Our latest coverage of Columns.
Innova Systems recently held its first Q&A session for the Russian version of Kingdom Under Fire 2, during which users were given a chance to ask various questions. While we already knew some of the information that has come from the Q&A, such as the fact that Closed Beta was previously planned for this summer, with launch happening later in [...]
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We've known that Dragon Quest X would eventually be launching on Nintendo Switch since the Nintendo Switch event that was held on January 13th, but we didn't quite know when it would be launching on Nintendo Switch. During the most recent Nintendo Direct, it was announced that the Dragon Quest series' only MMORPG would be launching on Nintendo Switch this [...]
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If you’re a fan of survival games you’ve probably ended up with a knife in your back more times than you can count. Upcoming survival game Rend plans to do away with all the treachery by implementing factions: three of them. Developer Jordan Leithart explains: “One of the biggest draws of survival games is the community. I know it sounds [...]
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Certain members of the Overwatch community consider smurfing to be a plague worthy of Egypt, and Jeff Kaplan explained his position on the official forums. He writes, "Smurfing -- and I know this isn't what you want to hear -- isn't really that big of an issue." And before you jump to the comments section let's read the rest of [...]
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What do I mean by this nebulous clickbait weekly raid statement? What I mean is, will gambling and placing bets be an intricate part of the future of eSports, will it add to eSport's successs, and without it can eSports succeed? Why are we talking about this? Well, Wargaming’s Mohamed Fadl recently said (and eloquently so), “you’re stupid to say [...]
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Whoah, it's the 99th episode of the MMOs.com Podcast, and we still have no idea what's happening for episode 100. Where: https://www.twitch.tv/mmosdotcom When: That depends on where you live: 7PM EST 4PM PST On tonight's episode we're talking about the eloquent employees over at Wargaming, the greatest gold selling conspiracy of all time revisited, the worst way to name your [...]
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An Overwatch trailer in French has dropped on the YouTube and leaked the game's next big event: Insurrection, a co-op PvE mission. Follow Tracer into King's Row on her first mission as part of Overwatch. The event follows up from a digital comic released last week, titled "Uprising." The video below was uploaded thanks to someone at the Playstation team [...]
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PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds has been an instant success since the moment it went live on Steam Early Access on March 23rd. The game made a staggering $11 million in its first 3 days on Steam Early Access and continued to sell copy after copy from there. It has now been 16 days since launch and developer Bluehole has announced that the [...]
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One of my favorite comments, that might as well be painted on a portable tombstone, is “Game X is dead.” Any game you can think of has been dubbed deceased by an internet-certified coroner: World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Black Desert Online, and on and on through the endless wave of titles across time. It’s equivalent to somebody saying [...]
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RuneScape's 15th anniversary has passed but the celebrations haven't ended, and Jagex has released a documentary following the MMORPGs humble beginnings and its transformation into one of the most successful online games available. You can scroll down to watch it. I remember playing RuneScape in my middle-school's library around the same it came out. The kid on the right and [...]
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