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Skyforge launched its latest expansion today titled "New Horizons" which introduces a brand new planet called Terra. The expansion is available today on PC and is launching on PS4 on April 10th and Xbox One on April 11th. There's a whole lot of new things to do in Skyforge with New Horizons. Check them out below: Largest In-Game Map To [...]
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Long before Monster Hunter World, Tencent and Capcom partnered up to produce the China-only MMORPG Monster Hunter Online. Now that experiment is coming to an end. Built on the CryEngine, Monster Hunter Online first released into open beta in 2015. The game was poorly supported and the launcher required to play the game came loaded with Chinese malware. Despite these [...]
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Pearl Abyss revealed today that Shadow Arena, the Black Desert Online Battle Royale mode, would be shuttered on April 10th. The short notice caught many off guard, but the BDO team promises compensation packages to make up for that. Shadow Arena was first revealed in a Developer Letter published on January 8, 2019 and has thus proved a short-lived experiment. [...]
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Robox revealed on April 7th that the casual kid-friendly mini-game platform now has over 90 million monthly active users (MAUs) worldwide. Just to put that figure into context, League of Legends peaked at 100 million monthly active users in 2017 and that figure has declined since, which makes Roblox more popular than League of Legends today. The continued growth of [...]
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Daybreak Games and Standing Stone Games announced today that the latest Dungeons and Dragons Online expansion, titled Masterminds of Sharn, will be launching on April 30, 2019 with presales available now. The standard edition costs $39.99, collector's edition $79.99, and the ultimate bundle $129.99. Masterminds of Sharn will feature the following new content: 16 new dungeons A new raid A [...]
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Sensortower reported earlier this month that lifetime sales of Fate/Grand Order since its 2015 launch topped $3B globally, with the vast majority of that coming from Japan (82%). While this figure is impressive it does require some context to fully understand. The Metal Gear franchise since its release in 1987 sold ~49.2 million units worldwide. At an average selling price [...]
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Sandbox Interactive announced today that their fantasy PvP heavy sandbox MMORPG Albion Online will be going free to play on April 10th, 2019. The free to play transition shouldn't be surprising as the game has been slowly losing players since its launch back in July, 2017. From April 10 on, everybody can join the ranks of our vast community of [...]
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EverQuest officially turned 20 years old on March 16, making it one of the longest running MMORPGs of all time along with other oldies like Ultima Online and RuneScape. To celebrate the occasion the game launched 2 progression servers titled Selo and Mangler. As with previous EverQuest progression servers, players need an active subscription to access these. Celebrating 20 Years [...]
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Tencent's wildly popular mobile MOBA Honor of Kings (known as Arena of Valor in the West) made approximately CNY 7 Billion (~$1.04 billion) in revenue last month according to a research report from Japanese investment bank Nomura. The increase in revenue last month can be attributed to a highly anticipated expansion pack to the game which launched in mid-January which [...]
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A free to play version of the 3v3 arena brawler game Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is launching on the PC via Steam and the PS4 Store on March 12, 2019. The free to play version is aptly named "Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Free Edition" and will feature a rotating roster of free characters while permanent characters and weapons can be [...]
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