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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid. Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Overwatch League of Legends Leagues around the world are currently on break until the third week of January, [...]
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Note: This guide is up to date as of January 12th, 2017. You've seen Lineage 2: Blood Oath around the web. You've seen that it's extremely popular in China. You're probably curious about whether Snail Games actually managed to do right by the Lineage 2 IP. But setup is confusing and you have no idea where to start. Fortunately, this guide [...]
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Note: This guide is up to date as of January 12th, 2017. Snail Games has a number of interesting games both released recently and on the horizon that are largely primarily exclusive to China. Lineage 2: Blood Oath, also known as Lineage 2: Blood Alliance, launched last year. Taichi Panda III and Dark and Light Mobile are launching sometime this year. [...]
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When I logged into Lineage 2: Revolution on launch day and saw the crowd pictured in the image above, I knew that it was going to be a hit. That being said, I could never have predicted that it would be as much of a hit as it is. According to ThisIsGame, the mobile Lineage 2 spin-off made a staggering [...]
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Fly In The Wall January 11th, 2017 Level 21 /played: 3 days, 7 hours Since release, I have played Vanilla World of Warcraft every day—Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Today—logging in (trying to log in) right after breakfast, not knowing if the sun has been clocking into work. It’s unbelievable. Not since Final Fantasy XIV’s closed beta have I been manically [...]
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I know what you're thinking; the flip-flopping of Atlas Reactor's business model is getting quite confusing, isn't it? First, it's free-to-play. Then, it is decided during Closed Beta that it will be buy-to-play. Then they add a free trial of sorts anyways, but it's extremely limited and those that don't pay can't take part in ranked matches. And now, according to a Producer's [...]
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With the announcement of Revelation Online's THIRD Closed Beta I can't help but wonder, has it gone too far? I remember a time in the long-long ago when games had ONE Beta test, designed to work out the kinks and gain player feedback just before a full release. If your game's systems aren't near release ready, why are you releasing [...]
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Updated As Of January 15, 2017 Tencent Game’s wuxia MMORPG Moonlight Blade is coming Westward, someday. If you can't wait you can play on the Chinese servers, but installing the non-English game can be a daunting task. In a previous guide I explained how to make a QQ account, a requirement for all China-based games. Now that you should, hopefully, [...]
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Note: This guide is up to date as of January 9th, 2017. Interested in trying out the latest and greatest from NetEase Games? Perhaps you're interested in trying out Twilight Spirits when it enters Open Beta and just want to set up an account in advance. Perhaps you want to try out Fantasy Westward Journey to see what all of [...]
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January 7th, 2017 /played, 10 hours. My alarm shook at 9:00 AM, playing Biggie Smalls’ “Warning,” a typical wake-up call if not for the tuned-in beat and sonorous lyric: “Who the fuck is this….” I’ll tell you who this is Biggie. It’s a guy who wanted to be woken up on the weekend because he’s excited and anxious, and paranoid. [...]
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