IMMORTALS FENYX RISING Review

IMMORTALS FENYX RISING Review
An interesting game clouded by features from another title.

Guilty Gear: Strive gets a delay into June

Guilty Gear: Strive gets a delay into June
More time needed to polish some aspects of the game.

Clubhouse Pass Season 2 Is on the Green in PGA TOUR 2K21

Clubhouse Pass Season 2 Is on the Green in PGA TOUR 2K21


Karakuri-kun Official Steam Trailer

Karakuri-kun Official Steam Trailer


Marvel's Avengers: Next-Gen Capabilities Trailer

Marvel's Avengers: Next-Gen Capabilities Trailer


Devs Lost In Space - A New Space Engineers Weekly Community Stream - March 4th

Devs Lost In Space - A New Space Engineers Weekly Community Stream - March 4th


Doom VR Edition is bringing the iconic classic to PSVR headsets

Doom VR Edition is bringing the iconic classic to PSVR headsets
We'll get the chance to experience this nightmarish horror by the end of this month.

NBA 2K21 is coming to Xbox Game Pass today

NBA 2K21 is coming to Xbox Game Pass today
A perfect dunk.

Airport CEO Gallery

Airport CEO Gallery
Latest images for Airport CEO

Airport CEO Review

Airport CEO Review
Like Airports? Like Planes? Like construction and management? You've come to the right place.

The Survivalists Farming & Animal Console Update!

The Survivalists Farming & Animal Console Update!


Nintendo Switch | SNK VS. CAPCOM【Super Impact Blasts - CAPCOM】

Nintendo Switch | SNK VS. CAPCOM【Super Impact Blasts - CAPCOM】


Casually Grounded Dev Stream E06 w/ Aarik, Shyla, Roby Atadero, and special guest RooDaaR!

Casually Grounded Dev Stream E06 w/ Aarik, Shyla, Roby Atadero, and special guest RooDaaR!


Casually Grounded Dev Stream E05 w/ Aarik, Shyla, Adam Brennecke, and special guest Mike Lowery!

Casually Grounded Dev Stream E05 w/ Aarik, Shyla, Adam Brennecke, and special guest Mike Lowery!


It's time to tell you who I am...

It's time to tell you who I am...


Apex Legends now has a new Nintendo Switch gameplay trailer

Apex Legends now has a new Nintendo Switch gameplay trailer
Legends on the roll.

Rust's console version now has a new trailer as well

Rust's console version now has a new trailer as well
Just in time.

Nintendo Switch | SNK VS. CAPCOM【Super Impact Blasts - SNK】

Nintendo Switch | SNK VS. CAPCOM【Super Impact Blasts - SNK】


Outriders Soundtrack - Main Theme

Outriders Soundtrack - Main Theme


Littlewood, a Stardew Valley-like RPG is now out on Nintendo Switch

Littlewood, a Stardew Valley-like RPG is now out on Nintendo Switch
"The world has already been saved".

Tile Travel – Tech Demo

Tile Travel is an inventive puzzle platformer where the gameplay switches between 2D top-down and 2D side-scrolling perspectives in a 3D environment.

In Tile Travel you control an unknown female protagonist with a big axe as she traverses labyrinthine environments. You start the game viewed from a 2D side-on perspective and jump across some boats at an old dock, but when you jump down onto … Read More

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Tormented Souls – Beta Demo

Tormented Souls is a slightly cheesy, but entertaining and unsettling fixed-perspective person survival horror adventure where you investigate the disappearance of a couple of twin girls in a mysterious mansion.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer during the closed Beta sign up, Tormented Souls is a Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark inspired old school survival horror game set in a spooky mansion … Read More

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Forest Grove – Beta Sign Up

Forest Grove is a first person Sci-Fi mystery game where you investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl who is the heir to a billion dollar fortune.

Looking a little like a Sci-Fi version of Knives Out, Forest Grove sees you investigating a missing person's case where everyone in the family is a potential suspect. After the young heiress of a billion dollar tech … Read More

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Tiny Thor – Beta Demo

Tiny Thor is a great little 16-bit inspired action platfomer where a cute little eight year old Thor goes on an epic adventure with his new birthday present from his father – Mjölnir.

Initially Tiny Thor feels like a well made but fairly standard retro action platforming adventure with you able to collect goodies and jump on enemy heads to kill them. But then Odin … Read More

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UNSIGHTED – Beta Demo

UNSIGHTED is a beautifully animated top-down action RPG adventure where an android fights to save the consciousness of her robotic brethren.

