Pure PlayStation Plays: Week 273

Bring on the weekend!

Guide: How Long to Beat Paw Patrol The Movie: Adventure City Calls?

Quick walkies or a long hike?

Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins Out Now On PS5, PS4

Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink.

Review: Paw Patrol The Movie: Adventure City Calls – PS5, PS4

Who you gonna call? The dogs, apparently.

Toy Soldiers HD PS4 Release Date Announced

At the ready soldier, the action strategy remake is coming this September.

Guide: How to Access the Siege of Paris DLC in Assassin's Creed Valhalla

It's easy if you know how.

GTA Remasters Are Real and Use a Mix of "Old and New" Graphics

So say the sources, anyway...

Preview: 6 Clid The Snail Gameplay Features You Should Know

The meanest, fastest, and punniest snail in gaming.

Frostpunk 2 Announced

But not for console... yet.

Disciples Liberation PS4, PS5 Release Date Announced

Dark fantasy conjures a release this autumn.

Blair Witch: VR Edition Out Now on PSVR

Get scared like it's 1999.

Guide: How Long to Beat Faraday Protocol?

Short but sweet.

Review: Faraday Protocol – PS5, PS4

Explore. Exploit. Expose.

Pokémon Inspired RPG Monster Crown PS4 Release Date is October 12th

Hunt, battle and breed monsters to be crowned the ultimate tamer

Journey to the Savage Planet Belongs to Racoon Logic – a New Studio With Big Plans

Old-timers getting back together to recreate the old times anew.

Dates Announced For Diablo II: Resurrected Open Beta

Early Access begins August 13th.

Preview: 5 Truths About Maneater: Truth Quest

The truth is out there... in the bay, just beyond the fat guy sunbathing.

Stealth-Action Sandbox Game Arashi: Castles of Sin Out Now on PSVR

The PSVR exclusive Arashi: Castles of Sin has dropped on the PlayStation Store Have you ever wanted to…

Overcooked!'s Fifth Birthday Update Adds New Levels and More

Bring out the birthday cake for a fun cooking celebration.

Black Book's Creatures of Cherdyn

Find out more about the mythical beasts you'll face in Black Book.

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".

Age of Hell – Alpha Demo

Age of Hell is an awesome GZDoom powered first person shooter that's squarely aimed at fans of the classic DOOM games and sees you blasting and smashing your way through the hordes of Hell.

After starting life as a DOOM mod, Age of Hell is now expanding into a full standalone game. It's powered by the GZDoom engine, so it does play very much like … Read More

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Church of Stratum – Beta Demo

Church of Stratum is a creepy first person adventure where you have the ability to peer into the past as you try to escape from an abandoned bunker that was home to a religious cult.

In Church of Stratum you find a cave whilst out for a walk in the wilderness. While exploiting the cave the ground collapses below you and you fall into an … Read More

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Fear Surrounds – Beta Sign Up

Fear Surrounds is a horror tinged take on the Among Us/Werewolf style social subterfuge genre, where two evil spirits hide within a group of players and attempt to sabotage and murder them.

Much like Among Us and Werewolf, Fear Surrounds is a multiplayer game filled with deceit and treachery. In the game a team of humans are given tasks to complete to win the match, … Read More

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CULTIC – Alpha Demo

CULTIC is a gloriously brutal 90's inspired retro first person shooter where the first thing you'll do is die as you fight your way through hordes of evil cultists.

Drawing inspiration from classic 90's FPS games, CULTIC is a delightfully violent boomer shooter where you blast your way through the ranks of a violent cult. You start the game having just died and been thrown … Read More

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Back 4 Blood – Open Beta (PC, Xbox, Playstation)

Back 4 Blood is now in open Beta on PC, Xbox and Playstation, so now everyone can jump in for some Left 4 Dead style co-op mutant zombie-blasting fun!

As we mentioned during the closed Beta sign up, Back 4 Blood is essentially the Left 4 Dead sequel you always wanted. It's created by the same development team (Turtle Rock Studios) and features frantic four … Read More

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Symphony of Seven Souls – Game Jam Build Download

Symphony of Seven Souls is a beautiful PS1 styled first person horror game where you play your violin to recruit lost souls into your unholy orchestra.

