BlizzCon 2018 took place last week, and boy was it one for the history books. The game announcements were nice, Destiny 2 is free to keep if you claim it by Nov 18, and a remastered version of Warcraft 3 titled Warcraft 3: Reforged is coming out next year. But the real story this year was how badly Blizzard bungled [...]
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Diablo: Immortal is a mobile MMOARPG developed by Chinese studio NetEase. Diablo: Immortal provides a persistent game world accessible from anywhere right at your fingertips! Publisher: Activision Blizzard Playerbase: High Type: Action MMORPG Release Date: June 02, 2022 Pros: +The first F2P Diablo experience. +Varied Classes. +PC Client. +Authentic Chinese gameplay! Cons: -Extreme pay to win elements. -Developed by third [...]
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The gaming intelligence firm SuperData, now owned by Nielsen, just released their worldwide digital games market report for the month of September 2018. Headline figures showed another month of remarkable growth, from $912 million last September to $1.24 billion in total digital gaming revenue this September. As in previous months, the majority of that growth comes from the growth of [...]
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Standing Stone Games, the developers of Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) have revealed plans for a progression server for the 11 year old fantasy MMORPG. The new server will give players the opportunity to relive the LOTRO legend from the very beginning. Thus dubbed as a Legendary server, it is set to go live this fall with content from [...]
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Valve's Steam platform has emerged as an unexpected beneficiary of China's sweeping video game approval freeze. While Steam was never officially approved in China, it hasn't been officially censored either. The gray space the platform occupies has made it an attractive refuge for both Chinese gamers and developers who have grown frustrated with the ongoing game approval freeze which domestic [...]
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Confirming leaked rumors that appeared mere hours ago, Trion Worlds has announced that the MMO studio would be 'transitioning' to Gamigo Group. In a brief press release, provided in full below, Trion World states that not all of the studio's employees would be making the transition. Theres no word yet on whether any of the 5 games currently offered by [...]
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In a press release issued October 19, 2018 CCP Games and NetEase formally unveiled EVE: Echoes, a mobile MMO based on the Iclandic studio's Sci-Fi MMORPG EVE Online. The game is set to release sometime in 2019. Previously known as EVE: Project Galaxy, Echoes will be built on NetEase's proprietary graphics engine NeoX. While details are scarce at this time, [...]
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Dirty Bomb, the free to play tactical shooter once published by Nexon, is no longer in active development. Developer Splash Damage broke the bad news in an official announcement earlier today. Despite regained publishing rights for Dirty Bomb from Nexon nearly two years ago, and hiring a slew of additional developers, Splash Damage couldn't manage to boost the game's numbers [...]
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MapleStory 2 finally had its free to play launch last week on October 10. Arriving on both the official Nexon launcher and on Steam, MapleStory 2 has so far had an extremely successful launch. The steam numbers show a consistent daily peak player count of 30,000+ and while we don't know the official numbers from the Nexon client, they are [...]
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30 months after Microsoft opened up the Xbox ecosystem to cross platform play, Sony finally decided to follow suit. Initially, Sony was able to maintain its walled-garden approach due to its massive lead in this generation's console market. The massive success of Fortnite changed that. Millions of gamers were frustrated that Sony was standing in the way of PS4, Xbox [...]
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