We all know how popular the battle royale genre has gotten ever since Fortnite and Playerunknown's Battlegrounds launched, but who would have guessed we'd be seeing MMORPGs implement their own battle royale modes. Path of Exile released their own battle royale mode on April fools, League of Angels did their own battle royale PvP mode, and it looks like Moonlight [...]
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Legends of Aria announced today that they'll begin open beta testing sometime in June with an Early Access beginning in July. The early access won't be on Steam though, that's set to happen later in Autumn. The final wipe for the game will happen in July and Kickstarters and Founders will begin their 1 week headstart before the game opens [...]
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The SpatialOS powered sandbox MMO Fractured released their first gameplay video today which includes about 15 minutes of "pre-alpha" gameplay in a procedurally generated map. Fractured aims to be an isometric ARPG style game like Diablo / Path of Exile but with persistent open world MMORPG elements. Fractured MMO | Pre-Alpha Gameplay | Hike & SlashWatch this video on YouTube [...]
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The first wave of MapleStory 2 closed beta test invites have been sent out! Check your inbox as it should have arrived there yesterday. With the game's closed beta test only a few weeks away, I imagine many are pretty hype to give the long awaited sequel to MapleStory a try. I know I'm pretty hyped. Closed beta is set [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #144 April 23, 2018Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #144 - April 23, 2018 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending April 23, 2018. This is episode 144 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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En Masse Entertainment released its Planar Raid update for its anime action MMORPG Closers this week which increases Tina's level cap to 75 and added new challenges at the Planar Gate. Players level 73 and higher can take on the new Planar Gate raid quests in order to get new gear, accessories, achievements, and more. To celebrate the launch of [...]
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Revelation Online introduced its Colosseum this week which should give fans of PvP something to keep themselves busy with. The Colosseum offers players a chance to fight in team vs team battles with rewards for participating. The top 100 players in each region also get special prizes at the end of each season. The Colosseum allows players to compete in [...]
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The previously buy to play battle royale game Darwin Project went free to play this week. The reasoning behind the business model change was that it was taking too long for players to find matches in certain regions, so to boost its playerbase the game decided to embrace the free to play model. Given that the #1 battle royale game [...]
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Defiance 2050 Gameplay First Look - MMOs.comWatch this video on YouTube Defiance 2050 First Look Defiance 2050 is a free to play sci-fi MMORPG developed and published by Trion Worlds. It's a remake of the 2013 MMORPG Defiance with new and improved graphics, gameplay systems, and a new business model (fully free to play). It's a bit like The Secret [...]
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Nexon acquired the Korean MMO game studio NGine, the company behind the cutesy anime MMORPG Ar:piel. Nexon was always the game's publisher in South Korea, so the acquisition made sense if the game was performing well and given the acquisition news, I suspect that is the case. According to a post on MMOCulture, it looks like the tools used to [...]
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