The Battle Royale genre has taken the gaming industry by storm. Playerunknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite were the defining titles of 2017 and both continue to increase in popularity well into 2018. They've been joined by a few new comers like Darwin Project and Radical Heights, and there's surely dozens more Battle Royale games currently in development. But does this new [...]
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After months of rumors, Nexon has official confirmed that MapleStory 2 is coming to the West! The official website went live on April 16 which immediately started taking applications for a closed beta test scheduled to start on May 9th. The official launch trailer, embedded below, shows prospective players what MapleStory is all about. While the game never enjoyed the [...]
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Valve made several changes to their profile privacy settings on April 10. Some of these changes, namely making user's games libraries private by default,have had immediate and dramatic effects on the broader Steam ecosystem. Among the victims of this change was SteamSpy, a popular data aggregation site heavily trafficked by both players and developers. The site tracked sales numbers, player [...]
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Phoenix Labs, the studio behind co-op action RPG Dauntless, announced that the game will enter Open Beta testing on May 24. Over 100,000 players have taken part in the game's ongoing Closed Beta and 700,000 have signed up for the upcoming open beta. Dauntless is heavily inspired by Capcom's Monster Hunter franchise and will beat the PC version of Monster [...]
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War Thunder is a 3D World War II shooter where players take part in large-scale battles in the air and on the ground. War Thunder offers both arcade and realistic simulation style gameplay to accommodate a wide variety of playstyles. Publisher: Gaijin Entertainment Playerbase: High Type: MMO Shooter Release Date: November 1, 2012 (Open Beta) PvP: Arcade / Realistic / [...]
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MMORPGs have been called treadmills and walking simulators. These remarks come from both fans of the genre and its detractors. There is certainly some truth to these claims, many of the core gameplay loops in MMORPGs require repetition and very slow progress. The question this week is whether the genre is doomed to suffer such monotonous and meaningless gameplay, occasionally [...]
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Earlier today, on April 5, 2018 Publish 99 for Ultima Online went live worldwide. The new update comes with a host of features, the most notable of which is Endless Journey -- a free to play account tier for the previously subscription-only MMORPG. Ultima Online was first released in 1997 and is credited with bringing the MMORPG genre to the [...]
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The highly anticipated movie adaptation of Ready Player One hit theaters this week and while its undeniably aimed at children, it does offer the astute MMO player some food for thought. Setting aside the unbelievable timeline of the technology (life-like VR by 2045), the primary VR platform of Ready Player One, The OASIS, seems to be a single centralized service [...]
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Rare Ltd has announced that their latest multiplayer swashbucking title Sea of Thieves has sold over 2 million copies since its March 20, 2018 release. These result were enough to make Sea of Thieves the best selling first-party title from Microsoft this generation. The 2 million sales number include both Xbox One and PC versions, but does not include players [...]
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Normally buy to play (B2P) games eventually become free to play, but Faeria has decided to go in reverse. On March 30, the Faeria team made a major announcement. The fantasy card game will go back to a buy to play model while also shutting down its iOS and Android versions. The lengthy official post lays out a brief history [...]
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