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Hands-on: Blade & Soul’s western port is a cheerful cliche storm (and I want to play more)

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I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing Blade & Soul just moving around. Most of the time in a given game, I'm moving around because...
Much like TERA, having a discussion about this game's attitude towards women is mostly a matter of shaking your head in exasperation.

Blade & Soul hits western shores this winter

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Remember when comic books had little call-outs on the front cover proudly proclaiming that something happened because the readers requested it? I always thought...

Voxelnauts Kickstarter melds VR, voxels, and sandbox gameplay

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What do you get when you stick a sandbox, voxels, and VR into a blender? You get Voxelnauts, a new voxelbox -- actually, they're calling...
AND NOW - I DIE!

Betawatch: May 15th, 2015

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I'm not going to lie to you, dear readers: I don't care much about Star Citizen. I am aware, though, that the actual big news...

Rodinia War melds strategy and fantasy action

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What flavors go well together? Peanut butter and chocolate, obviously. Sarcasm and stand-up comedians. Mario and mushrooms. And now, apparently, builder games and MMORPGs. This...
At this point every free-to-play game is different from the others by not offering a gameplay advantage for paying money.

Dragon of Legends will be a cross-platform pixel MMO

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If you like pixel art and the promise of being able to play an MMO on both mobile and desktop clients, you should probably...
So of course this picture features neither trees nor much life.

Tree of Life is available on Steam

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If you wake up in the morning and find yourself just unable to get enough early access sandbox titles to whet your appetite, you'll...

Metal Reaper Online shoots up the apocalypse

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When competing factions end up crashing a space station into the earth and triggering a nuclear war, the result is a hotbed of action,...
All right, but there are certain questions asked vis-a-vis budgets here.

Empyrean Rule combines RTS gameplay with a persistent world

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You can't accuse the makers of Empyrean Rule of thinking small. Instead of trying to just create a persistent fantasy sandbox for $40,000, the...

Brunelleschi is the staging ground for a ‘Mythic Renaissance’ civilization

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Set in a "mythic Renaissance" that blends together history and fantasy, Brunelleschi: Age of Architects is an ambitious social builder that aims to give...

Anatomy of Murder dares you to solve a murder mystery for cash

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Think you're the world's greatest sleuth since Sherlock? Then you might want to try your hand at a new massive online murder mystery challenge,...

The Saga of Lucimia focuses on ‘group-based emergent gameplay’

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The days of coddling solo players through a massively multiplayer experience are over -- at least according to one upstart indie MMO. Meet The Saga...

Novus Inceptio gives you an alien world to rebuild

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There's something about the apocalypse that makes a world 100% more awesome, isn't there? People get more creative, previously undeveloped mutated powers come into...
GTA Online

GTA Online: All the open world feels, none of the MMO grind

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Any minute now I'm going to log out of Grand Theft Auto Online so I can finish this not-a-review. Seriously, I've played this game...
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Land of Britain shows off new UE4 screenshots

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Wondering why the Land of Britain developers have gone quiet? Probably not, as we hadn't covered the title before today. Regardless, we have an...

Not So Massively: Star Wars Battlefront is revealed; GTA 5 beats Skyrim

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It's been a big week for competitive play in MOBAs. League of Legends opened the registration on its European Battlegrounds tournament and lifted the...

El Somni Quas developers issue a design manifesto

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We introduced El Somni Quas to you last week -- it's an old school sandbox created by an indie team in the Czech Republic. But...
Games of Glory

Games of Glory ‘SHMOBA’ features persistent universe, shooter mechanics

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Are you in the market for a new MOBA? Developer Lightbulb Crew is making one called Games of Glory and it's coming to Steam...

Spirit Lords is an adorable mobile ARPG by SWTOR’s Daniel Erickson

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Jonesing for a fun mobile Diablo-like title? Then it might behoove you to check out the recently released Spirit Lords on both iOS and...

El Somni Quas draws upon classic Ultima Online for an old-school MMO experience

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It's interesting to see how players who have grown up under the influence of certain MMOs are now making their own games drawing from...

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