Popular video game streaming service Twitch.tv held its first ever convention this weekend, September 25-26, 2015 in San Francisco California. The event brought popular streamers, the Twitch staff, and members of the community together under the same roof for the first time. Many of the talks are now available online, but perhaps the most important presentation at the event was Emmett Shear's [...]
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Early access survival game ARK: Survival Evolved has released a highlight reel containing the best moments from the first two rounds of their ongoing 'Survival of the Fittest' tournament series. The tournament was announced to show off the 'Survival of the Fittest' game mode and it sounds like a blast. 35 teams of 2 players are thrown into a massive arena [...]
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Despite the fact that the Heart of Thorns expansion for Guild Wars 2 isn't launching until October 23, ArenaNet released the Heart of Thorns launch trailer on September 25, 2015. The trailer doesn't feature any gameplay and is instead a 2 minute long cinematic trailer. See the trailer for yourself here: Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns Launch TrailerWatch this video [...]
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Romero's Aftermath Gameplay video from Sean (Gumble) Romero's Aftermath is a 3D post apocalyptic zombie survival game developed and published by Free Reign Entertainment. It's similar to other Zombie survival games like WarZ and DayZ. In fact, the game was developed by many of the same people who worked on WarZ / Survivor Stories. In the video above, Sean aka Gumble, grumbles [...]
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Season One of Alice and Smith's new-age alternate reality game, The Black Watchmen, has ended. With the end of the season, the team have seen fit to release most of the Season's stats. Some of the stats are quite impressive, such as an average of 41 hours played per player that finished Season One—they have skillfully omitted the number of [...]
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The direction of modern gaming, specifically MMORPGs, has taken a much different route than when it first began. The scene never really started to take off until the 90’s, arguably becoming more prominent with the release of Ultima Online by Richard Garriot, and later Blizzard’s MMORPG, World of Warcraft. I myself never really started diving into MMOs until I was [...]
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After a year-long battle in court, starting in May of last year, it was announced today via press release that Magic the Gathering rights holder Wizards of the Coast and Hex developers Cryptozoic Entertainment and Hex Entertainment have settled out of court. The terms were undisclosed. You will recall that Wizards of the Coast originally filed a litigation for "willful [...]
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Fate/Grand Order Gameplay by Shurelya A look at the Japanese mobile MMO Fate/Grand Order. Shurelya takes us through Fate/Grand Order by explaining some of the basic gameplay and features of the title. Despite being in Japanese, Fate/Grand Order has no IP restrictions, so anyone in the world can play. Those interested in checking the game out should see our "How to Play Fate/Grand Order Guide".
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First Wonder, Rogue Rocket Games' spiritual successor to Giants: Citizen Kabuto and MDK, has hit Kickstarter. Asking for $500,000 to bring their goal to life, the team boasts a pedigree of work on MDK, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Earthworm Jim, and Armed and Dangerous. Nick Bruty, Co-Founder of Rogue Rocket Games, was quoted saying this about the campaign; "Giants and MDK hold a special [...]
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Mad Otter Games announced today via press release that their free-to-play sandbox MMORPG, Villagers and Heroes, received a new update that is taking it to an environment not yet seen in its Seven Realms. The update, entitled "Sands of the Equinox," or just "Equinox," adds a new world, The Oases of Anuk'Amon. This new world is a "magical desert land" [...]
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