The story of UNSIGHTED takes place in a war ravaged city called Arcadia, that's been the center of a long running war between humans and androids. The few robots that remain are now running out of the energy that gives them consciousness (called Anima). … Read More

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White Shadows – Beta Demo

White Shadows is a dark and unsettling Inside-esque 2.5D cinematic action platforming adventure where a little Ravengirl makes her way through a dark, weird and violent city.

White Shadows takes place in a dark and distorted industrialised version of our world, where humanity is half human and half animal. The wolves in charge of The White City have been lying to the public to … Read More

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RESEARCH and DESTROY – Beta Sign Up

RESEARCH and DESTROY is a simultaneous turn-based co-op action game with real-time shooting, where three brilliant scientists fight back against the supernatural hordes that have devastated the world.

Featuring online or local co-op for up to three players, RESEARCH and DESTROY blend turn-based strategy with real-time shooting as your scientists battle supernatural monsters. In the game your aim is to seek out and eliminate the … Read More

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Batora: Lost Haven – Alpha Sign Up

Batora: Lost Haven is a narrative-driven hack 'n slash action RPG where a gifted teenage girl sets out on a journey that will change the universe after a mysterious event left Earth in ruins.

In Batora: Lost Haven you take on the role of Avril, a sixteen year old girl who finds that she has been gifted with mental and physical powers. Earth has been … Read More

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Ratuz – Alpha Demo

Ratuz is a comically brutal cinematic horror action platformer where you attempt to escape from a prison that's been experimenting on humans and turning them into bloodthirsty abominations.

In Ratuz you take on the role of a prisoner who's locked up in a prison that prefers to experiment on its prisoners rather than reform them. At the start of the game a group of you … Read More

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AudioClash: Battle of the Bands – Beta Sign Up

AudioClash: Battle of the Bands is a very cool looking musical auto-battler starring The Living Tombstone, where players create their dream bands then face off in epic musical battles.

Made in conjunction with The Living Tombstone (the hugely popular electronic dance/rock band who among other things created the FNaF soundtracks), AudioClash: Battle of the Bands brings groovy tunes and tons of style to the auto-battler … Read More

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The Story of the Flood – Open Beta

The Story of the Flood is a stylish and sombre adventure where you paddle a little raft through a flooded post-apocalyptic world and make tough decisions on what five items, animals or people you can rescue in it.

In The Story of the Flood you find yourself on a little raft in a world that's totally flooded with water. As you paddle along you come … Read More

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Catie in Meowmeowland – Beta Demo

Catie in Meowmeowland is a charming and surreal Samorost style point and click adventure where a little girl falls down a rabbit hole into a bizarre world of cats and weird creatures.

In Catie in Meowmeowland you'll embark on a whimsical and delightfully weird adventure through a land of cats after following a Alice in Wonderland White Rabbit-esque white cat through a very deep rabbit … Read More

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I Am Fish – Alpha Demo

I Am Fish is a delightful physics based platforming sequel to I Am Bread, which sees four different fishy friends escaping captivity to reunite once again in the ocean.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer during the Pre-Alpha sign up, I Am Fish is a sequel to Bassa Studios' I Am Bread, but instead of controlling a floppy slice of bread you … Read More

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The Rocket Stop Incident – Alpha Demo

The Rocket Stop Incident is a tense and atmospheric puzzle-driven first person horror adventure where things get very weird as you explore a local Rocket Stop gas station.

In The Rocket Stop Incident you find yourself at a gas station which actually seems to be more of a weird motel. After being greeted by a freaky long arm that hands you a coin and tells … Read More

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A Juggler's Tale – Alpha Demo

A Juggler's Tale is a beautiful Inside/Little Nightmares-esque 2.5D puzzle platforming adventure where a little puppet girl sets out to take control of her own fate.

In A Juggler's Tale you follow the adventure of Abby, a young puppet girl who lives in a world of puppets. She entertains an audience during the day as part of a circus act, but she's kept in … Read More

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TUNIC – Beta Demo (Xbox)

A new demo is available on Xbox for TUNIC – the beautiful isometric action RPG where a cute little fox embarks on an adventure that plays like a blend of Zelda and Dark Souls.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer a year ago, TUNIC is a delightful and surprisingly challenging isometric action RPG starring an adorable little fox in a tunic. Its main … Read More

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Tamarindos Freaking Dinner – Beta Sign Up

Tamarindos Freaking Dinner is a very weird first person horror adventure where you set out to deliver a pizza to the creepiest mansion in the universe!

