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In what is aptly called a stunning revelation, the competitive shooter Battleborn has announced it will drop its buy-to-play model and add a monthly subscription instead. I don’t think any of us expected this. When the change is live sometime later this month, new players will only have to pay $14.99 to gain access the game, and pay the same [...]
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I’m excited to share that the Chinese conglomerate Tencent Games has officially purchased MMOs.com for an undisclosed amount. This deal has been under wraps for some time, but we weren’t able to share it with our readers until today. Tencent is a tremendous company and one of the largest in the world, owning IPs such as League of Legends, and [...]
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Valve announced that they will be shifting resources to beef up their customer service department for Steam. In a press statement co-founder and president Game Newell said, “We know our customer service hasn’t been the best, but today we want to move forward and provide an experience worthy of our studio.” The changes should begin rolling out in the coming [...]
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We have partnered with Torn Banner Studios to give away 10,000 Mirage: Arcane Warfare Closed Beta keys. Mirage: Arcane Warfare is the company's latest brutal online multiplayer FPS, following up on its previous title Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. Each key will give you access to the game's Closed Beta from now until it launches on May 23rd, at which time you [...]
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In the last couple of years it's become apparent that Chinese companies have their eyes on Western game studios: Jagex (Runescape) was bought by a Chinese mining company, Riot Games (League of Legends) is owned by Tencent, and we discovered that Snail Games scooped up Studio Wildcard (Ark: Survival Evolved). Back in 2016, analytics firm Superdata Research predicted that "Chinese [...]
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So it turns out that the move to Secret World Legends is happening much faster than I think most of us anticipated. According to a Steam Community update from two days ago, the revamp's Closed Beta began two days ago and, according to Massively, invites have indeed already gone out to several people. Invites will be sent out in waves, [...]
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Remember how Activision finally announced Destiny 2 by posting its logo to Twitter, then followed up by releasing a teaser trailer yesterday? Remember how we didn't have any details about the game at the time? Well, now we've got details. Activision formally announced Destiny 2 today with a "Rally the Troops" trailer that doesn't show off any gameplay, but provides [...]
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I have been an Early Access winner, backing games that found the right combination of elements to become massive successes, even while still wearing their "pre-alpha" nametag. Doesn't happen often. Doesn't happen much at all. Most Early Access titles die with a whimper, and today, I'm watching two games I backed slip into obscurity and irrelevance, Project Genom and Fragmented. [...]
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Heroes of the Storm's 2.0 update is adding loot crates and a library of cosmetics, giving it a rewards systems that looks like its cousin Overwatch. Every time player's level up they'll earn loot chests, brimming with random skins, sprays, bannners, voice lines, etc.; everything you could imagine being in a shiny box. Lead game designer Travis McGeathy told GamaSutra [...]
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Funcom, the Oslo, Norway based games studio, has published more information on the upcoming "relaunch" of their conspiracist themed, modern era MMORPG The Secret World. The Secret World, originally released in 2012, will relaunch this Spring as Secret World Legends. Tellingly, the studio is labeling Secret World Legends as a story-driven, shared-world action RPG rather than using the previous MMORPG [...]
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