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Feeling left out when your friends talk about the awesome Overwatch match that they won last night? Here’s your chance to finally join in the conversation. Well, at least for the weekend that is. Blizzard Entertainment will be holding a free Overwatch weekend on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One from November 17th to November 20th. If you haven’t had [...]
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The Dark Harvest, the first ever seasonal event on Dauntless, has come to a close. The brave slayers of Ramsgate finally bid farewell to the seemingly endless night and welcome the sun once again, along with new weapons and further improvements to Hammer combat. Patch CB 0.2.8 introduces three new Archonite weapons: Chain Blades, Axes, and Hammers. Players will also [...]
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En Masse Entertainment has released a statement on the official forums in response to reports about potential in-game chat vulnerability in TERA that circulated on the game’s subreddit and Discord channels earlier today. En Masse acknowledged the security risk and thanked the community for reporting the issue. “The developers of TERA were immediately made aware of the vulnerability and they [...]
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Square Enix reported strong quarterly earnings yesterday and attributed the quarter's success to the strong performance of Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood and the continued success of their mobile games (Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, Kindom Hearts Union X, etc). Square Enix reported net sales of 1.165B USD during the last 6 months ended September, 2017 vs $938M for the 6 months [...]
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NCSoft reported 3Q 2017 earnings today and they showed explosive mobile revenue growth. Mobile revenue is up a whopping 488% quarter over quarter and hit $491 million for the reporting period, which is almost 5x higher than ALL OTHER sources of revenue. Just take a look at the graph below: If you up the revenue from Aion, Lineage, Lineage 2, [...]
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Revelation Online has announced its next expansion, ShadowBlade. Featuring a trailer that looks like something straight out of Korea meets Mad Max, the ShadowBlade Expansion will feature the addition of the new Assassin class. According to Press Release information, the Assassin class will feature both daggers for short-range combat, and chain weapons for mid-range gameplay. And, as expected of the title [...]
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PlayStation Universe reached out to Final Fantasy XIV Director & Producer, Naoki Yoshida, in an interview that talks about housing, patch 4.2, Eureka, and more! First off, Yoshida wants to apologize to all players and free companies of FFXIV, due to the mess that was Shirogane housing. He states that the development team is already working on adding more plots [...]
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On November 9, 2017 Move Games, the current publisher of Asta Online, put out an announcement titled Service Termination Notice. No new installations via Steam will be allowed starting today while the servers themselves are set to go offline in a month, on December 8, 2017. This version of Asta Online launched in April 2017 and thus ranks as one [...]
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The Korean studio Bluehole, best known as the developers of fantasy MMORPG Tera and Battle Royale kingpin Playerunknown's Battlegrounds have just revealed their next project. Ascent: Infinite Realm (A:IR) is a steampunk inspired fantasy MMORPG with a strong emphasis on aerial combat, war mechs, and airships. The MMORPG will be published in the West by Kakao Games, of Black Desert [...]
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ArcheAge has finally released a concrete date for its next big update, known as ArcheAge: Maelstrom. The update brings with it revamped Gems, a new open-world raid finder, crafting system updates, 20-man PvP, and more. One of the major highlights of this update is the new Bloodsalt Bay. A 20-player slugfest, Bloodsalt Bay will feature four crews of five, on a [...]
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