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Nexon's highly popular 2D Side Scrolling MMORPG has announced 10th Anniversary Celebrations! Players with an account of level 31 or higher will be able to pick up an anniversary pack after the maintenance on May 7th through May 11th by logging on to the game. The gift back comes with the following items: Safety Charm (5): If this is in [...]
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Activision Blizzard reported a record ~$703 million in revenue, partly due to ongoing success of Hearthstone, Blizzard Entertainment's wildly successful CCG. In 2014 Hearthstone was one of the most profitable MMOs of all time and we suspect that the game will do even better in 2015. World of Warcraft continued to perform exceptionally well too with 7.1 million active subscribers at [...]
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The official twitter for Heroes of the Storm, @BlizzHeroes, has released a teaser clip that shows Kael'Thas Sunstrider fighting against Arthas. The included text reads: "@Warcraft was only a setback". Is this a confirmation of Kael'Thas' debut as a HotS hero? You can check out the tweet here... its animated!
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Garena's subsidiary, Frostburn Studios, has announced that they will be the new official game developer for Heroes of Newerth. S2 Games, the original developer sold the game to Garena for an unspecified sum, likely to focus their efforts on their newest MOBA, Strife. The current plan of action is for the current HoN development team to be integrated into Frostburn [...]
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One of the most troubling issues in League of Legends is player toxicity, and while it also exists in many other games it is often heavily attributed to games of the MOBA genre due to their overwhelming popularity. LoL used to have a tribunal system to weed out toxic players, but the system has been shut down-- For quite a [...]
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Shortly after the epic announcement of the Chronomancer specialization for Mesemers, Guild Wars 2 has tweeted a new teaser image portraying a Guardian wielding a bow. What could this new specialization be?
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AeriaGames has announced that their action MMORPG, Echo of Soul has official opened for Closed Beta testing. The first wave of invites have already been sent out, but gamers who are interested in playing are encouraged to sign up and keep an eye out for their inbox for further invites. Echo of Soul - Teaser #1Watch this video on YouTube [...]
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Cabal 2 has released a new official video highlighting their PVP battlefields. The video showcases an 18v18 player battleground called "Forgotten Desert Temple" which allows level 28+ players to engage in large scale PVP battles. In this battleground, players will be charged with rallying their NPC allies and leading them to the enemy base to take out the enemy [...]
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The Nepal Earthquake was a recent earthquake that struck with a 7.8 magnitude, wrecking havoc throughout the area. CCP has announced their "Plex for Good" drive which accepts Plex donations towards earthquake relief. Players need only to contract one or more PLEX to the "CCP PLEX for GOOD" character on a 14-day item exchange contract, and contracts will be accepted [...]
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SkyForge, the third person action MMORPG from Mail.ru's Allods Team, is expected to begin open beta sometime in mid July 2015. This falls well within the officially announced open beta date of "Summer, 2015", which was unveiled earlier in April, 2015. The Russian version of the game has already been officially released since April 2, 2015, and the Western version is set to [...]
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