Created for the HPS1 Summer of Shivers game jam by Katanalevy (creator of Dameonologie and Cardiac), Symphony of Seven Souls is an atmospheric horror game where you recruit spirits to form an unholy orchestra. You step into the … Read More

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Who's Lila – Beta Demo

Who's Lila is a surreal reverse-detective point and click adventure with a 1-bit ditherpunk visual style and the ability to manipulate your character's face to relay different emotions to other characters.

In Who's Lila you are a rather awkward highschool teen who finds it hard to express their emotions. This means that you have to make a conscious decision to move every muscle on your … Read More

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Perfect Tides – Beta Sign Up

Perfect Tides is a charming looking retro pixel art point and click adventure set in the year 2000, that tells the story of an internet obsessed teen writer who lives in a so-called island paradise.

In Perfect Tides you follow the coming of age story of Mara, a teen girl who lives on a beautiful sunny island. She's a promising young writer, she's obsessed with … Read More

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The Void – Game Jam Build Download

The Void is a tense and atmospheric first person horror game where you solve puzzles to operate your capsule while descending a seemingly bottomless pit on an alien planet.

Congratulations! You have been selected to be the one-man crew that's tasked with descending a vast pit that's been discovered on an alien planet. Now, from the security of your diving-bell you'll be able to take … Read More

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Demon Dungeon – Game Jam Build Download

Demon Dungeon is a charming little puzzle platforming adventure where a demon forms an unlikely allegiance with a suspicious Venom-esque black blob as they attempt to escape from the Netherworld's largest prison.

Created for the Curdle Jam 14, Demon Dungeon follows the adventure of Terra, a young demon woman who awakens in one of the cells in the Netherworld's largest prison. Thankfully she finds an … Read More

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Swarm the City – Alpha Sign Up

Swarm the City is a chaotic cartoony real-time strategy game where you become the Dark Lord of Zombies and use your undead hordes to crush the human's cities.

In Swarm the City you step into the shoes of Karr the Great, a Dark Lord of Zombies who was imprisoned in a tomb for thousands of years until it was disturbed in the 1940's. You were … Read More

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Amira's Blessing – Prototype Download

Amira's Blessing is a beautifully drawn visual novel adventure about a young Hebrew boy who discovers he can travel back in time and change the past.

Taking place 20 years after Moses parted the Red Sea, Amira's Blessing follows a 12 year old boy called Micah, who is on the cusp of becoming a man. His grandmother has tasked him with bringing in the sheep … Read More

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Aquapark Renovator – Beta Sign Up

Aquapark Renovator is a new simulation game where you restore a crusty run down old aquapark and turn it into the most epic water park it he world!

Currently in development by Two Horizons S.A. (creators of Hotel Renovator and Car Thief Simulator), Aquapark Renovator is a simulation game that allows you to turn a crappy dilapidated aquapark into the water park of your … Read More

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Arrival: Zero Earth – Beta Sign Up

Arrival: Zero Earth features a fusion of roguelike action and RTS gameplay as you control a militia army of local citizens as they try to defend their town from alien invaders.

Taking place in 90's Finland during a particularly cold winter, Arrival: Zero Earth puts you in control of a small militia army as they fight back against some huge War of the Worlds Tripod-esque … Read More

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Hexblade – Game Jam Build

Hexblade is an excellent little boss rush action platformer where you enter a dungeon in search of a mythical sword forged by a powerful master, but to escape with it alive, you'll need to battle a series of challenging bosses.

Created for the Boss Rush Jam, Hexblade is a short and beautifully crafted retro 2D Boss rush action game set inside a dungeon that's guarded … Read More

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Solys – Beta Sign Up

Solys is an interplanetary FPS where three teams of players start on three different planets then compete to destroy each other's base.

If No Man's Sky had a multiplayer FPS mode it could be something like Solys – a FPS where each team starts on their own planet then fly to their rival's planet to blow up their base. It's played in teams of three … Read More

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What Happened At The Farm? – Prototype

What Happened At The Farm? is a tense and atmospheric first person horror game where your car breaks down near a strange old farmyard that's home to a very freaky cryptid.

Created by Max Horror (creator of The Book) What Happened At The Farm? is a creepy little first person horror game set in a remote farm that's been plagued by attacks from a … Read More

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Joan Jump – Prototype

Joan Jump is a fun little ASCII-based platformer where you're sent on a mission to find a mysterious card by a magician.

