“ArcheAge is Jake Song’s brainchild, the mind behind the international hit Lineage, and Scott Hartsman, CEO of Trion Worlds, was ecstatic to be able to bring it to a brand new audience: “We knew [Song] was going to make a great game. Watching the game grow and evolve made us even more interested in the […]

While the release date for Hearthstone’s single player expansion Curse of Naxxramas continues to be M.I.A., we at least now know how much it will cost our coin purses to unlock each of the expansions five boss filled ‘wings’. To start with, let’s take a look at how each of these wings will be unlocked. […]

Webzen is now serving up an Open Beta for players interested in trying out their latest MMORPG, Archlord 2. Self described as a “Brutal PvP MMO” Archlord 2 offers players the opportunity to join one of two factions and battle it out across a variety of PvP scenarios including 400 player battlegrounds and open world […]

While Gears of War guru Cliff Bleszinski may have left Epic Games to start his own Free-to-Play focused studio, Epic Games is still around and still making third-person games last we checked. One of these games happens to be Fornite, the Free-to-Play third-person shooter which has players building makeshift strongholds by day and defending them […]

Hey there, space cats! Welcome to Brittany’s Swingin’ Report Show! Er, wait. That didn’t come out right. This isn’t a show at all, is it? This is, in fact, an introduction. So my name is Brittany, and I’m joining the MMOBomb crew. It’s nice to meet you! I’ve been writing professionally for about six years […]

After a long and undoubtedly checkered development period, Red 5 has finally announced Firefall is nearing its official release date. Set to go live on July 29th, Firefall’s official launch is said to be much more than a mere rebranding from Open Beta. On top of introducing several major changes aimed at simplifying the MMO’s […]

If you’ve got some free time this holiday weekend, you may want to check out the newly released Open Beta for Perfect World Entertainment’s martial arts MMORPG, Swordsman Online. The studio pushed the wuxia-inspired MMO into Open Beta yesterday and with it, opened up cross-server functionality, allowing for a greater number of players across servers […]

I guess you can say you’ve made it as a MOBA if you’ve got yourself a World Championship. While League of Legends and Dota 2 have paved the way for high-stakes MOBA tournaments in the west, Hi-Rez Studio’s third-person mythological MOBA SMITE can now proudly count itself among the elite with the recent announcement of […]

In the upcoming Sci-fi fantasy MMORPG Skyforge you, an immortal player destined for godhood, are tasked with defending the denizens of the planet Aelion. Unlike other gods who may hear the pleas of mortals innately, it appears you will be using technology in Skyforge in order to scour the planet and alert you of anyone […]

Jagex wants everyone to know they’ll be celebrating their fourth of July with a 24-hour livestream as they launch Transformers Universe into Open Beta. Yes, instead of spending the day outside roasting fresh meat and watching colorful explosions, they’ll be doing the same thing online instead. Everyone who signs up and joins over the weekend […]

Target practice is now open to all participants as En Masse Entertainment has rolled out the open beta for its third-person shooter Zombies Monsters and Robots (ZMR). The shooter originally launched into closed beta in May and offered players a total of 12 different PvP and PvE game modes across 10 maps. With the launch […]

Who would have thought, in the year 2014 we’d be having a discussion regarding the segregation of sexes in an online collectible card tournament? Yet here we are, and here the International eSports Federation stands guilty of only allowing male players to participate in their upcoming multi-national Hearthstone tournament. News of the restriction came after […]

Perfect World Entertainment has entered into an agreement with Digital Extremes to purchase the majority of the developer’s outstanding shares with help from Sumpo Food Holdings. The current non-binding agreement was officially announced on June 30th and is expected to continue while the two purchasing companies conduct due diligence investigations over the affairs of Digital […]

Age of Empires Online has shutdown its servers for good. Originally developed by Robot Entertainment (later Gas Powered Games), the RTS launched in 2011 and underwent several content additions before Microsoft announced in January of 2013 it was halting all further developed on the title. Later that year Microsoft formally announced the game would shutdown […]

Good things are on the horizon for fans of the upcoming sandbox MMORPG ArcheAge. A new announcement from Trion Worlds places ArcheAge’s Closed Beta events starting sometime around mid-to-late July. Yes this is later than the originally planned Closed Beta schedule set for June, but there’s a good reason! The delay is intended to give […]