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Nexon is hosting its first ever "Maplestory Fest" on April 14th, 2018 in Los Angeles California. The purpose of the event is to celebrate all things MapleStory and to also make do some live Q&A sessions with the game's developers as well as make some "exclusive announcements". This could easily just be an announcement about a new Gatchapon, new upcoming [...]
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Richard Gariott's Crowdfunded MMORPG Shroud of the Avatar is officially launching on March 27th, 2018. It's been a long and tiring journey for Shroud of the Avatar (Original Kickstart was March, 2013), but the Ultima Online esque MMORPG is finally happening. The launch is coinciding with release #52 which introduces a lot of changes to the game including framerate improvements, [...]
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Red Duck, the folks behind Metro Conflict: The Origin, announced that the free to play tactical shooter will be shutting down on June 21st, 2018. This is the second time the game is shutting down, and will likely be the last as this version was self-published by the developer. Given the huge success of Black Squad (7,500+ average players), it's [...]
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Perfect World Entertainment announced this week that the 4th expansion to their sci-fi MMORPG Star Trek Online titled "Victory is Life" is launching this June. The latest update is based on the Deep Space Nine series of Star Trek and will feature a new playable faction, the Jem'Hadar as well as an increase level cap, 6 new episodes, and much [...]
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The free to play Clash Royale esque MapleStory game MapleStory Blitz launched its first content update this week which introduced 36 new Zakum themed cards, a new dungeon, balance changes, and more. MapleStory Blitz is basically a 3 lane Clash Royale / Southpark: Phone Destroyer esque game based on Nexon's popular MapleStory franchise. Full list of changes: Devastating Original Cards [...]
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Long gone are the early days of online gaming, the wild west where wanton and lawless players were free to lie, cheat, steal and rage as they pleased. Developers and publishers were none too fond of these players for obvious reasons; but as the gaming industry has grown bigger and more profitable over the years, these companies have become bolder [...]
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Trion Worlds announced today that the remade version of their open world sci-fi shooter MMORPG Defiance 2050 is set to launch into closed beta on April 20th, 2018 and will end on April 22. Players can sign up for the closed beta test here. “Getting players into the game as soon as possible is hugely important for us,” said Matt [...]
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Skyforge will be launching its next expansion, titled Overgrowth, on April 11th for PC and April 12th for Xbox One and Playstation 4. As with previous expansions for Skyforge, it will be available for free to everyone and introduce a brand new playable class called "Grovewalkers". In addition to the new class, the game is introducing a new "Challenge system" [...]
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KOG Games launched a big update for Elsword today which revamped the game's PvP. The update introduces quite a bit of balance changes to PvP as well as changes to arena PvP and Guild PvP. To celebrate the update, anyone who logs into the game for at least 10 minutes in the next 2 weeks will get a free piece [...]
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile has officially launched worldwide for Android and iOS. PUBG Mobile initially made its debut in China last month, followed by a soft launch for Android devices last week. The game is now available for free on the App Store and Google Play. The mobile version of the widely-popular Battle Royale game features more user-friendly controls, smoother framerate, [...]
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