It seems that, despite Nexon and Particle City's best efforts, Titanfall was simply never meant to be a mobile card game. Mobile card game spin-off Titanfall: Frontline was announced last fall and soft-launched in select countries shortly after. After less than four months on the market, it was announced Friday that the game will be closing on January 20th. The official [...]
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As was previously announced, Pixel Federation's build-and-fight vehicular combat game, Galactic Junk League, launched on Steam Early Access today. The Steam Early Access launch comes with "a major update" that introduces 24 new pre-designed ships, 7v7 battles, new Steelseries ship parts, improved matchmaking, a reworked UI, and more. Galactic Junk League is available now on Steam Early Access as a free-to-play [...]
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Fairytale Distillery announced today that, at long last, The Exiled will be launching on Steam Early Access on February 23rd. From then on, the game will be live 24/7. The days of waiting for Alpha invites, Alpha tests, and all that nonsense will be behind us. Instead, everyone will be given seven days of free play, after which anyone who [...]
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Remember how Crytek closed five of its studios after failing to make payroll last month? The Crytek saga continues to look shaky, as, starting next month, My.com will be taking over as Warface's official publisher in North America and Europe. Meanwhile, Crytek will continue to develop the game and publish the game in Turkey. The official announcement states that "this [...]
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Gigantic's first new hero since launch, which was first announced last week, has been unveiled. The character is a playful critter known as "Pakko," whose archetype is referred to as a "Jolly Brute." It seems that he is somewhat of a Bruiser type, featuring high defense but fairly high attack and mobility, as well. Pakko's basic attack is a melee [...]
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DarkEden: Origin, which was announced earlier this month by developer SOFTON Entertainment, launched earlier today in Korea. While DarkEden 2 is 3D, DarkEden: Origin takes the series back to its 2D roots, having been intended to fill a void in the online gaming market that is being left as more and more MMORPG companies move towards exclusively developing 3D titles. Those [...]
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It's rare that I'm so immediately impressed by MMORPGs' overall aesthetics these days as I was with Tencent's upcoming 2.5D turn-based MMORPG Lingshan Romance—the name is Google Translated and may be terribly mistranslated. I came across the game the other day and was immediately stunned by the detail and fluidity on display in the combat animations seen below. I've seen many MMORPGs [...]
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PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS' second Alpha test has come to a close, which means that it's time for a wrap up. Bluehole has provided those following the game with quite a bit of information from the test, including what worked, what didn't, how many people took part in the test, the infographic and wrap up video embedded below, and even how many [...]
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The King of Fighters and Samurai Shodown seem like odd franchises to include characters from in a mobile MMORPG, but that's exactly what Chinese developer Ledo Interactive and Hong Kong publisher Game Dreamer have done with their new mobile MMORPG Areal. The duo, which have worked together before for the Hong Kong release of The Tale of Lost City, released the [...]
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Remember when it was announced that The Repopulation had been taken offline and removed from sale following "turmoil" that had been going on at Idea Fabrik? Remember when it was announced that the game would be moving to Unreal Engine 4 and a smaller survival game based on the engine that would be later used for it, Fragmented, was being developed [...]
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