Up until now, PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds testing has been focused on solo queue matches. You couldn't play as a team. This weekend, however, the game will be open for a 24-hour DUOs only test. That's right; in order to play this weekend, you will have to queue with a friend. There's also a 10% chance of rain in games this weekend. [...]
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Ever heard a game developer rap, or seen one for that matter? Hearthstone Game Director Ben Brode surprised fans of the game with an epic Un’goro rap on YouTube. The YouTube video, which now has nearly half a million views, was in response to a fan petition on Reddit for him to sing a song in exchange for the lack [...]
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Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade is making the shift to free to play and today the developers took to their forums to explain what that means for their game. The transition does not mean the entire game will be free. Rather there will be a base version, with slower progression and limitations on what classes can be played. Ork only, with [...]
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Battlefield 1's first expansion will be available starting on March 14th and EA has released a trailer, completely in French, to show that They Shall Not Pass—the expansion's title. The French army will be joining the fray along with four additional maps. What else is included? Two new operations. New game mode, called Frontlines. New weapons, vehicles, etc. They Shall [...]
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Overwatch's newest hero is the four-legged robot Orisa, who is a tank that wields a fusion-based gun. As expected, Orisa was developed by 11 year old inventor Efi Oladele, who Blizzard revealed in a faux interview last week. After Doomfist attacked Numbani airprot, young Efi re-developed the OR-15 robots into a formidable tank to protect the city—which you can watch [...]
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Robocraft has been in Early Access for nearly three years. Three years. Would you believe that, for the entirety of those three years, the game has been in Alpha? I wouldn't either, but apparently it has. Its developer, Freejam, announced today that it entered Beta earlier today, bringing with it a number of major changes. Robocraft's Beta update includes the [...]
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Remember how Tanki X entered Open Beta last September? Yeah, it's still not available on Steam. Instead, AlternativaPlatform released the original 2009 browser game, Tanki Online, on Steam earlier today. The Steam version lets players play the game on their desktop, rather than in a browser, as well as use their Steam account to log in. Unfortunately, however, you cannot [...]
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Starting today, SMITE players can now participate in the much-awaited Adventure Mode. Adventures are limited-time game modes that change every six weeks and run for four weeks at a time. During these four weeks, participating players have the chance to purchase uniquely-themed Adventure Bundles for a discounted price. Hi-Rez Studios explains: “With Adventures come a series of truly incredible Limited [...]
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While we've technically seen two screenshots of PixARK already, Snail Games released a new set of screenshots that give us our first real look at the game earlier today. The new screenshots show off the game's character models, as well as the first-person point of view. The announcement that also touts some of the game's features, including various Unreal Engine [...]
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Last weekend, Ubisoft held a Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands Open Beta ahead of the impending launch. Many people weren't impressed, our own Sean Sullivan included. Despite that, it is being touted as Ubisoft's "biggest Beta phase ever," garnering more than 6.83 million players. The game was played for a total of two billion minutes, or around 34 million hours, which [...]
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