Article originally published on 27th March 2020. We're bringing it forward because of Malaysia's lockdown week starting 1st June. With Malaysia’s Controlled Movement Control Order back again after months of some normalcy, we may need to social distance ourselves a lot longer than usual. And also wash our hand

Need a bit of F2P MMORPGing in your 4X game? Well, this mod can sort you out. A modder by the name of Kevin Liu has created a Civilization 6 mod called Genshin Impact - Mondstadt, which adds in the option of building your own iconic European-style kingdom filled with anime tropes. With this mod, you get three charac

Most MMORPGs have you doing dailies; everyday quests that net you a bit of rewards here and there to keep player engagement a-going. Borderlands 3 will be doing that with a new Vault Cards and Diamond Keys system for its upcoming Director's Cut add-on. Vault Cards are game mods that give you more loot and XP. When D

Pearl Abyss announced today that a number of new in-game events involving Life content are now available in Black Desert SEA. Adventurers can enjoy these events while exploring the other additions that are now live with this week’s update.  The Sweet Candy event has returned to Black Desert SEA. Adventurer

Last we heard of Final Fantasy father Hironobu Sakaguchi and his company Mistwalker, they're working hard on a new JRPG called Fantasian for Apple Arcade. It's going to be a game that will hearken back to the golden magical age of JRPGs when they used to innovate. Their words, not ours. He also had some things to sa

Magic Legends is an upcoming free-to-play action RPG set in the vast Magic The Gathering universe. It was initially revealed at The Game Awards 2019, but now developer Cryptic Studios have announced that the Magic Legends open beta will be releasing on 23 March 2021. In Magic Legends, players can improve character s

Xenon, a cybernetically enhanced new class joins the Resistance in Nexon’s free-to-play mobile MMORPG MapleStory M. A uniquely versatile class, Xenon can equip both Thief and Pirate gear. Xenon uses both Mana and a class-specific energy supply for his skills, all while wielding a lethal energy whip that can c

Jeff Bezos will be stepping down as Amazon CEO in the third quarter of 2021. He won't be going too far away from the company though; Bezos will be the company's executive chair. His CEO replacement is Amazon Web Services head Andy Jassy. Thanks to Bezos, Amazon founded Amazon Game Studios which is hard at work on up

Koch Media and Black Eye Games have announced a partnership for the upcoming digital PC release of Siege Survival Gloria Victis, which will be released under its Ravenscourt games label. Set in the Middle Ages, Siege Survival Gloria Victis has players leading a group of civilians to try and survive the brutal siege of

Bless Mobile is the latest free-to-play mobile MMORPG from Korean developer Joycity and it is now open for pre-registration. Pre-registration is now live worldwide on the iOS App Store and Android Google Play Store. In Bless Mobile, you can choose from four different races: Habichts, Pantera, Aqua Elf, or Masques. O

Chinese billionaire Lin Qi has died on Christmas Day 2020 at the age of 39. According to Shanghai police (via BBC), Qi's cause of death was determined to be poison. Lin Qi was the chairman and CEO of games developer Yoozoo, best known for the Game Of Thrones Winter Is Coming strategy mobile game and the League Of A

Before you answer, no: it's not Ragnarok Online. Arc System Works, makers of hit fighting games like Dragon Ball FighterZ and Guilty Gear Xrd, are teaming up with game makers Neople and fighting game experts Eighting, to make a 2D fighting game based on a long-lasting MMORPG from South Korea: Dungeon Fighter Online

Riot Games is currently developing a League Of Legends MMORPG, as confirmed from a tweet by Riot vice president of intellectual property and entertainment Greg Street. https://twitter.com/Ghostcrawler/status/1339722821761605632 Street tweeted that he is hiring for a new game that will develop the League Of Leg

Black Desert Mobile, the mobile version of the popular Korean MMORPG, has been chosen as one of Google Play’s “Best Games of 2020” in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.   Since its global release in December 2019, Black Desert�

Soaring through the battlefield with Demon Wings, the Demon Avenger joins the fray in MapleStory M with an Exceed System that deals excessive damage. Using HP to cast skills, the Demon Avenger can easily recover using various healing abilities, including Blood Pact, in the midst of battle. A selection of li

Coda Payments and 4399 NET LTD have announced that users in Southeast Asia can now top up Goddess MUA Ingots on Codashop by heading to this link. Goddess MUA is an MMORPG mobile game, where players can select the genders of their heroes and personalize their looks with plenty of cute designs and customization

The dead speak! Or they will be in World of Warcraft's upcoming expansion. The MMORPG that won't stay dead will be releasing the Shadowlands expansion, which is basically the Alliance and Horde folks dealing with the afterlife and some machinery of souls, later this year on 24rd November 6am GMT+8. Because when your

Sega just unveiled a crapton of info and new gameplay of its upcoming JRPG rebirth-slash-update to its free-to-play MMORPG Phantasy Star Online 2, that's going under the full moniker Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis.  Here's a quick recap: -The game features new actions on the field like dash, double-jumpin

After more than 11 years, publishers En Masse Entertainment will be shuttering its doors. The folks behind the long-running MMORPG Tera Online and 2D-style brawler Closers will be starting the process of discontinuing the business of creating and running games. Fret not, however; those two titles will not be discontin

This is the second part of a two-parter Final Fantasy feature to cap off Moogle March. Read the first part here.  Previously, we've touched on the NES, SNES, and PlayStation One generation of Final Fantasy's battle systems. Now let's touch upon the 2001 era and beyond! X-XII - Developing A Knack For Experimentation