battle royale
Fortnite is getting a new large-scale battle royale mode
Over the past weekend, Fortnite managed to hit a peak of 1.3 million concurrent users and 30M total users. That's a lot of people....
Tencent may be bringing H1Z1 to China
The easiest way to ensure that no one is really fighting over who gets to be at the top of the battle royale genre...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds teases its desert map, eyes post-launch cosmetics
Still find yourself dizzy with disbelief about how the most awkwardly titled video game ever became 2017's biggest hit? Check out Polygon's rundown of...
Wild West Online seems to be dropping FFA PvP in favor of faction-based PvP
Still bummed out about Wild West Online's delay to 2018? Wait until you see the game's latest dev blog! 612 Games doesn't mention the...
Blade & Soul’s Dawn of the Lost Continent launches today (and it has a flying pirate ship)
Blade & Soul's biggest update ever is live today - or will be this afternoon once the servers are back from maintenance tonight!
As we've...
Survive the Nights brings back classic fort-building survival
Can we make an agreement right now, you and I? That if the world ends because of a zombie uprising, maybe we can work...
Eternal Crusade considers battle royale mode, can’t comment on status of lead designer
Even Warhammer 40K Eternal Crusade might be jumping on the battle royale bandwagon. That's according to Behaviour Interactive's latest pair of player-directed Q&A posts.
"We...
Fortnite’s latest patch adds Xbox One X support, preps custom matchmaking
This week's Fortnite update spreads love around for both the freebie battle royale mode and the paid PvE mode and now supports Xbox One...
Superdata’s October 2017 revenue report: Destiny 2’s and PUBG’s dominance
Destiny 2 may be fudging up left and right, but it still sold a truckton of copies.
That's according to Superdata, whose most recent revenue...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017
One thing you can say for the MMO industry: It never ceases to surprise all of us. No matter what predictions we may make...
Warface jumps on the battle royale bandwagon
With the insane popularity of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds this year, it was inevitable that other titles would rush to copy the battle royale...
H1Z1’s latest patch adds a new insta-respawn map and new dailies
Daybreak has big plans for H1Z1 -- that's the game formerly known as H1Z1: King of the Kill, you'll recall, as it was rebranded...
Fortnite plans to flesh out its PvE mode in December and January
I'm gonna be honest: When I saw the subheader "The future of Save the World" in the latest Fortnite dev blog, I expected what...
Fortnite’s latest patch adds launch pads and shotguns
The newest patch for Fortnite is adding a new type of trap that doesn't really feel like much of a trap. The launch pad...
Fortnite racks up 20 million players like a boss
With the millions of players flooding into Fortnite, the zombies don't stand a chance. Heck, they're probably an endangered species.
Less than a month after...
The Stream Team: A first look at survival in SOS (plus giveaway!)
A survival game with a twist? Color Massively OP's MJ intrigued! As long as that isn't pink, that is. SOS is a new multiplayer...
Grab a key for SOS’s weekend alpha test from Outpost and MOP!
Here's a newish game to our pages: SOS, a multiplayer survival PC game "where 16 contestants face off in a 30-minute challenge to escape."...
Fortnite’s patch today adds mute to voice chat and boosts quest item drop frequency
Fortnite's smallish 1.8.1 update is live today, and probably the most important addition is actually something that helps you delete things from the game:...
Age of Wushu adds a new free-for-all battle royale mode to its China version
There are two ways to look at the new battle royale mode added to the Age of Wushu Chinese servers. The first is with...
Massively Overthinking: Is open-world housing really a ‘failed’ MMORPG experiment?
Massively OP's Justin Olivetti has a provocative article on his personal gaming blog, Bio Break, this week on MMORPG housing.
"I once again wonder why...
