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E3 2018: Perfect World is paving the way to bring Steam to China

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If you want to go somewhere to escape Steam's spreading influence, you might be tempted to head to China, where the country has officially...

Mobile MMO roundup: MapleStory M, Jurassic World Alive, Crossfire Legends, TERA M, and Icarus Mobile

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Welcome back to another mobile MMO roundup, those MMOs that obviously don't count because they are played on a small screen instead of a...

Leaderboard: How much time should you put in to become a great player in the typical MMO?

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Earlier this week, GIbiz put out a piece on the Shanghai Dragons, the Overwatch League e-sports team representing China. In a letter to fans,...

With 17M registered players, Trion’s voxelbox Trove launches in Japan

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Trion Worlds is in an expansionist mood of late. Earlier this week, we learned Atlas Reactor was porting to Steam in China. Today, the...

Atlas Reactor arrives in China via Steam

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Atlas Reactor really needs to be given some credit for striking out in a different direction when the rest of the PvP scene was...
Ahem.

Nexon posts strong Q1 2018 results, Final Fantasy XI mobile screens leaked

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Nexon posted a strong first quarter in 2018, with its earnings call reporting that the game publisher raked in $827M in revenue (a 21%...

Hands-on with Bless Reborn at Neowiz’s San Francisco media reveal

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As you probably have heard, there was a Bless influencer event this week, with a couple of media and a smattering of MMO streamers...

Chinese authorities arrest 15 more accused PUBG hackers, fining them over $5M

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Bluehole and PUBG Corp are apparently continuing their government-backed crackdown on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds cheaters. Last week, PUBG Corp told Steam players that it takes cheating...

Enter to win a Neverwinter painted spider mount on Xbox One and PS4 from PWE and MOP!

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To celebrate the arrival of the Lost City of Omu expansion for Neverwinter on console this week, PWE has granted Massively OP 20 Painted Spider mount keys to give...
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Ohio college begins Fortnite e-sports team and scholarship

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E-sports programs and scholarships at universities stopped being newsworthy years ago once they were a dime a dozen, but a new one from Ohio's...

PUBG Corp sues Netease for cloning PUBG in Knives Out and Rules of Survival

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Let the battle royale lawsuits begin! TorrentFreak caught wind of a new lawsuit in California that ought to set all the cloners on edge:...

GDC 2018: Ultima Online post-mortem with Richard Garriott, Starr Long, Raph Koster, and Rich Vogel

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Plenty of panels at GDC are recorded and uploaded to the internet weeks after the event, including this one. It's not quite the same...
Boosh.

Massively Overthinking: The war on MMO chat toxicity

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This week, The Ancient Gaming Noob posted up an image of RIFT Prime, where Trion asks people to... play nice. "Just a neighborly reminder...

Interview: ArcheAge 4.5 Legends Return launches April 5th with dragon taming and fresh start servers

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If I were to tell you that ArcheAge's next big update is launching next month, you'd tell me that it's too soon. And we'd...
IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR STREET

Massively Overthinking: Is battle royale a fad?

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This week in Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about something out on the fringes of our genre: battle royale games. We've been watching...

Enter to win a Neverwinter Teal-Dusted Axebeak for PC in honor of Lost City of Omu’s launch

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To celebrate the arrival of Lost City of Omu for Neverwinter on PC last week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 50 mount keys to give away to our...
We were so certain we had this.

MMO business roundup: Steam, toxicity, Kartridge, contracts, dopamine, and guns

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What's going on in the online video games business this week? Let's dig in. Steam, toxicity, and Kartridge The Center for Investigative Reporting (via Motherboard) has a...
Look in my eyes, what do you see? Creative bankruptcy.

Daybreak’s zombie battle royale game H1Z1 has lost 90% of its playerbase since July

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Polygon has a report out this afternoon sourcing data aggregator GitHyp, both of which are casting doubt on H1Z1's future viability as a game...
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Black Desert’s Kakao Games enjoys $131.6 million in investment

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It's all coming up Kakao Games these days. The Korean studio received a large investment package recently that totals $131.6 million. The bundle comes from...
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has a roadmap for 2018 coming soon

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So what's actually going on for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds? Most of the news we've heard about the game this year has been focused around jumping...

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