Weekly News Recap #94 – May 8, 2017

Weekly MMO News Recap #94 - May 8, 2017 by Omer

A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending May 8, 2017. This is the ninety-fourth episode in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games mentioned this week are: Black Desert Online, Kritika Online, Hyper Universe Online, Final Fantasy XIV, Ashes of Creation, Overwatch, Skyforge, Legends of Aria, Tera, Shadowverse, MixMasters Online, DK Online, Darkfall: Rise of Agon, GunZ 2, Creativerse, DayZ, MapleStory, and Age of Wushu (Age of Wulin). Links to individual news articles we covered this week:

• Black Desert Online Launching on Steam on May 24th
• Kritika Online NA Closed Beta Begins May 24th, Founders Packs on Sale Now
• Ashes of Creation Fully Funded in Less Than 12 Hours
• Hyper Universe Alpha Test Begins Today
• Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood Benchmark Available
• Long Awaited Dekaron Update 19 Part 1 Now Live
• Activision Blizzard Reports Most Profitable Quarter Ever
• Skyforge PS4 Risen Exiles Expansion Adds Three New Classes on May 16th
• Legends of Aria Alpha 2 Pushed Back to May 12th
• Tera Celebrates Fifth Anniversary With New Content
• Shadowverse Celebrates 9 Million Downloads with 9 Free Card Packs
• Overwatch China Releases Lootbox Probabilities
• Two Forgotten MMORPGs Trying to Make it Onto Steam
• Darkfall Rise of Agon Officially Launches
• GunZ 2 Servers Set to Close, 1 Left
• Creativerse Launches out of Early Access on May 8th
• DayZ Entering Beta Soon After Almost 4 Long Years in Alpha
• MapleStory V.185 Update Adds ReZero Event and Meso Market
• Age of Wulin Set to be Reabsorbed Into Snail Games