After 3 years of delays, Camelot Unchained is finally launching into beta on July 4th, 2018. The world will finally get a chance to play Marc Jacob's realm vs realm PvP heavy fantasy MMORPG. City State Entertainment, the company behind the game, made the beta announcement today in a livestream (seen below). Keep in mind though, this is only the [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #134 February 12, 2018Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #134 - February 12, 2018 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending February 12, 2018. This is episode 134 in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games mentioned this week are: [...]
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In a lengthy response to an analyst question about eSports, Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney shared his thoughts on eSports in general. He obviously isn't very optimistic on the market and suspects that others are getting a bit ahead of themselves when hyping it up. See his full statement below: That’s a long topic, so let me try to simplify a [...]
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In Nexon's Q4 2017 Q&A call with analysts and investors, an analyst from Goldman Sachs asks Nexon CEO the following question: "...Lawbreakers, now you're going into that console business but the title is going to be terminated, but you're in the console business. So, any takeaways from that? Any perspective on the console business in the incoming years?" -Time Stamp [...]
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Nexon's side scrolling action MOBA Hyper Universe launched its Ranked Mode preseason today which runs until February 22, 2018. Season 1 officially begins on February 22 and is available to anyone with a level 15 account and at least 12 hypers (including the free rotation). Pre-season wins and losses will not count towards their ranking. Besides the launch of ranked [...]
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Once again Activision Blizzard proved to the world that they're really good at making money. They reported revenues of a bit over $2B in Q4, 2017, beating their own estimate of $1.7B by a landslide. According to Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activsion Blizzard, "This was a record quarter to cap off a record year for Activision Blizzard". For the full [...]
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Critical Ops, the free to play mobile tactical shooter by the Finnish game studio Critical Force, announced today that their game hit 1 million daily active players. Since the game's launch its been downloaded over 34 million times. That's up from 500K daily players back in March, 2017. I've actually never heard of Critical Ops until today but expect a [...]
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Nexon reported their Q4 2017 and full year 2017 earnings report today. Full year revenues came in at 234.9B Yen ($2.16B USD), up from 183.1B Yen (~$1.7B USD) from 2016. Nexon CEO, Owen Mahoney, attributed the record annual revenue to the ongoing success of Dungeon Fighter Online and MapleStory, both of which recorded double-digit percentage growth in revenue year over [...]
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NCSoft reported Q4 2017 earnings today and it showed company wide revenues increase a whopping 79% year over year thanks to strong performance in their mobile games division. While mobile game revenues were up huge in 2017, they did fall quarter over quarter. Guild Wars 2 reported strong sales growth in the 4th quarter thanks to the launch of the [...]
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The free to play cross platform HTML5 powered MMORPG Mad World is launching on Steam this fall. Mad World's developer, Jandisoft, is pushing multi-platform play as much as possible as the game will be available on Linux, Mac, Android, iOS, as well as web browsers. Check out the latest Mad World trailer below: Mad World HTML5 MMORPG - Mood TeaserWatch [...]
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