Weekly News Recap #39 - April 18, 2016

Weekly MMO News Recap #39 - Apr 18, 2016 by Omer

A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending April 18, 2016. This is the thirty-ninth episode in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games mentioned this week are: Riders of Icarus, Soul Worker Online, Revelation Online, HIT, Black Desert Online, Tera, Blade and Soul, Mabinogi, Deadbreed, Atlas Reactor, Rift, Dungeon Fighter Online, and Paragon. Links to individual news articles we covered this week:

• Riders of Icarus Online  Second Closed Beta Begins April 21st
• Soulworker Coming to the West by Gameforge
• Revelation Online Dragons Abyss Could Take 2-3 Months to Complete
• New Classes Musa and Maeha Enter Black Desert on April 20th
• Secrets Shadows Brings Ninja Tera May 2016
• The Shattered Empire Arrives in Blade and Soul On April 27th
• New Paragon Heroes Iggy and Scorch Unveiled
• Deadbreed Officially Launches
• Rifts Fifth Anniversary Continues with the launch of Update 3.6
• Atlas Reactor Enters Closed Beta with a Slew of Features
• Nexon and NAT Games Enter Strategic Partnership, HIT Launching Globally this Year
• Mabinogi Receives First Major Story Update Since December 2014
• Tencent has Extended its Dungeon Fighter Publishing Deal by 10 Years