Playing a game takes time, time that could be spent doing other things. As an increasingly busy student, finding the time to play the games I love is getting difficult. Assuming I don’t abandon my responsibilities, I have to start really scrutinizing what I play and when I have time to play it. Sinking hours and/or dollars into a game [...]
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Grey Box, Six Foot, and YAGER announced today that their highly-anticipated capital ship combat game Dreadnought will be entering Closed Beta on April 29th. Sign-ups have opened on the official website and there will be an allotment of keys sent out to those who sign up. As with many other free-to-play titles entering Closed Beta, Dreadnought has two Founder's Packs [...]
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Icarus Online is currently one of the top 3 highest grossing MMORPGs in Korea. According to MMOCulture, WeMade Entertainment, undoubtedly happy with the game's success, is now hiring staff for a new title called "Icarus-M," which is very likely a mobile version of Icarus Online. The title will be developed in Unreal Engine 4. It is not yet known whether [...]
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Psyonix has released Rocket League's new basketball game mode Hoops a day early, and I couldn't be more excited to slam dunk with my supersonic rocket car. Along with numerous bug fixes April's update also adds quality of life fixes, such as eliminating countdowns in Free Play. An NBA Flag Pack DLC will also be available for purchase through Steam, [...]
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The first set of vehicles in Armored Warfare's highest Tier—Tier 10—is arriving on May 3rd as part of Update 0.15. The vehicles included are the Challenge 2 ATDU, Leopard 2A7-140, PL-01, SPHINX, T-14 Armata, and XM1A3 Abrams. They are described as follows. PL-01 – light tank concept developed by OBRUM and BAE Systems on a CV90 AFV chassis. Armed with [...]
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Eonic Gaming announced today that its resurrection of the PvP-focused MMORPG Turf Battles has entered Open Beta. The game can be downloaded now via the official website and players can begin their nostalgia-fueled wars for various islands and turfs. Turf Battles originally launched in Korea in 2002 under the title Sephiroth. It was later localized for Western audiences by Aeria [...]
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Over the weekend, Above and Beyond Technologies announced that everyone who owns The Repopulation on Steam should have been given a copy of Fragmented automatically. If all worked as intended, it should be sitting in each owner's Steam library. I can confirm that I received my copy and that I have successfully downloaded the title via Steam. A small FAQ [...]
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John Romero is back with a new FPS called Blackroom and, like many other industry veterans that are returning to form, he has taken to Kickstarter to raise the funds necessary to make said FPS. The goal is set to $700,000. The game itself takes place inside a futuristic corporation that has created a room that can project lifelike holographic [...]
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Originally released two years ago, the first iubes—intelligent cubes—was a niche god game/RTS hybrid title that brought several unique ideas to the table. The entire game revolved around AI and how they react to your placement of necessary structures. It took place in a round world so that players couldn't unfairly set up their bases in a corner. Players could [...]
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Paradox announced that the spell-slinging PvP game Magicka: Wizard Wars will shut down on July 21, 2016. The news arrives a little less than one year after the official launch of Magicka, on April 28, 2015. In the past few months the game has maintained a small dedicated playerbase, averaging nearly 200 players. Unfortunately, the numbers were not enough to warrant continued [...]
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