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".

Headlines From The Deep – Game Jam Build Download

Headlines From The Deep is a wonderfully absurd little narrative-driven adventure about a diver who gets lost at sea, then gets mistaken for a fish and put to work as an intern at a fish news station!

Created for the HPS1 Summer of Shivers game jam, Headlines From The Deep is a tile based first person dungeon crawler, but instead of fighting enemies you're helping … Read More

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Ratten Reich – Beta Sign Up

Ratten Reich is a great looking new real-time strategy game that takes place in a grim dieselpunk setting where a war is being fought between rats, mice, lizards and roaches.

In Ratten Reich you'll step into a lore-rich dieselpunk world where a relentless war is being fought between rats, mice, lizards and cockroaches. The rats (the Ratten Riech) have an alliance with the lizards (The … Read More

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Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodhunt – Open Beta

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt is now in open Beta, so now everyone can jump in for some blood-scuking battle royale action with snazzy supernatural powers.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer during the closed Beta sign up, Bloodhunt is a battle royale spin-off of the Vampire: The Masquerade series where vampires and Entity members fight to be the last one standing. It plays … Read More

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MADiSON – Alpha Demo

MADiSON is a very intense first person psychological horror game where you descend into insanity after a demon forces you to complete a gory ritual.

First featured on Alpha Beta Gamer way back in 2017, MADiSON is gearing up for a full release soon and the devs have released a new demo. The second half of the demo is pretty similar to the original … Read More

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Goodboy Galaxy – Kickstarter Demo

Goodboy Galaxy is a delightful exploration action platforming game for Game Boy Advance (as well as PC and Switch), which follows a brave space adventuring doggie as he gets trapped in the depths of a strange alien planet.

In Goodboy Galaxy you'll follow the adventure of a brave space exploring dog as they explore a strange planet, blast baddies, and meet new friends. After exploring … Read More

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Revived Witch – Beta Sign Up (Android)

Revived Witch is a beautifully animated pixel-art RPG adventure where you summon dolls to fight for you in spectacular turn-based battles.

Coming to iOS and Android (though the Beta seems to be currently only for Android), Revived Witch is JRPG adventure that follows the story of a witch who has lost her memory. You'll now need to explore a dangerous world, solve puzzles and collect … Read More

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Beyond the Phone Screen – Game Jam Build Download

Beyond the Phone Screen is a freaky Pokemon GO inspired PS1 styled horror game where you play an ARG on your phone and complete tasks for the mayor, while avoiding monsters that roam the city!

Created for the HPS1 Summer of Shivers game jam, Beyond the Phone Screen is a creepy first person horror game that revolves around a Pokemon GO-esque ARG that you … Read More

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Stardrytch – Beta Sign Up

Stardrytch is a Sci-Fi action platformer where a stranded space traveller searches a strange alien planet for energy crystals to power her ship.

In Stardrytch you'll follow the adventure of Lunaris, a space traveller who has run out of energy crystals for her spaceship. She now needs to set out across a desolate ancient land in search of more crystals, but there are lots of … Read More

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Airport Renovator – Beta Sign Up

Airport Renovator is a new renovation simulator where you attempt to transform a run-down airstrip in the middle of nowhere into a fully functioning airport.

Currently in development by renovation sim specialists Two Horizons S.A. (creators of Hotel Renovator and Aquapark Renovator), the latest in their series of Renovator games will see you restoring a remote airport to its former glory. The airport in … Read More

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Endless Blue – Alpha Demo

Endless Blue is an old school fixed camera survival horror game with a PS2 era visual style, where a secret agent infiltrates a mysterious underwater research facility where something has gone very wrong.

Created for the HPS1 Summer of Shivers game jam, Endless Blue is a fixed camera Sci-Fi survival horror adventure set in a secret underwater research facility. Something very bad has happened in … Read More

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S.I.N. Unit – Beta Sign Up

S.I.N. Unit is a Phasmophobia-esque multiplayer ghost hunting game that puts you in the shoes of paranormal investigators as they investigate haunted buildings.

