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Nexon's side scrolling action MOBA Hyper Universe launched its Ranked Mode preseason today which runs until February 22, 2018. Season 1 officially begins on February 22 and is available to anyone with a level 15 account and at least 12 hypers (including the free rotation). Pre-season wins and losses will not count towards their ranking. Besides the launch of ranked [...]
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Fortnite hit a new peak of 3.4 million concurrent users this past weekend (Feb 3-4 2018) before suffering a major outage due to the high server demand. Epic Games posted an article on the outage earlier today titled Postmortem Of Service Outage At 3.4M CCU that goes into some of the details on how the meltdown played out. The post [...]
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Once again Activision Blizzard proved to the world that they're really good at making money. They reported revenues of a bit over $2B in Q4, 2017, beating their own estimate of $1.7B by a landslide. According to Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activsion Blizzard, "This was a record quarter to cap off a record year for Activision Blizzard". For the full [...]
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Critical Ops, the free to play mobile tactical shooter by the Finnish game studio Critical Force, announced today that their game hit 1 million daily active players. Since the game's launch its been downloaded over 34 million times. That's up from 500K daily players back in March, 2017. I've actually never heard of Critical Ops until today but expect a [...]
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Nexon reported their Q4 2017 and full year 2017 earnings report today. Full year revenues came in at 234.9B Yen ($2.16B USD), up from 183.1B Yen (~$1.7B USD) from 2016. Nexon CEO, Owen Mahoney, attributed the record annual revenue to the ongoing success of Dungeon Fighter Online and MapleStory, both of which recorded double-digit percentage growth in revenue year over [...]
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Elsword's 3rd Job is getting it's 2nd path today, much to delight of players who have been preparing for this moment for weeks. This latest update allows players to further develop their character's abilities, power, and looks. Along with this release is a new event that will continue until February 14th, along with new chocolate-based costumes. This event will also [...]
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On February 6, Mojang announced their decision to close down the official servers for their digital card game Scrolls. The game's servers will shut down on February 13, five years after the game's initial beta launch. To Mojang's credit, they are working on ways to allow the community to keep the game alive. Players will be provided a method to [...]
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NCSoft reported Q4 2017 earnings today and it showed company wide revenues increase a whopping 79% year over year thanks to strong performance in their mobile games division. While mobile game revenues were up huge in 2017, they did fall quarter over quarter. Guild Wars 2 reported strong sales growth in the 4th quarter thanks to the launch of the [...]
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Creative Assembly's free-to-play Total War: Arena will open it's doors to all on February 22, so if you've been aching for the chance to play but missed your shot at the closed beta, now's your chance! In order to prepare for the Open Beta, the servers for the closed beta will shut down on the 19th. When the servers become [...]
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The free to play cross platform HTML5 powered MMORPG Mad World is launching on Steam this fall. Mad World's developer, Jandisoft, is pushing multi-platform play as much as possible as the game will be available on Linux, Mac, Android, iOS, as well as web browsers. Check out the latest Mad World trailer below: Mad World HTML5 MMORPG - Mood TeaserWatch [...]
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