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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Overwatch League of Legends NA LCS Recap and Standings The eighth week of the NA LCS has finished! Day 1: Immortals vs NRG Esports (2-0) [...]
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Whether you watch or not, eSports has become a huge part of gaming, an industry every publisher and major company has their eyes on. Lucky for us, SuperData has released their latest report highlighting the current state, and future, of eSports. Below I examine some of the report's highlights and speculate based on what information we have available at the MMOs.com team. While [...]
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Anime shows where characters are trapped in an MMORPG universe are almost a trope. The premise has even spawned a number of popular books. But there aren’t many anime inspired by existing MMORPGs, series that expand upon universe’s inhabited by players in our world. It seems like a given on-paper. I’ve compiled a list of some MMORPG-inspired animes with a [...]
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We have partnered with Fairytale Distillery to give away 500 keys for Das Tal's Summer Alpha, which began on July 16th and will run until July 30th. You can find more details about the Summer Alpha here. To get a key, simply use the Gleam.io widget below. To redeem your key, follow these instructions. 1.) Go to http://www.das-tal-game.com/download and download [...]
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I tend to gravitate towards a class archetype as I bounce from one MMORPG to the next. When I was an edgy teen wearing a black shirt with "Ramones" splashed across the front, I played Rogues: the surreptitious rebels of virtual worlds. Regardless of the game played I chose classes with moves labeled something like "sneak," "cloak," "invisibility." During my [...]
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I recently had the chance to sit down with Bobby Baker of Holy Fire Games to discuss his company's upcoming game Forsaken Legends. We discussed their use of SpatialOS, the implications of an endless world, instanced guild PvP, and more. Me: There are three people working on the game, correct? Baker: Yep. There are actually a few more. The full [...]
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Speedrunning has seen an explosion of popularity over the past couple of years. The bi-annual Games Done Quick marathons easily reach over 100,000 viewers and the amount of money they raise for charity continues to grow each year. Speedrunning events typically focus on offline games and to my knowledge there hasn’t been an MMO appearance yet—and probably with good reason, [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 Overwatch League of Legends NA LCS Recap and Standings The seventh week of the NA LCS has finished! Day 1: Immortals vs Counter Logic [...]
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You all remember Mark Kern, right? The team lead on vanilla World of Warcraft? The guy that has become known for signing off on the infamous Firefall bus? The CEO that was removed from his own company following some questionable decisions? Yeah, that guy. He's back with a new project called Ember. But before we get to Ember, let's go [...]
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Guilds are typically a large feature in any MMORPG. They can greatly enhance a user’s experience of the game: opening the door to a social circle of like-minded players, allowing you to easily find groups to complete content and make friends along the way. At it’s core a guild is a community, but with any community problems can occur. I’m [...]
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