Respawn Entertainment’s popular battle royale shooter Apex Legends saw a massive surge in its playerbase following the launch of Season 14 last month. Season 14: Hunted featured the addition of a new sniper Legend named Vantage and her echolocating bat companion, Echo. The huge influx of players pushed Apex Legends’ peak player concurrency numbers to an all-time high of 511,676 [...]
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Multiplayer has been a hot topic for Halo Infinite players since the game launched last year without a co-op campaign. This even led to a very heated debate that quickly escalated into a full-blown flame war between players and developers. Developer 343 Industries managed to somewhat pacify the community when they started beta testing for the first-person shooter’s local multiplayer [...]
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Survival shooters seem to be all the rage these days as NetEase officially launches another addition to the genre called Lost Light. The military-themed third-person shooter is now available worldwide on PC and mobile devices after nearly a year in open beta, promising high-risk, high reward gameplay that focuses on survival, warfighting, and progression. Lost Light features a massive open [...]
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Survival sandbox fans have something to look forward to this weekend as Chinese developer Nuverse kicks off closed beta testing for Earth: Revival, a sci-fi survival MMO set in a post-apocalyptic Earth ravaged by aliens. “Set in 2112, Earth: Revival takes place on a ravaged and destroyed planet Earth, a result of an intergalactic conflict with a mysterious alien species. [...]
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It’s time to hop aboard your Arthurian mech suit and strap in for Early Access launch as Galahad 3093 makes its official debut on Steam. The team-based tactical mech shooter pits players against one another as Knights who pilot massive, mechanized suits called Lances. The Early Access build features eight playable Lances, seven dynamic maps, and hundreds of customization options, [...]
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Hearthstone has kicked off its second battleground season with its new, highly-criticized monetization system that makes a significant change to how players can purchase the new season pass. For Season 1, season passes could originally be bought directly using real-world money. In Season 2, however, players will first need to purchase premium currency called Runestones which they can then use [...]
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Co-op shooters are looking to make a comeback as yet another addition to the sub-genre comes to Steam next month called Rift Sweepers. The upcoming third-person shooter is being developed by South Korean action RPG studio Jofsoft and will pit teams of up to four players against interdimensional errmm… things. The game’s Steam blurb doesn’t really elaborate on what you’ll [...]
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Atomic Heart is an upcoming first-person shooter from Russian development studio Mundfish that explores an alternate version of the 1950s where the USSR managed to get hold of hyper-advanced technology following the conclusion of World War II. This has led to the establishment of a seemingly perfect utopian society where robots have made life easier, everyone is happy, and science [...]
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Back 4 Blood has spewed out a new DLC today called Children of the Worm that comes with a new campaign act, new enemies, new weapons, and a new character in the form of a mustached prophet of the apocalypse named Dan. “Children of the Worm features a brand-new Campaign story – Act 5 that puts you into an epic [...]
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Kakao Games is running another limited-time open beta test for their upcoming sci-fi survival FPS Dysterra on Steam this week. The beta test is now live and will run until Sunday, September 4th. Like most survival shooters, Dysterra will drop players into a post-apocalyptic setting where they’ll need to loot, craft, and build to survive. The game’s free-for-all PvP mechanics [...]
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