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Automaton Games takes a swing at the battle royale genre with its mystery MMO

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Well now PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will have another battle royale game to fight. UK-based Automaton Games announced that it is working on a new tactical...

Conan Exiles takes stock a half-year from release

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There is about a half of a year, we are told, before Conan Exiles leaves the semi-shelter of early access and sees if it...

MMOs you’ve never heard of: Savage Hunt – Dragon’s Prophet, Ironsight, Until None Remain, and Battlerite

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Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you you've never heard of! Today we have four fresh titles to...

This week in survivalboxes: Valnir Rok, Hellion, Next Day Survival, and ARK

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It’s time for another survivalbox roundup! What's new in the world of eternal building, unbuilding, ganking, ganking buildings, and consuming adequate food and water...

Massively Overthinking: How will Star Citizen make money after launch?

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During this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I attempted to tackle a question sent in by commenter and listener Sally Bowls - specifically,...

The Stream Team: Getting a look at Guardians of Ember’s launch

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Good-bye Early Access! It's a glorious day when a game can say that, and today Guardians of Ember gets to join the ranks of launched...

PvE-centric Fortnite’s new battle royal PvP mode will be free-to-play

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Epic Games announced this morning that Fortnite's upcoming PvP mode will essentially be free-to-play. The game was originally touted by Epic as a PvE survival...

Hack-n-slash MMOARPG Guardians of Ember launches today

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After wandering the lands of early access since last December, the Runewaker-developed hack-and-slash Guardians of Ember has now gained enough confidence, experience, and (most...

Fortnite accidentally adds then removes crossplatform Xbox One/PS4 play

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Update: Aww, nuts. Epic has already disabled it, calling it a "configuration issue" and bug. Bet you've never actually ridden a physical lockbox from an...

Puzzle Pirates: Dark Seas server goes into early access

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Every voyage has a beginning, and for Puzzle Pirates' newest server, the maiden voyage began this past week. It's called Dark Seas, and it's a...

Dark and Light vows to squash early access bugs

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Early access or no, players expect their games to work right when they're shelling out money for them. The developers of the reworked Dark...

PAX West 2017: ARK Survival Evolved on optimization, the Aberration expansion, and future development

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This past summer, ARK: Survival Evolved finally officially launched, ending its stint as an early access game just three days before PAX West, then promptly announced...
This is not a frog, for the record.

Project Gorgon is ‘gearing up’ for a Steam launch, adds item context menus

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When the history books go to record the development of Project Gorgon, they're going to have to use terms like "ages" and "epochs" to...

Funcom promises better communication for Conan Exiles

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Get ready for a flood of information from Conan Exiles. Funcom admitted that it had been dropping the ball on talking with fans about...
Isolationist.

Worlds Adrift is making it easier to play well with others

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There are times when Worlds Adrift is meant to be lonesome, but that doesn't mean it needs to be lonely. The development team has...

Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts is ‘fed up’ with giving 3.0 release estimates

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Eurogamer's Chris Roberts interview covers why the alpha 3.0 is more like early access than beta, how making games has changed in the era of crowdfunding, and why he's tired of giving out 3.0 launch estimates - even when he's being called a liar by detractors.
Find and replace 'bug' with 'feature'

Dark and Light patches its patch, apologizes again to players

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For its first major content update, Dark and Light's Mysteries of Blackice Peaks proved to be a bit of a mixed bag. While adding...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds struggles with rapid growth and microtransactions backlash

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With its domination over Steam and 10 million units sold, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has the industry's direct and rapt attention. But this immense success hasn't...

Citadel: Forged With Fire is hit with marble madness

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It might be tempting to become so wrapped up in the endless possibilities and power of Citadel: Forged With Fire's magic that you might...
Waifu

Dark and Light apologizes for rollbacks following the ice caves patch

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Nobody wants to see the word "rollback" associated with a game, including the designers. You can tell that the staff behind Dark and Light...

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