aims to improve the overall flow of player progression, as well as revamping several major systems on top of that. Someone in the accompanying video says that it is the most fun he's had since the [...]
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While I haven't played it yet, I've been watching Wild Terra pretty intently. The action RPG/sandbox hybrid, which appears to be a midway point between games like Mir and Lineage, Mortal Online, and Haven and Hearth, seems incredibly promising. Even in its early state, the self-proclaimed MMO survival game already appears far more competent than many other survival games we've [...]
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Have you had issues with quests not working in Inspirit Online? When a quest requires you to enter a certain area, does the game not register your arrival without relogging or restarting your computer? So have a select few others. To combat this, new publishers Game Release Entertainment have launched a completely new client rather than simply patching the old [...]
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The Dragon Warrior-inspired buy-to-play indie MMORPG NEStalgia has been comfortably living out a niche existence as one of the few MMORPGs to provide a true MMO take on classic turn-based RPGs. It's so niche, in fact, that I regularly forget about the BYOND-powered game, despite it being in my Steam library. Despite that, it has a dedicated fan base and [...]
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