MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #258 August 17, 2020Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #258 - August 17, 2020 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending August 17, 2020. This is episode 258 in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games covered this week were: [...]
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Epic Games, the company behind the hit Battle Royale game Fortnite, has had enough with Apple's 30% App Store cut and essentially declared war on Apple by offering customers a way to pay directly, thus circumventing Apple and their 30% fee. Apple responded quickly by banning Fortnite from the App Store and Google did the same a few hours later. [...]
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Nexon's hugely successful 2D side scrolling MMORPG Dungeon Fighter Online has earned over $15B in lifetime revenue (update 2022: Nexon reports that DFO has earned over $20 billion now) making it the highest grossing video game of all time. To put that number into context, that's about 250 million full price $60 games, which coincidentally is about as much as [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #257 August 10, 2020Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #257 - August 10, 2020 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending August 10, 2020. This is episode 257 in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games covered this week were: [...]
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Phantasy Star Online 2 launched on Steam this last week as planned and its off to an incredible starting, hitting nearly 19,000 total concurrent players and averaging over 12,000+. Those are incredible numbers for an MMORPG, especially since the game originally launched on the Windows Store. Phantasy Star Online 2 is now the #4 most popular MMORPG on Steam after [...]
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The fantasy anime MMORPG Twin Saga from X-Legend Entertainment launched Patch 28 earlier this week and with it comes the following new content: New Seasonal Senshi (Summer Queen Lenna, pictured below) New Mutated Dungeon (Shadow Crevice) for level 88+ characters New Main Story quests New PvP Gear in the lvl 75 and lvl 90 battlefield shop 2 New seasonal events [...]
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Nexon released their Q2 2020 earnings report yesterday with total revenues for the 2nd quarter (April - June) coming in at ~$609M. As with previous quarters, the vast majority of Nexon's revenue comes from PC games (70% PC and 30% mobile). South Korea and China remain the company's most lucrative markets with South Korea accounting for 51% of revenue and [...]
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Aeria Games / Gamigo announced that their version of the free to play FPS Ironsight will be shutting down on August 10, 2020, but a new version of the game will live on through its developer Wiple Games on August 15th on Steam. All progress on the current version of the game will be lost, but Ironsight will live on [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #256 August 3, 2020Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #256 - August 3, 2020 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending August 3, 2020. This is episode 256 in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games covered this week were: [...]
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ArcheAge's latest expansion Garden of the Gods is already live, but the game's 'The Ipnysh Sanctuary' update is set to launch on August 13th and with it comes a brand new dungeon called 'Ipnysh Sanctuary' located on Aegis Island. The new dungeon is only accessible upon completing the main story questline and offers new high level gear and other rewards. [...]
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