NCSoft announced today that the new Zen Archer class is launching in Blade and Soul on September 18th along with the Storm of Arrows update. As the name of the new class implies, the Zen Archer is a ranged DPS class with both single target and AOE abilities. The Storm of Arrows update also includes the following (in addition to [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #215 September 2, 2019Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #215 - September 2, 2019 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending September 2, 2019. This is episode 215 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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MMOs.com Podcast - Episode 198: WoW Classic, MMO Genre, SpatialOS, & MoreWatch this video on YouTube MMOs.com Podcast Episode 198 - Omer (@remotayx) and Erhan (@Ehaltay) This is episode one hundred and ninety eight of the MMOs.com Podcast and we look at the most recent news and happenings in the MMO and gaming world. This week we started by discussing [...]
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Reddit user ClaudiaEinhart shared the following screenshot today in /r/mmorpg showing a huge amount of bots running around auto-questing / farming gil. What makes this image even more unfortunate is that it was taken on August 30th, a day after Square Enix just did a ban wave of bots / RMT connected accounts. It's a sad state of affairs that [...]
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Gamigo announced today that the new buy to play ArcheAge: Unchained server is set to launch on September 30th. Those interested in the game can also pre-order today to get some sweet bonuses. The cheapest pre-order bundle is $25.99 and includes access to the game at release along with 800 credits, a founder title, an expansion scroll, and a handful [...]
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The story driven sci-fi action MMO Population Zero is set to begin closed beta testing on September 19th, 2019. The game bills itself as an "sci-fi exploration game" and based on the trailer it looks a lot like No Man's Sky. It looks like a sandbox survival game with MMO elements and some persistence, as it's billed as an MMO. [...]
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Activision Blizzard stock jumped 5% higher today in trading after World of Warcraft Classic's strong launch last night. The 5% move higher comes during a down day in the overall market, and a flat to down day in other video game stocks, which tells us that the move higher today can be attributed almost exclusively to a stronger than expected [...]
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Just as Peria Chronicles was starting to make real progress towards release (it held its first beta test on May 9th, 2019), Nexon announced that the game has been cancelled (as reported by Inven.co.kr). Check out the Google translate of the short Inven article below: Nexon has stopped developing the 'Peria Chronicles'. Nexon said on Wednesday, "After much discussion, the [...]
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World of Warcraft Classic officially went live 15 minutes ago and every single one of the game's ~12 servers have over 10,000+ queues to get in. This post is going up as I sit in queue on Incendius and I'm excited to get on. To try reducing queue times Blizzard added 4 new North American and 5 new European servers [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #214 August 26, 2019Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #214 - August 26, 2019 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending August 26, 2019. This is episode 214 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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