A spiritual successor to (the also extremely weird) Baobabs Mausoleum, Tamarindos Freaking Dinner is a first person adventure ahta blends horror, surreal oddity, whimsical musical interludes, quirky humor and a beautiful claymation-esque visual style. In the game you … Read More

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Interference – Alpha Demo

Interference is an atmospheric first person thriller where you work as a security guard for a top secret research facility while all hell breaks loose.

In Interference you may be a night shift security guard who is confined to their little security booth while a disaster occurs in the main facility. It's a narrative driven experience where you chat to your friend over the radio … Read More

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TOEM – Beta Demo

TOEM is a wholesome narrative-driven puzzle adventure game where you use your camera to help people and solve puzzles in its wonderfully weird hand-drawn world.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer during the closed Alpha sign up, TOEM follows the story of a young adventurer who sets out into the world to visit a sacred place called the TOEM. It's a long journey, … Read More

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Death Trash – Beta Demo

Death Trash is a beautifully animated isometric action RPG adventure set in a post-apocalyptic meatpunk world where cosmic horrors long for humanity and flesh grows from the ground.

The world of Death Trash is a very fleshy one. It takes place in a distant future where humanity travelled to the stars and unearthed cosmic horrors best left alone. The planet Nexus is where your story … Read More

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NORCO – Beta Demo

NORCO is a beautiful, atmospheric and detail-rich Southern Gothic Sci-Fi point and click adventure set within the suburbs and industrial swamplands of Louisiana.

In NORCO you find yourself returning to your hometown following the death of your mother. Your brother has gone missing and it seems that your hometown is a little worse for wear, with machines taking people's jobs and the looming presence of … Read More

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tERRORbane – Beta Demo

tERRORbane is a very funny fourth wall breaking meta-adventure where you annoy a developer by breaking his ambitious, but buggy JRPG!

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer way back in 2017, tERRORbane is a hilarious meta-adventure where you attempt to play a buggy JRPG while also being constantly interrupted by an anxious game dev who gets mad when you break things. The dev has … Read More

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The Night is Grey – Beta Demo

The Night is Grey is a beautifully animated point and click thriller adventure where a man helps a lost girl in a forest filled with strange wolves.

Currently in development by Whalestork Interactive, The Night is Grey is a point and click adventure that follows the story of Graham – an ordinary man who ends up trapped in a forest by a pack of wolves. … Read More

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Tandem: A Tale of Shadows – Beta Demo

Tandem: A Tale of Shadows is a cleverly crafted puzzle platforming adventure where you control one character from a top-down perspective and another from a side-on perspective, all within the same gamespace!

Playing a little like the excellent Toodee and Topdee, Tandem: A Tale of Shadows is an inventive dual-character puzzle platformer with a Burton-esque visual style, where both characters work together on different … Read More

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Sable – Beta Demo (Steam & Xbox)

Sable is a beautiful third person adventure where a young woman embarks on a rite of passage in a vast open world filled with ancient wonders.

In Sable you take control of the titular Sable, a young woman who is about to embark on a rite of passage called the Gliding. She lives in a small desert colony but her journey will take her far … Read More

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Mechajammer – Alpha Demo

Mechajammer is a very fast paced turn-based tactical RPG with horror elements, where a crew of deserters attempt to escape from a grimy cyberpunk jungle colony on a distant planet.

In Mechajammer you'll be able to explore a large open world cyberpunk city inhabited by occult syndicate hollows and surrounded by mutant-filled jungles. You're a deserter from the military and after crashing into a hostile … Read More

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Babylon's Fall – Beta Sign Up (PS4, PS5 & PC)

PS4, PS5 and PC owners can now sign up to Beta test Babylon's Fall, an epic new co-op multiplayer action RPG from Square Enix and PlatinumGames (creators of Bayonetta and Vanquish).

In Babylon's Fall you'll join a group of powerful warriors who set out to conquer the Tower of Babylon. You take on the role of a Sentinel and you'll use a handy … Read More

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Outland Rapture – Beta Sign Up

Outland Rapture is a 2.5D cinematic puzzle platforming adventure that looks like a blend of Inside and Lost Vikings, as you control three uniquely skilled strangers trapped in a mysterious land.