In Joan Jump you control a charming little hero called Joan, who is sent to Earth by a magician to find a legendary card. The gameplay is pretty basic, with you simply needing to grab a certain amount of coins in each level … Read More

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Happenlance – Beta Sign Up

Happenlance blends Getting Over it With Bennet Foddy style physics based platforming, puzzles, combat and online multiplayer as you help a Knight of the Round Table fling himself to victory!

In Happenlance you take control of Sir Happenlance and his trusty long lance, and set out on an adventure through a beautiful painterly world. The game features online co-op and PvP game modes and a … Read More

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F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch – Beta Demo

F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a slick and stylish action platforming metroidvania with a focus on melee combat as a bunny with a massive mech-arm punches his way through a dieselpunk city.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer last year, F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a combat-focused metroidvania that follows the story of Rayton – an angry bunny with a huge metal … Read More

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NHL 22 – Beta Sign Up (PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S)

PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S Beta sign ups are now live for NHL 22, the latest installment of EA's official NHL series.

It's that time of the year again, EA's long running ice hockey franchise is back with NHL 22, and you can sign up now for a chance to join in the Beta tests. There's very little info available … Read More

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Unholy Eyeballs – Game Jam Build Download

Unholy Eyeballs is a surreal retro styled first person horror game that explores the meta of eyeballs in horror games as you venture into a weird eyeball world via your Sega CD!

Created for the HPS1 Summer of Shivers jam, Unholy Eyeballs is a short and very strange horror game that focuses on eyeballs. It's all very weird and feels a little like a LSD Read More

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Fashion Police Squad – Steam Beta Key Giveaway

We have 5,000 Steam Beta keys to give away for Fashion Police Squad – an awesome new FPS where you fight back against fashion crimes to make the streets less of an eye-sore!

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer during the closed Beta Sign Up, Fashion Police Squad is a fun new first person shooter that puts you in the shoes of a Fashion … Read More

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Soda Crisis – Beta Demo

Soda Crisis is a high octane side-scrolling platforming shooter where you attempt to escape from a mysterious research facility full of cola loving baddies and fight for the fate of the earth!

In Soda Crisis you take control of an odd looking Minion shaped creature of unknown origin that's being experimented on in a high security laboratory. On your adventure you'll blast your way out … Read More

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The Skinwalker Investigations – Beta Sign Up (VR)

The Skinwalker Investigations is a VR survival horror game where you're sent to a creepy ranch to investigate reports of weird creatures, poltergeist-like activity and lights in the sky.

Coming to HTC Vive and Oculus, The Skinwalker Investigations is a VR survival horror game that follows two FBI agents as they investigate unexplained events at a ranch in Colorado. The ranch in question seems to … Read More

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ARKOS – Beta Demo

ARKOS is a fun new fantasy first person shooter that plays like a voxel-based version of Hexen, as you blast your way through destructible levels, in search of a powerful weapon at the heart of an ancient castle.

Drawing inspiration from Heretic, Hexen and Catacomb3D, ARKOS is an old school fantasy FPS built with destructible voxels. In the game you take on the … Read More

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The Unexpected Quest – Beta Sign Up

The Unexpected Quest blends RTS and RPG adventure gameplay as you build, upgrade and defend your colony while sending out citizens on quests for valuable loot that will aid your colony.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer back in 2018, The Unexpected Quest features an easily accessible fusion of RTS and RPG adventure gameplay. In the game you're able to gather resources, build structures, … Read More

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Shield Cat – Beta Sign Up

Shield Cat is a charming looking top-down action adventure where you set out with your throwable shield to help save a kingdom of cats.

In Shield Cat you do have a shield, but oddly enough you're not actually a cat – you're an otter called Lance! One day you wake up to find that the cat kingdom is in chaos and it seems like some … Read More

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Underground Garage – Beta Sign Up

Underground Garage is a mechanic simulation game where you buy, repair, upgrade and race tuned cars that take part in illegal street races.

