Hey you. Yeah you, Aeria Games. I'm talking to you. We need to have a pow-wow about Bless Online, that game you got the rights to publish in North America back in April 2016. That game with the sub-domain http://bless.aeriagames.com/, which used to show a pretty cinematic screenshot with the title "Bless," and now redirects to a "503 Service Unavailable" page. [...]
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A new "AAA game development studio" has been formed under the name "Cold Iron." Founding members of the studio include CEO and former Cryptic Studios COO Craig Zinkievich, CTO and former Cryptic Studios Game Director and Principal Programmer Shannon Posniewski, and Creative Director and former Neverwinter Art Director Matt Highison. The studio's first project is an Unreal Engine 4-powered "AAA online action game" [...]
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Atlas Reactor received a massive Winter update today, bringing with it a new Freelancer, a new mode, and the Winter-themed Snowmageddon event. The new Freelancer is a frontline fighter known as "Phaedra, The Abomination." Her abilities allow her to charge through walls and create walls that opponents can enter, but not leave. Her "Putrid Spray" ability leaves a swarm of bugs [...]
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Have you ever thought "I'd win more matches in World of Tanks if I could build my own tank?" Following in the footsteps of titles like Robocraft, Pixel Federation's "crafter arena," Galactic Junk League, allows players to build their own spaceship before taking it out to do battle in a manner similar to that of Dreadnought or Cloud Pirates. Galactic [...]
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At long last, PlayStation 4 users can join in on the fun of playing ARK: Survival Evolved, the premiere survival game in which you must run away from and subsequently try to tame dinosaurs. The game launched on the PlayStation Store earlier today for the price of $54.99. To offset the high cost compared to the Steam Early Access and [...]
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The parliament over in South Korea has amended a game industry law that makes the creation and distribution of gaming hacks illegal, according to PVPLive. The amendment is a little more general: anything that violates a game's Terms of Service is illegal. My first reaction was to laugh. Maybe we should throw people who cheat at Checkers in jail too? [...]
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You know what awesome feature EVE Online has that EVE: Valkyrie doesn't? Character customization. But that will be remedied on December 7th when the Gatecrash update goes live on all platforms. Players will be able to change their appearance by purchasing different helmets and suits with in-game currency. The update will also introduce a new map called "Gateway," which features "a [...]
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To usher in the season Albion Online is tasking players with a festive game of hide and seek: set out to find Uncle Frost's three missing helpers. Somehow they managed to get themselves lost at random locations across Albion—lost in PvP enabled zones. The event begins on December 10th, at 19:00 UTC. The helpers' locations will be unveiled one at [...]
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Grey Box, Six Foot, and YAGER announced at PSX over the weekend that their space combat game Dreadnought will be headed to PS4 as a console exclusive. The announcement was made alongside a new trailer, which is embedded below. It is not yet known if cross-platform play between PC and PS4 users will be supported. A Closed Beta is set to [...]
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The Russian version of Bless has entered Open Beta testing at last—sort of. Those who have purchased a Thirst for Power Founder's Pack now have early access to the game's Open Beta. Those who have purchased a Call of Battle Founder's Pack will gain access on December 7th. Everyone else will have to wait until December 8th. If you've yet [...]
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