Currently in development by Epopeia Games (creators of Goroons and IIN), in Outland Rapture you follow the adventure of three strangers who mysteriously awaken in a strange world filled with mechanized monstrosities. … Read More

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The Excrawlers – Alpha Demo

The Excrawlers is a beautifully animated roguelite action RPG where you use a sword and bow to battle your way through dungeons filled with monsters and madness.

In The Excrawlers you take control of a lone female warrior who slices her way through procedurally generated forests and dungeons. You start out very underpowered, but as you progress you level up, equip powerful runes and at … Read More

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Riders Republic – Beta Sign Up (PC, Xbox, Playstation & Stadia)

PC, Xbox, Playstation and Stadia users can now sign up to Beta test Riders Republic, a new Steep-esque massively multiplayer sports playground from Ubisoft, where players can explore and race in using bikes, skis, snowboards, jetpacks, paragliders and wingsuits.

Looking quite similar to Steep, but with less of a focus on snow and the addition of bikes and jetpacks, Riders Republic is … Read More

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PAX West returns to its in-person format this fall

As much of the United States returns to normal after a year of social distancing and virtual events, the organizers of PAX West have decided that it's safe enough to bring back the event in person after last year's online-only format. PAX West, which will run from September 3rd through the 6th, will take place […]

Dungeons and Dragons Online brings Saltmarsh dungeons, endgame item changes, and more to PTS

The PTS of Dungeons and Dragons Online is once again flush with new things for players to check out as this past Tuesday saw a preview of Update 50 go online. The headline attraction of this new update is the Saltmarsh adventure area, which is modeled after the AD&D module of the same name and […]

Phantasy Star Online 2 fixes bugs and addresses fresh issues with Microsoft store

It's patch day for Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, though the update is largely focused on fixing bugs than on adding content. SEGA says it fixed multiple issues with boosters, interface currency displays, and that whole thing where people would literally fall through the world when trying to join an urgent quest. Good grief. […]

The Elder Scrolls Online kicks off the Midyear Mayhem Festival for PvP fun times

Why should you get in your fighting on a Saturday night and no other time? No, The Elder Scrolls Online wants you to get in your fighting all the time. Saturday night, Saturday morning, every other day of the week. See, it's the Midyear Mayhem Festival starting on June 24th, and that means it's time […]

Perfect Ten: 10 reasons you'd never want to live in an MMORPG

Escapism and daydreams are, in my opinion, wonderful and part of what fuels our creativity and excitement. I mean, most of us probably engage in some form of escapism just by the act of playing MMOs. These are settings that make us heroes, gives us clearly defined objectives with assured rewards, and continually dole out […]

Aion Classic is officially live in the west- are you playing? Or at least in the queue?

Listen, if you're reading this at work, then you're already behind in Aion Classic, I'm sorry to say. That's because after a brief delay, the new version of the old game just officially launched in the Americas (and for Europeans savvy enough to switch their location settings), and the day-one challenges are already live. You […]

You can make your Black Desert Corsair right now (and play her next week)

On this week's podcast, we were discussing how few pirate classes there are in MMORPGs despite pirate NPCs being in pretty much all of them. So a 21-cannon salute to Black Desert, which is in the final stages of preparing the Corsair for her June 29th debut. But just because you need to wait until […]

Casually Classic: What retail WoW could (re)learn from Burning Crusade Classic's class progression

Now that we're weeks into Burning Crusade Classic, players are discovering that despite many antiquated design elements, this expansion is still a whole lot of fun with scads of stuff to do. While many (but not all!) of the community is already engaged with the endgame of raiding, dailies, and hard mode dungeons, one of […]

$100K Star Citizen whale discusses why he supports the game – and what he's worried about

For those who orbit Star Citizen news and are aghast at why its business model — a winner of this site's Worst Business Model award for four years running — keeps on raking in money, you might be interested in hearing the thoughts of one of the game's whales who was interviewed by the folks […]

Blocky sandbox Trove has finally launched on the Nintendo Switch

Trove's summer releases just keep rolling: Just a week after dropping the Bard update on PC, now Gamigo's blocky MMORPG has launched on the Nintendo Switch. The game is well-loved around here, thanks to its nifty housing and club world system, its flexible class mechanics, and constantly expanding crafting tools. "In a seamless blend of […]

