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The indie game studio Creme revealed their latest game Temtem last week which is an upcoming Pokemon-like MMO. The game already has a Kickstarter page up and it has already surpassed their modest fundraising goal of $70,000 and will likely raise well over $200,000 by the time the campaign ends on July 2, 2018. Calling Temtem a Pokemon like MMO [...]
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Its finally here! The Western version of the highly anticipated fantasy MMORPG Bless Online had its founders launch on May 28, 2018. Players willing to pay $40, $70, or $150 for the various Founders' Pack flocked on to the single server on launch day. The server soon crashed and NeoWiz was forced to add additional servers. This process repeated itself [...]
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Gaming analytics firm Superdataresearch just released their tables for the highest grossing games on PC, Console, and Mobile for the month of April 2018 today and Fortnite continues to bring in the big bucks. Fortnite was #5 on the PC list but took the #1 spot on console. All platforms combined (PC, Console, and mobile) the game made a whopping [...]
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The impact of user created content, including such things as mods, maps, addons, and so on, can hardly be overstated. Entire genres have spawned from mods like Counter-Strike, Dota, and various Battle Royale modes. The dream of bringing the creativity and scale made possible by user generated content into the MMO genre has been around for years. Before Minecraft, Notch [...]
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset expansion is now out on PC and Mac. Players can now journey to the Summerset Isles, the ancestral home of the High Elves. And, as expected, Bethesda has released a new cinematic trailer to mark the expansion’s launch. “The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset is now in Early Access on PC/Mac and will be available on [...]
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Echo of Soul Phoenix, a reboot of Aeria Game’s Echo of Soul MMORPG, officially launched in December last year featuring new content and gameplay changes that made progressing through the game a little bit harder. Aeria Games, however, continued to run classic servers for players who didn’t want to make the change. Sadly, the studio announced that they will be [...]
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Hi-Rez Studios has brought out the mighty ban hammer and is actively cracking down on toxic SMITE players. According to a recent developer update, the studio has taken action against over 2,000 players on all platforms because of allegedly toxic in-game behavior. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Thousands more have faced the studios wrath in Season 5 alone. [...]
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Conan Exiles has seen a steady decline in its playerbase since the game’s Early Access launch in January 2017. The open-world survival MMORPG peaked at 53k concurrent players in February 2017 dropping to a 3k-player average in just five months, mostly because of negative reviews on Steam. Surprisingly, Funcom was able to turn things around, regaining most of their playerbase [...]
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The Chinese gaming juggernaut Tencent has acquired a majority stake in New Zealand based Grinding Gear Games, best known as the studio behind the Action-RPG Path of Exile. Tencent now owns 80% of Grinding Gear Games, but no dollar figures were released. We'll likely get those numbers during Tencent's next earnings report. In the mean time, GGG says Tecent's invest [...]
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As I considered entering a silent retreat to find Zen among cacti and burnt out hippies, a digital monastery rose out of my Steam library. I could find my center from the comfort of a chair designed for 250 and up. What was it? A game. Not just any game. But the kind of game that dances in dreams, tantalizes [...]
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