Playpark announced that they will be shutting down the Southeast Asian version of Kritika Online on December 12th, 2017. While the closure of the SEA version of the game has no bearing on the North American / European version by En Masse it does show that the game simply wasn't "good enough" to make it in SEA. While the Global [...]
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Nexon filed their Q3, 2017 earnings report today and it showed ~$533 million in total revenue for the quarter. Nexon's 2 biggest markets are China and South Korea with 46% of revenue coming from China and 39% coming from South Korea. Nexon boasted that while the launch of Lawbreakers in the U.S. "experienced difficulty" the company reported its best Q3 [...]
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Warspear Online Gameplay First Look - MMOs.comWatch this video on YouTube Warspear Online First Look By Omer Warspear Online is a free to play 2D retro looking mobile MMORPG that's also available on the PC. The PC port launched on November 2, 2017 but the mobile version has been out for some time. Visually it kind of looks like Rucoy [...]
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Square Enix reported strong quarterly earnings yesterday and attributed the quarter's success to the strong performance of Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood and the continued success of their mobile games (Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, Kindom Hearts Union X, etc). Square Enix reported net sales of 1.165B USD during the last 6 months ended September, 2017 vs $938M for the 6 months [...]
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NCSoft reported 3Q 2017 earnings today and they showed explosive mobile revenue growth. Mobile revenue is up a whopping 488% quarter over quarter and hit $491 million for the reporting period, which is almost 5x higher than ALL OTHER sources of revenue. Just take a look at the graph below: If you up the revenue from Aion, Lineage, Lineage 2, [...]
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MMOs.com has partnered with Insel Games Ltd. to give away alpha keys for the upcoming alpha weekend for Wild Buster: Heroes of Titan. Wild Buster is a top down action MMORPG with a unique cast of characters. The alpha test weekend begins Friday, November 10th and runs until Monday, November 13th. Wild Busters Heroes of Titan Alpha Key Giveaway What [...]
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Blade and Soul 2 was unveiled today at an NCSoft media event in a short 20 second video clip (available below). Unlike the original game the sequel to Blade and Soul will be a mobile only title and be different than Blade & Soul M, which is odd because Blade & Soul M is being led by the same people [...]
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MMOs.com Podcast - Episode 125: WoW Classic, Blizzcon, Microtransactions, & MoreWatch this video on YouTube MMOs.com Podcast Episode 125 - Omer (@remotayx) and Erhan (@Ehaltay) This is episode one hundred and twenty-five 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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As we reported a few months ago, Lineage Eternal has been scrapped almost entirely and is being remade using Unreal Engine 4. There's also an entirely new team at NCSoft working on bringing the third mainline Lineage game to life. NCSoft unveiled a new trailer for Project TL this week showing off some gameplay and trying to re-build some lost [...]
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Open beta for Webzen's free to play isometric action MMORPG Mu Legend officially began today. As with almost every open beta, there won't be any more character wipes going forward. While the game is in open beta now, Webzen has already indicated that they're working to add more content to the game. As is players on the global version of [...]
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