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Lineage 2 Classic launches in NA today as Lineage 2 Revolution teases Batman collab and Lineage II Dark Legacy hits mobile
The Lineage franchise is working overtime this week.
For starters, Lineage II Classic launches for North America today, after a successful run in Europe and...
Ireland signed declaration of concern but won’t regulate lockboxes as gambling
Remember two weeks ago when a bunch of representatives from the Europe and US cosigned a declaration noting concerns over skin-betting and lockboxes at...
MapleStory 2 updates exchange rates for NX currency in Europe
Money! You need it, you like it, you use it to buy NX in MapleStory 2 for all sorts of fun microtransaction stuff. But...
Interview: Bless Online on early access, pay-to-win, and its western refuge on Steam
Last night's bombshell that Bless Online is closing down its final Korean servers, leaving the game's Steam version in the west as the only...
Bless Online’s last remaining Korean servers are shutting down
Bad news for players of Bless Online in Korea: Neowiz announced today that the game is shutting down in that region as its last...
Black Desert counts 10M global registered users, plus news on today’s patch, Pearl Abyss benefits, and the Drieghan teaser trailer
Remember last week when Pearl Abyss and Kakao claimed Black Desert's playerbase had seen a "massive surge" thanks to the game's visual remaster? "Black...
Runes of Magic gets a new lease on life with Steam
Yes, it's still running. And yes, it's now on Steam.
Runes of Magic used to thrive by its slavish copy of World of Warcraft's format...
Gamescom’s 370,000 attendees set another record for the biggest European gaming show
Gamescom continues to kick butt and take names - 370,000 of them, in fact.
That's how many people showed up in Cologne to attend Europe's...
Ashes of Creation confirms subscription model, allays fears over IP blocking and region locking
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...
Ashes of Creation addresses My.com concerns, localization, pay-to-win, publishing, and regionlocks
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...
My.com will publish Ashes of Creation in Europe and the CIS region [Updated]
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,...
Runewaker’s Guardians of Ember is getting a relaunch in the west thanks to Gameforge
It's been a weird 2018 for Guardians of Ember. Back in February, Valve booted its publisher, Insel Games, off Steam, citing review manipulation in...
‘MMOPEG’ Codename Reality seeks half a million Kickstarter bucks to ‘redefine the MMO genre’
If immersion and realism are what you crave in a new MMORPG, take a look at Codename Reality, another new game in our field...
Aion EU ‘simplifies’ its gameplay with Patch 6.2 this September
With server merges and transfers out of the way for Europe's version of Aion, the dev team is able to turn its attention forward...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds details a five-year plan for e-sports
Does it fill you with warm, fuzzy feelings to know that there's a nice long-term plan for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to chase that sweet e-sports...
ArcheAge’s July content update adds sport fishing, expands fresh start server content
Despite the slightly awkward name -- "Phase 4: Reign, Part 1," really, Trion? -- this week's ArcheAge content update is chock-full of fun for...
Three quarters of European gamers don’t even understand what the heck lootboxes are
A new report on GIbiz suggests that most gamers are pretty darn clueless about lootboxes, which probably won't surprise anyone reading here. Researchers for the...
Pokemon Go apologizes for technical issues at its EU event by making the event a complete waste of time
All right. Let's walk back through this. Pokemon Go holds an event in Dortmund, Germany. Because this is Pokemon Go, the event hits technical...
Bless Online plans a big server merge for the end of July
Bless Online hasn't quite yet dug out of the hole it made for itself during its early access launch, but at least Neowiz has...
Video game industry groups across the globe reject WHO’s ‘gaming disorder’ classification
As we noted yesterday, the World Health Organization has gone ahead with the inclusion of "gaming disorder" in the publication of its most recent...
