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]

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...

Sci-fi shooter Project Genom begins alpha testing

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Why can't intergalactic colonization ever go smoothly? There always seems to be at least one continent-shattering war that has to happen before the first...

Meet the MMO that lives in Second Life

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Welcome to MMOception: an MMO within an MMO (or if you want to get technical, an MMO within a "virtual world"), By using scripting and the...

Music Man Online beckons players to dance and date

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Music Man Online -- a game that has a delightfuly confusing acronym, by the way -- has very little to do with 76 trombones...
Ascent

Ascent is MMO space simming done right

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My favorite thing about Ascent: The Space Game is its planetary rotation. It's a small thing, granted, but the first time I sat still...
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Infestation: Survivor Stories morphs into Romero’s Aftermath

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Seriously, folks, we couldn't make this up even if we tried. The critically reviled Infestation: Survivor Stories, which used to be The War Z...

Ghost in the Shell Online: First Connection nearing Korean CBT

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The popular anime franchise Ghost in the Shell will be making the transition to an MMOFPS: It prepares to start its first Korean closed...

Halo Online is coming to Russia only

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Several years ago Halo fans were excited to learn that their favorite franchise was set to receive the MMO treatment. While that project ultimately...