Our latest coverage of Columns.
The recent drama surrounding Star Wars Battlefront 2 has been one of the biggest gaming stories of the year, often leaking into the mainstream press and even into the financial news. As soon as that happened, Electronic Arts was quick to back peddle, removing micro-transactions from the game entirely. Many across the gaming media shared in on the outrage, but [...]
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NCSoft announced today that Master x Master, the company's unique hero-swapping MOBA, will be shutting down on January 31st, 2018. Until the servers shut down, players will have access to the following: All players will receive 500,000 X-Coin to unlock all content The community-developed Lua skin will be made available to all players for 1 X-Coin Real money purchases on [...]
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Earlier today Kotaku broke the story that Disney has ended their relationship with Marvel Heroes developer Gazillion Entertainment. As Disney owns the rights Marvel, that effectively means Marvel Heroes is shutting down. The message Kotaku claims they received from Disney reads: “We regret to inform our Marvel Heroes fans that we have ended our relationship with Gazillion Entertainment, and that [...]
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Flanked by the ever increasing market share of mobile games and the lack of interest among the major publishers in bringing a new MMORPG to market, things look grim for the PC MMORPG genre. That's not to say its all bad news. We're still getting a steady release of smaller titles. Just this week we saw the reveal of Ascent: [...]
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MMOs.com has partnered with Webzen to giveaway Starter Packs for Mu Legend, Webzen's latest and greatest MMORPG. Each of these starter packs contain the following items: 3-day Platinum Service 3-day Type A Costume 3-day Constellation wings 10 Holy recovery potions L Mu Legend Starter Pack Giveaway Redemption Instructions: Go on http://www.webzen.com/coupon Login your Webzen account Enter the Coupon code and [...]
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Blizzcon 2017 was held on November 3rd and 4th and this year saw several major announcements. Major Updates for Hearthstone, StarCraft 2, Heroes of the Storm, and World of Warcraft were revealed. There were plenty of surprises, and several disappointments. Among the biggest surprises for us was the revelation that Blizzard has indeed been working on a Classic World of [...]
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Open beta for Webzen's free to play isometric action MMORPG Mu Legend officially began today. As with almost every open beta, there won't be any more character wipes going forward. While the game is in open beta now, Webzen has already indicated that they're working to add more content to the game. As is players on the global version of [...]
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Around 10 years ago, a slew of Asian MMOs & MMORPGs started making their way to the West. These Asian MMOs brought with them a business model that was previously unknown on these shores. Since then, the free to play model has been widely adopted by many studios and is used across a range of genres. While pioneers of the [...]
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Valve has just dropped a massive Dota 2 announcement. Update 7.07, also known as Dueling Fates, not only adds two new heroes but also introduces Ranked Seasons and a new game mode (Turbo). A slew of changes to existing gameplay are also in the patch. Update 7.07 is set to go live on November 1, giving players two days to [...]
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On October 25 SuperData, a gaming market intelligence group, released their monthly report on the state of the global digital games marketplace. September 2017 was another stellar month for digital gaming, with worldwide revenues growing 15% to reach $8.3 billion across console, mobile, and PC platforms. Highlights from the report include a 25% jump in console digital revenue, largely due [...]
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