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En Masse Entertainment released its Planar Raid update for its anime action MMORPG Closers this week which increases Tina's level cap to 75 and added new challenges at the Planar Gate. Players level 73 and higher can take on the new Planar Gate raid quests in order to get new gear, accessories, achievements, and more. To celebrate the launch of [...]
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Revelation Online introduced its Colosseum this week which should give fans of PvP something to keep themselves busy with. The Colosseum offers players a chance to fight in team vs team battles with rewards for participating. The top 100 players in each region also get special prizes at the end of each season. The Colosseum allows players to compete in [...]
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The previously buy to play battle royale game Darwin Project went free to play this week. The reasoning behind the business model change was that it was taking too long for players to find matches in certain regions, so to boost its playerbase the game decided to embrace the free to play model. Given that the #1 battle royale game [...]
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Nexon acquired the Korean MMO game studio NGine, the company behind the cutesy anime MMORPG Ar:piel. Nexon was always the game's publisher in South Korea, so the acquisition made sense if the game was performing well and given the acquisition news, I suspect that is the case. According to a post on MMOCulture, it looks like the tools used to [...]
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Netease's mobile RPG Onmyoji launched on Steam this week joining its other mobile title Crusaders of Light, which launched on the platform earlier this year. Like Crusaders of Light, Onmyoji is cross-platform between PC and mobile. While it's clear that Onmyoji is a mobile game, having it available on Steam is convenient for those who prefer playing on the PC. [...]
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Defiance 2050, the upcoming relaunch of Defiance, is set to begin closed beta testing on April 20th and will run until April 22. This first round of testing will only be available for the PC version of the game. An Xbox and PS4 version will conduct testing at a later unannounced date. Players can sign up for CBT here. “Getting [...]
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The free to play cross platform (mobile and PC) MMORPG Crusaders of Light launched its latest update today titled Battle for Karanvale. It introduces a new city, a new tier of gear, a pvp PvP game mode, and the game's most difficult raid to date. While the game was originally built for mobile, it has since launched on Steam. It [...]
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SuperdataResearch released an interesting chart today showing Dota 2's decline since its peak with the 7.0 update over a year ago. Dota 2 peaked at nearly 14 million monthly active players with the 7.0 update and has since fallen to 10.6m monthly active users. While Dota 2 is by no means a dead game, the trend seen above is definitely [...]
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I know we’re all excited as MapleStory 2 excruciatingly inches towards its Western release. Well, here’s a bit of news that will get you hyped up even more for launch day. The MapleStory 2 official website is now live and is now accepting applications for the game’s closed beta test. Closed Beta is scheduled to start on May 9th and [...]
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is putting the new 4kmx4km “Savage” map through a second round of testing on the Closed Experimental Server. The upcoming PUBG map was initially put through its paces earlier this month and the developers have made adjustments and changes based on player feedback. “The feedback you guys gave us during the first round of testing taught us a [...]
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