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Elder Scrolls Online is handing out 100K gold for perfect attendance in September

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This coming fall is shaping up to be an unusual period for The Elder Scrolls Online. Toward the beginning of August, ZeniMax hinted that...

Ashes of Creation confirms subscription model, allays fears over IP blocking and region locking

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More overseas publishing information has trickled out of Ashes of Creation this weekend thanks to players funneling info from Discord to the forums. Readers will...

Make My MMO: Dual Universe’s EVE Online inspiration, Ashes of Creation’s publisher, and Star Citizen’s free-fly (August 25, 2018)

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Dual Universe was among the handful of in-development MMORPGs that brought the goods to Gamescom; in one of several...
At this point it's debatable if anything will come out of here.

Betawatch: Ashes of Creation pushes forward with publisher talk (August 24, 2018)

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It's good to see that after the somewhat oddly-named "alpha zero" test phase, Ashes of Creation is planning to move on to alpha one...

Daybreak is sunsetting Just Survive in October, and it never even really launched

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I'm sorry to report some Daybreak news tonight that sadly won't come as a shock to most gamers: The studio is sunsetting Just Survive. "After...
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.

Reddit erupts over Black Desert backtracking on ‘pay-to-win’ Valks’ Cry items

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If you've somehow come all this way in Black Desert's western run without believing there's even a teensy bit of pay-to-win in the game,...

More on Bless Unleashed for Xbox One: Release date, key differences, and impact on Bless Online PC

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Earlier today, we covered the announcement of Bless Unleashed, a collaboration between Neowiz and Bandai Namco that will see a version of Bless on...

SuperData July 2018: Fortnite is peaking, League of Legends is bested, Overwatch is slipping

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"Fortnite’s peak may be behind us," SuperData asserts in its report on July 2018's global video game revenues. "Fortnite revenue is up only 2%...

Nostos is Netease’s ‘open-world multiplayer VR game’ – and it’s built with SpatialOS

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Nostos is one of the more interesting things to come out of Gamescom this year. As Upload VR writes, the Netease title is basically...

World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth sells ‘more than 3.4 million’ copies for a ‘day-one sales record’ for WoW

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We were just grumbling on this week's MOP Podcast about not having any idea how well World of Warcraft's Battle for Azeroth had sold...

Roleplay-centric Project Oasis World fails to fund

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It has certainly been a rough summer for Kickstarter MMORPGs. On the heel of a pair of failed projects from last week comes the...

Ashes of Creation addresses My.com concerns, localization, pay-to-win, publishing, and regionlocks

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Earlier this week, the Ashes of Creation team sparked a wildfire of concern when it announced that it'll partner with My.com to publish the...
Yeah, that sounds right.

Shigeru Miyamoto didn’t want to make an MMO because he would get bored

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Have you ever wondered about an MMO developed by Nintendo's resident legend, Shigeru Miyamoto? You may be intrigued by Miyamoto's remarks at the Computer...

Guild Wars 2: New systems team, outfit vouchers, PvP updates, Revenant overhaul, and anniversary sales

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One of my big grumps with Guild Wars 2 and plenty of other MMORPG cash shops is the time-limited items. The stuff I want...

EverQuesting: The history of the EverQuest franchise

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Back in 2013, I took a walk through the annals of the EverQuest franchise's history. What started as one title not only blossomed into...

Twitch Prime is terminating most of its ad-free viewing benefits – here’s what it means for you

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Even if you're among the select elite of society that has access to Twitch Prime and its bevy of benefits, you will no longer...

My.com will publish Ashes of Creation in Europe and the CIS region [Updated]

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We've updated at the end of the article with an additional statement from Intrepid. Ashes of Creation is barreling on toward its first real alpha,...
Stormy weather.

First impressions of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, part 4: Conclusions

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Part four covers expansion odds and ends plus the conclusion to our series: the problem with Azerite, progression, and why the expansion isn't bad, just weakly executed.
This will be helpful.

Cliff Bleszinski promises to detail Boss Key’s demise in his upcoming autobiography

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For those of you who missed it over the past year or so, the path of Boss Key Productions was one of being founded...

Make My MMO: Two canceled MMO Kickstarters and two languishing, but plushies for the win (August 18, 2018)

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It's been a weird week in MMO crowdfunding. The Codename Reality Kickstarter isn't looking good; devs have raised under 2% of their original half a million dollar...

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