Put away your sword: pacifist-friendly content en route to Rift
We just talked about the brand new raid coming to Rift, and the hundreds of people trapped inside that you’d be murdering. But it’s not all blood and guts in Rift’s next patch: a major focus of the...
View ArticleEnd of Nations trailer outlines beta plans, teases 56 player fights and boss...
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View ArticleRift 1.8 screenshots show golden dragons, red dragons, giant purple pirate
It’s Maelforge the fire dragon’s turn to menace the lands of Telara in the big upcoming Infernal Dawn update for Rift. Alsbeth and the undead were the first to make a move, but found themselves...
View ArticleEnd of Nations trailer fires napalm strikes at metal men
Trion Worlds have released a new trailer for their ambitious multiplayer RTS End of Nations, showing off the oversized guns of one of the game’s playable two factions. The Liberation Front, not be be...
View ArticleRift three faction PvP hits test servers today
A new three-way PvP faction war mode will land on Rift’s test servers later on today. From 4pm PDT / 11pm players will have the chance to and jump into a new PvP warzone in a new version of Stillmoor...
View ArticleRift trailer reveals next expansion, Storm Legion, with thunder, lightning...
Looks like our prediction last week about Rift getting a new expansion was spot on. “I have unlocked the secrets of The Infinity Gate.” These are exactly the sort of words you don’t want to hear from...
View ArticleNew Defiance trailer highlights giant monsters, laser weapons, and offroading...
When a giant monster with a head of aliens that shoots fireballs falls from the sky, you’re going to want friends with large alien weaponry. The latest trailer for Defiance, the cross-platform MMOFPS...
View ArticleRift: Storm Legion expansion brings two new continents and player-owned...
Yesterday we brought you the news that Rift was getting a new expansion, Storm Legion, and new the first details are touching down. First things first, the expansion will bring not one, but two new...
View ArticleTrion CEO says TOR is lacking in content, 38 Studios “never even came close”
CEO of Trion Worlds, Lars Buttler has been offering other developers advice on how to sustain AAA online games. Trion Worlds are behind subscription-based MMO, RIFT which has recently been released in...
View ArticleGameplay footage of humongous open-world boss fights in Rift’s next expansion
Rift is on a roll. Massive-scale open world-style PvP is on the test server and a brand new expansion is just around the corner with new continents that triple the world’s landmass. Massively spotted...
View ArticlePC Gamer’s staff favorites of E3
There were a lot of great games at E3 this year, but only one can be the best. PC Gamer’s editors pick their favorites from the show floor. 1 Logan: Watch Dogs Go ahead and fiddle with your Facebook...
View ArticleNew details on Rift’s patch 1.9, Conquest system
Rift’s 1.9 patch, which releases on Wednesday, aims to change the face of player-vs-player combat in Trion’s flagship MMO forever. Along with new Instant Adventure content and a Mentoring system that...
View ArticleEnd of Nations beta weekend starts July 20th
You know what’s brilliant? Tanks. Hundreds and hundreds of tanks. And mechs. And aircraft. All fighting at once in a massive massive battle, the bigger the better. How big are we talking? How about 52...
View ArticleEnd of Nations beta key giveaway
End of Nations, the Trion Worlds MMORTS, is having a beta event this weekend, and we’ve got 1,500 keys to give away to lucky PC Gamer readers. Yes, you could be engaging in 26 a side co-op battles...
View ArticleDefiance PvP hands-on preview
I crouch atop a rusting industrial rig, scanning among the cargo containers below for signs of movement. A streak my enemy’s green jumpsuit flickers beneath me, and I quickly scope in to line up my...
View ArticleRift: Storm Legion expansion gets release date
Although Guild Wars 2 and The Old Republic have dimmed Rift’s limelight somewhat, developer Trion’s excellent adherence to steady content updates chugs along with Storm Legion, the first expansion...
View ArticleEnd of Nations final closed beta event starts October 4
Petroglyph’s massive MMORTS End of Nations heads into its final closed beta event on October 4 to October 9, granting testers access to the recently revealed co-op mode, a new tutorial system and a...
