My.com released another infographic but this time the data covers information collected from all three Revelation Online Closed Beta tests. The most interesting takeaways? Occultist and Swordmage were the most played classes (18%), whereas Vanguard was the least played (14%). Though the distribution was fairly even for all six. Looking at the numbers it seems like a lot of players [...]
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Ahead of The Exiled's Steam launch on February 23rd, studio Fairytale Distillery has revealed its Founder's Packs, available in three tiers which you can view below. Keep in mind, everyone can play The Exiled for free for 7 days, but after that they'll need to buy a Supporter Pack to keep playing, beginning at $19.99. It's an interesting monetization. And [...]
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Valve is working with machine learning to detect cheaters in Counter-Strike, as a means of replacing player reports and anticheat software. You could call it an "AI Watchdog." So, watch out aimbotters, spinbotters, flying dutchmen, and wallhackers, HAL may be monitoring everything you do. Of course implementing such a system is no easy task. "The process of parsing, training, and [...]
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Party Pete always throws the best bashes and he's celebrating the 4th birthday of Old School RuneScape. Better hand over your keys, ol' Petey needs your help. Players can head to the Falador party room and ask Pete what he needs to get the dance floor grooving. Helping out Party Pete will grant all the rewards from previous birthday bonanzas: [...]
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Mirage: Arcane Warfare will be making its European debut at the PC Gamer Weekender convention in London this weekend, February 18-19th. It's also Mirage's first expo demo. And the first glimpse of Mirage since Torn Banner Studios launched their game into Alpha back in September, 2016. Lot of firsts. And I'm pretty excited to see how it's shaped up. If [...]
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Epic Games hasintroduced some fairly inventive heroes to Paragon in the time since it was released, not least of which was the drummer orc Narbash that supported players by playing various beats on his drums. But today, the choreographed dance of high-skill MOBA gameplay becomes a bit more choreographed, as, on February 21st, Paragon will be introducing a hero named [...]
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Here in the West, Perfect World Entertainment has all but stopped releasing the MMORPGs that it develops for the Chinese market, such as the latest version of Jade Dynasty, which is known as "Zhu Xian 3" in China, and Mount Shu Chronicles. Instead, it has focused on a strict model of obtaining the publishing rights for, and often the companies [...]
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If you're excited for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands, but skeptical of it due to Ubisoft's history of messy launches and never received a Closed Beta key, fear not. Ubisoft announced today that it will be holding a Ghost Recon Wildlands Open Beta from February 23rd to February 27th on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. The Open Beta will feature [...]
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theHunter is a beautiful game with great gameplay and systems that can keep you playing forever if you are so inclined. But its business model is divisive at best and the game is clearly beginning to age, having been on the market since early 2009. Enter theHunter: Call of the Wild, a modernized, buy-to-play version of the game that fans [...]
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It's been just over two weeks since ARK: Survival Evolved's TEK Tier made it to the PC version of the game. Surprisingly, the console versions of the game are already getting the update, having gone live earlier today. For those that don't know, the TEK Tier adds an assortment of new content, including weapons, armor, gear, and "dinosaur mounted laser [...]
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