In Underground Garage you're essentially the mechanic from the Need for Speed: Underground games, where your aim is to make high-performance vehicles that will own the streets at night. The game features over 30 unique cars and you can use over 6000 … Read More

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The Keeper – Game Jam Build Download

The Keeper is a beautiful PS1 styled horror game that tells a tragic ghost story as you explore a mysterious abandoned lighthouse.

Created for the HPS1 Summer of Shivers game jam, The Keeper is a short PS1 styled horror game that follows a fisherman who crashes his boat on a small island with a lighthouse. As you explore the island you see ghosts of the … Read More

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ZeniMax goes into detail on Elder Scrolls Online's latest graphics upgrades

If you haven't heard this already, Elder Scrolls Online is about to roll out some very nice graphical and performance upgrades to both its console and PC editions when its Waking Flame DLC drops at the end of the month. It's the sort of announcement that prompts several follow-up questions, which is exactly what WCCFtech […]

Book of Travels explains how its skills work for players in new video

Skills! Who doesn't like skills? People who don't have any skills, that's who. Book of Travels will have skills just like any other game, although some of the uses of those skills will be quite different from how other games use them. A new video explains how the game's skills are meant to work, with […]

LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring Lord of the Rings Online's choose-your-own-ruleset

Earlier this summer when Lord of the Rings Online kicked off its second batch of progression servers — the slow Treebeard and speedy Shadowfax rulesets — I wasn't on board with it. I hadn't really returned to LOTRO yet, for one thing, and felt as though I had gotten most of what I wanted from […]

Guild Wars 2 deep-dives elite specs, previews August 17 balance changes

If you were looking to find out more about the three elite specs that were revealed by Guild Wars 2, then you might want to set aside about an hour of your time to check out a beta preview livestream that talks all about the classes. The stream effectively provided a deep dive into the […]

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The Daily Grind: What SWTOR class story and combat style will you combine with this year's expansion?

The announcement of Star Wars: The Old Republic's upcoming expansion certainly seems to have called more than a few lapsed Jedi and Bounty Hunters back to its fold. I've seen a lot of renewed excitement in BioWare's MMORPG because of Legacy of the Sith, but not because of anything to do with the continued story. […]

Betawatch: Ship of Heroes rolls out its public mission beta event

It's time for Ship of Heroes to go full-on into beta testing for a while as it runs its mission beta event. If you're curious about how the game feels at this point doing actual content? Good news, we've got a whole write-up for you! There's also discussion from the developers about strategies and difficulty […]

Bless Unleashed plans weekend events, patches fixes to frame-limiting and chat

Bless Unleashed's newly launched PC version is a flurry of activity and events this weekend. First, Round8 is running a "push" event that essentially rewards players for logging in. If you log in each day this weekend within the right time periods, you'll walk away with a reward chest and as many as eight tickets. […]

Final Fantasy XI has kicked off its Return to Vana'diel and discount campaigns

Why not come back to Final Fantasy XI? The developers will be your friends! Well, maybe that's a bit far to go, but it's a remarkably active game for a title that was supposedly in some kind of maintenance mode at one point, and that will never stop being hilarious. And you can laugh right […]

Ragnarok Origin opens NA preregistration and teases free Tesla giveaway

Ragnarok Online is a classic MMO that doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves, but maybe it will get its day in the sun again as Gravity Co. is rolling out a mobile entry in the franchise called Ragnarok Origin. Pre-registration for North America has begun already, and it's running a pretty unusual giveaway: If […]

AdventureQuest 3D invites players to celebrate Friday the 13th with new content at the House of Oddities

Regular players of AdventureQuest 3D know that Friday the 13th is something of a beloved holiday in the game, and while the Camp Gonnagetcha content will still be making a return next week, the game is seeking to start a new tradition focused entirely on the House of Oddities. This new "seasonal" content will see […]

New World kicks off the Tales of Aeturnum series with the Angry Earth

It's going to be a little longer until you get to try out New World, but the development team is doing its bets to keep you entertained with a new video series, Tales of Aeturnum. The whole idea here is to show off the lore and setting information behind the game's various enemy factions, with […]

Project M is a mobile shooter from NetEase that strongly resembles Valorant

As the old expression goes, if you can't beat 'em, make something extremely close to what they're making in order to infringe on the market share of 'em. That seems to be the motivating philosophy of NetEase's Project M, which looks enough like a mashup of Valorant on a mobile platform that you could be forgiven […]

