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Tarisland’s global closed beta is finally underway on PC and Android

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As promised, Tencent's Tarisland officially enters closed beta today, with a PC open globally and an Android beta open for a more limited group...

Geodia is a top-down pixel art ‘2-D HD’ MMORPG headed to Kickstarter soon

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A new MMO has begun making the rounds on Reddit by the name of Geodia, which promises a pixel art, top down, old-school MMORPG...

X-Legend’s Tales of Dragon is a dragon-taming mobile MMORPG now open for pre-registration

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X-Legend, known around these parts as the publisher that fumbled the return of Grand Fantasia and Aura Kingom as well as the company that...

Palia announces free-to-play arrival to Nintendo Switch this holiday season, reaffirms work on PC version

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The latest Nintendo Direct has just wrapped up, and there was a pretty surprising announcement to come out of Singularity 6's developing cozy MMO...

Harry Potter Magic Awakened, NetEase’s new MMOCCG, is launching June 27

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Warner Bros. and NetEase have been teasing a launch for Harry Potter: Magic Awakened for a few weeks now, but now it's official: The...

Tencent’s Undawn, an open-world survival RPG starring Will Smith, launches globally

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If you want to get your new open world survival RPG noticed against the ever-expanding field of competitors, you need to have some sort...

Competitive team PvE game Evercore Heroes hits paid closed beta today [Updated]

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We don't often receive press releases for a game that declares itself "completely unique competitive PvE experience that’s not a MOBA or an MMO"...

MMO Burnout: Dramatic Labs finds the right tone for Star Trek Resurgence

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As a longtime gamer and observer of the industry, I know it can be tough to get excited about new announcements and releases. We’re...

Lightyear Frontier is a sci-fi multiplayer ‘open-world farming adventure’ headed for early access next year

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What is life like as an exofarmer? Just what is an exofarmer? Can a mech be a farming implement? We're all likely to find...

Not So Massively: Islands of Insight, Headbangers, 33 Immortals, & Baldur’s Gate 3

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Hopefully you were outside touching grass this weekend and not glued to your computer screen, and if so, you missed a few new game...

Roly-poly multiplayer brawler Party Animals aims to make you laugh yourself to death

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There is something about this game that makes our team act like goofy weirdos every time we see a trailer or get a press...

Return Alive is a multiplayer top-down PvPvE shooter planning an open beta on June 29

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Developer KOG Games is looking to entice people with a stew of PvPvE shooting, survival and RPG elements, and a post-apocalypse setting, all from...

Multiplayer sandbox RPG Tinkertown will exit early access on June 22

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Remember Tinkertown? It's a multiplayer building-focused sandbox RPG that we first reported on last July, with the promise of lots of exploration, building, and...

Cinderstone Online makes its early access debut, plans to share a roadmap soon

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A couple of weeks ago we checked back in on Cinderstone Online, aka The MMO Formerly Known as Fioresia Online, where we found the...

Vitae Aeternum: What Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO should (and shouldn’t) take from New World

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We've had one, yes, but what about second attempt by Amazon to deliver a Lord of the Rings MMO? During the last run at...

Drakensang Online’s Steam version moves out of early access into full launch along with a new server

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Last September, the classic isometric MMO Drakensang Online made a surprise early access arrival to Steam, with plans to be in early access for...

The Stream Team: Battling back the bug menace in Starship Troopers Extermination

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MOP's Chris is ready to do his part against the menacing alien bug hordes in the co-op multiplayer shooter Starship Troopers: Extermination, where he'll...

Pow Vista is an open beta mobile MMO that blends skateboarding, old-school combat, and creature collecting

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Skateboarding, mobile MMO gaming, combat reminiscent of Old School RuneScape, and Pokemon-like creature collecting mechanics is quite the ingredients list for a game stew,...

Cube World creator emerges from hibernation to announce Cube World Omega

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I admit I did a double-take last night when Wolfram von Funck aka Wollay's Twitter account whirred to life after nearly four years of...
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Bungie makes the case for Marathon, its brand-new extraction shooter

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Yesterday we reported that Bungie was resurrecting a long-dormant shooter franchise with the announcement of its upcoming sci-fi PvP game, Marathon. While the original...