Our latest coverage of MapleStory.
While MapleStory 2 may have stolen most of the spotlight recently, MapleStory continues to get a lot of love from Nexon. The game's Black Mage update is launching in pieces between now and the end of December, 2018 which will culminate with a battle with the Black Mage, MapleStory's long running villain. The game already introduced the Maple Alliance earlier [...]
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While Dungeon Fighter Online (released 2005) and MapleStory (also 2005) may be oldies, they're still bringing in the big bucks for Nexon. While DFO is already the highest grossing MMORPG in the world, the game had record revenues this quarter with double digit year over year growth. Korean MapleStory on the other hand also had a strong year with 129% [...]
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Nexon launched their 'Lab Server' for MapleStory today which is built on an entirely new rule-set than traditional MapleStory. The game's Lab Server is considered an ultimate test of skill as monsters are more powerful and the game has permadeath. Every death results in a complete reset of progress. In addition players won't be able to escape death easily by [...]
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Nexon announced today that MapleStory will be holding a crossover event with the popular anime movie Evangelion. The event begins on February 28th and runs until March 28th. Players will be able to interact with characters from the movies by traveling through an inter-dimensional rift and complete special quests and events. Watch this video on YouTube Key Features of the [...]
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An end of an era is soon approaching. MapleStory has started the process of winding down their Free Market zones. News of the Free Market's closure was first announced back in November 2017, but steps towards that closure only started to surface on the Global servers in the past week. For those who are not familiar with the Free Market, [...]
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MapleStory continued its season long Nova update today with the introduction of yet another new character class, the Illium. The Illium character is a Magician class that utilizes a special item called the Lucent Gauntlet to craft magical weapons and "harness the power of the ancient crystal". Players who pre-made their Illium characters leading up to today's release can finally [...]
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Part 1 of the previously announced Nova update for MapleStory officially launched today. The Nova: Liberation of Cadena update introduces the brand new playable character Cadena, along with new 5th job skills, and a bunch of gameplay related changes. Keep in mind, additional parts of the Nova update are set to launch between now and January, 2018. Those interested in [...]
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MapleStory is launching its Nova update on November 29th, 2017 and will continue releasing parts of the update up until January 3, 2018. The first bit, titled Nova: Liberation of Cadena which launches November 29th adds a new playable character class to the game called "Cadena" along with new 5th job skills for all classes. As with any MapleStory update, [...]
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Nexon released a cool new infographic today highlighting the popularity of MapleStory since its original release back in 2005. Despite its age, MapleStory remains one of the world's most popular MMORPGs and one of the world's most profitable MMORPGs. Check it out below: The stats that I found most interesting is that the game's most popular classes are almost all [...]
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Nexon announced the upcoming Midnight Monster Bash event for MapleStory which is set to begin on October 18th, 2017. I've personally played MapleStory on and off since its beta back in 2004 and one thing the game does really well is its events which do a great job of keeping things fresh. Check out the trailer for the upcoming event [...]
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