Previews

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The Survivalist: Hands-on with survival MMO Rend’s closed alpha

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It's been nearly a year since I met with Frostkeep Studios at PAX West and got an early first-hand look at Rend, the three-faction...

Previewing Rend: Frostkeep studio visit, early access, PvP, factions, and more

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If something goes wrong with Frostkeep's early access launch of Rend, blame me. While I was at the office, I distracted Co-Founders Jeremy Wood and...

Rummaging through Rend: Alpha impressions of Frostkeep’s blissfully social survival MMO

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Early access for Rend is just around the corner, which means hype for the game is picking up. Frostkeep recently invited us to check out its...

Exploring Pokemon Go’s real-life communities: MOP staffers revisit the game from opposite corners of the world

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It's year two of Pokemon Go. While there's always room for improvement, enough has changed that I feel comfortable recommending the game to at...

TennoCon 2018: Deep-diving Warframe’s Fortuna and Railjack

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Many fans, including me, are talking about still riding high after Warframe's amazing TennoCon 2018 announcements this past weekend. That was some pretty epic...

TennoCon 2018: Warframe enhances sights and sounds with new skins, ‘Frames, pet skins, music, and more

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What does a great game look like to you? More and more it looks like Warframe to me. Looks and sounds like I should...

Pokemon Go’s second anniversary report card sees high marks for content and innovation

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Today is Pokemon Go's second-year anniversary. Last year's report card had to grapple with things like the game's rapid rise and fall as a fad,...

The Soapbox: The western port of Bless Online feels like a curse

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To say that the development of Neowiz’s high-fantasy MMO Bless has been somewhat beleaguered would be an understatement. Since the Korean import’s Western release...

Interview: Worlds Adrift’s Bossa Studios on giving, griefing, and gittin’ gud

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After the launch of Worlds Adrift but prior to E3, we sent off an interview to Bossa Studios and recently received our answers, complete...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Our preview of Guild Wars 2’s Long Live the Lich, now live

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We've waited out the short delay, and today's the day when we get our hands on the third episode of Guild Wars 2's fourth Living...

Massively Overthinking: Massively OP’s E3 2018 awards

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We've finished rolling out all of our E3 2018 content this year, save a few last stragglers coming this weekend, so now we've chosen...

E3 2018: Hands-on with Descent, the future of space mining

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Fallout 76 wasn't the only Interplay throwback at E3 2018: Descent, one of the games that defined the six degrees of freedom genre, is no longer...

E3 2018: Hands-on with ReEvolve, Perfect World’s new mobile sandbox MMORPG

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Remember how we learned that Perfect World would be showing off some new games at E3? Well, things happen at conventions like this -...

E3 2018: Hands-on with the superb (and hopefully Switch-bound) Black Desert Mobile

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While I've had kind words to say about the potential for mobile in the past - particularly MMOARGs - I just haven't been able...

E3 2018: Hands-on with Funcom’s upcoming Mutant Year Zero

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Apparently, GDC was good to Funcom, The Bearded Ladies, and Mutant: Year Zero. The teams had originally thought to skip E3 this year, but...

E3 2018: Hands-on with Ubisoft’s open-world pirate PvP game Skull & Bones

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So, you want to be a pirate, but Sea of Thieves isn't your cup of tea? If the issue was PvP, well, you're probably out of...

E3 2018: Hands-on with Pokemon Let’s Go

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You know with my being the one at this year's E3 that this would happen. A console Pokemon game that also connects to Pokemon Go?...

E3 2018: Hands-on with Super Smash Bros Ultimate

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With all the online talk about Nintendo this year, it feels only fitting to give Nintendo's Super Smash Bros Ultimate a little time. We've talked recently...
To blathe.

E3 2018: Hands-on with Bethsoft’s Elder Scrolls: Blades (yes, in portrait mode)

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Out of all the announcements Bethesda had at its pre-E3 presser, The Elder Scrolls: Blades was the last title I thought we'd be offered. Oh, we...

Tamriel Infinium: With Elder Scrolls Online’s Summerset, more of the same is a good thing

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Today is the formal launch day for Summerset! My goal during the PC early access was to finish the main storyline, and I'm happy...