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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]

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...

Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds is counting down to… something

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An aura of mystery and intrigue's been swirling around Raph Koster's studio Playable Worlds and the multiverse sandbox MMORPG that it's been working on...

Sandbox MMO Pax Dei has officially entered early access for at least the next year

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If you're a Pax Dei founder pack owner, you're about to have a fun Tuesday, as Mainframe Industries has officially launched the survival-tinged sandbox...

MMORPG turned ‘squad RPG’ Starborne Frontiers makes its global release on PC

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Are you eager to experience a game that our Fight or Kite columnist Sam called "an autobattler with plentiful monetization schemes"? Then you're primed...

Gran Saga heralds its global release plans with multiple name drops, music, and lots of character art

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Back in 2020, we first learned about Gran Saga, a character-driven anime MMORPG for PC and mobile from Korean developer NPixel that made its...

Land of Might is a ‘retro 16-bit bullet hell roguelike MMORPG’ that can be played in a browser

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Here at Massively Overpowered, we cover as much of our genre as we can. Big or small, indie studio or major studio, PC, browser,...

5v5 hero shooter FragPunk starts taking names for a Steam closed alpha scheduled for June 27

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Earlier this week we reported on the reveal of FragPunk, another NetEase 5v5 hero shooter that leans into a colorful visual style and a...

Fight or Kite: 33 Immortals continues the trend of pseudo-MMO gaming

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Even given the general pullback in the games industry from using the term MMO, I sure am noticing a bunch of other games that...

Hands-on with V Rising: PC vs. PS5, multiplayer, and progression impressions

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You might think given the last few pieces I've written that I might have a thing for vampires. I vehemently deny this. It is...

SGF 2024: Monster Hunter Wilds is a dynamic Worlds-like game

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Guys. Guys. GUYS! I am so excited about Monster Hunter Wilds. I don't own a console that can play it, and I haven't enjoyed any PC port...

SGF 2024: Aloft is a cozy Ghibli-inspired PvE-centric survival sandbox in the sky

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When I first heard about Aloft while planning for Summer Games Fest 2024, I figured it would just be a cute multiplayer survival game;...

SGF 2024: A quick look at Capcom’s Monster Hunter Stories Collection

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I know many people looking at will see "Monster Hunter" in the title here and wonder why it doesn't say, "Wilds," but that comes...

SGF 2024: FragPunk is a 5v5 hero shooter from NetEase featuring power-up cards that ‘bend the rules of combat’

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It's a widely held belief that competitive team shooters must achieve a perfect sense of balance, tuning weapons, abilities, maps, and mechanics in a...

Polaris is an upcoming four-player PvE shooter featuring fully destructible environments

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Yes, we've got another upcoming multiplayer shooter on our hands, but this one might have enough interesting wrinkles to it to raise it above...

SGF 2024: Hands-on with NetEase’s team shooter Marvel Rivals

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There are lots of Summer Games Fest embargos still in place and more coming this week, but fortunately NetEase's Marvel Rivals is something I can...