XD Games has kicked off another round of closed beta testing for its upcoming mobile ARPG Torchlight Infinite, this time for the benefit of Steam users. As we previously reported, the mobile spinoff is set 200 years after Torchlight 2 and completely skips the events of Torchlight 3. “Based on lore from the original Torchlight, players can experience a new [...]
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Respawn Entertainment’s popular battle royale shooter Apex Legends saw a massive surge in its playerbase following the launch of Season 14 last month. Season 14: Hunted featured the addition of a new sniper Legend named Vantage and her echolocating bat companion, Echo. The huge influx of players pushed Apex Legends’ peak player concurrency numbers to an all-time high of 511,676 [...]
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Cutesy indie 2.5D MMORPG Cinderstone Online has kicked off its week-long open beta for those who want to check it out but haven’t been invited to the closed beta, or if you’re just looking for something new to play this week. The open beta test will run until September 8th and will include access to three playable classes, three maps [...]
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Multiplayer has been a hot topic for Halo Infinite players since the game launched last year without a co-op campaign. This even led to a very heated debate that quickly escalated into a full-blown flame war between players and developers. Developer 343 Industries managed to somewhat pacify the community when they started beta testing for the first-person shooter’s local multiplayer [...]
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It’s been a valiant effort on Bandai Namco’s part, but unfortunately, the console version of Bless Unleashed will soon be joining the lineup of Bless titles that have shut down. Bless Unleashed was first released exclusively on Xbox One in 2020 as a reboot of the original Bless Online MMORPG that flopped miserably even before it launched in the west. [...]
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Chinese video game and technology company NetEase has acquired another video game developer to add to its growing list of subsidiaries. The latest addition to the NetEase family is Paris-based developer Quantic Dream, the studio behind the smash hit sci-fi action adventure game Detroit: Become Human. NetEase has apparently been investing in the studio for the past few years and [...]
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By Crom! Conan Exiles has ushered in the Age of Sorcery with the launch of the titular expansion and the survival MMO’s largest expansion to date. The massive expansion introduces sorcery and magical abilities to the fictional prehistoric world along with revamps and improvements to various perks and attributes, building, and the events system. Aside from introducing dark magic to [...]
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After its meteoric rise to fame earlier this summer, V Rising’s popularity is slowly fizzling away from a 24-hour peak of 150,000 concurrent players at launch to an average daily peak concurrency of just around 5,000 players. Its waning popularity, however, won’t be helped by the fact that its first major content update has just been pushed back to next [...]
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Survival shooters seem to be all the rage these days as NetEase officially launches another addition to the genre called Lost Light. The military-themed third-person shooter is now available worldwide on PC and mobile devices after nearly a year in open beta, promising high-risk, high reward gameplay that focuses on survival, warfighting, and progression. Lost Light features a massive open [...]
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Survival sandbox fans have something to look forward to this weekend as Chinese developer Nuverse kicks off closed beta testing for Earth: Revival, a sci-fi survival MMO set in a post-apocalyptic Earth ravaged by aliens. “Set in 2112, Earth: Revival takes place on a ravaged and destroyed planet Earth, a result of an intergalactic conflict with a mysterious alien species. [...]
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