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NCsoft is porting its MOBA Master X Master to the West

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NCsoft has just announced that it's porting Master X Master, its MOBA, to western shores "later this year." https://twitter.com/PlayMXM/status/692347333556715520 The MOBA brings together characters from multiple...
Happiness is a warm - yes it is - gun!

Perfect World Entertainment announces Livelock, a top-down cooperative shooter

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How do you feel about robots shooting other robots? If you would rate your feelings in that department as "Strongly Positive" or better, you...
Happy first patch to you, game.

Blade & Soul’s first major patch arrives on February 10th

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The great part about games that were localized after being out in their native country for some time is that there's no dearth of...

Perfect World toys with ‘Livelock’ twitter teases

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Perfect World Entertainment is up to something. The company has retweeted a tease Twitter account, @PlayLivelock, which has been tweeting out sci-fi nonsense about...

Nexon announces Riders of Icarus, an aerial combat, action-adventure MMORPG

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Nexon has just announced a new "free-to-play action-adventure MMORPG" Riders of Icarus, whose highlight is apparently "exhilarating aerial combat unlike anything ever seen before...
Much like TERA, having a discussion about this game's attitude towards women is mostly a matter of shaking your head in exasperation.

Leaderboard: What’s your opinion of Blade & Soul, one week in?

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On Friday, we updated our beta impressions of Blade & Soul with fresh impressions after a week of play, and the underlying theme of...

Get your time travel on with Dark Era

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While time travel has certainly been done as part of MMO quests, could an entire game revolve around the sci-fi concept? Dark Era, a...

Overpower melds fantasy arena matches with RPG progression

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Is your MMO a little on the slow side? Need a jolt of excitement and danger to go with your love of RPG progression?...

The Black Death takes survival games to a grim era

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Survival games aren't always the cheeriest of places (after all, you have to have something to survive against), but a new game might make...
I want to like you a lot.

Launch impressions of Blade & Soul: Combat, story, questing, and flow

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Every time I play Blade & Soul, I'm really playing a different game, which I dub Why Don't I Like You More? The object...
Into the sunset.

City of Steam is shuttering on January 31st

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In the heady days of yesteryear, we believed that removing the need to download a client would be the key to unlocking more people...

Here’s how Hero’s Song’s gods and races work according to Smed

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How do gods work in Hero's Song? What races can you play? John Smedley's just posted a new and lengthy explanation on both to Reddit. In his upcoming...

Paladins aims for more MOBA-like gameplay, less customisation

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When Hi-Rez Studios first revealed its upcoming online shooter Paladins, people immediately started comparing it to Overwatch and the slew of MOBAs on the...

Sacrament splits its game world up by tiers, introduces the Sniper

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The "jack of all trades" indie MMO Sacrament is still in its design docs stage, occasionally releasing batches of information and concept art to...

Smed’s OARPG Hero’s Song adds $15 Kickstarter pledge tier

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Were you a little puzzled by the fact that the Kickstarter for Smed's OARPG Hero's Song was offering a $25 base pledge when the...

Check out post-apoc sci-fi MMORPG Trinium Wars’ reveal trailer

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Sci-fi and fantasy post-apoc fans are in for a treat today as Hanmaru Soft and InselGames have formally announced Trinium Wars for PC. Touting...

Pixelart OARPG Dragon of Legends launches on Kickstarter

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Smed's not the only one launching a pixelart OARPG on Kickstarter today: Thrive Games has just revealed Dragon of Legends. Dragon of Legends is an...
Pre-burned.

Interview: Fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss is working on Smed’s OARPG, Hero’s Song

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Among the dream team John Smedley assembled for Hero's Song -- studio Pixelmage's new 2-D open-world ARPG -- is Patrick Rothfuss, an acclaimed fantasy author who rocketed to stardom...

Exclusive Interview: John Smedley reveals Hero’s Song, his new open-world OARPG

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Today, we finally learn what John Smedley has been working on since he resigned from his decades-long role at Daybreak. The industry veteran has founded indie...

Giveaway: Clash of Avatars open beta bundle keys

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A few weeks ago, we mentioned that Clash of Avatars, a cutesy anime browser MMORPG, had entered alpha, and today, it's heading into open beta....