Another year has passed which means it's time for new stats from SuperData Research. The year 2015 saw an impressive 8% year-over-year increase in the "worldwide digital games market" with total revenues of $61 billion—a record high. Digital console games are up 34% year-over-year. Mobile is up 10% year-over-year, accounting for a staggering $25.8 billion of that revenue. "Social games" [...]
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Royal Quest was a fantasy-themed 3D MMORPG with a classical MMORPG feel and an isometric camera angle. Explore a vast fantasy world inhabited by unique monsters and filled with magic, alchemy, and technology. Publisher: Katauri Interactive Type: MMORPG PvP: PVP Arenas, PVP Battlegrounds, Castle Sieges Release Date: August 6, 2014 Shut Down: December 23, 2020 Pros: +Lots of skills and [...]
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I had completely forgotten that Tom Clancy's EndWar was receiving a casual free-to-play spin-off entitled Tom Clancy's EndWar Online until it landed on Steam today. It had been in Closed Beta for a while—I even signed up—but I hadn't heard anything about the game in quite some time. Much like Might and Magic: Heroes Kingdoms and Might and Magic Heroes [...]
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Omniconnection's Early Access wizard-themed FPS/MOBA hybrid Grimoire: Manastorm has had issues gaining traction. Despite its low, $10 price point and frequent sales, the game's playerbase has remained low and stagnant. To remedy this, the team has decided to make the game free-to-play. One of the game's developers, Brent, assures players in the update that "this is not a decision that [...]
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Aerial combat is sorely lacking in the MMORPG genre at large. Aion did a fairly good job, but there aren't any other examples I can think of offhand. WeMade Entertainment wants to change that with their title Riders of Icarus, a new MMORPG set to be published by Nexon America later this year. The game is known simply as Icarus [...]
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The Black Death is a survival MMO set in medieval Europe. Survive the plague ravaging the land by hunting, fighting, exploring, and trading. Publisher: Syrin Studios Playerbase: Low Type: Survival MMO Release Date: April 19, 2016 Pros: +Medieval Europe setting. +Active combat system. +Player housing. Cons: -Empty servers. -Abandoned by developers.
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Ever, Jane was a MMORPG that focuses on party attendance, gossip, dinner parties, and role-playing in a Jane Austen-inspired world. Players build stories through their actions, while the game's quests are derived from player's actions and stories. Publisher: 3 Turn Productions Type: MMORPG PvP: Gossip System Release Date: September 14, 2016 Shut Down: December 20, 2020 Pros: +Dynamic story-telling. +Unconventional [...]
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It's been less than a week since Blade and Soul launched in the West and it is already skyrocketing in popularity. Proving that it was perhaps the most anticipated title of the year even despite originally launching in Korea almost four years ago, the game has already passed the one million player milestone. If you're wondering why your queue times [...]
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There are quite a lot of gameplay parallels between Juvty Worlds' isometric survival MMORPG Wild Terra and Seatribe's permadeath sandbox MMORPG Haven and Hearth. Today, Juvty Worlds announced what could be seen as yet another parallel; Wild Terra is going 3D. When the new server tests launch in February, all of Wild Terra's sprites will be replaced with 3D models. [...]
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It's the 25th of January and MU: Origin's Closed Beta has arrived. "Thousands [of] selected testers who signed up for the early access" can now access the fully localized game via servers set up in the US East, US West, and Europe regions. All three classes—Dark Knight, Dark Wizard, and Elf—are available to choose from. All of the game's modes—Story [...]
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