Our latest coverage of Columns.
Riot Games brought Valorant to a whole new demographic when it launched the popular team shooter on PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X|S over the weekend. The launch marked a huge milestone for Riot as it’s the studio’s very first live service title to be released on consoles. Not everyone will be able to play Valorant on consoles, however, [...]
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The crowd funded sci-fi RTS Stormgate has launched into paid Early Access on July 30, 2024. The studio behind Stormgate was founded in 2020 by Blizzard veterans who worked on Starcraft 2 and Warcraft 3. The project raised over $35 million from investors and an additional $2.4 million on Kickstarter via a crowdfunding effort. The game is built on the [...]
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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is providing wider access to its upcoming beta test. Anyone who redeems the code "MMOS.COM" (without quotes) will gain 1 week access to the beta test which runs from July 27th - August 2nd. Keys can be redeemed from now until July 25th, so make sure to redeem yours right away if you're interested in [...]
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Action RPG Last Epoch is set to receive its first major post-release content patch on July 9th, 2024. Patch 1.1: Harbingers of Ruin is the first of four 'cycles' that were announced as part of the game's post-release roadmap earlier this year. The patch's main feature are 10 new boss fights against Harbingers, culminating in the final battle against Aberroth. [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV's early access for its latest expansion kicked off today and with it the game's playerbase surged to nearly an all time high on Steam. The 24 hour peak hit 91,883, a few thousand shy of its 95,102 all time high hit during the covid era. Keep in mind these figures are for Steam players only. The game [...]
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MultiVersus has come back online after being pulled back into development at the end of its 11-month stint in open beta last year. The multi-franchise multiplayer fighting game has been rebuilt from the ground up and officially launched on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox at the top of the week as a UE5-powered game with full cross-play and cross-progression across all [...]
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Valve is reportedly working on a new 6v6 hero shooter according to various leaks over the past week. The rumored game is called Deadlock and is reminiscent of your typical third-person MOBA, with multiple heroes to choose from that fall into various roles like tanks, healers, mages, and assassins. Matches will also play out like MOBAs, where players kill creeps [...]
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Legends of Aria is coming back to life for the third time without the blockchain and NFT shenanigans associated with its second relaunch. Its original developer Citadel Studios is reviving the sandbox MMORPG as Legends of Aria Classic and has just kicked off a surprise open beta test earlier today. “This event will not only give you an early peek [...]
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With Warcraft celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and World of Warcraft its 20th, you’re probably expecting a big celebration at BlizzCon this year. You’re in for a big disappointment though as Blizzard has decided to cancel this year’s fan convention altogether. “After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon [...]
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The highest level MapleStory player in the world, Niru, who is level 299 and 99.993% to 300 paused his grinding to air grievences about the game for an hour. He had over 20,000 concurrent viewers watching and waiting for him to level 300 (max level). He paused his grind at 99.993% to rant about the state of MapleStory. In an [...]
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