View ArticleEnd of Nations beta key giveaway: win access and exclusive lightning skin!
End of Nations is a free to play RTS of epic scale. The full game will support 26-a-side warzones in which each player controls a custom army equipped with high tech unlocks and snazzy paintjobs. The...
View ArticleEnd of Nations beta map guides: Blue Water, Landslide and Full Boar explained
We’ve been playing a bunch of the End of Nations alpha in advance of the beta weekend which is running right now, and which you can bag a key for right here. EoN is an online multiplayer strategy game...
View ArticleRift: Storm Legion trebles the size of the game, fills it with colossal beasts
This article originally appeared in issue 245 of PC Gamer UK. Storm Legion trebles the size of Rift’s already-huge MMORPG world. Senior designer William Cook flashes up the game’s map for me, showing...
View ArticleRift: Storm Legion beta key giveaway
Rift’s Storm Legion expansion pack will add two vast new continents that triple the size of the game world. It includes seven new dungeons, three raids, a new chronicle, new souls to equip and another...
View ArticleRift: Storm Legion open beta kicks off November 2
A four day open beta for Rift’s massive Storm Legion expansion is set to start on November 2. Trion say that “all expansion content will be available during the open beta period to those who create a...
View ArticleRift: Storm Legion releases today, trailer celebrates with giant monsters
Rift’s first expansion, Storm Legion, will finally land today, so Trion are marking the occasion in the traditional fashion, with a trailer full of massive beasts getting royally duffed up. The new...
View ArticleFive million Russians are practising their Warface
It looks like Crytek’s gamble on a free-to-play future is paying off. Warface, their self-described “AAA 4 Free” FPS, can now boast an impressive 5 million registered users in its Russian test market....
View ArticleRift: Storm Legion review
Blimey, it’s big. Rift wasn’t exactly slight to begin with. Set in the fantasy world of Telara, its vast continent was more than just a world to fill with quests. The titular rifts – tears in reality...
View ArticleEnd of Nations’ developer Petroglyph facing lay-offs [Updated]
Update: Petroglyph have released an official statement explaining the situation. Here it is in full: “Petroglyph Games Inc., an innovative studio that has created and launched multiple successful...
View ArticleEnd of Nations development picked up by Trion Worlds for “a more polished...
An indefinite open beta postponement and reported layoffs within developer Petroglyph clouded the fate of the near-vaporware MMORTS End of Nations recently, but in an official status update posted...
View ArticleTrion Worlds hit by lay-offs
Gamasutra are reporting that 40 members of the Rift development team – around one third of the game’s staff – are being laid off. Trion Worlds have confirmed job cuts in a statement, but haven’t...
View ArticleDefiance trailer shows massive co-op; sign-ups for first beta event now open
Trion Worlds have released a trailer showing off some of the “massive” co-op battles you can expect to see in their MMO shooter/multimedia crossover project Defiance. SyFy are also trailing their...
View ArticleDefiance beta key giveaway: a sci-fi MMO shooter with a TV series and a touch...
What are you doing this weekend? Is it more fun than battling skyscraping Hellbugs amid the twisted ruins of the Golden Gate Bridge with thousands of other players in a persistent open world...
View ArticleDefiance release date set for April, live action trailer deployed
I understand that Defiance is meant to be a “transmedia experience” – combining the co-op MMO shooter with a SyFy TV show – but with their new trailer, Trion Worlds are taking things to the extreme....
View ArticleDefiance playable (and viewable) at the SCI-FI-LONDON film festival
Trion Worlds have announced that Defiance, their unusual MMO shooter/TV-show collaboration with SyFy, will be the lead sponsor of the 2013 SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival, taking place at the BFI...
View ArticleDefiance trailer shows the weird weapons of future San Francisco
While previous Defiance trailers have focused on the unusual nature of Trion/SyFy’s cross-media experiment, here we get something of much more interest to those planning to play it: Weapons! Weird...
View ArticleThere’s a Defiance beta test this weekend. We have 2500 keys. Win one!
