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PS4 owners will not be required to subscribe to PlayStation Plus if they wish to advantage of No Man’s Sky galaxy-spanning online features. While No Man’s Sky is pretty much a single player experience as you roam around the almost impossibly vast game world, the title does boast a number …
Read More »CD Projekt Red urges more devs to support cross-platform multiplayer
‘At the end of the day, this is for the players, isn't it?’ says CEO Marcin Iwi?ski
Read More »Co-operative multiplayer more appealing than competitive modes, research finds
Quantic Foundry survey of over 1,000 players also discovers that co-op is equally popular between genders, while men prefer to face off against each other
Read More »Turtle Rock turns Evolve free-to-play to ‘get the magic back’ after ‘DLC shitstorm’
Asymmetric multiplayer shooter launched in early 2015 to mixed reviews largely surrounding implementation of extra characters and maps
Read More »OlliOlli dev Roll7 partners with 505 Games and jumps to Unreal for ‘much bigger’ project
Online multiplayer title will move to 3D art style in contrast to studio's iconic 2D pixel visuals
Read More »Blizzard blames ‘misunderstanding and confusion’ for Overwatch server tick rate criticism
Fewer than 0.1% of matches opting to use ‘high bandwidth’ option, with 60Hz client update rate unsuitable for a fifth of players
Read More »First-ever online game music and sound design master’s degrees announced
Online music school ThinkSpace Education and University of Chichester partner to offer MAs in Composing for Video Games and Sound Design for Video Games, plus MFA in Game Music and Audio, from this September
Read More »The Division hacks are result of ‘fundamentally misunderstanding how FPS games network’
Trusted client network model can’t be fixed ‘without a complete rewrite’, warns ex-Respawn and Sony online dev Glenn Fiedler
Read More »Nexon rebuilding Final Fantasy XI in Unreal Engine 4 for mobile
Reboot of MMO is result of partnership between MapleStory studio and Square Enix
Read More »From Software is investigating alleged unfair Dark Souls 3 bans
A number of players claim to have been wrongly banned from the online component of Dark Souls 3. From Software has since the days of the original Dark Souls struggled with policing the series’ community. Historically players who are deemed to have cheated in any way are pooled off into …
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