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In an official statement posted today Perfect World Entertainment announced the upcoming closure of their action MOBA Gigantic. This month's update will be the last for Gigantic, though the servers will remain open until July 31, 2018. The news won't be much of a shock to those who have been following the troubled game's development. Perfect World already closed Motiga, [...]
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With so many promising MMORPGs in the pipeline, its easy to go through cycles of hype and indifference towards various projects. Whether its a game still in development or an existing game releasing a new patch or expansion, we want to know when the last time you felt hyped for a MMORPG. We've highlighted the fact that games like Star [...]
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The last few months of 2017 were ablaze with Crypto news. We even saw a few projects reltaed to gaming. Both Neverdie coins and Crycash hope to integrate into multiple games and promise to reward gamers for their time investment. While neither of these projects has gained much traction, the crypto mining craze continues to cause GPU shortages worldwide. The [...]
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Sandbox Interactive, the studio behind the PvP focused MMORPG Albion Online, has confirmed a significant round of layoffs. Albion Online enjoyed a successful launch back in July of last year, with active character numbers peaking at nearly 150,000. Those numbers soon spiraled down to under 25,000 within five months. Sandbox Interactive has since disabled the feature which allowed players to [...]
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City State Entertainment made a major announcement today concerning their PvP focused MMORPG Camelot Unchained. The studio has secured a $7.5 million financing round with GF Capital Management & Advisors. Mark Jacobs, founder and CEO of City Statement Entertainment, took the time today to stream a Q&A session regarding this investment round. We learned that GF Capital Management and Mark [...]
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In their most recent State of Elyria post (dated Jan 17), Soulbound Studios confirms rumors that the Chronicles of Elyria team has had to let several staff go after failing to secure additional funding. Chronicles of Elyria initially raised $1.3 million via Kickstarter back in 2016 and has continued to raise additional funds through their website via Pledge Packages. Despite [...]
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I don't know about you, but I love me some Black Mirror. Season 4 started with a bang with a plot that could be said to involve a MMORPG of sorts. As per Black Mirror custom, a new technology product was quickly shown to be a hidden horror. But does it have to be that way? Can MMORPGs be used [...]
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Fortnite has enjoyed enormous success since introducing its Battle Royale mode in September of 2017. Fortnite even won our prestigious Clone of the Year award for 2017! It seems Epic's animated third person shooter has kept up the momentum into 2018. As of January, Fornite Battle Royale (now an independent game) has surpassed the 40 million player mark, hitting a [...]
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Amazon initially made a big splash with its entrance into the video games industry. The eCommerce giant bought Twitch for $1 billion back in 2014, launched a new game engine called Lumberyard in Feb 2016, and announced a major new MMO project called New World in September 2016. Sadly, they've had a few setbacks since. Amazon stopped development on Breakaway [...]
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There's no question to e-sports scene is growing, but despite all the hype I'm just not convinced its quite 'taken off' just yet. Total tournament winnings have been increasing year by year (see chart), but the majority of that cash is concentrated among 3 titles: Dota 2, Counter Strike Global Offensive, and League of Legends. Overwatch laid much of the [...]
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