Creating a City of Heroes successor isn't cheap. In fact, a reliable source tells me that you can get exactly one City of Heroes-like character creator done on no budget and then you'll need to head to Kickstarter. At least, that's what we can infer from Ship of Heroes, as developer Heroic Games has posted a countdown to a Kickstarter [...]
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Land of Glory is an upcoming cross-platform mobile and PC MMORPG from NetEase Games that was developed in cooperation with a game studio in the United States. The game originally entered Closed Beta on iOS back in December, but Android and PC players weren't able to play at the time. While PC players still won't be able to play just yet, [...]
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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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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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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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Do you play The Elder Scrolls Online on either PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? Do you feel like you've been missing out on Homesteads? No longer will you have to worry about that, for Homesteads are now live on consoles. The Homestead update brings with it 39 homes, the Housing Editor, more than 2000 "furnishings and decorations," Master Crafting Writs, [...]
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In a surprise move, GameNet recently posted the Russian version of Black Desert Online to Greenlight. The company has self-hosted all of the games it publishes thus far, but perhaps it is looking to increase the size of the Russian version's playerbase by way of Steam. As much of Steam's audience is in the West and the company that posted Black Desert [...]
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This news may very well come as a surprise for several reasons. Yes, both Hero Online and Scions of Fate are still up and running in the West; in fact, Scions of Fate—or Yulgang, as it is known everywhere else—is still doing quite well in Korea. After years of relative inactivity, Mgame—or Netgame, as the company is known here in [...]
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Following the release of Act 3 and the hardcore mode on Christmas eve, publisher Insel Games announced today that Guardians of Ember's fourth Act is now live. The Act introduces ten new zones, sixteen new dungeons, and an increased level cap of 50. Two new pets, "the Blue Magpie and the Greenwood Chameleon," are also included. They can be obtained [...]
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