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EA rushes to add more server capacity for Anthem’s overloaded VIP demo

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Anthem's VIP demo is live today, and everything is just fine! Well, maybe not. BioWare maybe doesn't have quite enough servers for the massive...

Kickstarted sci-fi MMOFPS Pantropy will hit early access on January 31

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Hey, remember Pantropy? We first began covering this sci-fi MMOFPS back in 2017; since then, it's run two Kickstarters, the first of which was...

Mobile MMORPG Rebirth M launches in North America after aborted Kickstarter

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Live today for iOS and Android is another new free-to-play mobile MMO, this one Caret Games' RebirthM. The game's been playable in Brazil since last...
Comptrollers.

Daybreak is delaying PlanetSide Arena’s early access launch to March

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Daybreak has announced that it's delaying PlanetSide Arena's planned early access launch from January 29th to March 26th. "What we’ve discovered during playtesting is that...

SMITE launches early access closed beta on the Switch ahead of planned full cross-progression

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The 30 million people who've played SMITE on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 4 are welcoming a whole new generation of Nintendo Switch gamers as...

Aion: Legions of War brings NCsoft’s franchise to mobile

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While some of the team that built it is now looking for work elsewhere thanks to layoffs, Aion: Legions of War has released worldwide as...

Post-apoc survival MMO Last Oasis plans spring early access, opens closed beta signups

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You just never know with survival games that call themselves MMOs whether they really mean it, but we've caught another one today: It's called...

Improbable and Crytek team up for SpatialOS CryEngine integration and new AAA game

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Improbable made headlines over the last couple of weeks thanks to its tussle with Unity over SpatialOS's integration and licensing. That tussle's since ended,...

Galaxicus lets you choose your own adventure between MMO and MOBA

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So what's your poison: space MMO or space MOBA? Either way, you'll find that the up-and-coming Galaxicus wants to sate your interstellar appetite. The...

Nexon’s ‘next-gen’ mobile MMO AxE: Alliance vs Empire is coming westward ‘soon this year’

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Nexon is fairly well known for being one of the most prolific developers of MMOs in the industry, and today the studio announced that...
I'll be dead soon

Electronic Arts cancels its untitled open-world Star Wars game

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Remember that open-world Star Wars game that Electronic Arts' Vancouver studio was working on after the company closed down the previous studio that had...

Interview: Astellia’s western team on pay-to-win, themeparks, and dodging early access and battle royale

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Yesterday we covered the news that South Korean born MMORPG Astellia is heading westward in 2019, with its holy trinity classes, solid PvE and...

Rumored Perfect World console remaster combat footage leaks

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It's not uncommon these days for classic (or cult classic) games to receive remakes and remasters some years after their initial release, and rumor...

Gamevil has begun Talion’s global rollout with Australian registrations

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Man, we just did our "mobile games to watch this year" piece, but we forgot about this one: It's called Talion, it launched in...
The most positive statement about anything Daybreak-related I am likely to make all year.

Daybreak’s new video show how it’s retooling classic weapons and vehicles in PlanetSide Arena

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Daybreak's just posted a new video on PlanetSide Arena, this one focusing on the game's vehicles and weapons, and yes, there's plenty of gameplay...

Rangers of Oblivion brings monster-hunting action to mobile devices

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The kill-and-craft subgenre of action-RPG pioneered by Capcom's Monster Hunter series has achieved great popularity as of late, thanks in large part to Monster...

Co-op ARPG Breach hits early access January 17, with packages live now

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Co-op ARPG Breach was meant to hit early access before the end of 2018, and as it turns out, it'll be only a few...

MMOs you’ve never heard of: Trulion, Morna Tales, Laplace M, Project BBQ, Genesis, Endless Battle, Achaea, Lord of Chains, Star Sonata

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We have a perilously tall pile of MMOs (and MUDs and MOBAs and such) that you've probably never heard of for today's roundup. We're gonna just jump right in, starting with Trulion Online, a new open-world sandbox MMORPG that just hit beta on Android. Yes, it's a mobile title with retro graphics, but not all of what we're looking at today falls into that category!

Black Desert launches on Xbox One March 4, with preorders opening today

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We knew this day was coming: It's time to buckle up for Black Desert's Xbox One debut, as preorders for the game on that...

Slash and dismember your way through possessed villagers in The Black Masses

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If hacking and slashing your way across an island filled with throngs of possessed inhabitants sounds like a good time to you, then you...