Marvel Snap developer Second Dinner, a studio headed by former Hearthstone game director Ben Brode, has secured a sizable investment during its Series B funding round earlier this week to the tune of $100 million. The funding round was led by investment firm Griffin Gaming Partners who have now partnered with Second Dinner on future projects. The investment couldn’t have [...]
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Eleon Game Studios has partnered with Funcom to publish its co-op space survival sandbox game Empyrion. The indie studio tried but failed to raise funds for the game via Kickstarter in 2014, but surprisingly still managed to launch the game to positive reviews in August 2020. Now, its managed to secure support from the Conan Exiles and Dune: Awakening developer. [...]
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Hi-Rez subsidiary Prophecy Games held another Tribes 3: Rivals playtest over the weekend where fans were able to take recent improvements for a test drive. That included various tweaks to movement, weapons, loadouts, turrets, and maps, along with a whole host of bug fixes. Now that the playtest has come to an end, feedback to report that feedback has come [...]
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Mainframe Industries is now putting the final touches on Pax Dei as it prepares for the social sandbox MMO’s early access launch. That’s happening sometime this spring as the team confirmed in their latest dev blog. As with most early access releases, the studio is hoping to get continuous feedback as it works to bring their vision for the game [...]
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A new duping exploit in ARK: Survival Ascended has forced Studio Wildcard to roll the servers back by eight hours yesterday to partially repair the damage caused by the exploit on the official server economies. “With the deployment happening now, we are conducting a service-wide rollback on our official network of approximately eight hours to reduce the damage caused by [...]
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Multiplayer ARPG Last Epoch is marching onward to full release in February and developer Eleventh Hour Games will be paving the road to launch with a series of feature previews for Version 1.0. The preview parade starts on January 11 with an in-depth developer blog on the three item factions to that will be introduced on launch day. The team [...]
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Multiplayer dino shooter Exoprimal is inviting players to take on a brutal new challenge in the form of a new Savage Gauntlet called Trial 21. The special event trial will be available until January 8 and is accessible to teams of five players, each of which must have completed the main storyline. You and your team must defeat the trial’s [...]
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2023 was a big year for Pax Dei as Mainframe Industries held the upcoming social sandbox MMO’s first alpha test with over 12,000 testers invited to participate. The studio promised more things coming this year in its year-ender message to its growing Discord community. According to the developers, several projects and milestones are currently in the works. They didn’t elaborate [...]
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Digital Extremes CEO Steve Sinclair personally treated Soulframe fans to roughly an hours’ worth of live pre-alpha gameplay footage during his Twitch stream this past weekend. During the stream, Sinclair showed off the latest build of the upcoming multiplayer action game as he explored its scenic world, fought enemies, flipped through some of the game’s progression and upgrade menus, and [...]
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Escape from Tarkov rolled out Beta Patch 0.14 last week which might just be its biggest updates since its closed beta launch in 2017. The massive update brought a whole host of new content to the extraction shooter, the highlight of which is a new beginner downtown urban zone called Ground Zero. Ground Zero features towering skyscrapers, restaurants, cafes, stores, [...]
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