Moment Studio’s Scraps: Modular Vehicle Combat is now available for Mac and Linux! A highly-customizable car combat game driven by realistic physics and enough explosions to make Michael Bay cry,
Continue readingNow when I heard about “The Taken King” at E3, I was more than a little skeptical. For those of you who did not read my original review of Destiny,
Continue readingGuild Wars 2 guildies rejoice! Beginning today and running through this Thursday, it’s Guild Week on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel. ArenaNet is livestreaming daily episodes of Guild Chat dedicated to uncovering everything
Continue readingToday, Perfect World Entertainment Inc., a leading publisher of free-to-play MMORPGs, and Cryptic Studios announced Neverwinter: Underdark – the eighth expansion of the action MMORPG set in the Dungeons &
Continue readingSince announcing Chris Avellone’s upcoming contributions to Divinity: Original Sin II, campaign backers (including PayPal pledges) have unlocked two additional stretch goals; Love & Hate and the Shapeshifting Mask. With
Continue readingWarhammer: End Times – Vermintide is an online-focused co-op FPS from Fatshark that blends frantic horde shooting with satisfying first-person melee. Set in the Warhammer End Times, it throws you and a small team of heroes into Ubersreik, where the Skaven have overrun the streets and you are fighting mission by mission to reclaim the city.
 | Publisher: Fatshark Playerbase: Medium Type: FPS Release Date: October 23, 2015 Pros: +Tight co-op action that captures the Left 4 Dead-style loop. +Enemy swarms feel dangerous, not just numerous. +First-person melee is responsive and weighty. +Strong visuals for its time. Cons: -Leans so heavily on Left 4 Dead that it can feel derivative. -Some missions wrap up in around 10 to 15 minutes. -Only 13 levels. |
The first of the Valve Majors will be presented to the Dota community by ESL in what is Frankfurt, Germany’s iconic Festhalle from November 16-21. Sixteen of the best Dota
Continue readingVisionary Realms — a startup studio from globally renowned designer, Brad McQuaid — announced today that it has received the seed funding required to bring their first MMO game, Pantheon:
Continue readingWith the closed beta of Sandbox Box Interactive’s medieval sandbox MMO Albion Online scheduled to kick-off this November, the development team has released an insightful blog, covering the intricacies of
Continue readingKingdom Wars is a free-to-play 3D MMORTS that blends persistent-world city management with instanced RTS battles, including real-time sieges, plus light RPG-style progression layered on top of a medieval fantasy setting.
 | Publisher: Reverie World Studios Playerbase: Low Type: MMORTS Release Date: September 6, 2011 PvP: Instanced RTS and Siege Battles Pros: +Strong visuals and atmospheric audio for an RTS. +A storyline that gives the questing structure some purpose. +Tactical battles with a clear focus on sieges. +Includes a single player campaign. Cons: -Few (or no) keyboard shortcuts for fast unit control. -Progression can feel drawn out between upgrades and quests. -Unreliable pathfinding that disrupts formations and orders. |