Playable with 1-4 players in online co-op, S.I.N. Unit is a multiplayer horror game where you hunt for ghosts and paranormal entities in haunted locations. In each location you'll need to search and use your equipment to find the ghost's haunting … Read More

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Deep City – Game Jam Build Download

Deep City is a creepy retro styled subsea horror game where a fisherman finds himself dragged down to an underwater city by a mysterious monster.

Created for the HPS1 Summer of Shivers game jam, Deep City follows a fisherman who gets pulled down to the depths by a strange monster. Oddly, the fisherman doesn't drown down there and there appears to be an entire underwater … Read More

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Serum – Beta Sign Up

Serum is a single-player Sci-Fi survival shooter where you need a constant supply of a mysterious serum to keep you alive in a hostile futuristic world.

In Serum you awaken in an unknown place with a chunk of technology implanted in your arm. It soon becomes apparent that the tech is keeping you alive, but it needs a supply of a strange glowing serum that … Read More

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TideTurn – Beta Sign Up

TideTurn is a Splatoon-esque third person arena shooter where Atlanteans and Humans face off in water-based battles in a war to control the oceans.

The gameplay in TideTurn is very much Splatoon inspired, with a team of Atlanteans and a team of Humans doing battle in arenas that they can paint with their weapons. You can submerge yourself and travel along any surface painted … Read More

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Trail of Ayash – Beta Sign Up

Trail of Ayash is a fantasy open world adventure that follows the struggles of Native-Americans in a pre-Columbian America filled with myths and legends.

In Trail of Ayash you'll take on the role of Ayash, a Native-American warrior who is betrayed by a family member and cast out of their tribe. The open-ended story will then see you exploring the pre-Columbian wilderness, redeeming himself with … Read More

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Hunt The Night – Beta Demo

Hunt The Night is a beautifully animated pixel art action adventure with RPG elements, where you become a Stalker who hunts down the horrors that lurk in the night.

In Hunt The Night you take on the role of Vesper, a member of an order of Stalkers who hunt monsters of the night. Thanks to a blood oath, there has been no night for hundreds … Read More

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The Salvation Project – Game Jam Build Download

The Salvation Project is a darkly humorous PS1 styled first person horror game where you feel your sanity slipping away as a muppet teaches you how to ward off Satan.

Created for the HPS1 Summer of Shivers game jam, The Salvation Project starts off fairly innocently, with you watching a television show hosted by a Kermit-esque muppet called Seth. Today Seth is talking about fears, … Read More

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Castle Siege – Beta Sign Up

Castle Siege is an asymmetric multiplayer siege warfare game where one player attempts to defend their castle while another tries to destroy it.

Playable in 1v1 asymmetric multiplayer, Castle Siege is essentially a tower defense game where one player controls the creeps. One player can place and upgrade turrets along the path to stop the creeps (as in a traditional tower defense game), but the … Read More

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Remnants in the Water – Game Jam Build Download

Remnants in the Water is a strange little retro styled narrative driven adventure set in a submarine that has survived a nuclear apocalypse.

Created for the HPS1 Summer of Shivers, in Remnants in the Water the good news is that you've survived a nuclear apocalypse, but the bad news is that you're still pretty doomed. The world has ended, humanity has nuked itself off the … Read More

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Shadow Over Normoth – Game Jam Build Download

Shadow Over Normoth is a good old fashioned old school fixed camera survival horror game where you battle sea monsters in the strange seaside town of Normoth.

Created by Warkus (creator of Oceanwork and Ghost Study) for the HPS1 Summer of Shivers game jam, Shadow Over Normoth is a love letter to the glory days of the PS1 era survival horror game. It draws … Read More

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Tesla Force – Beta Sign Up (Android)

10tons Ltd are bringing their excellent Lovecraftian twin-stick roguelike shooter, Tesla Force, to Android, and players can sign up now to join in the Beta.

Previously featured on Alpha Beta Gamer during the PC closed Beta sign up, Tesla Force is now coming to Android. It's a sequel to Tesla Vs Lovecraft and sees the likes of Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, H.P. Lovecraft and … Read More

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Frontier Diver: Progenexis – Game Jam Build Download

Frontier Diver: Progenexis is a Sega Saturn styled side-scrolling subsea shoot 'em up where you control a recon drone that can only attack enemy bullets, not the enemies themselves.

