Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has taken the PC gaming scene by storm this year and continues to make new highs every week. It recently sured Dota 2 as the most popular game on Steam, reaching peak concurrent player numbers exceeding 1.5 million. With that sort of success, PUBG and the Battle Royal genre it popularized was sure to draw copycats. We saw [...] 5c3j2l
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This week marked the ing of an era in online gaming. Everyone's favorite lawless sandbox Eve Online was hit by another in-game political scandal. A major player Alliance called Circle of Two (CO2) was betrayed by a high ranking insider and subsequently fell apart. Over a trillion in ISK along with the Alliance's Keepstar Citadel capital HQ was stolen in [...]
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Omer published a column yesterday claiming "We need more aspirational content in MMORPGs." The post sparked quite a discussion on the MMORPGs subreddit so we thought we would revisit the subject this week on the podcast. There's been a steady lowering of difficulty in modern MMORPGs. In the past, less than 1% of the WoW playerbase even attempted the original [...]
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Today marks the start of the Founders Program for The Amazing Eternals, a first person hero shooter by Warframe developer Digital Extremes. While we have no hard number on the level of interest for this title, the fact that their homepage crashed day one indicates at least some buzz. The Amazing Eternals follows a in the footsteps of several hero [...]
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With the lackluster launch of LawBreakers earlier this month and the announcement that SkySaga would be ceasing development, we felt it was time to return to the topic of extended, public development cycles. In an interview with Eurogamer, Cliff Bleszinski of Boss Key Productions said that he regrets allowing the alpha test to be streamed because it "deflated some of [...]
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This week saw yet another delay for NCSoft's ambitious cross-platform MMORPG Lineage Eternal. First announced at G-Star 2011, Lineage Eternal promised mobile and PC cross play. We saw screenshots, trailers, and even a Korean closed beta since then. Nowit seems the whole project is now up in the air. NCSoft has decided to scrap the current engine Lineage Eternal was [...]
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Another week, another Albion Online controversy. The fantasy sandbox MMORPG had a very successful launch last month but has had several major controversies surrounding it already. The first involved changes to in-game ganking mechanics and was a perfectly normal issue that players could fall on either side of. This week's issue is far more complicated. In a reddit post with [...]
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With the recent launch of Albion, a full loot open PvP MMORPG, the question of death penalties has come up again. Earlier MMORPGs tended to have harsh death penalties. Games like Ultima Online, RuneScape, EVE Online, and EverQuest all had players drop everything they were carrying on death. Ever since World of Warcraft, death penalties have relaxed considerably. A meager [...]
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There's been a lot of mobile MMORPG news this week. Albion Online launched Monday (July 17), Nexon Korea revealed Mabinogi Mobile, and Jagex announced cross-platform mobile versions of both Oldschool and current RuneScape in the works. I've played and been modestly impressed by several mobile games over the years, namely Clash Royale, Cookie Run, and Pokemon Go. But none of [...]
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Governments in Asia have been imposing various restrictions on underage s for years, but Tencent has upped the ante with their recent changes to the mobile MOBA Strike of Kings. Following criticism from The People's Daily (a Communist Party d newspaper), Tencent has implement severe restrictions on underage gamers. Those under 13 will be able to play for only 1 [...]
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