New Games

Here’s the stuff we’d never heard of before we covered it for the first time here. You wanted bleeding edge… here it is! [Follow this category’s RSS feed]

Wild Buster is a new MMO made by Mad Libs, apparently

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If you can't create anything new, just slap together a lot of other things until you get something that sounds and feels vaguely fresh....

Crystal of Re:union is a mobile MMO that enlists Hercules and Joan of Arc

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Looking to "enhance and overwhelm" your foes? Then keep an eye on Crystal of Re:union, an up-and-coming mobile MMORPG that's being developed for release...
WORK THAT SOUL OR SOMETHING

SoulWorker is readying for beta in North America at the end of 2017

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When you see the title SoulWorker, does your brain immediately re-translate it to "Social Worker" and picture an MMO wherein you spend your time...

Dauntless’ founder alpha has begun

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Don't miss our hands-on with Dauntless from E3!We've been keeping an eye on Dauntless, the sci-fantasy online co-op action RPG from the former BioWare,...
Bad taste?

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds whupped League of Legends on Twitch last week

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Playerunknown's Battlegrounds may have one of the worst video game names in history, but it set a new record on Twitch last week. Gameloco founder...

Retro shooter Keystone rebrands as The Amazing Eternals ahead of founder beta

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Remember back in 2015 when a gamer sneaked into Digital Extremes' headquarters and wandered around for a day, tricking the unassuming Canadian devs into...

Destiny 2 teases PC open beta with sweet Nvidia trailer

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Hey, graphics junkies and PC fans. Are you hyped for Destiny 2's PC launch yet? In case you're not, Bungie and Nvidia have a...

Ubisoft on Skull and Bones’ business model, ‘treasure chest’ lootboxes, and live events

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If you thought that Ubisoft's Skull and Bones pirate MMO wasn't going to have lootboxes, seriously, what rock are you living under? (And is...

Kingdom of Loathing spin-off West of Loathing launches

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Sinister clowns. Demon cows. Filthy spittoons. You know you're intrigued already, but why stop at mere words when a world of western stick figures...

The Stream Team: Lucius Fox’s fate in Telltale’s Batman The Enemy Within

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Oh man, did we ever end on a cliff hanger yesterday while streaming Batman: The Enemy Within - The TellTale Series! We've had some great...

The Stream Team: Digging into Batman: The Enemy Within – The TellTale Series

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Let's solve some crimes and make up rhymes as TellTale Games pits Batman, Andrew, and our Crowd Play audience against the Riddler in the newest...
So... bye.

LawBreakers picks up positive Steam reviews, stutter issues on PS4

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In spite of the fact that Boss Key is still trying to make that #skilledaf hashtag a thing on Twitter, Nexon/CliffyB's brand-new shooter LawBreakers appears to...

Snail releases trailer for PixArk, its Minecraft-ARK Survival Evolved mashup

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What's that squishy sound? Oh yeah, it's the sound of an IP being milked. I'm talking about Snail Games' new Minecraft clone PixArk, which...

Lineage Eternal delayed again, Guild Wars 2 mobile game teased

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Steparu is reporting on a Korean-language piece today that suggests Lineage Eternal is once again in do-over mode. According to the report, NCsoft has gutted...

LawBreakers officially launches today; here’s the new ‘Skilled AF’ trailer

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The Nexon-backed, Cliff Bleszinski-led online shooter LawBreakers is finally live today on both PC (Steam) and PlayStation 4. The game is just shy of...

Destiny 2’s Pop-Tarts and energy drink promo is everything wrong with this industry

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Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine! This is not a joke: ActiBlizz just sent 'round a press release announcing a partnership with Rockstar energy drinks...
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GTAO profits are soaring, but we still don’t know whether Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to PC

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It's still not a sure thing that Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming to PC. During its recent earnings call, Rockstar parent company Take Two heaped...

Dean Hall’s Stationeers don’t want no scrubs

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DayZ's Dean Hall says his new sci-fi survivalbox Stationeers is launching early access in September, and he isn't sugarcoating the game's difficulty. You might remember...

Massively multiplayer wargame Foxhole hits early access

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MMOs these days shy away from calling themselves massively multiplayer, so it's always strange when a game that we wouldn't assume is an MMO...
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First Impressions: Splatoon 2 is a lobby shooter for socializers

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After my hands-on at E3 and experience with the first Splatfest demo, I was a little concerned about Splatoon 2. I loved Splatoon 1, but something about...