Following up on titles like Freestyle 2: Street Basketball and Freestyle Baseball 2, Joycity launched a new title, Freestyle Football, on Steam earlier today. The game brings team-based soccer gameplay to an online multiplayer format and infuses it with the Freestyle series' classic touch of wackiness. "Four players and one goalkeeper" go up against another team of five, making use [...]
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At the DICE Summit in Las Vegas, game director Jeff Kaplan took to the stage and talked shop about Overwatch's somber beginnings. The project—as many know—was the picked up pieces of the abandoned MMO Titan, which had a team of 140 developers working on it. Once Titan was shut down, 80 of those devs were shipped to other games, another [...]
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When War Thunder officially launched in December, it didn't include naval battles or ships, the reason being that they were in a Closed "Pre-Beta" state, available to only select players. Today, however, Gaijin Entertainment announced that weekly naval battle testing sessions will be starting on February 24th, allowing anyone to try out the games upcoming ships in naval combat modes. They're [...]
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Kakao Games Europe announced today that Black Desert Online's Dark Knight class will be going live on March 1st. To prepare for the launch and ensure that everyone gets a chance to play the class the moment that it goes live without being held back by character creation, you can create your Dark Knight character now. In celebration of the event, [...]
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Dewen Chen, CEO of Changyou, revealed in an investor Q&A session today that the Chinese company plans to launch ~6 games in the overseas market (presumably in the West): And additionally we also think that overseas market has huge potential. So since last year we have been preparing actively some new games targeted towards overseas market. We have around six [...]
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Given how long it took for Funcom to complete the Anarchy Online engine upgrade, it only feels appropriate that the aging sci-fi MMO is also the last of Funcom's games to make it to Steam. The game launched on Steam earlier today, nearly a month after the release of Conan Exiles. Funcom CEO Rui Casais had the following to say [...]
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The day has finally arrived, the last bits of dirt have been kicked into the hole, and Landmark has sailed into the great beyond, to be remembered as a memory of what could have been. Daybreak Game Company announced Landmark's closure in early January, which was no surprise to anyone after the cancellation of EverQuest Next. Now Landmark, will live on [...]
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HEX: Shards of Fate has dropped Gameforge as their publisher and decided to self-publish their self-described "MMOTCG." Why the couple are parting ways isn't entirely clear. Sometimes, thing just don't work out. Cryptozoic Entertainment's CEO Cory Jones took to Steam to reassure players that the change should not cause worry and nothing foundational in HEX will change: Let me make it [...]
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MMOs.com Podcast - Episode 92: Fatigue Systems, Smedley, Closers, Bless, & MoreWatch this video on YouTube MMOs.com Podcast Episode 92 - Omer (@remotayx), Erhan (@Ehaltay), Matt (@Mattchuranu), and Sean (@sean_sulliva). This is episode ninety-two of the MMOs.com Podcast and we look at the most recent news and happenings in the MMO and gaming world. As always we started off with [...]
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After yesterday's announcement that Doomfist would likely not be Overwatch's next hero, today we've been given a possible lead as to who exactly it is. Blizzard in their enigmatic ways has posted a faux interview with 11 year old inventor Efi Oladele of Numbani. The timing is suspicious. The article goes on to describe Efi's interest in robotics after she [...]
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