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When Patch 3.56 for Final Fantasy XIV goes live on Tuesday, March 28th, it will conclude Heavensward's main scenario that began in June, 2015. You can read the minor spoiler paragraph synopsis of the upcoming patch if you're already caught up with the story content—or if you're the type to not care about narrative. Final Fantasy XIV's next expansion Stormblood [...]
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PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds launched on Steam Early Access just a few hours ago and it came out of the gates sprinting. According to SteamCharts, the game has a staggering 21,541 players on as of 40 minutes before this writing. Even though the game uses gameplay elements found in other battle royale games, even though it is launching at a price of [...]
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GAMEVIL announced yesterday via Facebook that an Android-exclusive Closed Beta test for ArcheAge Begins has begun, which means that we also finally get to find out what exactly the game is. While GAMEVIL had opened pre-registration for the game last July, subsequently announcing last September that the game would launch globally during Q1 2017, the company had revealed very little [...]
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Many studios have turned to Steam to relaunch their MMORPGs in the hope that Valve's platform gives them second wind. Some game listings are baffling: servers that shut down due to low playerbases years ago, or even one private server that snuck its way onto Steam. Others show up and see some success. Regardless of how they got, they're back, [...]
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Facebook wants to compete directly with Twitch and Youtube by offering their own livestreaming tools for games. Good luck. According to Gamasutra, Facebook describes their service as, "this new feature makes it easier than ever to stream your PC gameplay to friends and followers and engage with them while you play." The social media giant is banking on their billion—or [...]
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Going free-to-play isn't always the best option for a game, but it seems that it is working out for Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade. While we only get a look at concurrent users when we look at SteamCharts, which have doubled since the game went free-to-play last Thursday, Behaviour Digital has stated that the Daily Active User count has also seen [...]
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If you've joined a guild you've probably dealt with a guild leader, and many guild leaders—at least in my experience—have embodied similar personality traits. And so I'm wondering if people who become leaders in MMOs are also leaders in their everyday life: a Commander in Natural Selection 2, a raid leader in World of Warcraft, a corporation manger in EVE [...]
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Overwatch's newest hero Orisa has gone live—which also means there's a new trailer to watch below—in all versions of the game, but the robotic tank will not be available in Competitive Play. Principal Designer Scott Mercer took to the forums to say: When patch 1.9 releases tomorrow, Orisa will not initially be available for Competitive Play. We want to give [...]
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For World Poetry Day, tonight's MMOs.com Podcast will be shared entirely in Free Verse: a normal Podcast with a rhyme or two here and there. 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 Navy's big-budget-no-product-singularity-combating-MMO, Pathfinder Online's ambitious release schedule, a new studio formed by ex-WoW devs, and [...]
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Welcome to a new weekly editorial (maybe), where each of the MMOs.com crew discusses what we've been playing since the last Podcast. Though we're the MMOs site, we don't only play MMOs in our free time—hence this article's banner—and we want to share those games with you guys and hear about what you've been playing. Especially since we don't always [...]
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