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Tree of Savior: Questions and Answers After CBT2

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Tree of Savior: Questions and Answers After CBT2


As one of Tree of Savior's developers, syKim has updated Tree of Savior's dev blog recently. He says Tree of Savior is still analyzing the data gathered from CBT2 so they want to apologize that they weren't able to update their Dev blog for a long time. One of the most important things he's mentioned is that this game is supporting mouse control, and the questions below are the ones that they are repetitively receiving after CBT2.

The Repopulation Coming to Windows in Q4 2015

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The Repopulation Coming to Windows in Q4 2015


The Repopulation, the Kickstarter-funded sci-fi sandbox MMORPG from Above and Beyond Technologies, will launch for Windows in Q4 of 2015

3D Martial-Arts MMORPG Revelation Enters Half-OBT Today

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3D Martial-Arts MMORPG Revelation Enters Half-OBT Today


Revelation, the highly-anticipated martial-arts title of NetEase, has kicked off its half-open beta today

WvW Upgrades Coming to Guild Wars 2 in Heart of Thorns

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WvW Upgrades Coming to Guild Wars 2 in Heart of Thorns


ArenaNet has just released a new dev blog to introduce the WvW upgrading changes coming in Heart of Thorns. Several significant changes will be implemented including:

New Theme Song for Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Released

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New Theme Song for Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Released


The release of Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward expansion is drawing near, and Square Enix has released a new Final Fantasy XIV trailer called Dragonsong, which is the main theme song for the forthcoming Heavensward expansion. Dragonsong is the work of renowned Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu and it features vocals from Susan Calloway, who you might remember from the Answers theme to A Realm Reborn.

Fantastic USS Enterprise in the Headquarters of NetDragon

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Fantastic USS Enterprise in the Headquarters of NetDragon


Did you ever image to work in the USS Enterprise? The Chinese IT company NetDragon Websoft made it! The headquarters of NetDragon has been built to look exactly like the USS Enterprise

Overwatch Teases A New Hero's Gameplay Video

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Overwatch Teases A New Hero's Gameplay Video


After teasing two support heroes, recently Overwatch has unveiled the first gameplay video for an offensive hero - McCree. McCree was firstly revealed together with Zarya at Pax East, and as a hunter, he is a "mad dog" gunfighter with a smooth drawl and a sci-fi six-shooter called the Peacemaker. Let's have a look at this video below:

Age of Wushu: Warrior's Journey Released

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Age of Wushu: Warrior's Journey Released


Snail's hallmark martial arts sandbox MMO Age of Wushu launched its latest expansion recently. The expansion officially became available at 11:00am (UTC-8) on May 19th.

Haunted Empire-Three Kingdoms Combining MOBA and RPG Play on Your Mobile Devices

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Haunted Empire-Three Kingdoms Combining MOBA and RPG Play on Your Mobile Devices


Haunted Empire-Three Kingdoms, published by ELEX, has launched for both Android and iOS devices.

TERA Becomes the Most Played MMORPG on Steam

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TERA Becomes the Most Played MMORPG on Steam


En Masse Entertainment today announces that its award-wining PC action MMORPG, TERA, has risen to the top of the MMO pond on the Steam platform

Game of Thrones Episode 4: Sons of Winter Gets a New Trailer

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Game of Thrones Episode 4: Sons of Winter Gets a New Trailer


Sons of Winter, the fourth episode in Telltale's Game of Thrones adventure game series, hits iOS and Android next week. That's exactly a week from now, on Thursday, May 28th, though it'll be out on Tuesday for PC and PlayStation consoles first.

Nanbo's Heroes of the Storm Review

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Nanbo's Heroes of the Storm Review


Hello mmosite readers and welcome to my Heroes of the Storm (HoS) review ! Blizzard's new MOBA, HoS, has turned many interested since it comes from one of the biggest mmorpg companies. Will the game carve a new field in the MOBA field or will it simply clone the more popular titles? Open Beta testing is now available to the public and here is my first look.

