Mordhau is a brutal medieval fighting game on Kickstarter that's been funded in less than 24 hours, and now sits at almost double its original goal. It's easy to see why. At a glance the features a complex combat system set in small duels all the way up to 64 player skirmishes on maps with trebuchets, horses, and ramparts to [...]
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The City of Heroes hopeful-spiritual-successor Ship of Heroes is heading to Kickstarter soon and asking for $400,000 to fund their vision. The Kickstarter will begin on April 04, 2017, and will last for five weeks. Ship of Heroes is just one of a few City of Heroes spiritual successors. There's also Heroes and Villains, City of Titans, Valiance Online, and [...]
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Another ".IO" game is set to launch tomorrow and this one is called Kugeln.io, a 2D multiplayer shooter. "Kugeln" is German for the word "spheres," which makes sense because you'll be playing as a gun-toting sphere in Kugeln (though since it's a 2D space it's really a circle, not a sphere, but let's keep the Euclidean criticisms for the comments [...]
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Dual Universe's February developer diary has plenty of interesting information to share, but also announced that Alpha testing has been delayed so that the team can stuff in more gameplay. For now, the tentative first test will take place in September. But the experience should be more fleshed out than it would be had Dual Universe stuck to its original [...]
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Sony announced today that PlayStation Now will be receiving a major update later this year that allows subscribers to stream PlayStation 4 games to a PC or PlayStation 4. None of the PlayStation 4 games that will be available on the service have been unveiled as of yet, but more details are set to be announced in the time leading [...]
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Ship Of Heroes is a spiritual successor to City of Heroes, where players become a superhero with unique powers and defend a spaceship called Heroship Justice from villains as they travel through the cosmos. [singlepic id=67430 w=428h=240 float=none] Publisher: Heroic Games Playerbase: TBD Type: MMORPG Release Date: TBA Pros: +City of Heroes spiritual successor. +Ambitious features. +Four class archetypes. Cons: [...]
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Revelation Online is giving players the opportunity to win prizes for creating propaganda posters designed to sell their guild. Who doesn't love some good old-fashioned exaggerated advertising to promote the war effort? Guilds are a central focus of Revelation Online's gameplay: players undertake dailies and fight in territorial wars to make a name for themselves and their guild. And what [...]
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There aren't enough 2D MMORPGs these days; that's the reason that SOFTON Entertainment made DarkEden Origin. It's fortunate then that some indie developers are still taking it upon themselves to make new 2D MMORPGs, like Adamant Entertainment's new 2D MMORPG Life Forge. We aren't seeing quite as many of them as we did during the heyday of engines like Mirage [...]
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Sometimes I log out of a game and wonder what MMOs famous figures in our culture and throughout history would play. Would Darwin frag scrubs in Natural Selection 2? Would Patton be the world’s best World of Tanks player? Could Socrates stop questioning long enough to let the raid leader detail everyone’s role in the World of Warcraft dungeon? It’s [...]
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Psyonix announced today that its ever-popular vehicular sports game, Rocket League, will be getting a new mode called "Dropshot" on March 22nd. Dropshot takes place in a hexagonal arena, requiring players to use an "electrified" ball to break holes in the opposing team's side of the field that will become that team's goal. As the match progresses and players repeatedly [...]
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