A surprising amount of free-to-play titles have been making their way to consoles recently. The latest of those being ported to the PS4 and Xbox One is Gems of War, the free-to-play match-3 RPG from the creators of Puzzle Quest. The game is available on the PSN and Xbox Stores now in the United States. The European Playstation release is [...]
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In a move that is unexpected due to the genre that War Thunder occupies, a War Thunder DLC bundle will be included with Alienware Steam Machines. This bundle includes two premium vehicles, "U.S. Army’s M18 Black Cat tank destroyer and the XP-38G Lightning fighter plane." War Thunder has "consistently been ranked as one of the most popular games on Steam" [...]
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In the latest Albion Online devlog, the developers detail the overhaul they've made to consumables and potions in order to "offer more variety and to make food and potion production an even more interesting pastime." To accomplish this, rare drops are no longer needed as ingredients for alchemy. All ingredients can now be grown in an herb garden. These ingredients [...]
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Nexon's third quarter results are in and they are looking rather positive. The company's revenues are up to 49.8 billion yen, a 9.9% year-over-year increase, which exceeded the "high-end" of expectations. Mobile revenues were up only 7% year-over-year at 10.3 billion yen compared to a 10% increase in PC revenues, bringing them to 39.5 billion yen. The mobile results [...]
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Not enamored with Navy Field 2? Disappointed that Wargaming haven't brought World of Warships to Steam yet? Maybe Steel Ocean will be able to fill the void. Released today by ChangYou, Steel Ocean is a 16v16 World War II naval combat game featuring playable battleships, carriers, submarines, and more. In all, "over 100 famous warships" are featured in-game. The game [...]
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The upcoming free-to-play MOBA-like Total War spin-off, Total War: Arena, has officially launched its North American servers. For the first time since the game entered closed testing, North American players can now play on local servers. Jan van der Crabben, Creative Assembly's Live Operations Manager, had this to say about the launch: “We are delighted to establish our server base [...]
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Survival sandbox Life Is Feudal: Your Own is receiving some major visual and gameplay updates for its launch on November 17th. Today, its developer, Bitbox, released a video showing off some of the major changes. They also revealed a number of dynamic screenshot comparisons—one of which I have included above—that can be viewed here. The improvements look quite impressive. [...]
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Skyforge's latest major content update, Journey of the Divine, has launched and brings with it several new major features. All-new Invasion Avatars are the "Avatars of invading alien gods." They will attack during Invasions and are touted as some of Skyforge's "most dangerous foes yet." Avatars will be quite a bit like raid bosses. Ten players will take on the [...]
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In addition to Movember, it seems that Digital Extremes have made November Warframe's Steam month. Today, the team announced that they have added Steam Controller and Workshop support to the game. Considering the flexibility that the Steam Controller is boasting, without actually playing Warframe today, I couldn't tell you what "Steam Controller support" means. My hope is that they've added [...]
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At 10 AM PST today, GRAV will begin a free weekend that will last until November 15th. This free weekend is happening alongside a sale on the game, bringing the price down to $6.80 for the weekend. This free weekend was likely planned to promote the recent Reborn update by allowing players to jump in and try the revamp for [...]
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