World of Warcraft Patch 6.2 Preview - Pets Galore

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World of Warcraft Patch 6.2 Preview - Pets Galore


As World of Warcraft continues to explore new territory in Draenor, it should come as no surprise that new battle pets and new battle pet rewards will be found. Thus far, Draenor has contained a great deal of diversity for pet battlers, and Patch 6.2 will be no different. Let's take a look at some of what's in store for your collection.

Light of Darkness Event: Limited Offer

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Light of Darkness Event: Limited Offer


Apart from the discount event, Light of Darkness has also prepared another special event for you. Via this event, you can level up more quickly and make your character more and more stronger… Are you curious?? Let's check this event out:

A New City Big Beam in DOMO Awaits You to Explore

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A New City Big Beam in DOMO Awaits You to Explore


Suba Games today announced a grand update DOMO (Dream Of Mirror Online), a new city Big Beam that players have been clamoring for. Meanwhile, new pets such as panda, butterfly, bear and so on arrive in this update.

Coming Soon: Hide Eye Candy in League of Legends

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Coming Soon: Hide Eye Candy in League of Legends


The newest feature to League of Legends may surprise you. It's called "Hide Eye Candy", and no, it isn't a feature to cover up the more attractive champions in the game.

MMORPG Reviews

MMORPG Reviews


How Free-to-Play Is Vindictus?

Posted: 21 May 2015 12:35 PM PDT

For this round on our F2Pmeter we’re looking at Nexon‘s Vindictus, a free to play fantasy-based MMORPG where players can customize their own character, choosing from a list of ore-generated characters each with their own class as they travel the world seeking out adventure and bad guys! As ever all our games start out at […]

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Gaijin Unveils New MMO: Crossout

Posted: 21 May 2015 05:34 AM PDT

With Crossout, Targem Games and Gaijin Entertainment have just revealed their latest vehicle-combat MMO that transports players into a post-apocalyptic world devastated by an alien attack where they will be able to engage enemies in open PvP combat using their self-made and completely customisable armoured vehicles. The game is in pre-alpha at the moment, but […]

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Keys for the Closed Beta of Echo of Soul

Posted: 21 May 2015 02:16 AM PDT

In case you’re interested in testing Echo of Soul, the latest F2P MMO from Aeria Games, then you should leap at the chance we’re offering today, 05/21/2015, with an exclusive raffle of 381 codes that provide the lucky winners with instant access to the game’s closed beta testing on the North American server. When the […]

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Orcs Must Die! Unchained Closed Beta Key Giveaway for Europe

Posted: 21 May 2015 12:39 AM PDT

We recently published a review. We got the chance to play this 3rd-person MOBA/ tower defence game and truly enjoyed it, but now it’s your turn (if you’re in Europe) to have some fun testing Orcs Must Die! Unchained with this Closed Beta Key giveaway for the European players. Don’t worry if you are not […]

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General Gaming Article


Newegg Daily Deals: MSI 970 Gaming AM3+ Mobo, Asus Core i7 Laptop, and More!

Posted: 21 May 2015 02:48 PM PDT

Msi 970

Top Deal:

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AMD's Working on Beta Catalyst Drivers to Solve Hairworks Issue in Witcher 3

Posted: 21 May 2015 10:58 AM PDT

Fixing a hairy situation

There have been complaints that enabling Nvidia's proprietary Hairworks technology in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt results in what seems like an unnecessary hit on performance, in particular on AMD Radeon graphics cards. Well, there's good news, both from developer and publisher CD Projeckt Red and AMD.

