MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #198 May 6, 2019Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #198 - May 6, 2019 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending May 6, 2019. This is episode 198 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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Blue Potion Games, the studio behind the PC version of Echo of Soul, announced a mobile version of their PC MMORPG titled "Echo of Soul Red" which will be revealed in an upcoming media event sometime in June. The game will be built on the Unity Engine and will have an emphasis on PvE dungeons as well as an open [...]
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SmileGate released a development road-map for the South Korean version of Lost Ark showing off a new continent, auto routing for ocean travel, a new dungeon, new equipment, and more. All of these new goodies should be launching over the next few months. Unfortunately while we know Lost Ark will launch in the West eventually, we still don't have any [...]
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Jagex, the UK based developer behind RuneScape, reported a record breaking year with $122M in revenue in 2018, up 9.3% from 2017. Perhaps more impressively though, profits before tax were $61M, which puts the company's profit margin at 50%. RuneScape also reports having its highest number of paid memberships ever. No word on the previously reported sale of Jagex. To [...]
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Activision Blizzard reported their Q1 2019 earnings today and total revenue for the quarter came in at $1.8B with full year 2019 revenues expected to come in at $6B. Activsion Blizzard has been shaking things up lately after previous earnings have disappointed investors. The company outlined 4 areas of focus going forward: Company-wide monthly active users were 345M for the [...]
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MMOs.com has partnered up with Webzen to give away special item codes for Mu Legend in celebration of the game's latest expansion - Gates of Glory. Each of these codes can be redeemed for the following items: Guardian of Balance (Blue) Chest (7 Days) x1 Wings of Balance (Blue) (7 Days) x1 7-Day Platinum Service Ticket x1 Time Traveling Pet [...]
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ArenaNet revealed today in a new trailer that the Guild Wars 2 Season 4 Finale "War Eternal" will be launched in May, 2019. While the 46 second trailer doesn't reveal too much, it does show a new mount (The Skyscale), a new legendary great-sword (Exordium), and a new armor set (Mist Shard Armor). More details should be available as War [...]
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Since going free to play on April 10, 2019 Albion Online has been breaking new playerbase with the game currently averaging over 5,888 players online at any given time over the last 30 days. That figure is up from 330 average players back in March, 2019 before its free to play transition. What's surprising though is that Albion Online's concurrent [...]
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After several rounds of closed beta testing, KurtzPel officially launched into early access on Steam. KurtzPel is a 2v2 anime inspired action battle game primarily focused on PvP. The game has some PvE elements, but the core gameplay here revolves around 2v2 PvP battles. KurtzPel (커츠펠) PVP Map_Secret Portal GatheringWatch this video on YouTube The game's Steamcharts page hasn't updated [...]
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Vindictus launched its 14th playable character today: Eira the Void Witch, a master of the revolver and powerful witch. As always, to celebrate the launch of Eira, Vindictus is hosting various in game events, most notably the "Elira Growth Event" which rewards players for reaching various milestones with Eira. Check out the stylish gameplay video below: [Vindictus] New Hero: EIRA [...]
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