Star Trek Online's Risa vacaycay pays out in a T6 ship and a tsunami gun

Forget voyaging to strange new worlds and investigating that pesky anomaly in the next sector — you're going to want to engage at maximum warp all the way over to Star Trek Online's Risa next month for the Lohlunat Festival. This annual summer holiday is scheduled to run the entire month of July. You're going […]

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has its first major patch, Chains of Domination, available for pre-loading

It feels like it's taken a really, really long time for the first content patch to arrive for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. That would be because it has taken a really long time; specifically, it's going to be right around eight months before release when all is said and done. But the patch is finally […]

Amazon Games responds to complaints that Lost Ark character redesigns are 'censorship'

Lost Ark has yet to release here in the west and it's already got its first stupid controversy. When Amazon Games first announced that it was going to publish the MMOARPG, the company noted that they would be making some adjustments to characters and character creation in an effort to make more players "feel at […]

Xianxia action MMORPG Swords of Legends Online is launching July 9

We've finally gotten a date for Swords of Legends Online: July 9th. I say this as if it's been a game we've been covering a long time, but in reality, we didn't even know it existed as a possibility here in the west until April when Gameforge casually announced it, so this has been a […]

The Daily Grind: Is it too late for others to start your MMO?

One of the eternal questions that you'll see asked in every MMORPG's Reddit, forum, and discussion is if it's too late for a new (or even very lapsed) player to jump in and derive a meaningful level of enjoyment and participation — or have they missed the boat completely. I know the knee-jerk response here […]

New World talks about the lore and gameplay influences of magic in new interview

If you're exploring an island where there are undead things or malevolent forces scuttling about, you're no doubt in a world steeped in magic, so obviously New World has magic in it. It's that power and what it does to the game's story, creatures, and gameplay that was the subject of a new interview on […]

Square-Enix states that Outriders is off to a good start thanks in part to Xbox Game Pass

Do you remember Outriders? The answer is no, you do not. If you think you do, you are either lying or delusional. No one remembers Outriders. But it did actually launched, and despite the aforementioned fact that no one remembers it exists, it… apparently did pretty well for itself. And some of that is attributed […]

ArcheAge adds June update, offers players free stuff for the summer

Are you playing ArcheAge right now? How about now? Wait, the developers know what will get your interest – free stuff. Everybody likes free stuff, right? If you like free stuff, you'll be quite happy to learn that ArcheAge is giving everyone free stuff with free weekly gift packages in the Glyph store from now […]

Wizard101 announces a 'guild-lite' system and group perks

"Providing opportunities for socialization" is the watch-phrase going around Wizard101 these days. Game Director Leah Ruben charted a manifesto this week about how KingsIsle is walking a fine line of encouraging socialization without requiring it, saying that it's fun and gratifying to share experiences. The letter isn't just feel-good concepts, as Ruben outlined several initiatives that […]

Massively OP Podcast Episode 327: Ducks all the way down

Justin and Bree discuss WoW 9.1, Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO Classic, RuneScape Mobile, and Black Desert's Corsair, with adventures in Final Fantasy XIV, WoW Classic, Albion Online, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on developer promises and skills we learned in MMOs.

Aion Classic will officially make its western debut at noon tomorrow

Good news for MMO players raring to go in Aion Classic: You won't even need to get out of bed early to do it. NCsoft has announced that the fun begins tomorrow at noon EDT – that's 9 a.m. PDT and 6 p.m. CEST. Naturally, there are some speed challenges on offer for those who […]

New World's latest alpha update reduces PvP penalties, adjusts experience requirements again

Amazon's New World apparently has a couple more patches in store for alpha players after all. Today's update behind closed doors has several changes small and large, including new PvE faction missions, tweaks to guild war declarations, reductions in penalties for PvP death, new and more diverse gear, revamped titles, improved intro cinematic, harder expeditions, […]

Dauntless' roadmap updates include a Repeater refresh, the Omnicell sub-class system, and shock changes

Players of Dauntless have likely been busying themselves with hunting the Chronovore or chasing after Exotics, but it never hurts to look at what's coming, which brings us to the game's roadmap and a host of planned updates. We begin with Omnicells, which is the name granted to the RPG's proposed sub-class system. These Omnicells […]

Guild Wars 2 kicks off Dragon Bash today

Meanwhile, the Dragon Bash festival has returned to Guild Wars 2 as of this afternoon, sending players to Hoelbrak for racing, drinking, moas, drinking, arena PvP, drinking, and the stampede. And drinking. The game is running a login sweepstakes as well that could see you win a sweet monitor or headset just for playing. "Dragon […]

