Official Site:Â Defiance
Studio:Â Trion Worlds
Launch Date:Â April 2, 2013
Genre:Â Sci-Fi third-person shooter
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3
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The MOP Up: World War II Online bids farewell to the fishbowl
World War II Online aviators will be pleased to hear that a disliked visual is about to be killed: "The long-awaited, long-hated fishbowl effect...
Perfect Ten: Utterly silly MMO transmedia synergy over the years
Remember back when Trion Worlds tried to coin -- or cement -- the term "transmedia synergy" for the relationship between Defiance the game and Defiance the...
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Perfect Ten: 10 more MMOs you’ve already forgotten ever existed, from Elyon to Defiance
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Star Wars The Old Republic’s GU 7.5 Desperate Defiance launches today alongside The Acolyte collab
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Massively Overthinking: Does challenging solo content belong in MMORPGs?
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Star Wars The Old Republic’s GU 7.5, Desperate Defiance, includes a farming system and solo Ventures
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Perfect Ten: MMOs with live-action media tie-ins
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SWTOR teases GU 7.4.1 Building a Foundation’s Copero Stronghold and Date Night romance content
The BioWare-turned-Broadsword team behind Star Wars The Old Republic is once again heading to Twitch to outline the game's immediate future, which includes GU...
Heckbugs in Love return to voxelbox Trove for Valentine’s Day starting next week
It warms my heart to think that a lil tiny piece of Defiance lives on in Trove thanks to the game's bizarre Valentine's Day...
The Daily Grind: Do you even want an MMO with transmedia synergy?
We've been talking about transmedia synergy again thanks to Dune Awakening, so I want to go at it from a new angle. The term...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Five Guild Wars 2 event farms to combat your labyrinth letdown
My favorite thing about Guild Wars 2's Shadow of the Mad King Halloween event is the Mad King's Labyrinth. There's nothing quite like it,...
Perfect Ten: Times when MMOs brought about world-shattering cataclysms
The notion of an in-game cataclysm is hardly the sole domain of Activision-Blizzard; on the contrary, large-scale apocalypses pop up all the time in...
RIFT’s hellbug invasion from Defiance returns with a bounty of rewards
Yes, we're still quite curious what Gamigo's intentions for Trion Worlds' cast-off RIFT may be, but in the meanwhile, we don't begrudge the MMO...
Amazon Games’ Bill Trost vacates creative director position to become lead designer for Ashes of Creation
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Flameseeker Chronicles: Wrapping up the End of Dragons era with What Lies Within
It's the end of an era: Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons era of content comes to a close with today's episode, titled What...
Destiny 2’s Guardian Games event returns with more rewards, activities, and class-based bragging rights
It's not too often that regular players of Destiny 2 would be surprised when events kick off in the looter shooter, but just in...
Eden Eternal returns in May under new management after being killed in 2021
It's not every day that a gaming studio shutters three MMORPGs in one go, but this happened back in February 2021 when Gamigo closed...
