Our latest coverage of ArcheAge.
ArcheAge has finally released a concrete date for its next big update, known as ArcheAge: Maelstrom. The update brings with it revamped Gems, a new open-world raid finder, crafting system updates, 20-man PvP, and more. One of the major highlights of this update is the new Bloodsalt Bay. A 20-player slugfest, Bloodsalt Bay will feature four crews of five, on a [...]
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ArcheAge Begins, a Mobile MMORPG published by GAMEVIL, finally has a definitive launch date! Starting October 25th, the game that GAMEVIL is calling an "MORPG" will be available on both the App Store and Google Play. ArcheAge Begins is set in the same universe as the MMORPG ArcheAge. More than just a mobile game, however, ArcheAge Begins will have many [...]
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Archeage has officially turned 3 years old today and is celebrating its third anniversary by giving players a free Anniversary Present Pack which contains a bunch of goodies, including a new title and victory ball attire. The anniversary celebration begins today and runs until October 18th. The festivities include the Third Anniversary Coin Quests, the return of the Shadowguard Festival, [...]
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Back in July, Trion Worlds revealed their plans to merge, or rather “evolve”, ArcheAge’s North American and European servers. Well, the time for Evolution has come. All ArcheAge servers will be taken down starting today at 3PM ET and will come back online on September 9th between 3PM and 7PM ET. The process will consolidate the current twelve realms into [...]
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TrionWorlds revealed a new trailer for ArcheAge 4.0 today at Gamescom which shows off new naval combat in the game's new navel arena called Bloodsalt Bay. The 4.0 update will be launching in North America and Europe later this year in Q4 2017 and includes the following: New 20 Player Naval Battlegrounds Open-World Raid Finder Gem System Simplified Crafting System [...]
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The latest update to ArcheAge is arriving on July 27th... in South Korea and will be focused on Naval arena combat. The naval arena, called Trapaces, has 4 teams of 5 players battling it out on ships. Each round of battle takes 12 minutes and players need to be wary of not only their opponents but also sea monsters as [...]
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Trion Worlds announced today that ArcheAge will be receiving a new major update called "Erenor Eternal" on June 7th. The news was announced via this month's Producer's Letter and there's quite a lot of info to sift through. The highlights from the announcement are as follows. The update will include several new oceanic zones, including Whaleswell Strait, Aegis Island, and [...]
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In an interesting move, WeMade Entertainment announced today that it has invested in both XLGames, the developer of ArcheAge, and Hound 13, the developer of the upcoming mobile ARPG Hundred Soul, which was previously known as Project 100. The investments were made by acquiring shares in each company and Inven is reporting that WeMade purchase 347,222 shares in XLGames at [...]
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GAMEVIL announced yesterday via Facebook that an Android-exclusive Closed Beta test for ArcheAge Begins has begun, which means that we also finally get to find out what exactly the game is. While GAMEVIL had opened pre-registration for the game last July, subsequently announcing last September that the game would launch globally during Q1 2017, the company had revealed very little [...]
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Want to find out how people would react to an end-of-the-world scenario? Why not study an MMORPG to find out? This is exactly what a group of researchers did when they studied player behavior during the 4th and final ArcheAge closed beta test. The research is titled, “I Would Not Plant Apple Trees If The World Will Be Wiped: Analyzing [...]
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