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‘Adaption shooter’ Ascendant is plotting an August open beta – with transmedia ambitions
What the heck is an "adaption shooter"? That was my first and really only question upon first hearing about Ascendant (fka Ascendant Infinity), PlayFusion's...
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...
The Stream Team: A quick run through the Wayfinder Echoes update
Usually we're not in the business of highlighting single-player offline gaming here at OPTV, but for today's stream we're making an exception because Wayfinder...
The Stream Team: Fighting the foes of managed democracy in Helldivers 2
It's time yet again for MOP's Chris to slip on his helmet, grab his favorite weapons, and strap on his cape as he and...
Multiplayer survival shooter Vigor announces plans for a Steam early access launch in May
Do you remember Vigor? It's a multiplayer shooter from Bohemia Interactive set in a post-war 1991 Norway where players have to scrounge, survive, and......
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Evil v Evil, Blood Strike, Solium Infernum
Welcome back to another roundup of some MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games that you've (probably) never heard of and we need to at least...
Helldivers 2 players share sightings of mysterious blue lasers, fueling speculation of a third enemy faction
The playerbase of Helldivers 2 is sharing some interesting and terrifying new reveals from the shooter's various battlefronts, and this time it's not just...
The Day Before studio claims to be the target of misinformation and a hate campaign
When Fntastic's survival shooter The Day Before officially shut down its servers, we had assumed it would be the last headline to come out...
Overwatch 2 considers adding party frames, tank and DPS passive self-heals, and spawn changes in Season 9
Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller is apparently looking to shake things up significantly in Season 9 if his latest dev blog is any indication,...
The Day Before Steam keys go for three figures on the grey market as Fntastic announces server closures
We all thought that news from The Day Before was going to end too, but the whole sordid story of this zombie extraction shooter...
Nexon’s early access 5v5 action shooter Veiled Experts will sunset December 14
You may not have heard of Veiled Experts, a free-to-play 5v5 tactical action shooter from Nexon: The company billed it as a game that's...
Fortnite hints at a return of its Chapter 1 content on November 3
Do you yearn for the halcyon days of 2017 when Fortnite kicked off its very first season? If you're the sort of person who...
Nexon’s shooter THE FINALS enters cross-platform open beta October 26
Nexon's Embark Studios is vrooming onward with its next test for THE FINALS: It's just announced that its first cross-platform open beta event will...
Fortnite embeds an official Alan Wake gameplay experience as Fortnitemares is underway
Who wouldn't want to play the somber and atmospheric Alan Wake within the cartoon-y and generally more colorful pastiche of Fortnite? Yes, it's true:...
Court docs show Activision-Blizzard helped a gun manufacturer market to ‘young consumers’ in Call of Duty title
Just when you thought that Activision-Blizzard news might finally slow down now that Microsoft's officially acquired it, no less than the Wall Street Journal...
Destiny 2 adds new weapons, details Checkmate mode updates, and confirms Season 23 gunsmith tweaks
The end of the week always means a newsletter from Destiny 2, and this edition of the post features another round of updates for...
Destiny 2 opens threads for PvPer input, tests new PvP modes, and promises PvP playlist restructuring
PvP players in Destiny 2 are very often the sort to have opinions, so in order for Bungie to leverage that input without exposing...
Activision announces rollout of AI-assisted voice chat mod tools for its Call of Duty series
Keeping toxic voice speech under heel in FPS games might sound like a Sisyphean effort, but Activision is giving it the old college try...
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming shares some multiplayer SWAT action from Ready or Not
Backseat Streaming is back once more with another new-to-us title: the multiplayer tactical SWAT FPS Ready or Not. Join MOP's Chris and MJ live...
Arcadegeddon is a multiplayer roguelite PvPvE shooter all about saving a hometown arcade
How far would you be willing to go to save a gaming arcade? Would you be willing to inject yourself into a "super-game" to...
