Lawbreakers' first Closed Beta weekend just ended and while I enjoyed the FPS quite a bit, it stirred up my nostalgia for older shooters. Every modern multiplayer game with a gun—at least the ones from the last couple years—have incorporated the same ingredient: characters, singular choices that have abilities or weapons that only they can wield. It's a page from [...]
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Considering all of his wandering rants I can’t help but wonder what MMO Socrates would play. It wouldn’t be the typical, run-of-the-mill game. No, no. As one of the founders of Western philosophy Socrates was a special character, and the MMO would have to let him carry his famous—or infamous—traits into his second home. Which is why the perfect MMO [...]
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On this Sunday Funday the MMOs.com crew is breaking the law, and also upholding it—um.. do we arrest ourselves?—in Lawbreakers. 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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Putting together game trailers is an art: editors have to make a game look epic and the music underlying whatever visuals you show should foster that epicness. Somebody at the Kingdom Under Fire 2 studio goofed. The below "Epic Raid Teaser," (as provided by the venerable Steparu) starts out fine enough, with a mystical guitar and ominous wind rush, setting [...]
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Legend of Ares, originally released in 2006, is making its way to Steam on March 24, 2017. I never get tired of sharing old MMORPGs trying for a second wind through Valve's platform. The game features the God of War, Ares (go figure, right?), and players choose between one of two factions and four playable classes. Whether or not it [...]
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What better way to spend St. Patrick's day than watch the MMOs.com crew grind through a game with an inexplicable colon: Ar:piel? Where: https://www.twitch.tv/mmosdotcom When: That depends on where you live: 7PM EST 4PM PST 1AM Swaziland Arpiel Gameplay Grindfest Friday - MMOs.comWatch this video on YouTube If you can't make it you can always watch on the MMOs.com YouTube [...]
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Twitch has launched its desktop app into Open Beta today and you can head to the software's website to download it for yourself and give it a whirl. Twitch App is designed to be an all-in-one communication's hub for both streamers and viewers, featuring both a server creation tool—à la Discord—and Voice Chat. I've made an MMOs.com Test Channel if [...]
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GWENT: The Witcher Card Game has partnered with ESL to host a tournament with both eSports pros and fans, competing for $100,000. Since GWENT isn't released—still in Closed Beta—the pros are from Hearthstone: "Trump (Jeffrey Shih), Lifecoach (Adrian Koy), Noxious (Kacem Khilaji) and ppd (Peter Dager)." “It’s a real privilege to observe how active GWENT players are in the realm [...]
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The Dark and Light team has officially announced that their sandbox MMORPG has been delayed until summer. That's right. What was supposed to release before the end of 2016 has once again been pushed back. The announcement was made on the official website, so it is not in English, but if you use Chrome and Translate you can check it [...]
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Square Enix has announced that they will no longer support the Playstation 3 edition of Final Fantasy XIV when the next expansion, Stormblood, releases. Starting March 18, 2017 (this Saturday), the automatic renewal of PS3 players' 90-day recurring subscriptions will be suspended. If you have a PS4, or plan to get one, you PS3 players will be able to upgrade [...]
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