The Elder Scrolls Online promises 'a peek at what is on the horizon' at digital QuakeCon 2021

Bethesda will be hosting the digital QuakeCon 2021 event on its Twitch channel next week, and fans of The Elder Scrolls Online are apparently going to want to tune in to the event, as there's promise of some details, reveals, and more slated for the MMORPG's portion of the show. ZeniMax Online studio head Matt […]

Nexon CEO blasts crunch and the 'charade of launch timing'

It's Friday, which means it's time to play one of my favorite weekend games: Check out what a top-tier gaming executive is saying about the industry. Today's subject is Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney. Readers will recall that Nexon posted its second quarter earnings earlier this week, admitting that it had performed poorly because of a […]

Mortal Online 2 will launch early access October 26 – apparently with a sub

Yesterday, Mortal Online 2 developer Starvault announced in its Discord that it's planning a final stress test for the beginning of September with an early access slated to launch October 26th. But what has everyone on Reddit and the Discord buzzing is the revelation that the early access will be accompanied by a mandatory subscription, although […]

Star Citizen talks about the development of 'Jumptown 2' and Arena Commander updates

PvP is probably one of the larger portions of entertainment for players of Star Citizen (or one of the larger pain points, depending on who you ask), and the latest episode of Inside Star Citizen is all about PvP, talking up how PvP is overall good for PvE players since it helps the devs balance […]

Elyon talks up its skill system ahead of the MMORPG's second closed beta test

Skills. Skills skills skills skills skills. Skills for kills and thrills. Skills that go boom. Skills that go zippity-zappy. Skills that don't have any actual visual effects but provide boons because they're passive. Skills in Elyon. A video about skills in Elyon. Skilly skill skills. Skill time, skillets. As one might expect, classes in Elyon […]

Crowfall plans a new system for initiating sieges, shares another roadmap of content updates and additions

Crowfall's ACE Q&A livestream for the month of August has come and gone, and the devs are looking ahead to the RvR MMO's next major update. This new patch for the game will introduce a handshake system for initiating keep and castle sieges, which should hopefully prevent players defending a location from logging in en […]

Vague Patch Notes: The lesson hidden in the Astellia shutdown

A couple years ago, an MMO launched named Astellia. It was fine. It wasn't bad. It wasn't good. It was just fine. It was perfectly acceptable as a buy-to-play game, but a lot of people were waiting for the free-to-play conversion right out of the gate. It had nothing to stand up and make you […]

Mythic Legions Tactics: War of the Aetherblade is a multiplayer optional tactical game based on a toy line

So there's apparently a line of action figures known as Mythic Legions that has something of a large following; created by Four Horseman Studios, it's designed around the land of Mythoss and features six inch-tall, highly articulated, and very detailed figures, if the looks at some of them are anything to go by. We bring […]

Lost Ark previews the Martial Artist and its four advanced classes

Amazon is pushing onward with reveals and deep-dives for Lost Ark's classes: This round is all about the Martial Artist. "Martial Artists are quick-footed fighters who like to rush the enemy with combined attacks at lethal speeds that can only be described as breakneck. Players interested in the quick and nimble Martial Artists can pick […]

Overwatch League loses more sponsors as workers expose Activision-Blizzard's toxic culture

The fallout from the sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit against Activision-Blizzard just keeps on dropping. Yesterday, more sponsors of the Overwatch League pulled support from the esports giant. Kellogg told Polygon that it "will not be moving forward with any new programs this year, but will continue to review progress made against [Blizzard's] plans." Kellogg […]

EverQuest II's Toil and Trouble update brews up unholy dungeon runs

A dark and twisted summer treat arrived for EverQuest II players this week in the form of Toil and Trouble update. At the core of this patch are a variety of new dungeons, including raids, heroic, and solo editions, as well as additional collections and missions to accomplish. "In the Loping Plains' village of Somborn, […]

The Daily Grind: Are there MMORPGs you try to ignore?

I've joked before that several of our writers allow me the luxury of ignoring some MMORPGs. I don't have anything against Final Fantasy XIV, for example – I've even voted for it to be our GOTY a few times – but I'm extremely grateful that Eliot's expertise allows me to sort of tune out of […]

Massively Overthinking: What's your favorite type of MMORPG raid?

