The previously reported 2.0 update for World of Tanks went live earlier this month and with it came a surge of active players. The game reported hitting 413,399 peak concurrent users shortly after the update. The game's steam playerbase hit an all time high of 24,172 after the 2.0 update. "This incredible milestone was only possible thanks to our community." [...]
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Square Enix reported their Q1 earnings today with sales down 10.7% year over year. Sales came in at ¥59.2 billion ($400 million) vs ¥69.9 billion last year. Weak topline revenue was attributed to lower sales in HD Games (packaged games), MMOs, and mobile games. MMO net sales for the quarter were ¥9.6 billion vs ¥12.5 billion in the same quarter [...]
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While there have been countless mobile remakes of Ragnarok Online, there hasn't been a proper new version of the game since the launch of Ragnarok Online 2 over a decade ago. Well, that's changing. Gravity unveiled a gameplay trailer for Ragnarok Online 3 yesterday which is being developed by Joymaker, the Singapore based studio that worked on Ragnarok Origin. Like [...]
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Krafton, the South Korean publisher best known for PUBG: Battlegrounds, is broadening its lineup with the full acquisition of Eleventh Hour Games. The Oregon-based studio launched the action RPG Last Epoch earlier this year and has already moved more than three million copies on PC, an impressive feat in a genre dominated by pillars like Diablo and Path of Exile. [...]
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Final Fantasy XI, which released back in 2002, announced yesterday that they're taking measures to alleviate server congestion on the Asura server. Yes, that's right. a 23 year old MMORPG that hasn't had a major update in 5 years not only retains a loyal playerbase, but is actually growing. MMORPGs running into server congestion issues isn't unusual, especially after a [...]
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Monsters & Memories, an upcoming subscription based MMORPG inspired by EverQuest, wrapped up its 2 day community alpha test today. It was available to the public entirely for free. If you missed it, don't worry, the game will hold more free public tests up until its early access launch in Q1 2026. Additional testing is scheduled for July and August. [...]
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Persona5: The Phantom X, a mobile Persona game with gacha mechanics, launched today in English on Steam and mobile. The game has been out for over a year in China where it was developed by Perfect World and Atlus. While it's clearly designed as a mobile game, it has a robust PC client (that's 70 gigs in size). The game [...]
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Umamusume: Pretty Derby, one of the most popular and successful mobile games in Japan, launched today in English on both mobile and Steam. The game is developed and published by Cygames, the same studio behind Shadowverse. It originally launched back in 2021 and made its way to Western audiences today. The game's Steam launch is off to a strong start, [...]
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Chrono Odyssey launched their closed beta test on Steam yesterday and reached 65,000 concurrent players, which shows enormous market demand for a new MMORPG. While it's not an open beta and will have a wipe, anyone can register and play until the test ends tomorrow, June 22. While this is only a closed beta, I was unimpressed. And I wasn't [...]
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4Story: The Original launched on Steam earlier this week and is a sort of 'classic' version of the 2008 MMORPG. It's not quite a classic version though as it features autoplay and pay2win elements that were introduced years after its original launch. The Steam version peaked at 1,040 players, which is a respectable amount for such an old game. Despite [...]
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