Created for the HPS1 Summer of Shivers game jam by Modus Interactive (creator of The Snow of Basidia and Frontier Diver), Frontier Diver: Progenexis is a Sega Saturn styled shoot 'em up spin-off of Frontier Read More

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VHS – Beta Sign Up

VHS is a Dead by Daylight-esque 4v1 asymmetric survival horror game where monsters from horror movies are brought to life in the isles of an 80's video store.

In VHS four teens face off against bloodthirsty monsters that are brought to life from the VHS tapes in a local video store. There are a variety of different monsters, ranging from wooden puppets to werewolves, … Read More

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Necro Night – Game Jam Build Download

Necro Night is a macabre little puzzle adventure where you try to figure out the names of the various people in a building so that you can kill them.

Created for Miziziziz's Four Game Devs, One Art Kit series (where four devs make different games using the same art assets), using the Modern Interiors asset set, Necro Night is a game where you kill … Read More

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APICO – Beta Sign Up

APICO is a chilled out beekeeping simulation game where you collect, breed and help bees thrive in a variety of lush pixel art environments.

In APICO you leave behind your dull city job and return to your family home to get back to your beekeeping roots. When there you'll explore, gather resources and complete beekeeping minigames. You'll be able to make and sell honey, beeswax … Read More

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Golfie – Beta Sign Up

Golfie features a bizarre fusion of roguelike dungeon crawling and minigolf, as you build a deck of different golf shots and test your skills on challenging procedurally generated courses.

In Golfie you'll attempt to beat a series of procedurally generated minigolf holes in as few shots as possible. You can aim and dictate the power much like in any other mouse-based minigolf game, but you … Read More

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The Troop – Beta Sign Up

The Troop is a tactical turn-based warfare game that takes place over the course of WWII, giving you complete control of your units as they try to free North West Europe from Nazi control.

In The Troop you'll follow the war campaign of the British and Canadian forces as they embark on missions based on real operations in WWII, from D-Day onwards. You take command … Read More

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Healing Spree – Beta Sign Up

Healing Spree is a lighthearted hospital simulator where you attempt to diagnose and treat as many patients as possible in a variety of chaotic environments.

Playable in single-player or in co-op with up to four players, Healing Spree is a little like overcooked, but instead of preparing tasty treats, you're treating sick patients. It sees you dealing with pandemics and other emergencies by rushing patients … Read More

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SYNCED: Off-Planet – Alpha Sign Up

SYNCED: Off-Planet is a squad-based PvPvE multiplayer third person shooter that takes place in a techno-apocalyptic future where you can deploy powerful nano-companions to accompany you in battle.

Currently in development by NEXT Studios (creators of Crown Trick and Unheard) SYNCED: Off-Planet alpha sign up is a multiplayer shooter where teams of three can compete across a selection of different game modes. It's set … Read More

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Torn Away – Alpha Demo

Torn Away is a beautiful and touching cinematic adventure that follows the story of a 10 year old girl who tries to make her way home across Germany and Poland during World War II.

In Torn Away you follow the adventure of Asya, a young girl who was torn away from her home by the Nazis to become an Ostarbeiter (essentially a slave worker). After … Read More

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Lineage II Aden brings the Orc Fortress and World Olympiad with today's patch

We hope you're ready to fight Flag Guardian Greg in Lineage II Aden. Yes, that's his name. He's Flag Guardian Greg, and he guards the flag to the Orc Fortress, which players need to claim in order to capture the fortress as part of the daily battle for control of this particular fortress. That explains the […]

Black Desert launches Conquest War pre-season, sets Season+ server launch for next week

Conquest War has returned to the world of Black Desert as the pre-season has begun. MMO players will recall that this mode is basically mass territorial PvP. "Conquest War is a large-scale PvP feature in which guilds compete over territory. The guild that takes over a territory is given dominion and the right to collect […]

