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Netease's turn based anime mobile RPG Onmyoji soft launched in English today and is officially coming to the West later this year. Normally this isn't very big news. Just another Chinese mobile RPG launching in the West, but what makes this interesting is that Onmyoji is HUGE. The game has over 200 million downloads worldwide and is easily one of [...]
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Webzen announced today that they will be launching the Faction Wars update for Mu Legend on the game's global servers on January 9th, 2018. The update will introduce a new territory control system through a guild based PvP system. The launch of the Faction War update will also mark the end of the game's open beta and its launch into [...]
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Fortnite is quietly sneaking its way into 2018 - literally. The rather popular Battle Royale shooter is live with its first major update of the new year - bringing with it a new silenced pistol that can either be found on the floor, in chests, or in supply drops. The new weapon can come in either Epic or Legendary status, [...]
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Nexon's 4v4 action MOBA Hyper Universe is launching into open beta on January 17th, 2018 with a total of 41 unique Hypers (heroes). Once open beta begins the game will be available for free both on Steam and on Nexon's own launcher. As of now the game's playerbase on Steam is quite low, largely due to its pricing model. The [...]
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In Nexon's Q3, 2017 earnings report the company wrote off the entire value of Lawbreakers, which means they now value the game at $0 on their balance sheet. While Nexon didn't break down how much money they lost on the title, the Lawbreakers write-off made up a "majority of the total other expenses" in the quarter which was ~$32.6M. 【Q】 [...]
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Webzen announced yet another addition to the Mu franchise today with Mu Ignition, a free to play browser based MMORPG. The game is already available in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and South Korea and will be making its English debut later this month (open beta in January, 2018). Mu Ignition will feature iconic Mu Online classes like Dark Knight, Dark Mage, [...]
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While Pearl Abyss remains on schedule to release Black Desert Mobile globally in 2018 they released a Q&A session to answer some of the most common questions thrown their way. Black Desert Mobile looks pretty hype based on the trailers I've seen so far as it's an open world action MMORPG with top notch graphics and in depth character customization. [...]
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A new Tales of Pirates private server has launched today called Pirates Online and promises to deliver a top notch old school experience with 3x solo, 2x drop, and 1x fairy growth rates. Check out their official trailer below: Pirates Online | Official Trailer - Official Release ~ Lets Remember the OldWatch this video on YouTube The original Tales of [...]
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Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has been, by all accounts, a global phenomenon. While it is definitely still not perfect, Bluehole has made impressive strides ever since its first Early Access build, and its 1.0 release. In an article broken to us by GameZone, comments made by PUBG Corp CEO Chang Han Kim, he would like to see the game expand past video [...]
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Fans of Aion who are always looking towards the future, always hungry to see what next big thing is on the horizon, will be delighted to know that Aion KR is going into their 6.0 Update on January 17th, 2018. We missed this post on the Gameforge Aion forums over the holidays, but user Kelekelio has written up a detailed [...]
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