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Bosskey Studios, the company behind Lawbreakers, revealed their newest project today - Radical Heights, an 80s-infused cartoony battle royale game set in a game show. Not only did they reveal their new game, but early access is set to begin tomorrow on April 10th. Given how many battle royale games have been announced since Fortnite and Playerunknown's Battlegrounds popularized the [...]
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Nexon America posted a job for a Localization Coordinator this last week, which further strengthens my theory that MapleStory 2 is set to be announced for a Western release on April 14th, 2018 during the first ever MapleStory fest. We'll have to wait for official confirmation, but the evidence seems to be mounting that a MapleStory 2 announcement in the [...]
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Stunlock Studios, the company behind Battlerite, announced this week that they partnered with Twitch and Nexon to help them bring the competitive Battlerite scene worldwide. Twitch will be the game's exclusive streaming partner for the game's first 3 seasons while Nexon will be responsible for producing the events in South Korea. Anyone can sign up for the league qualifiers up [...]
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The studio behind Lawbreakers, Bosskey, made a studio announcement earlier this week basically admitting that Lawbreakers has been a failure and that they're pivoting to a new project. They also made it clear that the game won't go free to play. The fact is LawBreakers failed to find enough of an audience to generate the funds necessary to keep it [...]
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The free to play Vehicular shooter Crossout joined the battle royale bandwagon this week with the launch of patch 0.9.50. The game introduced its own 32 player battle royale mode called "Crossout Royale" which utilizes all the basic elements of battle royale that you'd expect. Players start off with a basic vehicle with a single light weapon and must scavenge [...]
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Just today, Hearthstone has revealed many of its new cards for the upcoming Witchwood expansion, which is launching later this month on April 12th. The fairytale-themed addition will be bringing a slew of Worgens and magical beasts out from the shadows, and introduces new "Echo" and "Rush" mechanics into the game. While some players have complained that the current meta [...]
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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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In the wake of the upcoming AI apocalypse, Blade and Soul fans will be ahead of the game and ready to battle the onslaught of machines in the Automaton Assault Event Dungeon. Hongsil and her brother, Chungsil, worked as assistants to the Three Sages at Mushin’s Tower. During the day she helped hopeful warriors work the Wheel of Fate, but [...]
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It's finally happening. After countless threads on Black Desert's official forums and the game's subreddit complaining about lag issues, Kakao Games announced that they are changing service providers for the game's servers. This should hopefully address the long running issues with the game's server performance during large scale PvP battles. Check out the official announcement below: Greetings Adventurers, In our [...]
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Trion World's latest expansion to ArcheAge titled "Legends Return" launches tonight and brings with it 2 brand new progression fresh start servers, new dragons that can be used as battle mounts, Shadow Invasions rift events, and much more. Trion Worlds also finally released a trailer for Legends Return, which can be seen below: Watch this video on YouTube The 2 [...]
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