World of Tanks community rep resigns in protest over firing of fellow Wargaming staffer

Wargaming, the studio behind World of Warships and World of Tanks, is garnering the wrong kind of attention all over again, this time for firing a member of the Tanks community team following weeks of bad press and botched apologies in the wake of a massive influencer exodus. Eagle-eyed players noted yesterday that Elias K. […]

Guild Wars 2: I'm a lich, I'm a lich, oh the lich is back… as this week's Living World freebie

While longtime Guild Wars 2 veterans are looking ahead to the DirectX 11 beta and next End of Dragons elite spec beta events coming on September 21st, there's a little something for lapsed players in the meantime in the form on the ongoing Return to Living World revisits. The repromote of Season 4 got underway […]

Diablo II Resurrected addresses chat, parties, TCP/IP support, and big honkin' monitors

With Diablo II Resurrected's remaster release right around the corner and more or less expected to carry Blizzard through the rest of the year, the developers are aiming to get it right – and that means adjusting the way players play together. In the studio's latest dev blog, it addresses both the difficulty of joining […]

The Stream Team: Reloading the repeaters for a dive into Dauntless

The most recent update to Dauntless brought on a few new things to the game, but one of the bigger additions is a change to the repeaters ranged weapon. That means that Chris, MOP's resident monster hunter, has to hop into the Shattered Isles to try them out! Join us at 2:00 p.m. EDT for […]

Albion Online previews the upcoming addition of War Gloves

In the high-fantasy battlefields of Albion Online, players need access to new skills, new abilities, and new techniques. One such technique is the time-honored art of socking someone in the jaw. The new War Glove weapons are coming with the game's next patch, and they will allow players access to 15 new abilities as part of […]

Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis has banned over 1,600 accounts for hateful behavior

The devs of Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis are letting players know that hateful or discriminatory behavior in the game will not fly. A tweeted image touches on the subject, mentioning that over 1,600 accounts have already faced discipline for engaging in such behavior while also admitting that more will be done to continue […]

Bless Unleashed PC promises improved UI and class balancing, shares a content update arriving September 15

Bless Unleashed's producer Koven Park has taken to Steam to pen a three part letter to PC players, offering up a number of updates coming to the MMORPG in the near future. The letter's first part is generally short and sweet, announcing that the game's sixth battle pass will give away its premium reward track […]

Global Chat: World of Warcraft's kick in the pants, Guild Wars 2's choice paralysis

What happens when an MMORPG gets a big kick in the pants from both critical lashings and a company-wide scandal? It may actually get back on track — or at least make noise about doing so. In An Age notes that there seems to be a strong connection with all that's been happening at Blizzard […]

Blade & Soul's Unreal Engine 4 update goes live today — here are the patch notes

We've been covering this update's arrival for a long while, and now it's finally arriving. It's Blade & Soul's big Unreal Engine 4 upgrade update, and it's launching today, bringing with it a whole lot of new content on top of the expected visual upgrade as the patch notes can attest. On top of the […]

Fallout 76 releases Fallout Worlds but postpones Season 6

It's a big update day for Fallout 76 — but not quite as big as originally intended. While the post-apocalyptic game is pushing out two new allies and the Fallout Worlds servers today, Bethesda announced yesterday that it made the call to delay Season 6 due to an issue with the current season. "We've discovered […]

World of Warcraft renames achievements in patch 9.1.5 and hotfixes faster Conduit Energy refills

If the theme of patch 9.1.5 for World of Warcraft is "please love us again," the subtheme is "we're removing the stuff that really shouldn't have been in the game nearly this long." Case in point, two of the game's achievements are being renamed in the next patch, with "My Sack is Gigantique" redubbed "My Storage […]

Lost Ark on localization, latency, and the Striker's western release

Last week, Amazon admitted that it has delayed the western release of Lost Ark from this fall to next year; the studio said it was down to improving the quality of the title, though most gamers had already decided Amazon just didn't see see the wisdom in making Lost Ark and New World fight. But […]

Jagex stamps out an Old School RuneScape mod prior to release, players organize a protest [Updated]

