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Stormforge is a new multiplayer survival sandbox inspired by D&D and The Stormlight Archive

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Among the new multiplayer games announced this weekend during not-E3 is a fresh "open-world fantasy survival crafting game" called Stormforge (you might have heard...
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SGF 2024: Mecha Break is an upcoming multiplayer mecha shooter with a beta in August

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Who wants some giant robot multiplayer shooting action? Mecha Break was announced today as part of the Summer Games Fest, and it is promising...

NCsoft’s Battle Crush sets early access for June 27, opens crossplatform registration today

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NCsoft's next big thing is coming June 27th! No, not Throne and Liberty; we're talking about its new cross-platform brawler, Battle Crush. The company...

Persist Online interview: CipSoft explains why Persist is an MMORPG, not a survival shooter

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Earlier this week, we covered the surprising news that Tibia developer CipSoft has a new MMORPG on the way. At least, the studio is...

Concord is a team vs team FPS that promises approachable but deep gameplay

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Evidently game studios smell Overwatch 2's blood in the water because we've got yet another addition to the team vs. team hero shooter sub-genre....

First Impressions: Corepunk’s MOBA-esque closed alpha was fun – with lots of room to grow

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I've got a pretty good poker face, especially when nobody can see my face. So I've been pretty subtle about my excitement for Corepunk...

Tibia dev CipSoft just announced Persist Online, a post-apoc PvPvE MMORPG

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Tibia developer CipSoft has a big announcement lined up for this morning: It's working on a new MMO. In fact, it's calling it a...

Multiplayer survival sandbox Aloft opens Steam demo for the Open World Survival Crafting Fest

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Among the many multiplayer survival sandbox titles being promoted on Steam this week as part of the Steam Open World Survival Crafting Fest is...

Fight or Kite: Rabbit and Steel distills the MMO raid experience into a flashy boss battling roguelike

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So here’s one that came out of left field for me. Rabbit and Steel (heretofore mentally referred to as Buns 'n' Blades) is an...

Multiplayer nautical sim Ships at Sea officially makes its way into early access

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Despite the game's whole thing, we resolve here and now to avoid using typical maritime jargon in this news post. There will be no...

Tarisland announces a global release date of June 21 – here’s the new trailer

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There have been a lot of teases, previews, and tests over the past few months, but now Tencent's WoW-like MMORPG Tarisland has locked down...

Shroud of the Avatar execs expand on Slayscape, a procedurally generated battle royale RPG

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Last March we reported on the discovery of Pangaea, a development studio formed by existing execs of Shroud of the Avatar's Catnip Games --...

XDefiant’s free-to-play launch recovers after initial matchmaking server issues

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This week brought another competitive FPS game to the multiplayer world in the form of XDefiant, Ubisoft's swing at making a team vs. team...

Co-op multiplayer RPG Wuthering Waves makes its global release on PC and mobile tonight

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Earlier this month we first caught wind of Wuthering Waves, a co-op RPG for PC and mobile devices from Kuro Games set in a...

33 Immortals preps weekend closed beta for the ‘distillation of the MMO raid experience’

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Thunder Lotus' MMO-inspired multiplayer raiding roguelike 33 Immortals is barreling onward toward its May 24th closed beta, with more info now being dispatched to...

Sand is an open-world PvPvE game where players build stompy robot bases to explore an alien planet

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As one poorly directed actor of a sci-fi film noted, sand has a whole bunch of drawbacks including its unpleasant texture and its propensity...

Leaks spring forth from Valve’s new in-development competitive hero shooter Deadlock

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Were you hoping that Valve would figure out how to count to three or address the long-suffering TF2 playerbase? Well, put those hopes down...

Blight Survival is an upcoming multiplayer ‘medieval action-horror co-op survival game’

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The idiom goes that you can't judge a book by its cover, but we're reasonably sure that a game called Blight: Survival is pretty...

Wuthering Waves is a co-op open world RPG heading to PC and mobile May 22

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It looks like the explosive popularity of one specific co-op anime RPG is spawning another title cut from a similar cloth. Say hello to...

Cozy co-op farming game Farm Together 2 has rolled into early access as planned

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A month ago, we chittered excitedly about the fact that Farm Together 2, the sequel to the seriously underrated multiplayer-optional cozy game Farm Together,...