battle royale
Shroud of the Avatar devs form new studio to make AI-generated roguelike battle royale Project Rise
If you thought that the waters surrounding some of Shroud of the Avatar's bigwigs weren't muddy before now, things are potentially about to get...
Apex Legends esports tourney is hacked mid-match, postponing the event and raising security concerns
Nobody likes to see cheaters win in an esports competition (or any competition for that matter), but a bout of cheating occurring in an...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Evil v Evil, Blood Strike, Solium Infernum
Welcome back to another roundup of some MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games that you've (probably) never heard of and we need to at least...
THE FINALS launches new map, new modes, new weapons, and new features in Season 2
A battle royale shooter like THE FINALS very often lives and dies by getting new seasonal content, so it's probably little surprise that this...
Extraction MOBA Seekers of Skyveil drops new video and opens March playtest signups
It's been at least five minutes since somebody announced a new extraction title, and this is one we knew about, so we'll make exceptions:...
Even Zeus couldn’t get Fortnite’s Myths & Mortals season online without a major delay
You know what the Greek pantheon really needed? More gods and goddesses with guns. If that was the case, then ancient mythology classes would...
EA CEO talks up aspirations for AI tools and expanding Apex Legends ‘beyond the traditional battle royale universe’
If you need any evidence that the push for AI tools is akin to drinking some brainworm-filled Kool-aid, you need look no further than...
CRSD F.O.A.D. brings back Cuisine Royale mode, eases hero unlocks, and shrinks squad sizes in latest update
It's been a long time since we've had the battle royale shooter CRSD: F.O.A.D. cross our desk, so we think a bit of context...
Vague Patch Notes: What does the future of MMORPGs look like?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the history of MMORPGs as a market and PC gaming in general, suggesting at...
Perfect Ten: The 10 phases of MMORPG pre-launch hysteria
One of my private theories about MMO players -- one I'm now making public -- is that we all have the collective memories of...
Korean Court rules man isn’t a conscientious objector because he likes PUBG
We admit that the headline for this story is pretty wild, so allow us a few moments to lay some contextual groundwork: South Korea...
Disney invests $1.5B into Epic Games with plans to create a ‘huge Disney universe’ in Fortnite
Seeing Disney's various IPs in Fortnite isn't exactly news by this point, but it appears as if there will be a whole lot more...
Fortnite is coming back to iPhone in EU because Europe said so
It's been a few years -- since 2020, in fact -- since the snit fit between Apple and Epic began, provoking the former to...
The Stream Team: A first musical journey in Headbangers Rhythm Royale
Since Massively OP's MJ didn't have a controller before, she was unable to give Headbangers: Rhythm Royale a proper try. In fact, this musical...
The British Army apparently abruptly scuttled its new recruitment game in Fortnite
Games as military recruitment tools aren't entirely new to readers here, primarily in the case of the official US Army FPS series America's Army,...
The MOP Up: Path of Exile’s corpses explode less frequently now
Even a middling Path of Exile patch is still a cause for celebration when it arrives, as in the case of this past week's...
Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2024?
Every year when it comes time to update this poll for January, I consider tossing it out. But the last few years of Daybreak...
ARK Survival Ascended heralds dev kit updates this month and more map releases in February and April
The next few months are apparently going to be big ones for ARK: Survival Ascended, as the content roadmap shared by the survival sandbox...
The Stream Team: Exploring the latest creative mode options in Fall Guys
Fall Guys saw another update to close out its 2023, and it's once again about adding things to player-made courses in creative mode, which...
The Stream Team: Practicing Party Animals with a controller
Massively OP's MJ finally got a controller for Christmas, and now she's eager to test out playing Party Animals with it! Of course, she...