Fortnite’s throwback OG Season has ended in an explosive note after another world-ending black hole swallows the original island with a new one set to take its place later today. It’s not the end of the original island though as Epic Games promises to bring it back next year, likely heralded by another glitchy time-travelling multiverse event. “The OG season [...]
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Star Citizen broke its year-to-date crowdfunding record when it raked in $28.4 million in sales last month, with its annual Intergalactic Aerospace Expo doing the heavy lifting. Sales are also expected to surpass last year’s figures, assuming that December turns out to be at least as profitable as the past month. So far, the still in-development MMO has raised a [...]
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RocketWerkz’ co-op survival game, Icarus, is celebrating its 2nd anniversary by allowing everyone to drop onto the hostile Earth-like planet of Prometheus for free throughout the weekend. If you’re curious about the game, now would be a good time to check it out as the free-play event will only run until December 4th. “ICARUS is a PvE survival game for [...]
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Under a Rock is a colorful new open-world multiplayer survival crafting game from Chinese indie developer Nordic Trolls and Gameforge. Players take on the role of early 19th century hot air balloon explorers stranded on a mysterious island where magic is real and creatures have evolved differently from the rest of the world. Nordic Trolls describes it as, “A procedural [...]
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Islands of Insight is an upcoming shared-world adventure game where players will work together to solve a variety of puzzles as they explore floating islands and unravel the mysteries of the fantasy world. The puzzles will range from logic problems to perspective riddles, mazes, platforming challenges, and more. “Each [puzzle] is carefully placed and thoughtfully crafted to be relaxing, challenging, [...]
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Survival horror game Sons of the Forest will be moving out of early access and making the leap to full release on February 22nd, just two days before it celebrates its 1st anniversary. The full release version will include updated story content as well as several new quality-of-life improvements and gameplay adjustments based on feedback gathered during its year-long stint [...]
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Hi-Rez Studios is resurrecting Dynamix’s Tribes sci-fi shooter series when Tribes 3: Rivals launches on Steam next year. The first game in the series, Starsiege: Tribes, came out way back in 1998 and was followed by four more games, the last of which was 2012’s Tribes: Ascend. Hi-Rez apparently snapped up the IP since then and tasked its subsidiary Prophecy [...]
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Winter is coming to Palia (whitewalkers not included) as the cozy free-to-play MMO prepares to kick off its first winter event. The event will roll out in phases over the next few weeks, starting with the first fall of snow in Kilima Village and the beginning of Winterlight celebrations. Players can look forward to various seasonal activities like snowball fights [...]
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HAWKED, My.Games first entry into the extraction shooter market, has officially launched into early access on Steam and the My.Games launcher. The colorful free-to-play title looks a lot like an Indiana Jones-inspired version of Fortnite minus the sky-bases and building mechanics. In HAWKED, players are dropped into a mysterious island in search of ancient relics from a long-lost civilization. As [...]
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With only three months to go until Nightingale’s early access launch, Inflexion Games wants to make sure that the servers are up to the task with an upcoming stress test set for the beginning of the year. According to the studio, the goal of the playtest is to “break the portal network” and rigorously test the servers’ capabilities to help [...]
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