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The official site for the Western (US/EU) version of Astellia went live today with the announcement that the game is scheduled for a 2019 launch! The fantasy MMORPG, developed by Studio 8, was first announced back in 2014 under the working title Project A, and is currently in open beta testing back in its home market of Korea. Astellia Bills [...]
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Bungie was founded in 1991, but came to global fame after it was purchased by Microsoft in 2000 and the release of Halo: Combat Evolved in 2001. As the years went by, the relationship with Microsoft grew dull. In 2007, Bungie split from Microsoft and became an independent studio once more. The terms of that divorce meant Microsoft got to [...]
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Its been a good run. Rush On Seven Episodes aka ROSE Online, will be shutting down on February 11, 2019. WarpPortal, the Gravity owned publisher that hosts the game, made the announcement today via the Rose Online Facebook page. The in-game item mall is already closed, and players who still have points in-game will be able to transfer them to [...]
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As gaming has gone from a niche activity to a mainstream past time, developers have come up with all sorts of ways to entice players to either keep playing, or to at least make daily play a habit. MMORPGs were some of the first to play with such mechanics. World of Warcraft's rested experience, and later daily quest feature were [...]
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Kim Jung-ju, the founder South Korea's largest gaming company, is putting his entire 98.64% stake in holding company NXC Corp for sale. NXC Corp itself controls 47.98% of Nexon and ~80% of Korbit and Bitstamp, two cryptocurrency exchanges. The stake is currently valued at ~$10 billion which would make it biggest ever Korean sale of this nature. Kim Jung-ju founded [...]
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Welcome to the MMOs.com Game of the Year Awards 2018 Edition. Note that only games released in 2018 qualify for these awards! Without further ado, I give you our games of the year. MMORPG of the Year - MapleStory 2 2018 was not a busy year for MMORPG releases. While many existing games received major updates, few new contenders made [...]
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In another signal that mobile gaming is taking over the world, Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire, a mobile strategy game, surpassed revenues from retail sales of Final Fantasy XV, the very game the mobile spinoff is based on. According to data from mobile analytics firm Sensortower, as of December 3, 2018, A New Empire has generated "over $485 million" [...]
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Square Enix announced yesterday that Final Fantasy XIV's 4.5 Patch titled 'A Requiem for Heroes' will be launching on January 8, 2019. This latest patch will feature the first half of the conclusion to the Stormblood expansion storyline with the second half launching sometime later. The highly anticipated new Blue Mage job is also launching soon; it should launch 1 [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment announced today that they're moving some developers away from the Heroes of the Storm development team and will not be running the Heroes Global Championship and Heroes of the Dorm in 2019. While this isn't the end for Heroes of the Storm, it does mark the beginning of the end, as it clearly indicates that Blizzard is no [...]
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Daybreak Games announced PlanetSide Arena today, a massive sci-fi arena FPS set in the PlanetSide Universe. The game is launching on January 29, 2019 and will be available for $29.99 on Steam, but players can pre-order it now for $19.99. Daybreak looks to be trying to capitalize on the Battle Royale fad with PlanetSide Arena as well as the game [...]
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