(We've updated at the end with Jagex's latest statement.) An Old School RuneScape modder is steaming after Jagex sent out a letter demanding that the project be shut down, despite the game being open-source. RuneLite HD is one of several graphical mods apparently being targeted by the MMORPG developer, which posted that it sent out […]

Crowfall confirms layoffs, attributing them to switching to a 'live service' op

On Labor Day, we reported that Crowfall team ArtCraft had suffered a round of layoffs. While ArtCraft itself declined to comment on the record about the extent of the damage, one affected developer was more candid on social media, blaming a lack of marketing and describing layoffs that came without notice: "[T]he guys that made […]

The Daily Grind: Should there be an MMO 'caretaker' company for unwanted titles?

A couple of weeks ago, I watched through the entirety of Vanguard's Jeff Butler's three-hour interview concerning MMO projects that he worked on and the genre in general. One part stood out to me, when the two gentlemen were speaking about a strong desire to see a company or companies become caretakers of MMORPGs that […]

T3Fun is shutting down its version of Granado Espada this month

Considering that no updates or even maintenance has been done on Granado Espada (also called Sword of the New World) over the past year, most players probably saw the writing on the wall long before publisher T3Fun announced this week that it was closing down the game's service in a couple of weeks in North […]

PlanetSide 2's inbound patch makes map adjustments for low and high population situations

PlanetSide 2 has a big PTS patch in store for later this week, Daybreak announced just ahead of the long weekend. While the new player experience will be a large chunk of the patch, the studio has a dev blog up on what else players can expect. Notably, the studio is retooling the Koltyr map […]

Jagex addresses Old School RuneScape's Group Ironman mode development

Last week, Old School RuneScape unveiled plans to launch a group-based version of its Ironman mode, allowing small teams to come together to face its myriad challenges. Players have had some things to say about the reveal since then, prompting Jagex to update the announcement post with some responses to that feedback. First off, the […]

EVE Online is running another 'no-downtime' experiment this week

Shall we play a game? EVE Online's Senior Live Director Erlendur S. Þorsteinsson aka CCP Explorer would like you to play forever. OK, maybe not forever, but definitely without any downtime. That's the focus of his latest blog, which heralds a second "no-downtime experiment in EVE." His ultimate goal is to get the current 3:40 […]

Profane splashes its new digital water everywhere in latest Twitter showcase

I recall a time during the Nintendo 64's early life cycle when devs were excited to show off new water animation tech. Sure, it was groundbreaking at the time, but since then water simulation has come a lot farther from "gelatinous cube trying to do a belly dance." Just take a look at Profane's latest […]

AA indie sandbox MMO Galaxies of Eden discusses classic vs. action combat switch and skill balancing

A month ago, we covered a new sandbox MMORPG under development by MIR Cybernetics Corporation: Galaxies of Eden. It's absurdly ambitious, with an alpha planned for early 2022 and a social-gameplay-friendly features list as well as obvious homages to Star Wars Galaxies. And as we noted, the game isn't asking for money just yet. MIR […]

Starbase pushes back moon bases, capital ships, and station siege gameplay in newest roadmap update

It sucks when a game has to delay a bunch of features, but that's just what the crafting-minded sandbox Starbase is forced to do. Developer Frozenbyte has laid out the sad news in a roadmap update, admitting that "bugs and the numerous launch issues have pushed back [the studio's] development schedule," which in turn has […]

Minecraft mod Mammoth is meant to allow more than 1000 players to play together

We're probably not going to blow anyone's mind with this revelation, but here it is: Making a lag-free environment for a bunch of people to play together in an MMO is actually really difficult. A lot of studios struggle with games precisely because of this. Minecraft is no exception when it comes to player counts… […]

Nightmare is a new F2P pixelart MMORPG that's launched on Steam today

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the launch of a new MMORPG! We're talking about Nightmare, a new open-world retro pixelart MMO from the indie Magework Studios, which just fully launched as a free-to-play title on Steam. The game boasts character customization with "hundreds of style combinations," a main plot, eight classes, diurnal questing and PvP, […]

