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Warframe Hits Record 69,526 Concurrent Users Following The Release Of Octavia's Anthem

March 28, 2017 Matt Chelen Comments

Last Friday, Warframe celebrated its fourth anniversary by releasing the Octavia's Anthem update. It seems that Digital Extremes couldn't have timed it any better if they tried, as the combined celebrations and new content update released at the beginning of the weekend resulted in a record concurrent user count of 69,526 on Saturday. Since the record-breaking peak concurrent user count, [...]

Hearthstone-Like Astro Boy: Edge of Time Enters Open Beta In Japan

March 28, 2017 Matt Chelen Comments

You may or may not remember Astro Boy: Edge of time from its unsuccessful time on Kickstarter. It was only last September that the campaign, which promised a digital CCG based on a reimagining of the Astro Boy universe with both single-player and multiplayer modes, was canceled due to a poor outlook. At the time, the Project Atom team had [...]

6 MMOs Made Over $1B Last Year

March 27, 2017 Omer Altay Comments

Six online video games made over $1b in 2016 compared to only 3 movies that hit that same target. Video games are big business, much bigger business than movies. Surprisingly, not a single console game made this list only PC and mobile online games did: Every video game on the list is free to play which demonstrates the earnings potential [...]

The Year Of The Mammoth Will Mark A Hearthstone Celebration

March 27, 2017 Sean Sullivan Comments

When Hearthstone's calendar flips to the first page that says Year of the Mammoth a celebration riddled with festivities will begin. Who wants to party? While the first Mammoth Tavern Brawl took place on March 15th, another one is due to arrive March 29th, and reward Journey to Un'Goro card packs—if you win. What else is in store you may [...]

Activision And Bungie Officially Announce Destiny 2

March 27, 2017 Matt Chelen Comments

Destiny 2 has officially been confirmed by Activision and Bungie. We were already pretty sure that this was happening, but the extremely vague image embedded below featuring naught but a logo and what appears to be a moon orbiting a planet that the "2" in Destiny 2 is sitting on was published to the official Destiny Twitter account earlier today, [...]

PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds Made $11 Million In Its First 3 Days On Steam Early Access

March 27, 2017 Matt Chelen Comments

Remember how we reported yesterday that PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds had made its way into the Top 10 games on Steam with over 61,000 concurrent users at the time that we had last updated the article? It ended up peaking at over 67,000 concurrent users and had landed in the #4 spot on Steam. It also ended up being the #1 most [...]

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Is Free For The Next 24 Hours

March 27, 2017 Matt Chelen Comments

Have you not played Chivalry: Medieval Warfare? Who am I kidding? Of course you've played it. Wait, you haven't? What are you waiting for? In celebration of Mirage: Arcane Warfare's Closed Beta launch, the game is free on Steam for the next 24 hours. Much like the Sniper Elite 2 free-for-24-hours deal before it, once you've downloaded it, you get [...]

Mirage: Arcane Warfare To Launch On May 23rd, Pre-Order Now For Closed Beta Access

March 27, 2017 Matt Chelen Comments

Do you want to play another game of brutal melee combat from the creators of Chivalry: Medieval Warfare? If your answer is "absolutely, I do," then you're in luck. If you pre-order Mirage: Arcane Warfare via Steam, you can play it right now. The Closed Beta began today alongside the game going up for pre-order and will run until the [...]

[Update: 61k Players] PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds Breaks Into Steam's Top 10 With Over 57,000 Concurrent Players

March 26, 2017 Matt Chelen Comments

Update: Steam is now reporting that the game has over 61,000 concurrent players as of 3:41 PM EST, putting it in 8th place on Steam. PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds has been showing signs of becoming one of Steam's most popular games since it launched on Thursday with a 24-hour peak of over 40,000 concurrent players. Since then, it has slowly been on [...]

StarCraft Remastered Officially Announced

March 26, 2017 E Tay Comments

Following months of rumors, Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Morhaime took the stage at the I <3 StarCraft event in Seoul this weekend to officially announce StarCraft: Remastered. Expect the game to release this summer for Windows and Mac systems. The remastered edition will see the campaigns and multiplayer from both the original Starcraft and the Broodwar expansion pack updated with [...]

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