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Bungie’s plan for Destiny 2’s eleventh year is less linear and more about world-building
Bungie has been operating Destiny 2 for a decade now, and that means next year is the 11th of storytelling in a world full...
Nexon’s co-op looter-shooter The First Descendant has officially launched today
It's launch day for Nexon's The First Descendant, a word I still manage to misspell even after covering this game for at least the...
Fortnite Reload mode brings the battle royale shooter back to gimmick-free basics
For all of the aspirations Epic Games has heaped upon Fortnite as some metaverse-adjacent hub of greater entertainment, the actual battle royale mode that...
Overwatch 2 discusses general plans for addressing the squishiness of tank heroes
If you're a tank player in Overwatch 2, you probably feel less like a heavily armored wall and more like a pile of sponges....
The First Descendant talks up new characters, ultimate weapons, and tools to make the perfect build
We're only days away from the global launch of Nexon's looter shooter The First Descendant, which means that fans might already be considering their...
The MOP Up: League of Legends’ game modes help to refresh its theme park design
League of Legends' game director explained why the MOBA is adding a Vampire Survivors-type mode to make it more like a "theme park," saying,...
Tribes 3 Rivals heads into de facto maintenance mode as developers offer compensation
There's bad but perhaps not unexpected news for Tribes 3 Rivals players today as developer Prophecy Games has put out a rather flatly titled...
Amazon Games shares its long focus approach while saying that the Lord of the Rings MMO is ‘not too far away’
It can be pretty easy to assume that the strategy of Amazon Games is to throw handfuls of anything at the wall to see...
This year’s Steam Summer Sale brings another collection of bargains for MMORPG fans
It's Christmas in summertime once again, otherwise known to gamers as the Steam Summer Sale, and we're happy to report that there are some...
Once Human claims to have taken the ‘Triple Crown’ on Steam with wishlist numbers and demo players
Can you win at being on Steam? If you ask NetEase, the answer is not only "yes," but it's also followed up with, "and...
Sand studio explains the extraction shooter’s premise in a new official post
Do you greatly enjoy sand's relative coarseness, its rough texture, and its ability to get everywhere? This is the correct way of thinking! No...
Tarisland opens its first 10-player raid boss, readies a new instance and bug fixes in next patch
We are now officially into the post-launch content patch season of Tarisland. Even as the MMORPG has initially unimpressed our staff, Tencent is pushing...
Perfect Ten: The MMORPG terms we use but never define, from murderhobo to sandpark
Over in Vague Patch Notes, I have an ongoing series of columns that I describe as being primarily about having useful notes for us...
SGF 2024: Hands-on with The First Descendant, plus a chat with the Nexon devs
You thought our Summer Game Fest coverage was over, didn't you? Well, in all fairness, Nexon not only brought The First Descendant to SGF but provided...
Theorycraft’s Project Loki is now Supervive, a F2P neon squad-based battle royale
Theorycraft Games is a studio name that's popped up several times over the last couple of years, largely owing to the fact that it...
War Thunder apologizes for accidentally using imagery of the Challenger shuttle disaster for its keyart
While there were plenty of things to pay attention to in War Thunder's recently released Seek and Destroy update, players were paying attention to...
Enlisted gets a new map, new weapons, and better graphics in its Rzhev update
When a military location is historically known as a "meat grinder," you can probably expect things to get pretty intense, which means that players...
The Stream Team: Returning to co-op FPS Starship Troopers Extermination
It's been quite some time since MOP's Chris has gotten out into the bug-infested firefights of Starship Troopers: Extermination, and since he's in the...
The MOP Up: Among Us adds three new playable roles
Highly sus game Among Us added three new roles with its latest update: Tracker (keep tabs on Crewmates via the minimap), Noisemaker (make noise...
Anime hero shooter Second Wave and its developer shut down after a disastrous dev cycle
Over the course of last year, we had been reporting on Second Wave, an anime-styled hero shooter MOBA from developer Challengers Games that looked...
