Halo Infinite players eagerly awaiting the chance to take on the campaign together with their friends will have to wait a while longer as 343 Industries pushes back today’s co-op beta due to last minute issues. Community Director Brian Jarrard announced the delay on Twitter, saying that they’re still hoping to get the beta test up and running later this [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment has pulled the plug on Heroes of the Storm, its first entry into the MOBA market, after seven years of live service. The game is now in maintenance mode, like Starcraft and Starcraft 2, which means that it will no longer be updated with new content except for new seasons, hero rotations, and balance patches. “In the future, [...]
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Almost a year ago, Nexon announced a new sci-fi fantasy co-op looter shooter for PC and consoles codenamed Project Magnum. The game was also one of the new games showcased by the South Korean developer back in August 2021. Back then, it wasn’t clear whether the game would be coming to the west but now we’ve got confirmation in the [...]
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On July 8, 2022 Pearl Abyss announced that their fantasy themed Battle Royale title Shadow Arena was shutting down. The Black Desert Online spinoff was first revealed at G-Star in November 2019 and was released into Early Access in May 2020. Now, about two years since launch the game is scheduled to shut down. Game download and in-game currency purchases [...]
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Several Hearthstone players who’ve been inactive for quite a while have reportedly received a bundle of card packs for free upon logging in to Battle.net. Some players received 150 card packs while others received just 20 free packs as a “welcome back gift” from Blizzard. The free card packs are apparently part of a marketing test being run by Blizzard. [...]
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“I’ll be back,” one of the most iconic lines from the Terminator movies. The infamous cyborg assassin is once again returning, not as a movie (God knows we’ve had enough of those.), but as a new open world survival game called the Terminator Survival Project from French video game publisher and developer Nacon. Whether that’s a working title or the [...]
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Klang Games has raised an additional $41 million in Series C funding which will go towards the development of its SpatialOS colony sandbox MMO, SEED. “Set in the new world of Avesta, SEED offers players a platform where they can explore, participate in a player-driven economy, self-govern, and contribute to their community. SEED is experienced through its AI-driven virtual humans, [...]
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This past weekend, Ubisoft announced that it was ending online support for some of its older games, including several Assassin’s Creed titles and the city-building sim Anno 2070 among others. It looks like there’s some internal disagreement with the latter though as the game’s German developer, Ubisoft Mainz, has decided to try keep the lights on themselves. “After an initial [...]
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Aside from pitting players against vampires instead of zombies or aliens, Redfall has a few other unique features that help set it apart from other co-op first-person shooters. Publisher Bethesda Softworks touts these features in the studio’s new dev blog. “An open world packed with mystery, a diverse roster of heroes to choose from, strategic combat that will keep you [...]
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Ensuring a game is balanced in all aspects is a never-ender ending challenge for developers, especially for PvP games like The Cycle: Frontier. It’s a challenge that the dev team is diving head first into following the start of the PvPvE shooter’s first season. Creative Director Dan Banefelt and Senior Combat Designer Michel Nohra talks about work being done in [...]
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