Our latest coverage of Dungeon Fighter Online.
The mobile version of Dungeon Fighter Online, known as Dungeon & Fighter in Asia, is launching in South Korea sometime in Q1 2022. This is big news as Dungeon Fighter is by far the biggest franchise owned by Nexon with DFO the single most successful MMORPG in the world (lifetime sales of over $15B). No word on a release outside [...]
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Nexon announced today that Myeong-jin Yun, the man leading oversight at Project BBQ and Mobile DFO, will take over the leadership position on Dungeon Fighter Online (alongside his other responsibilities). The goal with the leadership shuffle is to bring forth new ideas to keep the now 16 year old game fresh. Myeong-jin Yun joined Neople in 2008 to work on [...]
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Nexon's hugely successful 2D side scrolling MMORPG Dungeon Fighter Online has earned over $15B in lifetime revenue (update 2022: Nexon reports that DFO has earned over $20 billion now) making it the highest grossing video game of all time. To put that number into context, that's about 250 million full price $60 games, which coincidentally is about as much as [...]
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Neople has just introduced a pair of new Advancement Classes to their anime-themed beat ‘em up game, Dungeon Fighter Online. With the release of The Fifth Destiny update earlier this week, male Slayers now have access to the Ghostblade advanced class and awaken into Yaksha and later into Rakshasa. “The Slayers are the swordsmen doomed with the Ghost Arm. They [...]
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Nexon unveiled Project BBQ today which looks a lot like a 3D version of the company's enormously successful Dungeon Fighter Online. While the name 'Dungeon Fighter' is absent from the trailer the game is developed by Neople, the same studio behind Dungeon Fighter. Project BBQ is a 3D action MMORPG built on Unreal Engine 4 and will likely be releasing [...]
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While Dungeon Fighter Online (released 2005) and MapleStory (also 2005) may be oldies, they're still bringing in the big bucks for Nexon. While DFO is already the highest grossing MMORPG in the world, the game had record revenues this quarter with double digit year over year growth. Korean MapleStory on the other hand also had a strong year with 129% [...]
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Massive changes are coming to Dungeon Fighter Online this summer starting with the recently released Summer Update. The update features significant changes to the game’s systems including balance changes for every character, changes to level 85-90 gear, a revamped guild system, along with improvements to the Explorer Club and its interface. You'll find the full patch notes here. The July [...]
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Act 04. Saints of The Cursed Blood officially went live this week (June 27th, 2017 to be precise) in Dungeon Fighter Online and with it comes a new class - the Female Priest. The female priest character can advance to become a Crusader, Inquisitor, Shaman, or Mistress. The update includes other minor changes as well such as the addition of [...]
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Project Knock is the codename for an upcoming sequel to Dungeon Fighter Online. The game is presumably still early in development, so it's largely been kept under wraps up until now, but MMOCulture has uncovered several job listings, posted in February, that reveal a rather surprising fact. You see, Dungeon Fighter Online developer Neople isn't the company developing the sequel. [...]
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In an interview with Venturebeat Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney revealed that Dungeon Fighter Online (DFO) earned more in lifetime revenue than the most successful movie franchise of all time, Star Wars. Revenue for Dungeon Fighter Online clocked in at $8.7B since its release in 2003 while ALL the Star Wars movies combined earned $7.6 billion in box office sales since [...]
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