Last week, Microsoft announced that it will be launching four Xbox-exclusive titles on the PlayStation 5, including multiplayer pirate game Sea of Thieves. It’s now been confirmed to be launching on Sony’s next-gen console on April 30th. It's Happening: Official Sea of Thieves PS5 Teaser TrailerWatch this video on YouTube “Ready to meet plenty more pirates on the seas? New [...]
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Lightphobe is a new asymmetrical team-based shooter that just launched into early access on Steam from one-man indie developer Mutant Realm Entertainment. The game features classic domination-style mechanics that pits two teams of eight players against each other, with one team taking on the role of heavily armed soldiers and the other as otherworldly creatures called Lightphobes. “A soldier must [...]
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MOBAs have traditionally been small-scale, team-based multiplayer games but Project Gundalf promises to take the genre to the next level as a “next generation massive PvP game”, otherwise known as a MMOBA (Massive Multiplayer Online Battle Arena). Project Gundalf is the flagship game of Swedish indie studio Cult of the North, a newly founded studio whose vision is to create [...]
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Skull and Bones is spicing up 17th century pirate adventure with the start of its inaugural season next week. As previously revealed, Season 1: Raging Tides will revolve around the fictional pirate lord Philippe La Peste who’ll serve as the multiplayer pirate game’s first pirate boss fight. “Philippe La Peste, the dread pirate lord of the Caribbean arrives in the [...]
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As promised, Eleventh Hour Games’ Kickstarted online ARPG Last Epoch has officially launched on Steam after four years in early access. The game is now feature-complete with the release of Version 1.0 which includes all 15 class masteries, a trading system, and visual upgrades. “Last Epoch is a loot-based top-down Action RPG, with 15 different mastery classes, over 120 skills [...]
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Popularity is a double-edged sword in the MMO world, especially when an unexpected horde of players suddenly comes knocking on your door. In the case of Helldivers 2, its congestion issues were further compounded when it kicked off a reward boosting event last weekend as compensation for an earlier reward bug. The FOMO-inducing event saw even more players dive into [...]
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Crema Games hasn’t given up on its Temtem spinoff dreams just yet as it announces a “bullet heaven” co-op game set in the same universe, called Temtem Swarm. The studio’s first attempt at a spinoff came in June 2023 when it launched Temtem Showdown, a PvP battler that allowed players to jump right into multiplayer Tem battles. As with most [...]
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Tencent and Inflexion Games’ Victorian-era survival game, Nightingale, officially launched into early access this week and the community’s reactions was... well, meh. While Steam players acknowledged the game’s potential, they feel that it would benefit from various quality-of-life improvements, a more complex combat system, and more challenging puzzles. The main complaint, however, is the lack of an offline mode and [...]
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When Nightingale launches into early access tomorrow, it will be doing so exclusively on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Since the game is available on Steam, Steam Deck owners are naturally curious as to whether they’ll be able to jump into the Fae Realms on the portable console. The answer is yes and no. The Steam Deck will technically [...]
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Seekers of Skyveil isn’t just changing its entire gameplay loop it’s also switching up its launcher, bumping up its testing pool, and removing the NDA on its ongoing closed alpha tests. The co-op-RPG-turned-extraction game will be making its way to Steam at the end of the month (February 29th since it’s a leap year) and will be sending out keys [...]
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