Our latest coverage of Columns.
Few MMORPGs have had as rough a time as Neowiz's Bless Online. Despite a development budget of over $60 million, making it one of the most expensive MMORPGs ever, the game suffered a series of server mergers in its home market leaving it with a single Korean server. But its not just in the home front that Bless is reeling. [...]
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Earlier this year, Valve decided to axe Steam Greenlight, and made the move to its new publishing service Steam Direct. With the new system in place, Valve now required developers to pay a fee to publish their games on the Steam platform, in addition to verifying their company status. At the time, Valve had not yet decided on what to [...]
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MMOs.com has partnered with EnMasse entertainment to give away 2,500 closed beta keys for Kritika Online, a free to play action MMORPG with stylish anime inspired graphics. Closed beta for Kritika runs until June 13th, 2017. Kritika Online Closed Beta Key Giveaway (Enmasse) We are requiring 2 actions to prevent bots from getting all the keys. Key Redemption Instructions 1. [...]
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OGPlanet announced today that they will be shutting down service for their long running Maplestory-esque 2D side scroller La Tale. Service for the game is officially ending on June 28th, 2017 and the game will be relaunching through Papaya Play, the company that operates Blackshot, Dekaron, and War Rock. Unfortunately Character data will NOT transfer over to the new service. [...]
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In the 16 years that RuneScape has been online, it has seen 250 million players enter its world. It has a total of 205 quests, 6583 "unique characters," and over 25,000 items that players can collect. Today, those counts are about to go up a bit more with the release of the game's first expansion, Menaphos. I was recently given [...]
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We try to cover every MMORPG release here at MMOs.com. Sometimes that involves shiny new games or expansions. But too often these days the MMORPGs that "launch" are years old and are on their second, third, of even forth re-release. Its almost like a game of MMO hot potato with old games bouncing from one publisher to the next. Most [...]
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In an another set back for the Unreal Engine 3 based fantasy MMORPG by Neowiz Games, the Korean version of Bless Online has announced its 4th round of server mergers. At least this will be the very last. The two current servers: 'Gaius' and 'Lumen' will be combined to form 'Elpis' on June 14th, 2017. This latest merger follows a [...]
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You may remember that Bless Japan's first Closed Beta took place at the end of last month. None of us here at MMOs.com were lucky enough to get invited, but fortunately, YouTuber Nocht has documented some details from the test. Surprisingly, unlike Bless Russia, the Japanese version of the highly-anticipated MMORPG has seen some major changes. Perhaps the most surprising [...]
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Blizzard and Valve settled their dispute over who owns the rights to the Dota name back in 2012, but the jury's still out on whether either company has a legal exclusive right to the vaunted MOBA franchise. uCool and Lilith Games, the mobile gaming studios behind Dota Legends and Heroes Charge respectively are being sued by Valve and Blizzard for [...]
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Following last week's leak, during which many mistook it for Read Dead Redemption 2, Wild West Online generated quite a bit of buzz. It generated so much buzz, in fact, that developer 612 Games will no longer need to run the Kickstarter that was planned for this month, as the game's original investors have given the company enough funding to [...]
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