Kakao Games has made its big Steam debut and, surprisingly, its first game on Steam was not Black Desert Online—they're clearly saving the honor of being the first version of Black Desert Online on Steam for RedFox Games. No, instead, it was VR Golf Online, an HTC Vive-exclusive golf game with 36 courses and "realistic physics." There's just one problem; [...]
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Square Enix released its earnings report for "the nine-month period ended December 31, 2016" yesterday and it has some interesting tidbits. Square Enix is a massive company and not all of their ventures apply to the world of MMOs, so we're going to focus on one specific part that is directly related to the world of MMOs. In the area [...]
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Important note: This is a new batch of keys. If you got a key from our previous Mu Legend Closed Beta 2 key giveaway, you will need a new key, as the previous keys were invalid. We apologize for the inconvenience. This batch should work just fine. Looking forward to MU Legend's next global Closed Beta, which begins on February [...]
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With daily 24-hour peaks of over 40,000 concurrent players, it's no secret that Conan Exiles has done very well, but it wasn't until today, when Funcom released an Investor Relations update about the game's first week on Steam Early Access, that we learned exactly how well it is doing. The official number of sales for the first week of Early [...]
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Following the success of Pokemon GO, it's inevitable that a few companies would try and jump on the augmented reality game bandwagon. The most recently announced AR game is SoulCatcher AR, made by Korean developer HanbitSoft. From the description, it sounds a lot like what we all wanted out of Pokemon GO. In SoulCatcher, people wander the real world using [...]
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Durango's Limited Beta came to a close on January 16th. We haven't heard anything since then, but today, Nexon released a detailed set of infographics that reveal stats from it. The Limited Beta saw 684,726 Google Play Store downloads, but only 340,817 players in total. The country with the largest number of players from it was Korea with 187,572 players. [...]
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When Albion Online's Galahad update goes live next month, it will introduce Biome Cities, cities that have a specific look based on the biome that they are located in. The reason for the change is that cities are "the social and trading hubs of the game with players being ever-present." Right now, they all have a similar look to them, [...]
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Netmarble Games had a pretty strong year in 2016. Lineage 2: Revolution alone brought the company over $41 million over a period of two weeks. But it's not just Lineage 2: Revolution that is doing well. The entire company has seen a sales increase of 40.4% year-over-year, totaling 1.5 trillion won or approximately $1.3 billion, as well as an operating profit [...]
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Summoners War isn't what I'd consider a "prime candidate" for the MMORPG treatment, but its developer, Com2uS, seems to disagree with me there, as it announced today that it will be making a mobile MMORPG based on the franchise. The company's goal in creating the MMORPG is "to further expand the unique IP power of 'Summoners War,' which is recognized as [...]
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Bandai Namco is running another Humble Bundle and it's got quite a decent lineup. The bundle includes Project CARS, Tales of Zestiria, and Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade, as well as several others. Eternal Crusade typically retails at $49.99, but, given its as-yet lack of success in capturing the Heroes and Generals-esque experience that it originally boasted, perhaps you'd be more inclined [...]
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