Do you want to play another game of brutal melee combat from the creators of Chivalry: Medieval Warfare? If your answer is "absolutely, I do," then you're in luck. If you pre-order Mirage: Arcane Warfare via Steam, you can play it right now. The Closed Beta began today alongside the game going up for pre-order and will run until the [...]
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The release of Stormblood is going to change a lot for Final Fantasy XIV players. In order to prepare for the upcoming launch, Final Fantasy XIV Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida has announced that Square Enix will soon be relocating the North American data center. Yoshida states in the announcement that "the Final Fantasy XIV NA data center was Square [...]
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Update: Steam is now reporting that the game has over 61,000 concurrent players as of 3:41 PM EST, putting it in 8th place on Steam. PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds has been showing signs of becoming one of Steam's most popular games since it launched on Thursday with a 24-hour peak of over 40,000 concurrent players. Since then, it has slowly been on [...]
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Bans in online games are inevitable. Someone's going to hack or speak ill of someone else in a way that the developers aren't comfortable with or what-have-you. But not all bans are created equal, as some of this week's bans have uncovered. Revelation Online launched earlier this month to moderate reception. Since its launch, most players have been fixated on [...]
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In what is likely an attempt at constantly reminding us that Dark and Light still exists and is still in active development, Snail Games has released another set of two images that show two cat-like creatures that players will be able to tame. One of them is a screenshot while the other is a piece of concept art, which seems [...]
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You guys remember Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box, right? The mini-action-adventure title set in a unique 8-bit world within Guild Wars 2? It is returning once again on March 30th as part of the Super Adventure Festival. The Guild Wars 2 team provided the following statement alongside the announcement. It’s that time of year—dust off your best jumping boots, [...]
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You guys remember Absolver, right? The upcoming melee-only online action RPG? Developer Sloclap has been relatively quiet since it was announced, with only bits of gameplay footage surfacing every few months. Today, fifteen minutes of Alpha gameplay footage was released with developer commentary included. In the video, a number of the game's key features were shown off with the developers [...]
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Sony has announced a new initiative called the PlayStation "China Hero Project," which is intended to help Chinese developers launch their games on PlayStation 4. Nine games in total were announced to be a part of the initiative, but two in particular are relevant to the world of MMOs: the Dynasty Warriors meets Mount and Blade MOBA Tiger Knight: Empire [...]
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Last September, Blizzard Entertainment announced that it would be retiring the Battle.net moniker and replacing it with generic "Blizzard" branding for all of its products. At the time, the company stated that its reason for doing so was that "there’s been occasional confusion and inefficiencies related to having two separate identities under which everything falls—Blizzard and Battle.net." It's a pretty [...]
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Warframe's latest update, Octavia's Anthem, is set to go live today on PC. The update brings with it a new Warframe called "Octavia," whose abilities make use of music. Players can "cooperatively [devise] songs with friends in dojos," using "Melody, Bass, and Percussion," or download songs created by others. Octavia is being introduced alongside a new quest. The story behind [...]
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