Chris Neal
SGF 2024: FragPunk is a 5v5 hero shooter from NetEase featuring power-up cards that ‘bend the rules of combat’
It's a widely held belief that competitive team shooters must achieve a perfect sense of balance, tuning weapons, abilities, maps, and mechanics in a...
Evercore Heroes highlights the roly-poly Beko, discusses its magic and death systems
The upcoming retooled co-op roguelike Evercore Heroes will require players to take up one of three roles: tank, DPS, or healer. So who will...
Polaris is an upcoming four-player PvE shooter featuring fully destructible environments
Yes, we've got another upcoming multiplayer shooter on our hands, but this one might have enough interesting wrinkles to it to raise it above...
SGF 2024: Multiplayer RTS Stormgate debuts opening cinematic and Celestials faction
The beginning of this year saw hungry RTS fans toss all of the money at Stormgate, an upcoming multiplayer strategy game from developer Frost...
The Quinfall offers a video overview of farming, animal husbandry, and building a personal plot
Sandbox MMORPG Quinfall has once more shared a narration-free video preview, this time offering interested fans a look at how to stake a claim...
Warhammer Return of Reckoning celebrates 10 years with a week of freebies and boosts
It's official: The rogue server that is Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning has now lived twice as long as the original MMORPG, as the...
Project Gorgon lowers base price, offers new character slot DLC
Sales happen on Steam all of the time, but in the case of the indie sandbox MMORPG darling Project: Gorgon, we're talking a wholesale...
EVE Online shares Equinox patch notes, talks quality-of-life, confirms phased rollout of sovereignty features
The Equinox content update is just around the corner for EVE Online players, which means that CCP Games is kicking out a couple of...
The Stream Team: Obtaining Final Fantasy XIV’s wobbliest piece of headgear ever
What sort of person would put a big, wobbly, blue slime king on their head? Out in public? MOP's Chris and his crew, that's...
SGF 2024: Monster Hunter Wilds debuts a new large monster, confirms cross-platform play
It looks as if Monster Hunter Wilds is going in on showing off as many new things as possible for the 2025 edition of...
Destiny 2 dates the start of several activities and crowns its world first raid winner
Got a calendar handy? You might want to, especially if you're a Destiny 2 player because Bungie's weekly newsletter has got some dates for...
SGF 2024: The First Descendant confirms a July 2 launch date in new cinematic trailer
There were no shortage of shooter titles showcased during this year's Summer Game Fest presentation, but there was one that we have been paying...
‘Fitness MMORPG’ WalkScape kicks off a second closed beta test and shares a new roadmap
Over the past year we've been keeping an eye on WalkScape, a self-described "fitness MMORPG" that very clearly takes some inspiration from an elder...
Monster Hunter Now adds the gunlance weapon, new large monsters, and a new season June 13
While most fans are arguably casting their eyes in the direction of the next mainline RPG in the series, things in the mobile ARG...
The Stream Team: A quick run through the Wayfinder Echoes update
Usually we're not in the business of highlighting single-player offline gaming here at OPTV, but for today's stream we're making an exception because Wayfinder...
BitCraft delays its second closed alpha test to July 8
The second closed alpha test for social-focused survival sandbox BitCraft has changed a couple of times before, as studio Clockwork Labs first stated it...
Black Desert simplifies gathering and fishing on PC, brings a plant centaur boss fight to mobile
If you're all about those life skills in Black Desert on PC, or if you've never thought to try them out, then you're likely...
MMO Burnout: Cozy Caravan brings an incomplete yet instantly charming chore-filled break
One of my dream jobs in sandbox MMORPGs is to run logistics. Whether it's flying space trucks around or steering a caravan, delivering goods...
Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal mark their respective anniversaries with March of the Goblins events
Blizzard is combining two anniversaries into one this week, as both Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal have been in operation for one and two...
Multiplayer gacha RPG Wuthering Waves outlines plans to improve gameplay, reduce grind, and fix issues
A couple of weeks ago we reported on the launch of Wuthering Waves, a gacha-filled co-op RPG from developer Kuro Games for PC and...