GeForce Now is updating its library again this week, bringing four more games to the service. Aside from the four extra games, three of which are brand-new releases, Nvidia has also announced a partnership with Guild Wars 2, granting GFN members with some in-game benefits. One of the most interesting …
Read More »Ambitious MMO ‘Pax Dei’ is being developed with Unreal Engine 5
We first heard about Pax Dei back in 2021. At the time, it was billed as a scalable cloud MMO and was supposedly being developed in partnership with Xbox, although it later shifted into a multiplatform project. Now, the studio behind the game, Mainframe, has officially unveiled its ambitious MMO. …
Read More »Amazon Games is teaming up with NCSoft to publish Throne and Liberty
While Amazon has struggled a bit on the game development side, the company has been much more successful in publishing. Amazon Games has already had one hugely successful publishing deal with Lost Ark and in the future, it will also publish Tomb Raider in collaboration with Crystal Dynamics. Now, Amazon …
Read More »Sony is reportedly teaming up with NCSoft to develop a Horizon MMO
Sony is heavily expanding on the Horizon franchise at the moment. Not only did we get a fantastic sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn earlier this year, but a spin-off game, Horizon: Call of the Mountain, is also due to be a major part of the PlayStation VR2 launch next year. …
Read More »Atlus sues groups behind Shin Megami Tensei MMO revival projects
Atlus has filed a lawsuit against a group of Shin Megami Tensei fans for creating and operating servers for its defunct Shin Megami Tensei MMO ‘Imagine Online'. The game shut down back in 2016, but fan servers have kept the game alive in the years since. Over the years, many …
Read More »Dune: Awakening is a survival MMO for current-gen consoles and PC
A few years ago, Funcom obtained the rights to make three games based on Dune. We've already seen the release of Dune: Spice Wars and now, at Gamescom, Funcom has unveiled its next game – Dune: Awakening, a new survival MMO set in the Dune universe. The new trailer comes …
Read More »Warframe studio announces new Action MMO – Soulframe
It looks like Warframe will soon be a multi-game franchise. This weekend, Digital Extremes announced a new spin-off action RPG – Soulframe. Soulframe will be Digital Extreme’s first new game in five years. The Action MMORPG will also be free to play, just like Warframe, although exact monetisation methods could …
Read More »Cancelled Marvel MMO would have featured X-Men, Avengers, Fantastic Four and Shield
Late last year, it was confirmed that Daybreak Games had begun working on a new Marvel MMO as one of several new projects currently in development. Just six months later, the game has been cancelled after a period of pre-production. Based on details revealed following the cancellation, the game would have …
Read More »Daybreak’s Marvel MMO has been cancelled
Late last year, it was confirmed that Daybreak Games had begun working on a new Marvel MMO as one of several new projects currently in development. The first concept art for the game appeared to leak just a few weeks ago, but it seems Daybreak's parent company, EG7, has decided …
Read More »Square Enix planning Final Fantasy XIV UI overhaul to stop players turning to mods
While addons and UI mods are generally accepted in other MMOs like World of Warcraft or The Elder Scrolls Online, Final Fantasy XIV has always taken a strong stance against modding the game. Still, there are some raiding groups that still use them in an effort to be amongst the …
Read More »Concept art for Daybreak’s upcoming Marvel MMO may have leaked
Late last year, it was confirmed that Daybreak Games has begun working on a new Marvel MMO as one of several new projects currently in development. Now, the first concept art for the game has leaked, giving us a glimpse at some of the characters we can expect to appear. …
Read More »Eve Online subscription and in-game currency prices are on the rise
Eve Online doesn't make as many headlines as it used to, but the game is still very active all these years on from release. Since launch, Eve Online has used the subscription model, and prices have remained steady in the near two decades since launch. However, this year for the …
Read More »Tera Online is shutting down ten years after launch
Prior to the rise of PUBG and reshuffling and rebranding as Krafton, Bluehole was primarily known for MMOs, like TERA. However, it is time for the Bluehole team to move on to new projects, so after over a decade online, Tera is officially shutting down for good. Bluehole Studio, the …
Read More »Black Desert Online is free-to-keep for a limited time
MMORPGs have seen a substantive resurgence in popularity thanks in part to the success of Final fantasy XIV Online and its latest expansions. A rising tide lifts all boats, and developer Pearl Abyss is taking advantage of this occasion by making ‘Black Desert Online’ free-to-keep for a limited time. Black …
Read More »Final Fantasy 14 returns to sale after six week hiatus
Shortly after the launch of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Square Enix faced a massive influx of new players, putting major stress on servers and forcing the publisher to pause sales of the game. Now after six weeks, the issues appear to have subsided and Final Fantasy 14 is available to …
Read More »Dragon Quest X Offline delayed to Summer 2022
