Free to play action MMORPG Neverwinter announced its latest expansion today, The Lost City of Omu, and it's set to launch on February 27th, 2018 on the PC. Like previous expansions, the console version is set to launch sometime afterwards (usually 1-2 months). The Lost City of Omu expansion continues the game's story from where Tomb of annihilation left off [...]
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MMOs.com Podcast - Episode 133: eSports, Housing, MapleStory 2, & MoreWatch this video on YouTube MMOs.com Podcast Episode 133 - Omer (@remotayx) and Erhan (@Ehaltay) This is episode one hundred and thirty three 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 [...]
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A last minute deal was finally struck between Activsion Blizzard and Twitch for broadcasting rights to the newly created Overwatch League just 1 day before matches begin on January 10th. While no financial details of the deal were disclosed, SportsBusinessDaily is reporting that the deal is worth "at least $90M" which would make it the biggest exclusive eSports broadcasting deal [...]
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In an investor presentation released in November Black Desert Online's developer, Pearl Abyss, revealed some interesting statistics about the game. The one that caught my eye most was that in Q3, 2017 Black Desert generated 57% of its sales from the "Americas / Europe" region, whereas South Korea only accounted for 18% of sales; the remaining 26% came from other [...]
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In the immortal words of Queen, another one bites the dust. Tiger Knight: Empire War is scheduled to shut down tomorrow, January 10th, 2018. It's definitely sad to see Tiger Knight shut down, as unlike other free to play titles, this one was actually unique. Tiger Knight: Empire War was a action strategy PvP game which kind of felt like [...]
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MapleStory 2 is still on schedule for a "global launch" according to an investor Q&A session during Nexon's Q3 2017 earnings report. Take a look below: Q - Han-Joon Kim, Analyst, Deutsche Bank AG (Hong Kong) Understood, understood. I think MapleStory2 in Korea had a really strong start and then it faded after several months, then I think people just [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #129 January 8, 2018Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #129 - January 8, 2018 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending January 8, 2018. This is episode 129 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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Kakao Games, the company best known for publishing Black Desert Online in North America / Europe, is publishing a new game later this month - Lord of Dice. Lord of Dice is a mobile turn based hero collector tactical RPG with gorgeous anime art. Aside from traditional single player campaign content, the game features real time PvP and co-op raids. [...]
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Paladins, the free to play hero shooter developed by Hi-Rez Studios, announced a new Battle Royale game mode named "Battlegrounds" this week at Hi-Rez Expo 2018. This announcement makes Paladins the first ever "Hero shooter" to feature such a game mode. Battlegrounds will be free to play for all Paladins players upon release and is set to launch sometime later [...]
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Netease's turn based anime mobile RPG Onmyoji soft launched in English today and is officially coming to the West later this year. Normally this isn't very big news. Just another Chinese mobile RPG launching in the West, but what makes this interesting is that Onmyoji is HUGE. The game has over 200 million downloads worldwide and is easily one of [...]
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