There are aliens in the ruins of future San Fran. Fight them. FIGHT THEM. TO THE BITTER END. If you like. Defiance is having another beta weekend. It’s the new sci-fi MMO from the creators of Rift,...
View ArticleDefiance: hands-on with the final beta of the sci-fi MMO shooter
Sharing its fiction with the SyFy-produced television series of the same name, Defiance is a cross-platform MMO third-person shooter set in the blasted remains of San Francisco Bay. Last weekend saw...
View ArticleWarface trailer shows the adventures of a coin
What’s the best way to introduce more footage of Warface, Crytek’s upcoming free-to-play multiplayer shooter? It’s definitely not a combination of carefully choreographed combat interspersed with way...
View ArticleDefiance launches, shoot lots of space bugs in a ruined San Francisco
Defiance has made the trailer rounds here for a number of months, showing a San Francisco Bay Area shuddering beneath an alien invasion as a narrative tie-in to the upcoming SyFy channel TV series....
View ArticleDefiance review
Around a dozen hours into my time with Defiance, I realised that I was having fun. Not the kind of fun that warrants an unreserved recommendation, but I had acclimated to the vagaries of Trion’s...
View ArticleDefiance to get five DLC expansions this year
Alright, yes—our Defiance review rated the MMO shooter as middling, bringing nothing spectacularly new to the table. But hey, maybe that’s something for the DLC to patch up? Trion’s just revealed...
View ArticleRift will be free-to-play in June
And strike another one off the rapidly diminishing list of surviving subscription MMOs. If there was any sub-based game not called “EVE” or “World of Warcraft” that had a possible, maybe, oh-so-slim...
View ArticleLayoffs hit Defiance developer Trion Worlds
A large number of staffers has been laid off from Defiance developer Trion Worlds. As reported by IGN, the number could be as high as 80% of the development staff, though Trion has called that number...
View ArticleRift free-to-play detailed; Trion promises “no tricks, no traps”
Rift is one of the few, rather excellent subscription MMOs still remaining, so its conversion to free-to-play is a little scarier than the usual case. But you can relax, okay? Things will be just...
View ArticleMMORPG Rift will be free to all former subscribers this weekend
There’s some consternation over Rift, the much-loved MMO from Trion Worlds, switching to free-to-play. While moving to a F2P business model can add life into drowning games, developers abusing the...
View ArticleDefiance event infects San Francisco with mysterious plague, definitely not...
Clearly I’m not the person you want to count on in a future world of aliens, Arc Hunters and cross-media synergy. The new TV tie-in update for Defiance challenges players to eradicate an infection and...
View ArticleRift trailer celebrates free to play launch with a round-up of its many features
Here’s a cheeky shot at certain other MMOs; ones that perhaps haven’t been as generous with their free to play content. Rift is going free to play, and to make the switch Trion Worlds have released...
View ArticleRift expansion teased in developer livestream
Rift is currently enjoying a resurgence, thanks its free-to-play switch. But having hordes of players bouncing between dynamic quests and rift encounters is one thing, keeping them there is another....
View ArticleEnd of Nations has resurfaced, is now a DotA-like
End of Nations: MMORTS version I’m sighing the weary sigh of a man staring into the future and seeing naught but DotA clones. You may remember End of Nations as the Petroglyph developed free-to-play...
View ArticleDefiance is free to play for the first three days
The third person MMO based on the Syfy TV show is inching a little closer to “free to play” territory today by offering a free, 72-hour demo to those who are curious what the Bay Area looks like after...
View ArticleTrion shuts down its San Diego studio
Update: In an official statement, Trion Sr. Director of Global Communications Katie Uhlman has confirmed the closure of Trion’s San Diego studio: “We can confirm that the San Diego studio will be...
View ArticleDefiance’s debut DLC pack launches with a trailer
Trion Worlds may have shuttered the San Diego studio that made the sci-fi MMO Defiance, but it seems its promise to support Defiance with five pieces of DLC is holding strong with the first DLC...
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