What do I mean by this nebulous clickbait weekly raid statement? What I mean is, will gambling and placing bets be an intricate part of the future of eSports, will it add to eSport's successs, and without it can eSports succeed? Why are we talking about this? Well, Wargaming’s Mohamed Fadl recently said (and eloquently so), “you’re stupid to say [...]
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One of my favorite comments, that might as well be painted on a portable tombstone, is “Game X is dead.” Any game you can think of has been dubbed deceased by an internet-certified coroner: World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Black Desert Online, and on and on through the endless wave of titles across time. It’s equivalent to somebody saying [...]
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Note: This guide is up to date as of April 6th, 2017. With the shutdown of the Southeast Asian version of Phantasy Star Online 2 approaching, playing the game in English will soon no longer be as simple as registering an account, turning on a VPN, and launching the game. You will have to play the Japanese version and, while [...]
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This week's Weekly Raid is a bit personal: back when Burning Crusade released I grinded up my second character while watching Indiana Jones movies and Home Movies, and I only had one monitor. I couldn't just play the game. I needed to multitask. Lately, I've realized that it's a rare event when I don't pop open YouTube or music or [...]
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Each week we recap—try to—what games we've been playing, MMO or otherwise. We often find ourselves juggling multiple titles at once because there's just too many games to play, and we don't always get to talk about them. So, here is where we share, and we want to hear from you too. What games have you been playing this past [...]
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In the last couple of years it's become apparent that Chinese companies have their eyes on Western game studios: Jagex (Runescape) was bought by a Chinese mining company, Riot Games (League of Legends) is owned by Tencent, and we discovered that Snail Games scooped up Studio Wildcard (Ark: Survival Evolved). Back in 2016, analytics firm Superdata Research predicted that "Chinese [...]
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I have been an Early Access winner, backing games that found the right combination of elements to become massive successes, even while still wearing their "pre-alpha" nametag. Doesn't happen often. Doesn't happen much at all. Most Early Access titles die with a whimper, and today, I'm watching two games I backed slip into obscurity and irrelevance, Project Genom and Fragmented. [...]
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First they come after us with chemical and biological attacks, put sulfuric acid in our drinking water, drop Agent Orange out of biplanes right over our children’s schools, melt steel beams at temperatures steel beams can’t melt at. AND NOW. NOW! Make sure you have a big glass of water to swallow this red pill. Publishers and developers are working [...]
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Get your pitchforks ready because we're about to turn brother-against-brother, friend-against-friend. Are those closest to you holding back your gaming experience? Do you have the potential to go Plat but you're one friend you queue with is just terrible? I listen to people play MOBAs while sitting in Discord, and boy-o-boy it sure does sound like one or two people [...]
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In the months leading up to Revelation Online’s open beta release there was extensive chatter in the MMORPG community. Forum posts asking about the game became quotidian. YouTubers covered every facet of the game’s universe, from classes to leveling to PvP to dungeons, by playing the already released Chinese version. Even MMOs.com was regularly asked “What are your thoughts on [...]
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