News

Kill Your Magicka Buddies On June 21

Up until now, Magicka has been a pretty friendly game, but that’s all about to change. On June 21, everybody dies when player-versus-player comes to town.


February 25, 2011
PC

A Brutal Initiation To PvP — But One I Chose

I was adjusting my costume atop a skyscraper in Gotham City when a tour bus soared up into view and hovered there. There was a red diamond on my mini-map, meaning an enemy human player. If Had I created Wile E. Coyote here in D.C. Universe Online, I would have cowered under a tiny umbrella, or a sign that said “Yipe!”


February 15, 2011
PC

This Is Why You Should Sign-Up For The Darkspore Beta

In case our hands-on with Darkspore’s action-packed single-player and competitive multiplayer battles weren’t enough to whet your appetite for the game, perhaps the full beta trailer will do the trick.


PC

Darkspore Splices Fresh DNA Into Online Multiplayer

Spore is an amazing creative experience diluted by a broad gameplay focus. Darkspore has one focus: building a better killing machine. I took my monster squad to task in story mode and player-versus-player combat and lived to tell the tale.


January 14, 2011
PC

Get A Taste Of Diablo III Arena Combat With Bloodline Champions

The Arena player-versus-player system coming in Diablo III blew fans away at BlizzCon 2010. Stunlock Studios’ newly-released free-to-play PC arena combat game Bloodline Champions feels a lot like Blizzard’s competitive multiplayer mode.


December 17, 2010

A Look At Darkspore’s Competitive Arena Matches

Kotaku got an early look at upcoming PC action role-playing game Darkspore’s cooperative multiplayer a couple of weeks back, but this latest video we get a look at the player-versus-player action.


November 6, 2010

A Look At The Old Republic’s Player-Versus-Player Warzones

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Republic and Imperial forces clash on the world of Alderaan over control of the planet’s massive planetary defence cannon in this first detailed look at organised player-versus-player in BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic.


October 25, 2010

Diablo III Arena Battles Will Devour Your Soul

Last night I had a chance to sit down for 15 minutes of Diablo III multiplayer arena battles. Forty-five minutes later I finally made good on my “just one more round” promise. The wait for this game just got harder.


March 24, 2010
News

World Of Warcraft Battlegrounds Get Randomised

World of Warcraft patch 3.3.3 is now live, giving players an all-new, all-random way to queue up for the game’s popular player-versus-player battlegrounds.


October 10, 2009
News

City Of Heroes Recruits Heroic Guest Authors

Paragon Studios takes its City of Heroes Mission Architect to the next level, inviting comic book author Bill Willingham, Rooster Teeth Productions and cartoonist Scott Kurtz to author special missions for the game.