The Culling is a unique battle royale survival game where 16 players fight to the death in an enclosed tropical island paradise. Players scavenge for items, craft weapons, and build traps to survive and be the last man standing. Publisher: Xaviant Playerbase: Shut Down Type: Battle Royale Release Date: March 4, 2016 Pros: +Last player standing Battle Royale. +PvP focused. [...]
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The City of Steam may have closed its gates for good yesterday, but its legacy will live on in Heroes of Skyrealm. Mechanist Games' newly announced game is a mobile action RPG that features "heroes, villains, and nations" that are "inspired by many sources," including their own game, City of Steam. Heroes of Skyrealm will offer both campaign and real-time [...]
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Changyou's fiscal year may have shown an overall increase, rising from $755 million last year to $762 million this year, but their fourth quarter results, released today, show a decline in their online gaming revenues. Changyou's US branch was less well-known, having previously offered Sword Girls, Zentia, Renaissance Heroes, and Dragon Oath, the last of which is the only one [...]
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Revelation Online was confirmed to be coming West via an unannounced Russian publisher only a few days ago. According to 2p, at the conference that NetEase made the announcement during, the company also revealed more details about some of the game's content, primarily a dungeon called Dragon's Abyss. Dragon's Abyss is a dungeon—or raid, rather—that has been in development for [...]
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It's no secret that Project Genom's previous progression system was temporary. However, we didn't have very many specifics on how the new system would work other than the fact that we would be able to mutate or replace body parts. Today, NeuronHaze finally unveiled the new progression system. The new progression system will have twelve "paths of development." Each of [...]
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With HeroWarz offline indefinitely, the MMOARPG genre took a hit here in the West. Sure, you could play the Korean version, but it's literally not the same. But perhaps today's news can be of some consolation; sci-fi MMOARPG Wild Buster is set to launch in Korea on March 2nd. Wild Busterlooks quite a lot like a sci-fi version of a [...]
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The MMO genre has grown almost exclusively on PC for decades, while console players have generally been excluded. With the current generation of consoles pushing processing power beyond previous limits, and requiring always-connected broadband connections, the MMO genre has burst into the consoles world with a suite of impressive titles: games like The Elder Scrolls Online and Final Fantasy XIV [...]
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Shores of Hazeron is an MMO empire simulation game. Create your race, build up your empire from nothing, and conquer the galaxy. Publisher: Software Engineering, Inc. Playerbase: Low Type: MMO Empire Simulation Release Date: February 16, 2015 Pros: +Unique mix of multiple genres. +Robust character creation. +High level of control over your empire. Cons: -Dated graphics. -No female characters. -Extremely high [...]
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In order to better support their game and build the business model around it, Trion will be making major changes to Trove's store. The most extreme of these changes is that classes will no longer be available for Cubits. Players will also receive far fewer Cubits, the Cubit cost of remaining items will be higher, and Patron status will be [...]
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Blade & Soul Gameplay - Sunday Funday Round 36Watch this video on YouTube Blade and Soul Sunday Funday Gameplay Video The week's game is Blade and Soul - a fantasy action MMORPG from NCSoft that finally graced Western shores in January 2016 after being available in South Korea since 2012. This time around Sunday Funday was just Shurelya and I (Omer), since we [...]
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