Gamers' class-action against Chronicles of Elyria studio proceeds, suit against Xsolla deferred

We now return you to the Chronicles of Elyria legal drama in progress. When we last left the story, the lawsuit levied against developer Soulbound Studios and Xsolla had been partially transferred from California to Washington. Xsolla had been accused of refusing to grant refunds for per its own terms of use, but the judge […]

Blade & Soul offers a preview of the Dual Blade class arriving on September 8

Blade & Soul continues to run down the feature list of its upcoming September 8th update, this time offering a closer look at the Dual Blade class that will launch with the new content patch. And yes, it has a bit more information beyond "it uses two swords" and "it's a melee class" (though it […]

The Soapbox: #DayOffTwitch illustrates how good intentions break under bad planning

Those of you reading this probably know me as someone who wears one of three hats here at MOP: a news writer, the Choose My Adventure columnist, and one of MOP's streamers. It's that third job that I wanted to talk about here today, specifically about the recent #DayOffTwitch boycott that happened this past Wednesday, […]

Lord of the Rings Online to preview Brawler class and Legendary Item improvements this week

Lord of the Rings Online fans are due for a preview of their future this week, as SSG is running a preview test for two highly anticipated features. Both the much-needed legendary item revamp and the brand-new Brawler class are going onto the public test server on Wednesday. This should allow for a whole ton […]

China's new kid gaming time regulations are already causing industry trainwrecks

At the end of August, we noted that China was following through on its plan to set extreme limits on minors' gaming time – limits that effectively ensured young gamers would be allowed to play games only between the hours of 8 and 9 p.m. on weekend evenings and public holidays. The move has apparently […]

World of Warcraft patch 9.1.5 allows you to unlock flight again by dying

People are dying to fly in World of Warcraft's upcoming next patch. You might be about to argue that flight isn't keeping with the theme of patch 9.1.5 ("baby, we changed, please love us again") because flight was actually unlocked back in patch 9.1, and that's accurate, but in this particular case that first line […]

Final Fantasy XIV brings back the Final Fantasy XV collaboration event on September 13

If you missed out on getting a suit of attire, Orchestrion rolls, or the flying four-seat car mount in Final Fantasy XIV the last time the Final Fantasy XV collaboration event rolled around, we've got good news for you. The event has been confirmed to roll around once again starting on September 13th, allowing players […]

Star Citizen backer reports CIG to the UK Advertising Standards Agency over ship concept sales

Are you among those fed up that Star Citizen can sell concept ships — internet spaceships that haven't even materialized in the game yet but can still be sold for hundreds of dollars — with no recourse? You're not alone, even among backers of the game, apparently. One Redditor by the name of Mazty received […]

Sony puts an end to free first-party PlayStation 5 game upgrades

Bad news for PlayStation 5 owners looking to upgrade their libraries: Sony said that it's putting an end to the practice of upgrading first-party PlayStation 4 games to the next generation edition for free. This appears to be a shift in corporate philosophy, as Sony previously said that it had "an upgrade path for PS4 […]

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs begin as they mean to go on?

In Eliot's open letter to new players and vets of Final Fantasy XIV last month, he noted that Final Fantasy XIV's endgame is not like the endgames of many other MMOs, specifically because it "begins as it means to go on." "The endgame is not where the game starts; level 1 is where the game […]

Craftopia arrives to Windows and Xbox Game Preview, plans its summer update for September 30

It's been a while since we checked in on the developing survival sandbox of Craftopia, and boy is it good we're peeking back in because there have been a number of updates to note. We start off with last week's launch of the game on Xbox and Windows Game Preview, granting players on Xbox One, […]

SoulWorker introduces a new four-player Violent Sun raid in latest update

Players of the action MMO SoulWorker have a new challenge to step up to in the form of the Violent Sun raid, a four-player encounter that sits as the tentpole attraction for the game's latest update. This new raid requires four players who are rank 72 and higher, and features a final boss with three […]

Life Beyond adds weapon upgrades in latest patch, plans new AI, Corruption mode, and public playtest 'gyms'

