Weekly News Recap #80 – January 30, 2017

Weekly MMO News Recap #80 - January 30, 2017 by Omer

A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending January 30, 2017. This is the eightieth episode in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games mentioned this week are: Black Desert Online, Hearthstone, Shadowverse, Hyper Universe Online, Aion, Dauntless, Star Trek Online, Riders of Icarus, Sword Art Online: Memory Defrag, Blade and Soul, Twelve Sky 2, Ship of Heroes, Overwatch, EM8ER (Ember), and Justice. Links to individual news articles we covered this week:

• Black Desert Online Expansion Takes to the Seas
• Digital CCG Hearthstone Earns $395M in 2016, Shadowverse $100M
• SuperdataResearch Says F2P is Still Growing
• Aion's 5.3 Update Coming Soon, Features 384 Player PvE Instance
• Hyper Universe Coming to the West This Year
• Dauntless Gameplay Footage Shows off Monster Hunter Like Gameplay
• Star Trek Online Season 12 Brings Reckoning Down Upon Players
• Riders of Icarus Sandstorm Update Live
• Mobile Game Sword Art Online Memory Defrag Now Available in English
• Blade and Soul Pits Players Against the Raven King on February 8th
• Twelve Sky 2 Classic Launches on Steam
• Ship of heroes Shows Off Character Creator
• Overwatch Hits 25 Million Players, up From 20 Million Back in October
• Mark Kern offering EM8ER Credits for Firefall Players
• Justice Set to Enter Closed Beta in China in July