Massively on the Go: Niantic is partially rolling back Pokemon Go's COVID bonuses

Almost a month ago I argued that Pokemon GO's COVID changes should not be rolled back. I was under no illusions that Niantic would necessarily listen to me as an individual, but hoped that I could at least add another voice to the choir singing, "Don't do it." In some ways, I think Niantic has […]

Second Life turns 18 years old this week, counting 70M lifetime accounts

I'm gonna say the M word in this post, and I'm sorry, but metaverse metaverse metaverse. That's because Second Life is back in the news this week, but for happy reasons, as it's turning 18 years old tomorrow. Linden Lab says it will "be marking the milestone with activities ranging from community-created SL18B exhibitions, Meet […]

Choose My Adventure: Awestruck by Star Wars Galaxies' crafting and housing potential

This week has been something of a rollercoaster for me. Of emotions. Of discovery. And, slowly yet surely, of deeper appreciation and enjoyment of Star Wars Galaxies. By the slimmest of margins, setting up some housing beat out digging into crafting in last week's poll, but I soon started to discover that they absolutely both […]

Final Fantasy XIV ups tomestone limits and timeworn artifact rewards with patch 5.57

Have some relic weapons left over to grind? Have a dire need for some tomestone upgrades? The process of both is getting a fair bit easier in Final Fantasy XIV with the latest minor patch, 5.57, which buffs up the timeworn artifacts earned from Delubrum Reginae to three per run. That means getting past that […]

First Impressions: Diving into Oblivion portals with companions in Elder Scrolls Online's Blackwood

Like clockwork, The Elder Scrolls Online has flung wide the gates of its annual chapter release. This time, in Blackwood, we are headed to southern Cyrodiil, where the remnants of the once great empire meet the borders of the Argonian homeland of Blackmarsh. The Elder Scrolls Online loves to capitalize on nostalgia, and Blackwood is […]

Saga of Lucimia on its comms blackout: 'We do not have a firm timeline on anything'

For well over a year now, we have been concerned about the state of Saga of Lucimia's development — namely, if it's even happening any more at all. Back in March, hope for the hardcore MMORPG's future was dimmed by the announcement that founders and project leads Timothy and Joseph Anderson had parted ways with […]

A slim majority of Acti-Blizz investors approved its 'say-on-pay' policy after vote extension

Score another win for the C-suite. As we've been covering, Activision-Blizzard investors purportedly represented by CtW Investment Group had been agitating to vote down the company's "say-on-pay" policy and curb its executive payout excesses. Last year, the group was successful at EA but could only declare spiritual victory at AB when it convinced only 43% […]

Sea of Thieves kicks off its third season with new goodies, new enemies, and its Pirates of the Caribbean adventure

He's the pauper of the surf, the jester of Tortuga, and as of today he's now officially part of the Sea of Thieves. Today marks the launch of the piratical sandbox's third season, featuring an all new set of five Tall Tales titled A Pirate's Life that sees players teaming up with Captain Jack Sparrow […]

EVE Online brings its stealth ship-centric Enter the Portal update online

If you were in the PTS of EVE Online, you already knew about the Enter the Portal update and what it was doing for black ops ships. If you weren't, then you can now experience the adjustments made to these sneaky spacecraft as the update is now officially live. In case you happened to miss […]

The Daily Grind: Would you play a LOTRO Classic server?

Lord of the Rings Online devs surprised players this past weekend by saying that a Classic server for LOTRO might be on the table, after years of dismissing the idea. I was initially intrigued by the idea since I tend to love Classic servers… and then MOP's Justin brought me back to reality, pointing out […]

Ascendants Rising is a co-op action RPG that pits players against randomized bosses in arena combat

"Do you like MMORPGs? Are you tired of the tedious grind, the group hunting, and the long treks before you are allowed to have fun? Or maybe you just don't have time for this anymore? Then, do we have the game for you!" This is the opening salvo from Ascendants Rising, an early access co-op […]

Multiplayer survival sandbox Smalland shares a new gameplay trailer, announces early access later this year

It's been a long time since we heard a peep out of Smalland, the multiplayer survival sandbox game where players are shrunken down to the tiny insect size (read: bite size) that we first got wind of in March 2018. The game has since sprung back up on the radar thanks to a new gameplay […]

Hood: Outlaws and Legends releases its new mountainous heist map and lays out future updates