While Dragon Quest X Offline was supposed to hit consoles and PC in February, Square Enix has announced a delay, pushing the game back by several months. The publisher has been reworking Dragon Quest X to be playable offline as a single-player game, but the process is taking a little …
Read More »EA cancelled a Harry Potter MMO due to doubts over franchise longevity
The video game industry is filled with plenty of cancelled games that the public never had the chance to hear about. Some of these games are based on massive franchises that we all know today. EA has more than a few stories to tell in this area, with a former …
Read More »Cloud-native MMO devs reportedly back out of Xbox publishing deal
The fact that Microsoft is beginning to fund and develop ‘cloud-native’ games is an open secret at this point, with recent reports indicating that Xbox was working with a new studio, Mainframe, to build an ambitious cloud-native MMO. As it turns out, whatever deal was in place for this game …
Read More »DC Universe Online publisher is now working on a Marvel MMO
Enad Global 7 (EG7), the parent company of DC Universe Online developer, Daybreak Games, appears to have unveiled a major new Marvel game. Recently, the publisher confirmed to investors that it is working on a new MMO game based on the Marvel IP. EG7 owns several studios capable of taking …
Read More »Blade & Soul Unreal Engine 4 and Dual Blade class update now live
Back in March, we learned that NCSoft would be upgrading the western version of its MMO, Blade & Soul, to use Unreal Engine 4. The engine swap brings some major graphical upgrades and new features to the game. As of today, the big update is now live, alongside a brand …
Read More »Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons expansion beta begins
The next major expansion for Guild Wars 2, ‘End of Dragons' was unfortunately delayed to 2022, but players of the MMO will get several opportunities to check out the new content beforehand. This week, the first beta for End of Dragons launched, and there are two more playtests planned before …
Read More »Amazon’s New World has been delayed
Amazon’s New World MMO has proven to be rather popular, with the game’s closed beta topping the Steam sales charts for multiple weeks in a row. All of this user data appears to have made the studio realise that they need more time to work on the game, as New …
Read More »Amazon’s New World triples FFXIV’s all time Steam concurrent player count
While World of Warcraft used to be the most-talked about MMO, Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIV has recently overtaken the conversation, with the game even suspending sales of digital copies due to having too many players. That said, Amazon’s New World MMO seems to be garnering great interest, as the …
Read More »KitGuru Games: Could Amazon’s ‘New World’ be the next big MMO?
Amazon Game Studios’ ‘New World’ has been in development for many years now, with the first mentions of the MMO appearing in 2014. The game has been delayed time and time again, but here we are in July 2021, with the closed beta live and the official launch just on the horizon. In this week's KitGuru Games, we go over what has changed since the early alpha days and try to answer the biggest question of all - is this MMO worth playing now?
Read More »Amazon responds to reports of RTX 3090 GPUs dying after playing New World
Earlier this week, a number of RTX 3090 owners began reporting issues with their graphics card after playing Amazon's upcoming MMO, New World, which is currently in closed beta. Due to the apparent severity of this issue, Amazon Games has now responded with a statement...
Read More »Riot begins staffing up as League of Legends MMO development gets underway
Riot Games has been branching out into different genres recently and has placed a focus on expanding the League of Legends IP with new games and spin-offs. In late 2020, the studio revealed that it was indeed in the early stages of a League of Legends MMO, now, Riot is …
Read More »Square Enix cancels Final Fantasy XI mobile reboot
Back in 2015, Square Enix announced a new version of Final Fantasy XI for mobile devices, with a planned launch in 2016. That launch window came and went with no sign of the game. Now in 2021, the mobile reboot has been cancelled. The Final Fantasy XI mobile reboot was …
Read More »Final Fantasy XIV will be getting a free PS5 patch
As more and more people get their hands on the latest consoles, developers and publishers have begun to upgrade many of their live service titles to offer higher performance modes, taking advantage of this new hardware. The latest title to receive a PS5 patch announcement is Final Fantasy XIV, which …
Read More »World of Tanks is coming to Steam
World of Tanks is a hugely popular MMO with a focus on PvP encounters all taking place between historical tanks. Since its launch in 2010, the game has seen massive success across its many platforms, including PC. While PC players in the past would have to install and launch the …
Read More »Riot is working on a League of Legends MMO
Riot Games has been branching out into different genres recently and has placed a focus on expanding the League of Legends IP with new games and spin-offs. While not officially announced, it would seem that one of these spin-offs will indeed be a League of Legends MMORPG. Greg Street, Riot's …
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