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Vague Patch Notes: The stuff that has me excited about Stars Reach

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Raph Koster is a smart guy. Not just an experienced one (he's that, too), but a smart one. The man knows his stuff front...

The Stream Team: Entering Nexon’s looter shooter The First Descendant

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It's time for MOP's Chris to get his best sci-fantasy gun and go out hunting! He's hopping in to the recently launched multiplayer looter...

Nexon is handing out compensation for The First Descendant’s messy but popular launch

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So I know you'll be shocked to hear this, but the launch of The First Descendant yesterday did not go perfectly smoothly. I know,...

Nexon’s co-op looter-shooter The First Descendant has officially launched today

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It's launch day for Nexon's The First Descendant, a word I still manage to misspell even after covering this game for at least the...

Raph Koster’s new MMORPG is called Stars Reach, and yes, it’s basically Star Wars Galaxies 2

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It's June 26th, Star Wars Galaxies' 21st birthday, and I'm sitting on Google Meet talking to none other than MMORPG founding father (and SWG...

MOBA-like battle royale Battle Crush begins its free-to-play early access to scathing Steam reviews

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What do you get when you take shrunken mythological heroes as well as a couple of random mascots and pit them against one another...

First impressions of ASKA, Sand Sailor’s brand-new colony-building survival sandbox

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Thanks to the press preview hosted by Thunderful and Sand Sailor, I recently had the opportunity to play around with survival sandbox ASKA a...

SGF 2024: Hands-on with The First Descendant, plus a chat with the Nexon devs

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You thought our Summer Game Fest coverage was over, didn't you? Well, in all fairness, Nexon not only brought The First Descendant to SGF but provided...

Fight or Kite: Battle Crush is a snack-sized take on the mythological battle royale scene

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Imagine taking a bit of the theme from SMITE (really the only good part about SMITE in my estimation), the common battle royale grab-and-go...

MU Online is getting another game in its lineup called MU Monarch SEA

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Who wanted another MU Online game? If you're sitting on your hands, then perhaps you're not being paid attention to by Webzen, or perhaps...

Piffsy is a new social MMO with llamas and dancing

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My friends, have you heard the word on the cyberstreets about this new social MMO that released a couple weeks ago? It's called Piffsy,...

Bohemia’s multiplayer survival sandbox Ylands has officially landed on Switch for offline play

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As we've been chronicling - and I might be a little obsessed with it now that I'm finally catching up on its existence, sorry...

Slayscape, the procedurally generated battle royale RPG from Shroud of the Avatar’s execs, opens its Steam page

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The weird tale of Slayscape continues to unfurl. As a refresher, this self-described blend of battle royale, extraction FPS, and "RPG flavor" with procedurally...

‘Co-op PvE space adventure’ Jump Ship shares 10 minutes of gameplay from the devs

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At the top of last April we got new word on Jump Ship, an upcoming "mission-based co-op PvE space adventure" from Keepsake Games that...

Multiplayer Viking-themed survival settlement manager ASKA begins its early access

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Surviving in a wilderness is never best done alone if at all possible, but there's one survivalbox that has you managing not just your...

Tencent’s MMORPG Tarisland is officially live in the west today with Season 0: Mystery of the Hollows

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Don't get too excited: While Tencent announced in Discord this morning that its free-to-play not-a-WoW-clone MMORPG Tarisland is live "with servers opening across regions,"...

SGF 2024: Previewing Funcom’s Dune Awakening, from PvP philosophy to the survival MMO label

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I must admit I went into Summer Game Fest with pretty low expectations. I was MOP's "E3 guy" back when E3 was a concern,...

Habbo Hotel releases a throwback 2005-era version of the social MMO called Habbo Hotel Origins

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If you've suddenly got a jonesing to experience the isometric pixelated nostalgia of the social MMO Habbo Hotel, you've got options. There's the normal...

Super Mario Party Jamboree will have 20-player online party mode

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Nintendo has upped the ante in the Mario Party series for online fans: At last night's Nintendo Direct, the company announced the next Mario Party...
I asked Bree if we could have Night Elves and she said we have Night Elves at home.

Predownloading for Tencent’s Tarisland begins tonight for North and South American players

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If you're looking forward to the launch of Tarisland as we - and some of our readers - are, then heads-up because Tarisland is...

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