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The Stream Team: Seeking to be top of the flock in the musical battle royale Headbangers Rhythm Royale
MOP's Chris is usually the sort of person who avoids battle royale titles, but when he saw the premise of the rhythm game-focused Headbangers:...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs as Saturday morning cartoons
My insane MMO and MMORPG thought experiments do indeed continue: Previously I considered what muffins MMO NPCs are, then I considered what flavor of...
Fortnite hints at a return of its Chapter 1 content on November 3
Do you yearn for the halcyon days of 2017 when Fortnite kicked off its very first season? If you're the sort of person who...
Fight or Kite: Love anime, mechs, and battle royale? Super Mecha Champions is probably for you
If you’re anything like me, you love a good, dumb battle against other players. You also love all kinds of action anime. Maybe even...
Massively Overthinking: Are there any MMOs for which a spin-off mode would be welcome?
Pantheon's announcement that its developers are working on spinning out a monetized "247" extraction mode hasn't engendered a whole lot of hope for the...
NCsoft’s battle royale brawler Battle Crush enters open beta on PC and Android until October 30
Back in March, we received word of NCsoft's latest game Battle Crush, a self-described "action battle brawler" that otherwise plays out like any battle...
The Stream Team: Howloween in Super Animal Royale
If there's one thing that we've learned, it's that if the game is adorable, Massively OP's MJ and Chris can't resist! Toss in a...
Final Fantasy XIV shares extra details of its October 31 Fall Guys collaboration event
Final Fantasy XIV fans already know that the world of Etheirys and the Blunderdome of Fall Guys will be coming together in October 31st's...
Apex Legends introduces Conduit, Valorant introduces Iso
The hero shooter sub-genre generally gets more interesting when new heroes arrive to the game, which would certainly explain why both Valorant and Apex...
Fortnite embeds an official Alan Wake gameplay experience as Fortnitemares is underway
Who wouldn't want to play the somber and atmospheric Alan Wake within the cartoon-y and generally more colorful pastiche of Fortnite? Yes, it's true:...
Vague Patch Notes: Pivots don’t work with MMOs
So we can pretty much confirmed now that Pantheon's goose is thoroughly cooked. Yes, I know, the folks at Visionary Realms are claiming that...
Transmedia madness roundup: PUBG’s KFC collab, Animal Crossing’s LEGO figs, and Roblox’s Barbie experience
The strange bedfellows made of game studios and other brands has been A Thing for a while - we've even made a whole Golden...
Fall Guys developer Mediatonic ‘hit very hard’ by Epic Games’ mass-layoff – but not shuttered
Epic's mass-layoff of 830 workers (and offloading of 250 more to spun-out companies) yesterday may have been characterized by the company as largely outside...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO things you can just stop waiting for
Sooner or later we all have to face facts and accept that something we wanted at one point is never actually going to happen....
NCsoft’s mythological battle royale, Battle Crush, is launching next spring with CBT signups open now
You wouldn't normally look to Nintendo Direct for news on NCsoft multiplayer titles, but 2023 is still pumping out surprises. Today, NCsoft announced that...
Lost Ark’s jump-start servers arrive tomorrow with the Jump to the Endgame patch
Are you over last month's massive Lost Ark outage that kept the servers offline for a whole day following the EU region merge? With...
Tencent’s battle royale shooter Ring of Elysium will sunset in December
The battle royale bandwagon continues to prove its inability to bear the weight of too many games, it seems. Readers might recall the existence...
Epic Games job posting offers first word of a Fortnite ‘open world survival crafting game’
If segments of the technology sector have proved anything, it's that it likes to try to spin old things as brand-new. That argument could...
Lost Ark interview: Amazon talks jump-start servers, battle royale, dodging power creep, and more
Lost Ark has had a whirlwind August, first with the release of a major roadmap for the game, then with the launch of the...
Dark and Darker is getting a mobile version thanks to a licensing partnership with Krafton
The PvPvE dungeon crawler Dark and Darker continues to write surprising headlines even as developer Ironmace faces a copyright fight with Nexon - and...