Raiding is one of those very simple MMO concepts that has somehow become a contentious one in the broader discourse. A "raid" in MMO terminology is just a relatively large group of players engaging in some sort of coordinated PvE combat – that's it. There shouldn't be anything wrong with this idea; it encompasses everything […]

World of Warships adds submarines to ranked, a new Dutch cruiser to early access, and an anime crossover

It's been a long time since World of Warships first announced the arrival of submarines to the game in 2019, and over the course of many rounds of testing, tuning, and talking, the time has come for subs to finally make their way to the game in full. Sort of. Update 0.10.7 has indeed brought […]

Aion gets cat scratch fever with a cat magician event and two cat transformations

Aion is apparently feline very catty with its latest events. From meow until Septempurr 1st, players can take part in an event that sees them grow a humble Cat Egg into a fully grown Grand Magister Cat by earning Catnip Stones and purrgress their egg through eight diffurent evolution levels. If you're curious on how […]

Gamigo's multiplayer MOBA hybrid Skydome has entered founder early access

Last spring, Gamigo surprised everyone by announcing that it was plotting several new game launches across the span of 2021. One of them turned out to be Skydome, a 4v4 MOBA-slash-tower-defense multiplayer title from Kinship Entertainment, and it's surprisingly pretty. And as of yesterday, you can actually play it, assuming your account has the right […]

Bless Unleashed PC celebrates a new China server's opening and holds a contest for Japanese players

These are (hopefully) happy times for Asian players of Bless Unleashed on PC. For one thing, the China server list is getting a fourth server starting this afternoon, which is being marked by a server-specific celebration event with 10% boosts in XP gain and five free bag expansion tickets for those who hop into the […]

Krafton's IPO launch didn't go to plan thanks to China and Tencent

Yesterday was supposed to be a huge day for Krafton, the South Korean gaming giant behind everything from TERA to PUBG, as it launched its initial public offering. As GIbiz notes, its IPO share price was 498,000 KRW (about $430 US), but as the market opened, shares were already trading down 10%, sinking to 20% […]

Legends of Runeterra prepares for its Beyond the Bandlewood expansion's arrival August 25

It's very nearly expansion time for Riot Games' CCG Legends of Runeterra. This Wednesday, August 25th, will see the launch of Beyond the Bandlewood and the devs of the game are stirring up the hype with some preliminary details and a new trailer. Beyond the Bandlewood will introduce the game's last region of Bandle City […]

Ship of Heroes shows off the end boss fight of its mission beta while discussing difficulty

The smart way to take on the big showdown at the end of the Iris arc currently playable in Ship of Heroes' mission beta event is to take the time to pull enemies out of the central chamber one at a time. That's not the way the players choose to take on the content in […]

EA fires Apex Legends lead designer over past sexist and racist remarks

Daniel Klein, a lead game designer on the battle royale shooter Apex Legends, has been fired from his position by Electronic Arts and Respawn Entertainment as a result of sexist and racist remarks he had made in various blog posts across different websites as far back as 2007. The posts in question were discovered on […]

Blade & Soul is getting its Unreal Engine 4 upgrade on September 8

It's time for Blade & Soul to look better with the game's upcoming engine upgrade to Unreal Engine 4. That feels like it's been something that's been "coming soon" for half of forever, but it's really about to happen with the imminent arrival of the patch on September 8th. A better-looking and better-performing version of […]

The director for Riot Games' Runeterra MMO turns his mind to character customization

Mark Yetter, the director for the in-development MMO set in the world of Runeterra, has character creation on the brain, at least according to a couple of tweets from his personal account, where he poses a TDG-like question: "Being able to build your character identity that is just right for you is a rare 'have […]

WoW Factor: What do changes in Blizzard management mean for World of Warcraft?