There has been a lot of noise coming from team-based PvPvE title Hood: Outlaws & Legends recently. Following a video that talked up a wide variety of changes and updates coming to the game, the devs at Sumo Digital have added a new Mountain map free for all players that features a snowy new fort […]

Profane shares updates on developing gameplay features, test scheduling, and textures

Insane Studios has put together another pair of Twitter threads that offer up a wide swath of update details for the developing PvP MMO. In the first thread, we get the largest number of updates that link together with another roadmap update. The devs have managed to figure out how to fix a player movement […]

World of Warships introduces a mode with super battleships for PC, adds new American battleships to console

What's a game like World of Warships without a whole bunch of warships in it? A mistitled game, for one. Luckily for fans of the multiplayer naval battler, there's not going to be a shortage of ships going to war anytime soon, as both PC and console versions have gotten some new updates. The PC […]

Whatever happened to Villagers and Heroes?

Boy, it's been a few minutes since we took a peek into Villagers & Heroes. It's certainly not for lack of appreciation, of course – the game was counted by Justin among one of the perfect 10 MMOs to break you out of a gaming rut. So allow us to catch up with what's been […]

RuneScape releases the next quest in its year-long Elder God Wars storyline on PC and mobile

Today sees RuneScape take yet another step in the year-long Elder God Wars questline. The City of Senntisten quest has officially launched, arriving to both PC and mobile players of the MMORPG, and bringing with it the promise of a wealth of challenges and rewards. "The Elder God Wars is a year-long epic saga that […]

EA is testing transparent lockboxes in a FIFA game

Remember two years ago when the ESA announced an optional new policy for the US games industry that would theoretically encourage games companies to catch up with the then-already-present trend to disclose the odds of items hidden in gambleboxes, lootboxes, and lockboxes? We were all pretty skeptical that anything would ever come of it, since […]

Elyon recaps its first closed beta and plans its second for mid-August

The first closed beta phase for Elyon has passed, and the team is now recapping how that test went and what player feedback was like. One of the first things that the developers noticed was that there was a significant faction imbalance in favor of the Ontari, which is something that the second closed beta […]

Not So Massively: First impressions of Dungeons & Dragons Dark Alliance

I'll admit I had low expectations for the new co-op action game Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance. The graphics looked a bit dated, and the trailers made it seem a pretty campy. But I play a heroic amount of D&D IRL, and I like action games, so how bad could it be? "How bad could […]

Six months later, Sony is finally putting Cyberpunk 2077 back on the PlayStation store

When Cyberpunk 2077 crashed and burned at launch last Christmas, one of the more surprising side-effects was Sony's decision to not just refund purchases but pull the game from the PlayStation storefront altogether. That decision has held for just a hair over six months now, and CD Projekt Red even cited it as a reason […]

Wisdom of Nym: Things to do in Final Fantasy XIV while you're waiting for Endwalker

At the time I am writing this sentence, there are 151 days until Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker kicks off early access. That's not all that many! That's also a very, very long time. Especially considering that up until this year, we'd currently be staring down the expansion coming out in just a couple weeks at […]

Obituary: Prominent Secret World Legends community leader HolloPoint

I'm sorry to report some devastating news out of the Secret World Legends community today: Prominent community member Mark "HolloPoint" Innes has apparently passed away. The news comes via his friends on the official forums and the Zero Point Report twitter feed. If the name HolloPoint sounds familiar, it should. In fact, we recently joked […]

Legends of Aria dev Citadel Studios will publish CODEX, a 'seasonal shared world adventure' MMO

It would appear that Citadel Studios, the developers of sandbox MMORPG Legends of Aria, has its fingers in a new pie. Readers will recall that the studio announced it was making a multiplayer Viking-themed survival RPG known as The End, and now there's word of the company entering the publishing realm with the announcement of […]

Blizzard surveys World of Warcraft players about their Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker intentions

"A rising tide raises all ships," or so the axiom goes, which is appropriate when one considers how healthy competition is between bigger MMORPGs. And while it's made very clear that there's no animosity-filled feud between Final Fantasy XIV and World of Warcraft (and people should stop beating tribal war drums over it), it's very […]

Lost Ark KR showcases the Sorceress class and some summertime fun in a preview video

Now that we know for certain that the MMOARPG Lost Ark will be heading to the west this fall, preview footage and announcements from the Korean version of the game have a little bit more excitement to them. While we're all going to likely miss out on the contents of this summer update from Korea, […]