Still no word on a Western release date, but Square Enix's free-to-play third-person mech shooter Figureheads launched on PS4 last Thursday. The game has been out in Japan since July 8, 2015, but has flown fairly far under the radar here in the West. According to Gematsu, in addition to the game's 5v5 PvP mode, the PS4 version is also [...]
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At long last, Blizzard announced today that Overwatch's latest hero, the robotic Orisa, will be going live on March 21st. The announcement was made in the description for the New Hero Preview video embedded below. Orisa's abilities are as follows. Her main weapon is the "Fusion Driver," which is "an automatic gun with good range and accuracy even at a [...]
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Frostkeep Studios is a new game development studio founded by three former World of Warcraft developers: Solomon Lee, Mat Milizia, and Jeremy Wood. Others working at the new company include Neal Acree, Overwatch's composer, and several former League of Legends developers. The company announced today that it is working on a new, faction-based survival game called "Rend." Before you close [...]
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Mordhau is a brutal medieval fighting game on Kickstarter that's been funded in less than 24 hours, and now sits at almost double its original goal. It's easy to see why. At a glance the features a complex combat system set in small duels all the way up to 64 player skirmishes on maps with trebuchets, horses, and ramparts to [...]
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Another ".IO" game is set to launch tomorrow and this one is called Kugeln.io, a 2D multiplayer shooter. "Kugeln" is German for the word "spheres," which makes sense because you'll be playing as a gun-toting sphere in Kugeln (though since it's a 2D space it's really a circle, not a sphere, but let's keep the Euclidean criticisms for the comments [...]
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Dual Universe's February developer diary has plenty of interesting information to share, but also announced that Alpha testing has been delayed so that the team can stuff in more gameplay. For now, the tentative first test will take place in September. But the experience should be more fleshed out than it would be had Dual Universe stuck to its original [...]
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Psyonix announced today that its ever-popular vehicular sports game, Rocket League, will be getting a new mode called "Dropshot" on March 22nd. Dropshot takes place in a hexagonal arena, requiring players to use an "electrified" ball to break holes in the opposing team's side of the field that will become that team's goal. As the match progresses and players repeatedly [...]
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Remember how Smite's Grover was added to Paladins as a sort of crossover between Hi-Rez's games? Trion Worlds announced over the weekend that it plans to do something similar with RIFT and Atlas Reactor. RIFT's recognizable Defiant character, Asha Catari, will be joining Atlas Reactor as a playable freelancer. Very few details about the Freelancer version of Asha have been [...]
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Earlier this week, pre-orders opened for PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds. At the time, we didn't know when the game would be launching. Today, however, it was announced that it will be launching on Steam Early Access on March 23rd. The announcement was made alongside the release of a new trailer, but the link to said trailer isn't working at present. We'll be [...]
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Phoenix Labs has released the PAX East trailer for its game Dauntless. The trailer shows off more of the game's Monster Hunter-like gameplay and gives us a look at fights with the game's Pangar and Shrike. The Pangar is shown creating walls of ice and then destroying them, whereas the Shrike is shown using the wind against players, throwing a [...]
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