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Japanese gaming media site Game Watch is reporting that Black Desert Online's Japanese publisher, Pmang, has begun previewing some the game's upcoming content updates, including the Dark Elf class and Kamasilvia. The Dark Elf will use a large sword and be able to dart around and high speeds. She will also be able to make use of dark magic in [...]
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Amazon is inviting mobile players to compete in the first ever casual eSports tournament, called the Champions of Fire Invitational—"no pros need apply." But, don't get ahead of yourself. This isn't a tournament for just anybody. No, no. These casuals are streamer-celebrities, and 16 of them will bang their heads together competing for their cut of a $100,000 prize pool. [...]
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Sandbox games, the virtual universes with no hand-holding from the developers or on-rails progression. You're plopped into a world and told, "go do something, whatever you want!" Do you want to build a house? Go for it. You want to spend your days fishing? Sure. Want to sneak up on another players and steal all their stuff? It’s foolhardy but [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid. 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 All-Star Barcelona 2016 The All-Star Event is held by Riot Games every year in different [...]
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On this Sunday Funday the MMOs.com crew is wreaking havoc in Tiger Knight: Empire War. Who will be the best ancient warrior? That's easy, it's me. But I'll let everyone else believe they have a chacne against me, for now. Where: https://www.twitch.tv/mmosdotcom When: That depends on where you live: 7PM EST 4PM PST If you can't make it you can always watch [...]
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Unity has shared some data about their mobile landscape: games made using the Unity engine, topped off with colorful infographics. I sure love data. Android and iOS players have nearly the same average number of sessions per day (2.4 vs. 2.38) Android players spent 26.6 minutes on average playing Unity games every day; for iOS it was 19.8 minutes Phones saw 5x [...]
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It's time to build up that credit rating and burn through all your money thanks to the Thanksgiving/Black Friday/"We're slashing prices cause 'why not?'" sales. And we've got you covered with our work-in-progress list of MMO-related titles. Steam Battleborn - $14.99 Strike 75% off Battleborn: now's the time to try the badass character-based MOBA, if you ever had an interest. The [...]
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Some exciting news about NetEase Games' upcoming MMORPG War Rage was announced at G-Star 2016. According to 2p, the company expects to launch the game internationally within the next 12 to 18 months. The plan is to make "medieval European legions" playable in addition to "Chinese legions" by that time. Some details about the game's sandbox elements were also unveiled. Players [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2, and Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid. 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 2016 League of Legends KeSPA Cup The 2016 LoL KeSPA Cup was a tournament organized [...]
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G-Star 2016 has begun and Korean news outlets have begun posting all manner of videos of the Peria Chronicles G-Star 2016 demo. Steparu has collected a few of those videos, which come from Inven and ThisIsGame. The videos give us our first look at raw footage of combat, terraforming, and more. According to ThisIsGame, combat is carried out by summoning [...]
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