battle royale
Hi-Rez launches standalone F2P game Realm Royale, a mix of ‘open-world PvP MMO and your favorite hero shooter’
You can't accuse Hi-Rez of not chasing trends: Not only is it introducing a battle royale mode to SMITE, but it's actually just launched...
SMITE is getting a battle royale mode adventure of its very own in 5.10
Battle royale is the thing to do lately, and by Zeus, SMITE is doing that thing: In update 5.10, the Hi-Rez MOBA will introduce...
Perfect World is showing two new games at E3: Mobile sandbox MMORPG ReEvolve and battle royale FarSide
Perfect World is up to some stuff at E3 this year. Some good stuff, by my estimation. The company sent 'round PR on two...
Trace the history of the battle royale genre from inception to now
It all started with a new mode for DayZ. No, it all started with Minecraft. Wait, maybe it started with deathmatch games. There's a...
Mobile MMO roundup: MapleStory M, Jurassic World Alive, Crossfire Legends, TERA M, and Icarus Mobile
Welcome back to another mobile MMO roundup, those MMOs that obviously don't count because they are played on a small screen instead of a...
APB Reloaded counters cheats, unifies versions, and rallies its community
Ever wonder if the developers behind APB Reloaded are looking at the current boom of battle royale-style games and kicking themselves for not having...
World War 3 takes aim at providing an ‘authentic approach to battle royale’
Albert Einstein famously said that he did not know what weapons World War 3 would be fought with, but he knew World War 4...
Leaderboard: What type of multiplayer do you think Fallout 76 will have?
After what was nearly an interminable teaser stream, Bethsoft finally announced this morning that it's working on Fallout 76, another entry in a beloved...
Fortnite adds in a new vehicle, the shopping cart
There's another popular battle royale game that has vehicles, and so Fortnite made the wise decision to incorporate vehicles into its gameplay. The first...
H1Z1 zooms past 4.5 million downloads on PlayStation 4 and hands out free weapons
Remember how H1Z1 was riding high last Thursday off of the 1.5 million downloads on the PlayStation 4? The battle royale game has actually...
PUBG Corp sues Epic Games, claiming Fortnite plagiarized its UI and items
Last autumn, Bluehole and PUBG Corp locked horns with Epic Games over PUBG's assertion that Fortnite had all but ripped off PUBG's battle royale...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds apologizes for communication deficiencies, lays out top priorities
Players frustrated with the spotty communication from PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' development team may have a legitimate reason for complaint. In a letter posted over on...
Data show that battle royale gamers tend to spend more money on games
So, how are battle royale fans different from any other sort of competitive gamer? A recent study put out by market intelligence firm Newzoo...
SuperData’s April 2018 revenue report shows Fortnite setting new records, GTAO slowing down
Fortnite had another record month of revenue in April, according to SuperData's latest global revenue report. "Epic’s Battle Royale shooter made $296 million in...
H1Z1 has a huge debut on PlayStation 4 with over 1.5M downloads
Could H1Z1 be saved through the PlayStation 4? There is no doubt that Daybreak is banking heavily on the battle royale title striking big...
With 17M registered players, Trion’s voxelbox Trove launches in Japan
Trion Worlds is in an expansionist mood of late. Earlier this week, we learned Atlas Reactor was porting to Steam in China. Today, the...
The Stream Team: Returning to Radical heights before it ends
Even though Massively OP's MJ is not a fan of battle royale, she was amused by the atmosphere of Radical Heights. And since the...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tackles frame rate drops, looks at the next mobile patch
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds dropped a patch earlier this week, but don't get too excited: It was mostly bug fixes and balance adjustments for the battle...
Examining why Fortnite is so incredibly popular
For those on the outside looking in at the insanely popular Fortnite phenomenon over the past year, the question invariably rises: What makes this...
Trove’s exploration-centric Geode expansion is launching June 26
Remember last week when Trion Worlds announced that its popular voxelbox Trove is getting a battle royale mode called Bomber Royale? The studio is on...
