Genshin Impact Version 2.1 'Floating World Under the Moonlight' launches on September 1, 2021 and will expand on the recently released Inazuma area. Genshin Impact 2.1 features the following new content: Landscape expansions (2 major islands) Final chapter of Inazuma's main storyline 3 more playable Inazuma characters (Raiden Shogun, Sangonomiya Kokomi, and Kujou Sara) Liyue’s tradition – the Moonchase Festival [...]
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Blue Archive, a mobile RPG developed by Nexon subsidiary NAT Games, released a teaser page and a new trailer ahead of its global launch later this year. There isn't much information on the game on the official website except for a cute image, but more details should be posted there in the coming weeks. No word on an exact date [...]
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T3Fun announced last week that Aika Online, their PvP focused '1000 vs 1000' MMORPG will be shutting down on September 15, 2021. While the game was never popular enough to field 2,000+ players on a single battlefield, it's still sad to see yet another MMORPG shut down, especially one that's been running since 2010. Given that Aika was largely dead [...]
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Playing an MMO is hard enough. Years of dedication to build the right character, countless hours leveling up and grinding your way to the highest levels, while keeping an eye on the economy of the game to get the best equipment. Let us not forget the game’s lore that you still have to find time to study. Like we said: [...]
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Pearl Abyss, the South Korean gaming company that owns and operates Black Desert Online and Eve Online, reported their Q2 2021 earnings report today. The financial highlights are as follows: Total revenue for the quarter was 87.4 Billion Korean Won (KRW), or approx. $75M USD. The Black Desert franchise (Black Desert PC and Black Desert Mobile) made approx. $60M USD [...]
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South Korean gaming giant NCSoft reported its Q2, 2021 earnings today and the financial highlights were as follows: Quarterly Revenue: 538,542 Million Korean Won (approx. $465M USD) vs 538,567M KRW in Q2 2020 (flat year over year) Quarterly Operating Profit: 112,769 Million KRW (approx. $97M USD) vs 208,984M KRW in Q2 2020 (down 46% year over year) Perhaps more interestingly [...]
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The South Korean gaming giant Nexon released their Q2, 2021 earnings report today and the financial highlights were as follows: Quarterly Revenue: 56B JPY (approx. $510M USD), down from 64.5B JPY in Q2 2020. Quarterly Operating Income: 15.4B JPY (approx. $140m USD), down from 26.7B JPY in Q2 2020. Revenues declines in all regions except for South Korea which was [...]
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The Ragnarok Online based mobile MMORPG Ragnarok Origin opened pre-registrations on August 10th. The game has been a hit so far in Japan where its been available since June 28th, 2021 and is looking to expand globally in English speaking markets. Gravity, the game's Korean developer, describes Ragnarok Origin as "Faithfully embodying the feeling of original Ragnarok Online released for [...]
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Runes of Magic, the game best known for being a surprisingly good WoW clone, announced several server mergers earlier this week. After the server mergers are complete Runes of Magic will have the following 4 servers: INT1: Gaia EU4: Aynara EU5: Kadmos US1: Ayvenas The servers are merging as follows: EU1 (EN) Vidar + EU11 (FR) Nuada + EU12 (ES) [...]
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Bless Unleashed is off to an incredibly strong start. The game launched on PC just 2 days ago on August 6th and it hit 71,577 concurrent players online earlier today. This is despite having a 'mixed' score with a Steamdb rating of 47.66%. Many of the early negative reviews on Steam come from disgruntled Bless Online players, the old version [...]
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