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According to an official 2018 Status Report, Perpetuum will be shutting down after more than 7 years of live service. The science fiction themed MMORPG had players manning giant mechs in a single, open world environment. Many compared the game to Eve Online. Like Eve, character progression in Perpetuum was time based and the open PvP ruleset made player cooperation [...]
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Life is Feudal: MMO has been on the up and up as of late, with the game coming to Steam Early Access recently. With Life is Feudal now on Steam, Steam players and players of Open Beta can now play together, as many MMORPGs already support - such as Vindictus on Steam and the Nexon Launcher, and Final Fantasy XIV, [...]
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Coming tomorrow, World of Warcraft has published their patch notes for Patch 7.3.5. While most of the features have been already publicly known, through data-miners and previous announcements done by Blizzard, these are the official notes. To start off, every zone in Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, Outland, Northrend, Pandaria, and Draenor now use the leveling scaling system that Legion brought to [...]
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Gamigo announced today that the free to play Korean lobby based tactical shooter Ironsight begins open beta on February 1st, 2018. It'll be available on Gamigo's Aeria Games portal. Players who have already purchased a founders pack will gain exclusive access to a "pre-open beta" which begins January 30th, which essentially gives them a 2 day head-start on free to [...]
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Fortnite has enjoyed enormous success since introducing its Battle Royale mode in September of 2017. Fortnite even won our prestigious Clone of the Year award for 2017! It seems Epic's animated third person shooter has kept up the momentum into 2018. As of January, Fornite Battle Royale (now an independent game) has surpassed the 40 million player mark, hitting a [...]
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While we still don't have any concrete release date on Ascent: Infinite Realm in South Korea or North America, Bluehole did release an English dub opening cinematic trailer for the game this week. We previously reported that Kakao Games is aiming to launch Ascent: Infinite Realm in English sometime in the first half of 2018 and this new English trailer [...]
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Amazon initially made a big splash with its entrance into the video games industry. The eCommerce giant bought Twitch for $1 billion back in 2014, launched a new game engine called Lumberyard in Feb 2016, and announced a major new MMO project called New World in September 2016. Sadly, they've had a few setbacks since. Amazon stopped development on Breakaway [...]
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Tiger Knight Empire War relaunched today, a mere 1 day after its publisher shut it down on Steam. The game's new publisher is its developer, NetDragon Websoft. Given that the game is now being self-published, I suspect not only will the game get updated more frequently, but it also likely won't be in danger of closing down anytime soon. One [...]
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Chronicles of Elyria announced today in a lengthy post that they will no longer be using SpatialOS and will instead work on in-house solutions. The game's developers cited "financial viability" of continuing to work with the folks at Improbable (SpatialOS Owner) to solve various problems that arose while using SpatialOS. Chronicles of Elyria Head Honcho (Founder) Jeromy "Caspian" Walsh explained: [...]
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Earlier, we talked about how Vindictus took NA by surprise, by announcing the Aes Sidhe update was coming, and it was coming much quicker than anyone would have expected it. As part of its January 11th Update, better known as the Aes Sidhe Update, there are a multitude of new events to experience. Gallagher's Dice Game, a Niflheim Domination Event, the "Kick [...]
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