I have been an Early Access winner, backing games that found the right combination of elements to become massive successes, even while still wearing their "pre-alpha" nametag. Doesn't happen often. Doesn't happen much at all. Most Early Access titles die with a whimper, and today, I'm watching two games I backed slip into obscurity and irrelevance, Project Genom and Fragmented. [...]
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Heroes of the Storm's 2.0 update is adding loot crates and a library of cosmetics, giving it a rewards systems that looks like its cousin Overwatch. Every time player's level up they'll earn loot chests, brimming with random skins, sprays, bannners, voice lines, etc.; everything you could imagine being in a shiny box. Lead game designer Travis McGeathy told GamaSutra [...]
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Self-described survival MMORPG Edengrad will launch its Alpha through Steam on April 04, 2017, and champagne will be popped on the Facebook fanpage. To celebrate, the development team, Huckleberry Games, will be hosting a nine hour stream to introduce potential players to Edengrad's world. 12:00 p.m. CET – stream’s start off on the game’s fanpage 6:00 p.m. CET – Edengrad’s [...]
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When Twitch starts selling games in the sometime near future, Amazon's storefront will have 50 games for sale, including Ghost Recon: Wildlands and For Honor. If players get a game through their favorite streamer's page—so long as it's above $5—they'll obtain a loot crate with unique emojis, badges, and bits, and the streamer will earn a small cut from the [...]
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It's the the only podcast to be inducted into the MMOs.com Podcast Hall Of Fame (Geneva, Switzerland): the MMOs.com Podcast! Where: https://www.twitch.tv/mmosdotcom When: That depends on where you live: 7PM EST 4PM PST On tonight's episode we're buying flowers for Gamestop, talking shop about the Navy's groundbreaking index-card MMO and how we'll stop Krazy Kurzweil's Singularity, gawk at PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS' [...]
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Get your pitchforks ready because we're about to turn brother-against-brother, friend-against-friend. Are those closest to you holding back your gaming experience? Do you have the potential to go Plat but you're one friend you queue with is just terrible? I listen to people play MOBAs while sitting in Discord, and boy-o-boy it sure does sound like one or two people [...]
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Blizzard is opening their first eSports "stadium" on March 30th, in Taipei City, Taiwan, according to Yahoo eSports (which you will have to translate to read). I put "stadium" in vexatious quotes because I've never seen a stadium with folding chairs—as seen below; maybe it's a translation issue. CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Mike Morhaime will be in the flesh [...]
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When Hearthstone's calendar flips to the first page that says Year of the Mammoth a celebration riddled with festivities will begin. Who wants to party? While the first Mammoth Tavern Brawl took place on March 15th, another one is due to arrive March 29th, and reward Journey to Un'Goro card packs—if you win. What else is in store you may [...]
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On this Sunday Funday the MMOs.com crew is getting blood for the blood god in Warhammer 40k: Eternal Crusade. When: That depends on where you live: 7PM EST 4PM PST If you can't make it you can always watch on the MMOs.com YouTube channel once its uploaded. Watch live video from mmosdotcom on www.twitch.tv
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Once again, the MMOs.com crew returns to Revelation Online to discover the meaning of existence, and find out how many daily players can do dailies daily in a dilly-dallying MMORPG, daily. Where: https://www.twitch.tv/mmosdotcom When: That depends on where you live: 7PM EST 4PM PST 1AM Swaziland If you can't make it you can always watch on the MMOs.com YouTube channel [...]
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