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The mobile strategy game Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire earned a whopping $380 million so far since its release 13 months ago, significantly out earning every single Square Enix MMO combined. Final Fantasy XIV, Final Fantasy XI, and Dragon Quest X earn about $280 million a year combined according to Square Enix's publicly disclosed earnings reports. A New Empire [...]
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En Masse has announced a round of server mergers for the console version of their popular fantasy MMORPG Tera. The combined number of servers for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions of the game will go from 22 down to 7. The mergers will take place on August 20, 2018 and will take 12 hours to complete. A handy [...]
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It's been 18 months since Fire Emblem Heroes launched on mobile devices and the numbers are in - the game has made $400m in worldwide revenue, making it by far the most successful game in the franchise (on a revenue basis). The next best selling game in the franchise is Fire Emblem: Awakening on the Nintendo 3DS which sold 2.1m [...]
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Despite the incredible rise of mobile gaming, PC MMORPGs aren't dead yet as new games are still getting green-lighted by big developers. NCSoft is apparently working on a 'top secret' new MMORPG in the Aion universe built on Unreal Engine 4. No word on whether it's a sequel, prequel, a spin-off, or anything else just yet though. This is all [...]
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Pearl Abyss's hit MMORPG Black Desert Online is getting a remastered version with improved graphics and audio. It will be revealed on August 11th, 2018 for the first time with 4k footage. The unveiling of the game will take place at 15:00 KST (which is 11PM PST) on the game's official Twitch channel and Facebook page. Watch this video on [...]
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While eSports is growing incredibly quickly in the West, it's still a niche market. That's not the case in China though. According to Bloomberg, premier tournaments like the King Pro League get as many as 240 million daily views, which is 2x the audience of last year's Super Bowl. The King Pro League is the biggest tournament of the year [...]
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July 26 will mark the Early Access launch of Warlords Awakening on Steam. The Korean fantasy MMORPG has a generic theme to it, but the action combat may tempt Diablo 3 or Path of Exile players to give it a shot between seasons. At least that's what publisher PLAYWITH Inc is banking on. But first, a bit of history. Originally [...]
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Xaviant Games's director of operations Josh Van Veld announced today that The Culling is relaunching as a free to play battle royale game and starting over with their day 1 build. Yes, they're literally bringing the game back to the same exact build they had in March, 2016. All resources at Xaviant are going to be poured towards the original [...]
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Square Enix revealed the next big patch for Final Fantasy XIV titled "Prelude In Violet" in today's Letter from the Producer and it's scheduled to launch mid September. There's a lot coming with this update but the highlights include the following: New MSQ, side story quests & sidequests: The Four Lords, Hildibrand Adventures, Doman Reconstruction New dungeons: The Burn, Saint [...]
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Ubisoft has just upped the ante in their fight against what it labels toxic behavior. Players are now receiving instant, automated bans for using racial slurs and other offensive language. One user took to twitter to complain about his ban for saying the word 'nibba' in text chat: The automated ban kicks in instantly once a forbidden word or phrase [...]
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