The Crew 2 will be launching next month, so Ubisoft is giving players a chance to try out the game early with a closed beta. Running from May 31 to June 4, you can sign-up today on your platform of choice to get a taste for what the game ha...

Onrush recently earned itself a spot on my pay-attention-to list and it seems like a bunch of you are also on board with what Codemasters is cooking up. We'll soon have a chance to go hands-on. The developer is running an open beta from Thu...

Arc System Works have announced the open beta dates for their upcoming crossover fighter BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. The frenetic anime title sees characters from four different franchises duking it out: BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, Under Nig...

[Update: The western network test will run from May 11-12 from 6:00 PM PT until 11:59 PM PT on PS4 and Xbox One. You can download the test client from today until May 8 at 11:59 PM PT.] The Dark Souls Remastered network test that was teased...

I've spent a few hours with Stardew Valley's online co-op mode and, just like that, I'm one-hundred percent back into the farmer life. I can't stress how weird and wonderful it is to see another player running around Pelican Town after you'...

Konami have announced a new Castlevania title coming to the iOS platform in Japan. Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls will see players co-operate to explore Dracula's castle in an all-new adventure.The game will feature the heroic duo of shady ...

Klei's next game is outside the studio's comfort zone. For more than a decade, the Vancouver-based developer has found a reasonable amount of success with its 2D action adventure games. The upcoming Hot Lava is Klei's first attempt at ...

Y'all remember SpyParty? The indie multiplayer title was first announced way back in 2009, and developed by St. Louis resident Chris Hecker? Well, nearly ten years later, the game is ready to land in Steam Early Access. Fashionably late, I ...

There's one more chance to try out Sea of Thieves before Rare's shared-world pirate adventure game launches on March 20. The final beta went live earlier today for everyone -- you'll only need Xbox Live Gold if you're playing on Xbox One --...

[Update: Turns out the Solaire amiibo is a GameStop exclusive. Go figure. It also costs more than the average amiibo, which is definitely making me less likely to pick it up on a whim.] Dark Souls Remastered will be getting a network test o...

Remember Bronies? Ahahaha! They were people who liked a thing! Wasn't that just hilarious? Indeed, the phenomenon that was My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was something else. As someone who remembers the My Little Pony craze from its or...

It's almost March, and that means it's almost time for Rare's shared-world pirate adventure game Sea of Thieves. If yesterday's look at skeleton forts left you counting the days until March 20, some good news: there's another chance to mess...

The Metal Gear Survive open beta returns today on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and for this second outing, PC players can also try to make sense of the systems-heavy survival game. It's on Steam! You'll be able to play three missions on two ...

There will be a couple more chances to play Sea of Thieves before it launches on March 20. Rare is planning to hold a "scale test" for its open-sea multiplayer pirate adventure game from Friday, February 16 at 2:00am Pacific until Sunday, F...

How can you survive without playing Metal Gear Survive? Isn't the wait killing you? Aren't you being played like a fiddle while waiting? While that last question doesn't make sense, neither does the existence of Metal Gear without its creat...

Responding to a fan on twitter, developers of open-world survival title DayZ have announced that the game will finally be arriving on Xbox One this year, as part of the console's Game Preview range of work-in-progress titles.DayZ has been i...

Sea of Thieves is in beta right now (and it just got extended a few days) and that means all sorts of weird things can happen while developer Rare works out the kinks. For a lot of people, that means boring and frustrating stuff like ...

For some players, it's been a real challenge getting the Sea of Thieves beta to cooperate. There have been issues with the game mistakenly saying it's "too early" to play and locking folks out, and I've had (probably Windows 10-related) pro...

While Dragon Ball FighterZ seems to be shaping up pretty well, the previous beta period was a bit of a let down. Players on Xbox One were unable to even connect to the matchmaking servers, so they didn't get a chance to test out the online ...

Darwin Project didn't leave much of an impression on me back at E3, but now that the multiplayer survival game is running an open beta for the weekend, I figured it was due another look. Set around the post-apocalyptic Canadian Rockies, it'...

We're in the midst of the Metal Gear Survive beta. How's it going so far? While I haven't had time to play just yet, I have to admit, I like what I'm seeing of the wave-based co-op survival title strictly in a dumb-fun-with-friends sort of...

How's Konami's first crack at Metal Gear gonna go now that Hideo Kojima's off working on, uhh, something else? You get to be the jury, at least for initial impressions. The first public taste of Metal Gear Survive is officially he...

This weekend saw Bandai Namco stress-test the online servers for their upcoming anime title Dragon Ball FighterZ, and stress was indeed the word, with many players being unable to connect with their opponents to enable fists to connect with...

We are just a couple of weeks away from the release of Capcom's Monster Hunter: World, one of 2018's most-anticipated titles. Capcom continue to stoke the fire's of the hype train with marketing tidbits almost every week, teasing the game's...

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