Blizzard is going through some changes at the moment. This is a good thing, as Blizzard has made it clear that it is a gigantic open sewer long filled with vile predators and people who enabled those predators via inaction. You probably don't need to be reminded that J. Allen Brack is out and a […]

No Man's Sky hits five years with a 'stronger player base,' teases next update

Five years ago, No Man's Sky was the eye of a nerdstorm of unbelievable proportions. The highly anticipated title launched with many of its promised features missing and bugs abounding. Yet the team at Hello Games chose to stick by its product rather than abandoning it, slowly but surely shaping No Man's Sky into an […]

Astellia Royal has announced its sunset now too after less than a year online

Earlier this week, we passed along the sad but not unexpected news that Astellia Online, which had dwindled in playerbase and seen its forums overrun by spammers, was planning a sunset at the end of October. At the time, we noted that Astellia Royal, the free-to-play spinoff of the original title, was missing its Steam […]

Lord of the Rings Online hopes to start rolling out monetization changes in the next year

One of the longstanding criticisms of Lord of the Rings Online revolves around the game's antiquated and frankly expensive business model. We found out earlier this summer that SSG is drawing up plans to modify or replace the model (and we even gave SSG a few suggestions of our own). Happily, it sounds as though […]

Elder Scrolls Online's Waking Flame will be accompanied by technical upgrades for console and PC

Elder Scrolls Online's Waking Flame and its associated patch are a lot more than just a dungeon DLC, and ZeniMax Online Studios explaining why in a new dev blog today: The graphical improvements for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 players is just as important as the new content. Lead Graphics Engineer Alex Tardif notes […]

Shards-powered CODEX wants to 'change the way we play massively multiplayer games'

You may recall that one of the goals of Citadel Studio in creating Legends of Aria was developing the flexible Shards Engine to allow players and other studios to fashion their own online worlds. One such project has emerged on the scene: an MMO named CODEX that wants to "change the way we play massively […]

Guild Wars 2 reveals the Guardian's new elite spec, Willbender, and new Virtuoso and Harbinger details

We've been buzzing all week over the impending reveal of Guild Wars 2 first three elite specs from End of Dragons. Technically, we already have some glimpses of the first two; the Mesmer's Virtuoso was revealed during the preview event, and the Necromancer's Harbinger got a video yesterday. But the third one – and more […]

The Daily Grind: What MMO drop has eluded you for the longest time?

You band together with other players, you go out into a dungeon, you kill a boss, and you take the stuff that boss drops. But you want a specific thing from that boss, and it doesn't drop on that first run. Or the next run. Or the next several dozen runs. Or when you go […]

Astroneer is heading to the Nintendo Switch in early 2022

As much fun as Astroneer can be, you currently have to settle in at home in order to play the game, so clearly modern society has somehow failed us. Fortunately that's a temporary problem, as the game has been announced for release on Nintendo Switch in early 2022, thus ensuring that you can just take […]

Blizzard apparently ousted three more key devs, including Diablo IV's game director

Kotaku is reporting that Blizzard has parted way with several more high-profile developers this week: Luis Barriga was game director on Diablo IV, while Jonathan LeCraft and Jesse McCree were designers on World of Warcraft. "We can confirm Luis Barriga, Jesse McCree, and Jonathan LeCraft are no longer with the company," a Blizzard rep told […]

Twitch streamers agitate for more revenue and better controls against harassment of marginalized casters

A hashtag has been making the social media rounds as Twitch streamers are trying to call awareness to several problems they have with the streaming platform. The #TwitchDoBetter hashtag — a reference to a 2018 tweet from Twitch that asked users to "watch [the company] closely and hold [it] accountable" as it planned to implement […]

Former Stadia first-party developers claim Google balked at the investment required to make first-party development work

Holy wow, did you know that developing video games is expensive and takes some time? It turns out that Google might not have known this when it started investing in first-party development in Stadia, according to former Typhoon Studios developers Reid Schneider and Alex Hutchinson. Both of them paint a picture of a company that […]

Final Fantasy XI deploys its August update with more story and Ramuh

It's time to fight Ramuh again in Final Fantasy XI! Sure, you might have already fought him to unlock him as a summon at this point and maybe a few more times for various reasons, but this time he's the more challenging Ambuscade battle for the month. But if you don't want to deal with […]

$40M of Nexon's $100M bitcoin investment poofed in the last four months

So Nexon's had an interesting financial quarter. Its revenues for Q2 were down quarter over quarter, in line with expectations. Why? Well, it turns out to be several reasons. First, Nexon notes that its incomes underperformed thanks to that weird investment it made last spring into bitcoin – to the tune of $100M US. At […]