In 2013, Overkill made a promise. The producer, Almir, posted on the Steam Forums—before the time of Steam Discussions—to let players know that they had "made it clear that PAYDAY 2 will have no micro-transactions whatsoever" and that the loot bag in the pre-order edition was not a sign that they would. This week, everything changed. A new "Sputnik Safe" [...]
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After a long hiatus following the end of beta for Petroglyph's RTS/MOBA hybrid, Victory Command, and its subsequent removal from Steam, the game silently re-emerged from the ether as Battle Battalions earlier this month. Battle Battalions is the spiritual successor to Victory Command and the culmination of Petroglyph's efforts to modify the game based on the feedback they received during [...]
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Battleborn's previously announced Closed Technical Test now has been revealed to be starting on October 29th. The tests will be taking place on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, and will be used to "balance characters, stress servers, squash bugs, and test the online infrastructure." Contrary to the previously announced 70 GB required, the client will be between 4 GB and [...]
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Following its run in the Groupees Be Mine Limited Edition bundle earlier this month, Lonath Online has launched on Steam Early Access. The top-down PvP-focused MMORPG has been developed by a lone 18 year old developer over the course of the past four years. As the developer wants to avoid making the game pay-to-win, he has put the game on [...]
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Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide developers Fatshark are doing something a bit different to simultaneously promote the launch of Vermintide and support a charitable cause. The team has put an "I DON'T WANNA JUMP!!!" edition of the game up on eBay. Starting at $1, this special edition contains four copies of the game and a diploma for being the [...]
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Things don't always go according to plan. The Reaper Invasion that was supposed to take place in Skyforge is one such thing. According to the news post, "The Reaper Invasion has been postponed due to an unfortunate misunderstanding that would have resulted in players not being able to make progress on many of the Invasion features including Operations and the [...]
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After quite a bit of waiting, Mac users can now finally enter the voxel world of Trove and hack-n-slash their way through the game's procedurally generated dungeons. The Mac client was first announced back on August 6th. According to the official announcement, the Mac client currently works exclusively on OSX Mountain Lion. Trion Worlds have sent out a number of [...]
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Trion set a spotlight on Devilian's dungeons today and unveiled some of the finer points of their implementation. Dungeons are, unsurprisingly, instanced and can be taken on either solo or as a group. Each dungeon will feature "several challenging battles" that end in a fight with the dungeon's boss. Each dungeon can be played on "Normal, Hell, and Purgatory" difficulty, [...]
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Despite shutting down in both its country of origin and China, Aeria Games is looking to continue pushing Echo of Soul in the North American and European markets. As promised, the publishing company announced today that Echo of Soul would be receiving a new content update including the long-awaited Warlock class. The new Warlock class "[marries] ranged and melee attacks," [...]
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A staple of traditional MMORPG combat is the use of a large number of buttons. More recent games, such as TERA, Skyforge, and Elder Scrolls Online. have streamlined the system down to a core set of skills—closer to those of MOBAs—but they also make use of action combat systems. More traditional MMORPG combat systems still maintain hotbars of ten [...]
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