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Closers, the stylish anime action MMORPG from En Masse Entertainment, is officially launching into full release on February 6th, 2018. The game has been in paid early access on Steam since November 13th and free to play open beta since December 19th, 2017. The full launch on February 6th includes the addition of the game's first raid titled Tiamat where [...]
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Path of Exile is celebrating its 5th birthday and Grinding Gear Games has put together a short but detailed post of how the game evolved since its inception in 2008. It's been five years today since Path of Exile first entered Open Beta and became available for everyone to play. Thank you so much to everyone for your support and [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment teased a massive content drop for Overwatch at BlizzCon last year which will include new items for all 26 heroes. The much-awaited update has finally gone live and it’s packed with tons of goodies for players to enjoy. New cosmetics are coming to Overwatch in early 2018! Unlock skins, emotes, highlights intros, and more for all 26 heroes. [...]
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Nexon officially launched MapleStory M into beta testing today and will keep the beta open until January 30th, 2018. MapleStory M is a mobile version of their popular PC MMORPG MapleStory and unlike Pocket MapleStory, MapleStory M actually plays a lot like the PC version. MapleStory M is NOT a mobile port of MapleStory, but it looks and plays a [...]
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Sandbox Interactive, the studio behind the PvP focused MMORPG Albion Online, has confirmed a significant round of layoffs. Albion Online enjoyed a successful launch back in July of last year, with active character numbers peaking at nearly 150,000. Those numbers soon spiraled down to under 25,000 within five months. Sandbox Interactive has since disabled the feature which allowed players to [...]
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Wargaming expanded its library of mobile games yesterday with the launch of World of Warships Blitz on Android and iOS devices. While World of Warships on the PC hasn't seen nearly as much success as World of Tanks, it's still averaging over 3k concurrent players on Steam. World of Warships Blitz will feature many of the same core elements of [...]
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On January 18th, 2018 a player named Usagi Mimi on the Japanese server Carbuncle became the first player to reach floor 200 solo in Final Fantasy XIV's Palace of the Dead. This content was available since November 2016, but arguably it was impossible until the release of the Red Mage class with the Stormblood expansion on June 19th, 2017, which [...]
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In perhaps the most interesting fashion, free to play isometric action MMORPG Devilian is shutting down on March 5th, 2018. I say interesting because rather than the shut down announcement being full of sadness, it reads more congratulatory than anything else. It's as if the game's playerbase "won" the game by defeating all evil and there's no longer a need [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV has just concluded its marathon 3-hour "Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part XLI," and we have a lot of details to go over. We have covered a lot of Final Fantasy XIV news already, so this will be a brief glance-over of what to expect in Patch 4.2 - after all, the Patch Notes for Patch 4.2 [...]
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Hot on the heels of the Saber Wars event, Fate/Grand Order prepares to celebrate the upcoming Valentine's Day, with its very own Chocolate Lady's Commotion event! Running from January 25th, until February 3rd - the span of a week and then a few extra days - Chocolate Lady's Commotion will see Masters all across Chaldea being showered in gifts and [...]
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