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Back when World of Warcraft was first released progression was a straightforward path. You completed a dungeon, moved on to the next, and the difficulty increased until you reached the end. The amount of players scaled up in a similar fashion: from 5-man dungeons to 10-man, then to 20-man raids, and finally 40-man. Fast forward roughly 12 years and almost [...]
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MMOs.com has partnered up with My.com to give away 5 Deluxe Founders Packs ($89.99 value) for Revelation Online - a gorgeous open world MMORPG developed by Netease. Closed beta for the game is set to begin sometime in October. 5 Winners will be drawn! Enter below: Revelation Online DELUXE Founders Pack Giveaway (5) Each founders pack includes: Guaranteed CBT access, [...]
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With the announcement that Dragon’s Dogma Online may one day be brought west possibly, if that’s what the person who made the quote even meant, I decided that enough was enough. I was going to try the game out. Unfortunately, it’s not quite as easy as downloading the game, loading it up, and playing it, so I’ve written this guide [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #61 September 19, 2016Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #61 - September 19, 2016 by Omer A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending September 19, 2016. This is the sixty first episode in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games mentioned this week [...]
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I recently had the chance to sit down with Sean Gubelman to discuss his hacking-themed sandbox MMO, hackmud. We discussed the extent of what's possible in-game, why he opted to create a three-hour long, single-player tutorial, and more. Me: So I’ve played hackmud for seven hours over the past two days and I still feel like I have no idea [...]
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The Olympics began as an athletic festival to honor Zeus and the gods, and to boast which city-state was the most Greek of the Greeks. People stopped killing each other to see who could out-pankration the other. In the 21st Century the Olympics are a reason to watch anchors become overexcited, and speculate who's on steroids. Will we ever see [...]
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Square Enix debuted a trailer for Final Fantasy XIV's upcoming Patch 3.4, Soul Surrender, at Tokyo Game Show. Set to moving melodies, the trailer shows off Alexander, The Creator (the final test in the Alexander raid), sky-high apartments, auariums for houses, two new hairdos, and more. Two new dungeons are also joining Final Fantasy XIV in patch 3.4: Great Gubal Library [...]
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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 2016 League of Legends World Championship The biggest international tournament for the biggest eSport [...]
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Cheer up boys and girls, it's MMOs.com podcast day, when the most professional people in the world gather to celebrate some games and talk smack about others. Where: https://www.twitch.tv/mmosdotcom When: That depends on where you live: 7PM EST 4PM PST 7AM Hong Kong Tonight we'll be making bets all around as to whether this game or that game will go free-to-play, where [...]
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Eve Online—the cold, harsh, unforgiving space social simulator of an MMO—announced that it will be offering a free to play option for players to partake in their grand space opera. CCP Seagull, the executive producer, announced the introduction of Alpha clones. With this new feature, players will be able to maintain their presence in the game world albeit in a [...]
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