It’s been six years since Epic Games pulled the plug on Paragon and added the third-person MOBA’s assets to the Unreal Engine 4 toolkit. Plenty of clones and recreations have popped up since then, nearly all of which failed to capture the attention of the masses. One such clone is Predecessor, the flagship game of London-based indie developer Omeda Studios [...]
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Elite: Dangerous players scored a major win in the long-running Thargoid War last week when they successfully destroyed the first of the invaders’ Titan ships, the Taranis Titan. It took roughly a week to whittle the massive alien ship’s health down to zero, but it was a week well spent as everyone who engaged the ships’ heat source at least [...]
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Tribes 3: Rivals, the latest game in the sci-fi FPS series, has officially launched into Steam Early Access 12 years after the last game and 25 years after the first game in the series came out. The early access launch is accompanied by a development roadmap that spans the remaining months until the end of Q2 2024. The rest of [...]
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V Rising is finally rising from the confines of early access and into full release on May 8, in line with its Q2 2024 launch window. Version 1.0 will mark the multiplayer vampire survival game’s second major update and will come just a few days shy of its second anniversary on May 17. That’s quite a wait for an update, [...]
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Overwatch 2 kicked off its highly publicized Cowboy Bebop crossover event with a surprise game mode in tow – the Hero Mastery: Gauntlet. The new game mode pits up to three players against waves of bots in a 10-round tower defense battle with randomized bots, upgrades, and towers. “Hero Mastery: Gauntlet is a new co-op game mode where players work [...]
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SMITE 2 is gearing up for the start of alpha testing this spring and is now selling founder packs with guaranteed access to the upcoming playtests. Like SMITE, its sequel will launch as a free-to-play game so you can opt to pass on the founder packs unless you really want to get into the alpha tests or would like to [...]
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Hellbreach: Vegas is a new co-op horror shooter that might just be the spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead 2 that we’ve all been waiting for. It just launched into Steam Early Access and is being developed by the one-man Infinity Ape Studios. The main game mode follows the same format as L4D2’s co-op campaign, pitting a team of up [...]
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It’s been a pretty eventful week in Helldivers 2 with the launch of its first balance update and the unexpected arrival of mechs. Yesterday saw another update hit the live servers that addressed complaints over the recent weapon nerfs by also nerfing heavily armored Terminids like the Bile Titan, Charger, and Annihilator Tanks. Shortly after the update’s release, Arrowhead Games [...]
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Conan Exiles is bringing its Age of War saga to a close with the launch of its fourth and final chapter on April 2. Chapter 4 will introduce the final piece of the Stygian invasion narrative through the new Sacred Hunt seasonal event. The Sacred Hunt comes with its own event hub where players will be able to purchase event [...]
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NCSoft is kicking off the second beta test for its cutely chaotic battle royale game, Battle Crush, later this month and will be keeping the servers persistently open this time around. The playtest will run from March 21 to March 28, promising 24-hour testing and plenty of improvements over the first beta test based on player feedback and their own [...]
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