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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Following a short delay, Cloud Pirates is now live on Steam Early Access. The airship combat game set in Sarnaut, the world of Allods Online, has been available directly through My.com for around a month now, but today marks the first day that you can buy it through Steam. That being said, it is likely that the Steam version of the [...]
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If you think Tychus is dominating battles too much, or that Varian’s stun is too powerful, you’ll be happy to know that the latest Heroes of the Storm balance patch has nerfed the said heroes, along with powerhouse support, Malfurion, melee specialist, Murky, and a few other heroes besides. Tank-busting Tychus was doing too good against assassins, prompting developers to [...]
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From the cramped post-apocalyptic streets of New York, Ubisoft now transports players to the desert wildlands of Bolivia in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands, the latest installment of the Ghost Recon franchise. The tactical shooter features a large open-world environment and a four-man multiplayer mode that has been generating quite a buzz. The game will launch globally for PC, PS4, [...]
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Online CCG Hex has just launched their Scars of War expansion and will be celebrating the event with special release tournaments this coming weekend. The celebratory tournaments start on Friday, March 3rd, at 10:00 AM PST and will run until Monday, March 6th at 10:00 AM PST. Scars of War releases this Tuesday. Here's how we're going to celebrate!https://t.co/HSQpObkzyv — [...]
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Earlier today at GDC, Oculus gave owners an early look at upcoming Oculus-enabled games. Among those games was "Blade and Soul: Table Arena." One of a number of efforts to expand the Blade and Soul franchise—which now includes Blade and Soul, MMORPG Blade and Soul: Hongmoon Rising, and mobile game Blade and Soul Mobile—Blade and Soul: Table Arena surprise you somewhat, [...]
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In recent years, Ubisoft has been pushing into the pseudo-MMO space with a number of titles that offer online play in which you are automatically put into an instance with a set number of other players and that utilize the traditional box fee plus DLC model, rather than a heavy microtransaction element or a subscription. The titles in question are The [...]
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