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If you go to the official FAQ on Wild West Online's official website right now, the following vague statement is given in regards to to game's choice of engine. We are using a proprietary licensed engine, designed and developed specifically for open world online games, and we'll cover our technology in more details in the coming months. The engine rendering [...]
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The first half of 2017 turned out to be a bit slow with the only major MMORPG release being Revelation Online. But so far the second half is shaping up to be very different. The much anticipated Morrowind expansion for Elder Scrolls Online launched for PC today and Destiny 2 reveal just a few weeks ago. Final Fantasy 14 Stormblood [...]
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Lineage was one of the defining games of the MMORPG genre. Released way back in 1998, it is still NCsoft's main money maker nearly 20 years later. It continues to see regular updates along with its sequel, Lineage 2 which also is still performing well. Both games have inspired separate mobile spin-offs that have themselves gone on to attract huge [...]
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I’m a huge fan of cover shooters. I played through the first three Gears of War games as they were released—multiple times, even. I played through the first Kane and Lynch game within 24 hours and loved it, even though most people did not. I’ve played quite a lot of The Division over the past year, as well, even though [...]
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RIFT's latest expansion, Starfall Prophecy, will heretofore be known as "Prophecy of Ahnket." The reason for this is that Trion Worlds has become "acquainted with" the Starfall Education Foundation and has changed the similar expansion name out of respect. But that's not all. Anyone who logs into RIFT between now and May 14th will receive the full Prophecy of Ahnket [...]
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One necromancer to rule them all! The art of MMORPG Resurrection used to be a niche occupation. Small companies like Suba Games and Red Fox Games dominated the unholy arts. That all changed when Steam loosened its listing standards a few years ago. A flood of MMORPGs, old and new, came crashing onto the shores of the Steam Store. For [...]
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All through last month, IMC Games began slowly revealing information about a combat revamp that would be going live in Tree of Savior sometime soon, including details about character stat changes, but it was assumed that it would be a while until the revamp went live. Apparently not. IMC Games announced today via the reveal of several work-in-progress ads that [...]
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Can you believe that it's been five years since TERA's initial PC launch? I sure can't. It feels like only yesterday when it took entire groups playing in a fairly optimal manner to kill BAMs. It also feels like only yesterday that the game went free-to-play and players became able to solo BAMs soon after. Man, yesterday must have been [...]
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A new English website for Lineage 2: Revolution appeared the other day, the first step towards releasing Lineage 2: Revolution globally. You may remember that Netmarble promised to launch a proper community site with the release of the latest update, but I don't think that anyone expected an English site to come with it. But the new English site isn't [...]
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The Unreal Engine 4 powered MMORPG Ashes of Creation launched its Kickstarter campaign yesterday (May 1st, 2017) and surpassed its initial $750,000 ask in less than 12 hours. That makes it one of fastest large-scale campaigns to hit its target in crowdfunding history. Hype and interest in the MMORPG genre is certainly alive and well! Ashes of Creation, unlike most [...]
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