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Ahead of its upcoming Live Letter, #41, Final Fantasy XIV has given us more information about its upcoming patch, Patch 4.2 - Rise of a New Sun. While we don't have any trailers, or any concrete information on the new Raids and Trials we can expect in Patch 4.2 (other than their names), FFXIV plans to add something unique - [...]
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In a frank post on the Paragon subreddit this week Epic Games laid out how things stand for their 3D MOBA Paragon. The main issue facing the game is that despite continued updates, it has failed to attract a large enough audience to make the project viable. While this has been the case for months now, the breakout success of [...]
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Trion Worlds announced today that a new subscription based fresh start progression server is coming to Rift this Spring. The new service, titled Rift Prime (Amazon prime much?), offers players an alternative way to experience the fantasy MMORPG. The Prime servers will feature a cosmetic-only cashshop with absolutely no lockboxes. Trion Worlds arrived at the decision to launch a subscription [...]
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Ever since Bless announced it would launch on Steam sometime in 2018 Neowiz hasn't said much else of substance, but that changed today with the release of the game's 2018 development roadmap which featured an interview with Bless' game director Jae-hoon Jeon. Optimizing and polishing the game up was mentioned as a key goal: To summarize Bless Online’s development direction [...]
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City State Entertainment made a major announcement today concerning their PvP focused MMORPG Camelot Unchained. The studio has secured a $7.5 million financing round with GF Capital Management & Advisors. Mark Jacobs, founder and CEO of City Statement Entertainment, took the time today to stream a Q&A session regarding this investment round. We learned that GF Capital Management and Mark [...]
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Blade and Soul's 2nd year anniversary celebration begins today and that means free in game goodies and events! Besides just celebratory in game events, NCSoft made changes to the game's premium membership system, most interestingly the the Showroom feature is now available to everyone for free and the premium rank system is gone. Anyone who logs in between now and [...]
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In their most recent State of Elyria post (dated Jan 17), Soulbound Studios confirms rumors that the Chronicles of Elyria team has had to let several staff go after failing to secure additional funding. Chronicles of Elyria initially raised $1.3 million via Kickstarter back in 2016 and has continued to raise additional funds through their website via Pledge Packages. Despite [...]
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The upcoming free to play Magic: The Gathering Arena (MTG Arena) detailed in a blogpost today exactly how players will unlock new cards. The game will feature 2 currencies: Gold: The free to play currency earned by winning games, completing quests, and events. Gems: The premium currency which can only be purchased for cash from the in-game store. Both currencies [...]
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Nexon's 4v4 side scrolling action MOBA Hyper Universe officially launched into open beta today and is available to everyone for free. The free to play launch has already given the game an enormous boost with the game's concurrent playerbase jumping from a meager 20 players online to over 1,600. This shouldn't be too surprising though, as prior to today the [...]
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Earlier, we covered Mu Ignition, a browser-based version of Mu Online. Today, we have received a press release from WEBZEN, developers and publisher of Mu Ignition. Following the success of the beta test last week, WEBZEN has opened up a pre-registration campaign for Mu Online. From January 16th, until January 22nd, 07:00 UTC time, players can pre-register and receive special [...]
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