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]

Spatium is a space sandbox survival MMO on Kickstarter

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Spatium is a new MMO thing on Kickstarter, and while MMO Kickstarters are a dime a dozen these days, this one might just stand...

Rusty Hearts returns… sort of

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A few gamer spirits were broken in September 2014 when Rusty Hearts was shuttered by Perfect World Entertainment. Now those souls might have a chance at...

MMO Burnout: Star Wars Battlefront

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I'm kind of in love with Star Wars: Battlefront. I shouldn't be, really, because underneath the glitz and gloss, it's a pretty pedestrian multiplayer...

Pangaea: New World is a post-apoc MMO action thing

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I have a hard time spelling Pangaea. Incidentally, Pangaea: New World is a new free-to-play Unreal-powered "MMO action game" from LVR Studio. A company...

Smedley’s new game won’t have microtransactions

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John Smedley's Twitter account continues to provide interesting food for thought related to his next project as well as the industry in general. The...

Stash combines tabletop gaming, infinite leveling, and turn-based combat

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If you have been looking for an MMO that's different in just about every way conceivable and draws upon nearly two decades of operating...

Lineage II: ‘Classic hardcore is back’

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Lineage II formally launched on Steam this week, complete with a fresh-start server, Zaken. There are even server firsts rewards, mostly pirate-themed goodies, for those...

Escape from Tarkov brings realistic military action to MMOs

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There's a new player on the MMO scene, and this bad boy wants to do military action right. The game in question is Escape from...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s immediate future

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I imagine that the launch of Heart of Thorns was quite a bittersweet event for the ArenaNet gang: The sense of relief and celebration...

Dogma: Eternal Night brings MMO vampires to Kickstarter

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Do you need a game that's so dark that if it were any darker it'd be a pure black rectangle on your monitor? Are...

Arabic-language MMO Areeb World releases on Steam

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It's not common at all to see Arabic-language MMOs release in the west, which is why the recently released Areeb World might merit some attention. The...

Not So Massively: LoL pro Doublelift kicked from e-sports team (November 2, 2015)

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Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...

Cibele looks at falling in love in MMOs

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Last week we asked you if you had ever been in a relationship with someone that you met through an MMO. This apparently was...
I suppose the alternative of saying that this was a poor decision wouldn't have worked.

Asta’s producers have hopes that the game will find its audience in the west

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The situation with Asta is an unusual one - it's an import, but it certainly failed to find its audience within its native land,...

MMO Burnout: Rebel Galaxy

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I wanted to like Rebel Galaxy more than I do. That's not to say it's a bad game at all; on the contrary it fills...
Maybe that's the horrible, fundamental blade that sits at the heart of every nudge forward. That if you're forced to really ask yourself for honesty, you realize that love is just a word you use to justify doing hard work for someone who never thanks you in a way you find meaningful or satisfying.

The Park is not single-player The Secret World, but it might be even better

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Let's just put our cards on the table: The Park is not the single-player offering that The Secret World fans have been clamoring for...

Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns launch diary: How to fix an expansion iteratively

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I know I promised you an entry that focused on the changes to the in-game economy as my next installment to the Heart of Thorns...

Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns launch diary: Gaining masteries and lessening the grind

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I've had the whole weekend with Heart of Thorns now, and I'm progressing very nicely in both the story and masteries. I've still yet to...

Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns launch diary: Initial impressions

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I've now put a solid day of playtime into Heart of Thorns, so I decided that it was finally time for the first of my...

‘Hardcore Russian’ MMO Sphere 3 aims at open beta

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Do you often find yourself bemoaning the carebear environment of current MMOs and missing the "good old days" of unrelenting player killing across virtual...