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Mad World: Age of Darkness, the upcoming, hand drawn, isometric fantasy MMORPG is heading into their Alpha 4.0 build and they want you to be a part of testing. The new trailer depicts some of the crazy, (mad, some would say) battles that players will encounter as the team at Jandisoft Co. continues their climb towards a beta version.
Reports have surfaced that Activision Blizzard has laid off Raven Software Quality Assurance employees that were recently asked to relocate to the Madison Wisconsin studio. Additionally, Geoff Keighley, host of the upcoming yearly stream of The Game Awards has announced that, apart from their nominations, Activision Blizzard will not be attending the awards this year.
In the 2021 Q3 investor presentation from Enad Global 7, news regarding the Marvel MMORPG that has been under wraps for several years, prior to the purchase of Daybreak Games by EG7. Slated as part of their "longer-term goals" the unannounced Marvel MMORPG was listed as in-development by Dimensional Ink Studios. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about this Marvel MMORPG – so what do we know about it so far?
For gamers like us, even when times are hard, and even when things get rough, games still manage to make us smile, inspire us, and bring us happiness, however we define it. Hear about whhich games, new or old, got our staff through 2021, then hop into the comments and tell us a little about the games that got you through 2021.
Ubisoft’s love letter to Steep fans manages to provide an MMORPG unlike any we’ve seen before. There is no question that Ubisoft Annecy knows how to make an exciting extreme sports game, but after dozens of hours of playing, one question beckons. Does an extreme sports game need to be massively multiplayer?
November is almost over, and the upcoming time-traveling MMORPG Into the Echo has big plans for December after they’ve announced their first pre-alpha test slated for early next month. The team at ETLOK Studios will be allowing only a small set of players that have signed up for the alpha into the game for the first test, so they are urging interested community members, not to delay and sign up soon if they wish to be selected.
Despite being a generally well-liked game by critics, New World has been having a rough go of their post launch updates and fixes. The latest issue that players are experiencing are time-jumps, where the servers will shoot forward, roll back, and sometimes, the servers may even go offline for periods of time without warning.
In most MMOs, end game consists of a gear treadmill where players continuously pick up new and more powerful gear, but in Ember Sword the most sought-after gear is all on the blockchain and has no competitive advantage. How will players stay invested in Ember Swords end game without a stat-based gear grind?
It is hard to believe that it has been over a year since Marvel’s Avengers released, and during that time we’ve covered some of the new character releases, alongside our original comprehensive review of the game. Since the release of War for Wakanda back on August 17th, a lot has happened, and now with the, highly controversial, PlayStation only Spider-Man release on November 30th, it’s time to get all caught up on what you may have missed over the past few months.
As I started prepping for this week’s Indie MMO Spotlight, it seemed like it would be a light news week. Considering the first IMS only had seven entries, the 16 items (including two new games) I gathered up aren’t so bad after all. While some news items aren’t very beefy, I keep adding them to give these indie titles as much visibility as possible. Sometimes less can be more, so let me know in the comments whether you’d like the Spotlight to keep pumping out all the small happenings in the indi