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Tabletop board game-styled MMO World Seed enters early access
It's been quite some time since we checked up on World Seed, an interesting and laid-back MMO done up in a tabletop board game...
Lets Go! Baby! Friends World is a ‘so bad it’s good gem’ where players are babies in a hallucinogenic hellscape
"Always be a baby. Don't ever be a gun." Listening to that song and its irreverence will probably help your brain become malleable enough...
First Impressions: Babylon’s Fall is an unpolished and underwhelming collection of almost good ideas
I'll be perfectly honest: Babylon's Fall was almost never on my radar. A packed few weeks of MMO and multiplayer releases pretty much saw...
Super-hardcore fantasy RPG Elden Ring launches – with co-op multiplayer
You probably don't need us to tell you this, but Elden Ring launched this past week. The hardcore fantasy title was the "It" game...
Squabble is like Wordle in battle royale format
Wordle is everyone's favorite current internet game obsession because guessing a five-letter word within a limited span of time is kind of oddly fun...
Closers releases a quality-of-life patch with content tweaks, footprint effects, and a selfie mode
If your life in Closers felt incomplete because your characters don't leave special effects behind when they move, then you might be heartened by...
Apex Legends changes its Olympus map, adds a new character, and brings Control mode in Defiance update
It's time for another new season in the battle royale shooter Apex Legends. This one is called Defiance, and it brings the usual collection...
Fallout 76 is bringing back the Fasnacht event on February 10
If you've felt like creepy-looking carnival masks were missing from the wasteland of Fallout 76 and have been glum about it, then you can...
Dauntless patches in more island event tweaks and prepares to celebrate Valentine’s Day
It's Love, Slayer Style (cue the theme) as the latest patch for Dauntless is readying itself to celebrate Valentine's Day with the return of...
Raph Koster talks metaverse creation and learning lessons from past game design mistakes
"Metaverse." It's the one word that, apparently, drives game execs and investors into a babbling frenzy just seconds before they explode into venture capital...
Fallout 76 talks up the alien invasion event on PTS and doubles SCORE point earnings
Alien invasions are coming to the wasteland of Fallout 76's Appalachia, but first they've got to go through some testing sessions to make sure...
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming premiere introduces A Hat in Time zombie tag
In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers! That's right, today MOP is introducing a brand-new stream style for you to...
Whatever happened to ‘multi-user roguelike’ Apsis Online?
We've been covering the development trajectory of Apsis Online for some time now, from its first incarnation in 2019 to its design shift as...
Plunder Panic is a 6v6 action arcade title where 2-D pirates fight over different objectives
There are two things that immediately caught my interest when I saw the multiplayer arcade title of Plunder Panic cross our news desk: one,...
RF Online developer unveils plans for a ‘battle coin server’ that will reward cryptocurrencies
It has been a significant length of time since we heard any major peeps out of RF Online, though the game itself has been...
Paris Hilton opens a ‘metaverse business’ in Roblox that will host a virtual DJ set on New Year’s Eve
If earlier news about Roblox hasn't already made your soul leave your body, then consider this one the coup de grâce: Reality TV "star"...
Remedy and Tencent team up on co-op PvE shooter codenamed Vanguard
Remedy Entertainment isn't a particularly well-known studio around our corner of the gaming world, as the studio is more well-known for single-player games such...
Dauntless gets seasonal with the return of Frostfall, reworks the frigid Embermane variant, and adds a new cell perk
The winter season has once again come to the world of Dauntless, and while there are hunting grounds that are already coated in snow,...
Peter Molyneux’s multiplayer ‘blockchain business sim’ Legacy sells $53M in land NFTs before release
If you feel strongly about another game making money off of concepts of internet spaceships, then you might have some feelings about what Peter...
Genshin Impact fan creates a limited set of fully functional condoms
Whether you want one as a collectible or you want one for actual use, you can soon get yourself a Genshin Impact condom thanks...
