Magic: The Gathering Arena from Wizards of the Coast has been in open beta since September 27, 2018 but has been missing a vital feature common in practically every online game - a friends list. That means players couldn't challenge their friends and simply had to settle with playing against strangers online, which while fun, is a bit silly for [...]
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The colorful anime action MMORPG Closers from En Masse Entertainment released its latest update on November 12 which focuses on Soma, the game's newest character. Players can now unlock new skills for Soma and get her Special Agent promotion (at level 67). For a limited time players can also craft a special costume for Soma. Besides new skills for Soma, [...]
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The sandbox sci-fi MMORPG Eve Online released its latest expansion today, Onslaught. It introduces a new area for players to explore called the Abyssal Deadspace, new weapons, technologies, blueprints, and more. It also introduces several new Upwell navigation structures, which allows players to create their own faster-than-light travel networks. “EVE Online has always been about putting control in the hands [...]
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While Dungeon Fighter Online (released 2005) and MapleStory (also 2005) may be oldies, they're still bringing in the big bucks for Nexon. While DFO is already the highest grossing MMORPG in the world, the game had record revenues this quarter with double digit year over year growth. Korean MapleStory on the other hand also had a strong year with 129% [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #173 November 12, 2018Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #173 - November 12, 2018 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending November 12, 2018. This is episode 173 in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games covered this week were: [...]
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While we're a bit late to cover this one, Grey Box's sci-fi ship battler Dreadnought officially launched on Steam on October 14, 2018. It's been available through its own website since open beta first began in May, 2017, but this is the first time it's available more widely through Steam. Watch this video on YouTube Playerbase wise, the game is [...]
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NCSoft reported their Q3 2018 earnings report today and as expected, mobile titles continue to dominate with mobile games making up 54% of the company's revenue, which is impressive given how new mobile gaming is for the company. Company wide revenue came in at 403.8B KRW ($357M USD), which is down 7% quarter over quarter and 44% year over year. [...]
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It's been a rough week for Activison Blizzard. First they received an incredible amount of outrage from Diablo fans upon revealing Diablo: Immortal, a mobile Diablo title developed by their Chinese partner Netease, and now they reported weak earnings on Wall Street. Q3 2018 revenues came in at $1.5B, which was down 10% compared to Q3 2017. In addition, the [...]
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Nexon launched the highly anticipated Chaos Rising update for MapleStory 2 today which introduced 2 new dungeons, Shadow Altar and Moonlight Fortress. The Ludibrium Clock Tower Chaos raid is also set to launch on November 30th. These new chaos raids are challenging 10 player dungeons which are straight to boss style encounters that offer legendary gear drops. In addition to [...]
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Square Enix reported their quarterly earnings last night and the numbers were largely disappointing with MMO and mobile revenues flat quarter over quarter. MMO revenue for the last 3 months (July-September) came in at 6.4B yen ($56.3M) for the quarter and mobile came in at 19.7B yen ($173.4M). Next quarter's MMO revenues are expected to dip further as the next [...]
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