While it was already accessible to North American players, the anime-styled KurtzPel is now open to a much wider audience thanks to this past week’s global rollout. European and Asian players can get in on the free-to-play fun!
“Our decision to open KurtzPel in Asia earlier than scheduled was a difficult one, but we will do our absolute best to make sure to provide a stable, global service,” the team said. “Due to our decision to open up to Asia a month earlier than expected, we weren’t able to fully localize KurtzPel for all languages in Asia.”
And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for a roundup of other smaller MMO news stories and videos from this past week in this edition of The MOP Up (and if you don’t see a news story that we should have covered, drop us a tip)!
Machines are rising up in Skyforge’s current event, which is running through June 18th.
Conan Unconquered’s developers are challenging players to literally beat them at their own game. I think you can do it. You have moxie.
Pirate101 threw down the softest of gauntlets: “Pillow hunters across the skyways, unite! The ever-popular pillow fight is being fluffed up again, now with even more pillows out there in the wild. Are you brave enough to hunt down the most menacing item of all?”
Bad news for Cyberpunk 2077 fans, as it now looks increasingly likely that the title will get pushed into 2020.
June 11th marks the start of the 17th season of Guild Wars 2’s PvP League. Cue your favorite Survivor song.
Osiris: New Dawn is making some significant quality-of-life improvements to its base building mechanics! “Our goal was to once and for all tackle the base building system to allow for ease of use without terrain slopes getting in the way,” the devs said.
Prosperous Universe is hoping to get a nice cash infusion from the government: “Earlier this year, the German state launched a funding program offering a total of 50 million euros for the purpose of developing new video games – and of course, we want a piece of that!”
When you happen to be piloting a giant turtle in Atlas, you’ll be thankful for the new patch that will keep you from getting tangled up in the underbrush.
You’re probably going to want to read up on the hotfixes that hit Trove this past week. Super Mario fans, take note: “Minigame coins can once again be placed in club worlds and cornerstones.”
Otherland has a whole mess of “double events” hitting the scifi game this month. Ready for double bits and double SOMA?
OrbusVR is testing out its new raid and dropped a “Bringing Back the Overworld” patch. “With the June 11th patch, we’ll be introducing several new NPCs and questlines to the game which take place in the overworld, including the Explorer’s League Outposts (Phase One), the Brotherhood, and more.”
Population Zero is shutting down its alpha and transitioning into… private weekends? Okay.
Kinya pointed us toward this podcast in which the hosts debated the ever-hot topic of lockboxes in games.
Wurm Online just celebrated its 13th anniversary and is making plans for an elevation reset, recovering from Valrei invasions, and tweaking the launcher.
Grumpy that you haven’t been able to roll up a male Brawler in TERA? That’s all going to change on July 1st:
Speaking of KurtzPel, check out its launch trailer:
World War Z has been doing pretty well for itself as it’s destroying the planet, and now the game’s first update has arrived:
