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Fight or Kite: MOBA Evercore Heroes makes a strong argument for competitive PvE
Believe it or not, even though I write about PvP MMOs regularly here in Fight or Kite, I don’t actually follow a bunch of...
Cozy MMO Palia will hit closed beta August 2, open beta August 10 – here’s how to sign up
As the cozy MMO trend continues to heat up, Singularity 6's Palia is angling to be at the forefront, and that means it's pushing...
The Quinfall won’t talk about its time travel, but it’s hoping for closed beta by the end of 2023
Earlier this year, we reported on a promising new Turkish sandbox MMO named The Quinfall that boasted a massive world, a classless system, player-run...
Betawatch: Tarisland would prefer that you stop calling it a World of Warcraft clone
Anyone with even passing familiarity with World of Warcraft has probably watched the Tarisland trailers and gotten the sense that the latter is a...
Tencent insists Tarisland isn’t a World of Warcraft clone
When Tencent announced Tarisland back in January, just as World of Warcraft was being yanked offline in China, just about everyone, including us, called...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 428: Guild Wars 2 spills its secrets
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure, WoW Classic hardcore mode, Tarisland, and The Sims 5 multiplayer, with adventures in LOTRO, Diablo IV, SWTOR, and truck sims, plus a mailbag topic on starting out in LOTRO.
Betawatch: Fractured Online opens up a free-to-play weekend now that it’s back in testing
Now that it has fully shed its not-actually-very-advantageous deal with Gamigo while maintaining its independence, Fractured Online is going to be relying entirely on its...
Unity adds AI tools to its asset store while Electronic Arts reasons AI generation is a ‘co-pilot’ for artists
The fresh blood in the games industry water continues to be AI generation tools for art assets and writing. This time we zero in...
Tarisland’s global closed beta is finally underway on PC and Android
As promised, Tencent's Tarisland officially enters closed beta today, with a PC open globally and an Android beta open for a more limited group...
Betawatch: Palia promises a Switch launch this year in addition to a PC launch
If you are one of those people still posting cringe-worthy chatter about how you are above petty concerns such as console gaming (perhaps with...
Free-to-play PvPvE shooter The Division Heartland confirms closed beta test for PC on June 27
Back in May 2021, Ubisoft unloaded a whole slew of plans for its shooter series The Division, including the reveal of The Division Heartland,...
Gaijin’s ‘aquatic adventure MMO’ Age of Water enters paid closed beta stage two early access
Way back in 2020, Gaijin announced a new MMO called Age of Water. It was under development by Three Wales Studio, and it was...
Competitive team PvE game Evercore Heroes hits paid closed beta today [Updated]
We don't often receive press releases for a game that declares itself "completely unique competitive PvE experience that’s not a MOBA or an MMO"...
Perfect New World shares adjustment plans following last month’s closed beta test
With all of the news flying around recently, it may have been easy to forget that Perfect New World, the latest global spin-off game...
Betawatch: Skull & Bones will get a beta, honest, for realsies this time
So approximately four thousand years after it was initially announced, Ubisoft's Skull & Bones is finally promising that it's going to enter into closed...
Not So Massively Roundup: Among Us’ 5th birthday, GTAO Mercs, & betas for The Finals and The First Descendant
Welcome back to a quick Not So Massively roundup of MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles with new info this week!
First, Grand Theft Auto Online reared its...
Blue Protocol, celebrating Japanese launch, still plans a western beta later this year
The Amazon team responsible for Blue Protocol's upcoming Western release continues to be a day late, as last night the team released a message...
The Magic to Master mess devolved into DMCA abuse as Laniatus promises launch ‘regardless of Kickstarter’
We've been trying real hard not to have to write about this game again, but here we are back touching base on the Magic...
Tarisland offers its first preview of the MMO’s classes starting with the High Elf Mage
Tarisland has once again put forth yet another video, only this time it's not about the setting or the world or even the game's...
Skull & Bones will finally hit closed beta in August after at least half a dozen delays
It's looking like maybe Ubisoft's Skull & Bones' sixth delay might have been its last, as Ubisoft finally announced this afternoon at Ubisoft Forward...
