In anticipation of Devilian's free-to-play release Trion has announced the addition of Early Access Packs for eager fans. The $19.99 package will grant players a 2 day head start, guaranteed Beta Access, and a variety of additional goodies—including a Corgi Pet (the main selling point). You could also pick up a Beta key from the weekly Humble Bundle deal, if its [...]
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NCSoft is focusing on making Lineage 2 available to Steam players on November 12th, after Aion's successful implementation on the paltform. Steam support allows for a list of extraneous goodies for players, including trading cards, emoticons, and badges. Who doesn't want to wear a Lineage 2 badge of honor on their Steam profile? A shiny new server named Zaken will [...]
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Minecraft’s explosive influence on gaming might as well be carved in a stone tablet by this point. From the innumerable voxel-builder clone titles it spawned to the rise of Early Access games, Notch’s child has matured the industry. But Minecraft isn’t the only world where players can craft the perfect home, complete with a roller-coaster over lava lanes. Many games [...]
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Further blending the line between Call of Duty cinematics and movies, Activision Blizzard has announced the creation of their own film studio. The video-game titan will be producing TV shows and movies based on their video game franchises. Nick van Dyk, a former Disney executive, has been hired to co-head the studio. And the first production will be a TV [...]
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Surprisingly, Blizzard has announced that their zany fast-paced team shooter Overwatch will not be adopting a free-to-play model. Given the success of Heroes of the Storm and Hearthstone a f2p model seemed inevitable. But Blizzard is choosing a different route, and I don't think anyone at MMOs.com expected them to to take it. The vanilla version will sell for $40 [...]
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The long-awaited Warcraft trailer has finally arrived after endless teasers. The trailer released the same day Activision Blizzard announced the creation of a film studio to transform their franchises into transmedia entertainment. Do I smell a Warcraft animated TV show in the works? Maybe. While divorced from World of Warcraft the film will depcit the initial encounter between Orcs and Humans, [...]
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With preparations gearing up for the Closed Beta launch of Albion Online on November 23rd Sandbox Interactive has released a blog post detailing what they've been working on and what players can expect in the future. We previously reported the latest highlight video showing off the game's Laborers system—where players hire NPC's to gather resources and craft. But the report [...]
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Riot has announced the development of a new League of Legends client to be released as an alpha version some time in 2016. A small number of community members will be invited to test the client during the 2016 season. It will be built from the ground up, " abandoning the legacy client's tech framework." A restructured interface, new visuals, and [...]
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The dice have rolled and everyone around the Pachisi board is placing bets on India as the next mobile gaming giant. 1.2 billion people live in the vast South Asian country and Superdata Research asserts it is the fastest-growing mobile games market. And now that Western markets have largely matured companies are looking to India for expansion. Cut The Rope [...]
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Now that the dust from the migration to WildStar's free to play transition is over Carbine is gearing up to release an update focused on bolstering the game's PvP. Titled "Enter the Cryo-Plex Arena," the update release will coincide with a new arena season. The Cryo-Plex Arena itself is an abandoned research facility set among "towering rock formations" and blue ice. [...]
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