Witcher 3

CD Projeckt Red will release a patch today for the PC version that aims to improve stability and performance in both cutscenes and gameplay, fix a bunch of bugs, and improve Hairworks performance (a patch for consoles is coming soon). Here's a full list of what the patch brings to the table:

  • Improves stability in gameplay and the UI
  • Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay
  • Fixes grass and foliage popping that could occur after density parameters were changed
  • Improves Nvidia Hairworks performance
  • Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset
  • Sharpen Post-process settings extended from Off/On to Off/Low/High
  • Blood particles will now properly appear after killing enemies on the water
  • Corrects a bug where player was able to shoot bolts at friendly NPCs
  • Improves menu handling
  • Corrects an issue with Stamina regeneration while sprinting
  • Fixes a cursor lock issue that sometimes occurred when scrolling the map
  • Generally improves world map focus
  • Improves input responsiveness when using keyboard
  • Corrects some missing translations in the UI
  • Corrects an issue in dialogue selections
  • Rostan Muggs is back
  • Minor SFX improvements

Good stuff, right? Well, we'll have to wait and see how it affects AMD Radeon graphics card owners, and if you're one of them, don't despair. AMD said it's working on a beta driver release that will improve performance in both Witcher 3 and Project CARS. It will be available "soon," though in the meantime, AMD posted some tips on how to deal with performance issues specifically related to Hairworks in Witcher 3.

Consumers Continue to Buy Chromebooks as Secondary PCs, Enterprise Still Uninterested

Posted: 21 May 2015 10:29 AM PDT

The platform that refuses to go away

Chromebooks received a lukewarm reception when Google introduced them several years ago, though in more recent times, they've grown in popularity. Education remains the primary market for Chromebooks, followed by home consumers looking for a second system. Businesses aren't all that big on Chrome OS, but even with limited contribution from the enterprise market, Chromebook sales in 2015 are expected to rise 27 percent year-over-year, Gartner says.

Chromebook

Around the world, Gartner reckons Chromebook sales will reach 7.3 million units. That's not a very big number in the grand scheme of things, but what's interesting to note is the growing interest -- these cloud based systems are slowly capturing more market share rather than fading away in the wake of lower priced Windows laptops.

In the U.S., the education segment accounted for 60 percent of Chromebook sales last year, while home consumers approached 40 percent. Other businesses made up just over 1 percent of Chromebook sales.

"The majority of Chromebook users are tech-savvy individuals who purchase one as a companion device to their primary notebook or desktop PC. Others are buying a Chromebook for the household to use as a second low-cost PC alternative," said Isabelle Durand, principal analyst at Gartner.

"The major factors that affect the adoption of Chromebooks by consumers remain the connectivity issue in emerging markets, but also the ability for users to understand and get used to cloud-based applications, and keep content in the cloud and ecosystem," Durand added.

North America is where the bulk of Chromebooks end up -- 84 percent of them, Gartner says. Part of the reason for that could be that Samsung exited the European Chromebook market so that it could focus on tablets.

Razer's Firefly Hard Gaming Mouse Mat Brings the LED Bling

Posted: 21 May 2015 08:53 AM PDT

Let there be light

Show of hands, how many of you always wished for a mouse mat with LED lighting? Anyone? We're willing to bet that the majority never even thought of such a thing, but Razer did, and the result is the Firefly, a hard gaming mouse mat infused with the company's Chroma lighting feature.

Razer Firefly

Razer equipped the Firefly with lighting along its left, right, and bottom borders. The three zones are customizable with up to 16.8 million color options and various lighting effects like reactive, wave, and spectrum -- the same ones found on Razer's Chroma-enabled keyboards. Speaking of which, you can sync Firefly with other Chroma devices.

The mouse mat itself features a micro-textured finish that's supposed to offer a balance between control and speed. It has a reflective surface that's been optimized for precise mouse movements and rapid in-game responsiveness, Razer says.

Razer intends to include Firefly in its Chroma SDK, which will give game developers the ability to incorporate custom lighting effects into their game. For example, a developer could make it so that your Chroma devices flash incessantly when a bomb goes off near you, or turn red when your in-game health is in critical condition.

The Firefly runs $60 and is available to pre-order now; it will ship in June.

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