MMOs.com Podcast 136: Subscription MMO Comeback, Revenue, Mods, & MoreWatch this video on YouTube MMOs.com Podcast Episode 136 - Omer (@remotayx) and Erhan (@Ehaltay) This is episode one hundred and thirty six of the MMOs.com Podcast and we look at the most recent news and happenings in the MMO and gaming world. As always we jumped right into the Weekly [...]
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NetEase announced today that their successful mobile MMORPG Crusaders of Light is launching on Steam later this year (March, 2018 estimate). It launched on Facebook's Game Room in late 2017, but the Steam launch should accelerate adoption by PC gamers. The game will be cross-platform between Mobile and PC as well. The game differntiates itself from other mobile MMORPGs with [...]
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Square Enix reported their quarterly results for the October - December 2017 period today and their MMO revenues stood out as particularly strong, coming in at 7.6 billion Yen (~$69.6M) thanks to "robust sales and operating income growth from disk sales and increase of paying subscribers" from Final Fantasy XIV and Dragon Quest X. Sales are up 36% from the [...]
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Trion Worlds announced today that their hit free to play voxel based MMORPG Trove surpassed 15 million players worldwide. This figure isn't an "active" player count and instead just counts everyone who has ever played Trove. Still, 15 million players is quite impressive. Trion Worlds released the following fun statistics: 6,584,382,807 Blocks Placed (almost the amount of kilometers from the [...]
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Sony's wildly successful mobile waifu collector Fate Grand Order is expected to remain "highly profitable for at least a few more years" according to Takuto Takizawa, who works as App Annie's Japan country director. The game which launched in July, 2015 has made over $1.1 billion over the last 12 months and is expected to continue growing. Unlike most Japanese [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #133 February 5, 2018Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #133 - February 5, 2018 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending February 5, 2018. This is episode 133 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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My.com announced today that a mobile version of their popular tank shooter Armored Warfare is set to launch later this month titled Armored Warfare: Assault. The Unreal Engine powered game will feature both skirmishes and large scale PvP battles with player respawn. Like the PC version, players will be able to level up their crews and unlock over 80 modern [...]
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Iron Sight, the free to play tactical shooter from Aeria Games, is set to launch into open beta later today. Iron Sight is a traditional Korean lobby shooter similar to games like Alliance of Valiant Arms and Combat Arms. Closed beta began on November 14, 2017 and ran until today, February 1, 2018. Ever since Neowiz Games launched Black Squad [...]
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Atlas Reactor kicked off Season 5 today with the launch of a brand new Freelancer (hero): Vonn the Scion of Ice. Players can begin climbing the ladder again once ranked mode starts up again on February 13th. With Valentine's Day right around the corner too, the game added a bunch of Valentines themed items to its lootboxes which are available [...]
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Mythyn Interactive announced today that their Ultima Online like hardcore MMORPG Linkrealms will be shutting down "by the end of the month", which is tomorrow. Link Realms was a free to play retro sandbox MMORPG with a skill based progression system. Here we are at the end. I suppose everyone had a sense that this announcement was coming: the Linkrealms [...]
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