The survival sandbox of Life Beyond is continuing to grow. After a teaser tweet this past Wednesday, the game's latest release went live two days later on Friday, introducing the ability for players to upgrade their weapons and deployables by using special resources collected during expeditions. There have also been a couple of weapon and […]

Shroud of the Avatar addresses 'dozens of errors' in latest patch

Release 93 of Shroud of the Avatar apparently didn't arrive without some bugs in it. That seems to be par for the course for most MMOs unfortunately, but the bugs that arrived with the recent build of the MMORPG were apparently bad enough and numerous enough that they were causing some lag and hitching problems. […]

Wisdom of Nym: A look at Trusts in Final Fantasy XIV before Endwalker

Trusts are simultaneously one of the most important and most invisible features of Shadowbringers on a whole. A whole lot of work goes into making sure that Trusts are available and work for every single dungeon all the way through the expansion, and yet it's very possible for a lot of people to go through […]

Grab a key for Eden Falling's ongoing closed alpha 2 courtesy of Razor Edge Games and MOP

Yesterday, Razor Edge Games kicked off phase two of its closed alpha for Eden Falling, the "multiplayer sci-fi turn-based strategic survival RPG" we've had our eye on for the last few years. The game has been humming along through development and most recently pushed out its engine update that promises "more fluid gameplay, better fidelity, […]

Overwatch League plans an April 2022 start and confirms the use of an 'early build' of Overwatch 2

Are you eager for the next round of Overwatch competition? Then perhaps you'll be happy to note that Jon Spector, the VP of the Overwatch League for Blizzard, has put out a couple of tweets you should know about. First off, Spector announced that the league plans to kick off its next season sometime in […]

Crowfall studio ArtCraft has apparently suffered a round of layoffs

We've got some bad news for fans of Crowfall: It appears that the team behind the game, ArtCraft, is going through some layoffs. The news initially came from Valerie Massey, who was the Director of Community at ArtCraft at the time of its Kickstarter through June of last year; she's currently the Senior Community Manager at […]

The Daily Grind: What's the worst type of minigame in MMOs?

Today's Daily Grind was inspired by Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril, who penned a fun piece on minigames a few weeks back. Oh, did I say fun? I meant grumpy. But justifiably grumpy, in my opinion. He begins by pointing out that most MMO minigamers are harmless and even fun. But… "Then there's a […]

MMO Week in Review: Lost Ark's delay, WoW's carrot on a stick

This week, Lost Ark delayed its launch into next year, freeing up your MMO autumn for the likes of New World of Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker. Meanwhile, No Man's Sky launched Frontiers, Daybreak is a mess as always, and World of Warcraft continued trying to win back its alienated playerbase with patches and bribes. Read […]

Fortnite's Operation: Sky Fire plans to close out Season 2 Chapter 7 with an assault on an alien ship September 12

Fortnite players, mark the calendar date of Sunday, September 12th, as that will be the end of the game's current Season 2 Chapter 7, and in usual Fortnite style, it will end with a big ol' hullabaloo. Specifically, an invasion of one of the alien ships. Players are advised that the event will kick off […]

The MOP Up: Perfect World Mobile celebrates its second anniversary with extra bonuses

Perfect World Mobile just reached its second birthday, and with that comes a string of extra goodies, bonuses, login rewards, and even a special anniversary server. "When the pre-registrations reach the designated number, all Seekers (at level 30) in the server will get a reward of 900 Bound Gold Ingots. And all players who reach […]

Blade and Soul plunges into a new forest dungeon on September 8

With several MMOs pumping out patches on September 8th, Blade and Soul is going to have to work extra hard to get your attention. How about the addition of a sinister forest dungeon with tons of new rewards? That should perk up the ears of any adventurer, we should think. The Forest of Echoes instance […]

The Stream Team: Romping around the new build of multiplayer RPG Swords 'n Magic and Stuff

It's time yet again for another run around in something a bit different. Specifically, the adorable multiplayer RPG Swords 'n Magic and Stuff, which recently saw an update that added farming and more item crafting. It's a world of bright colors, cute combat, and a new world to explore, and MOP's Chris will happily show […]