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Conquest of Champions is a nice blend of Collectible Card Gaming and tabletop tactical warfare. Build your personal deck from over 130 cards and bring them to life by summoning fully animated creatures, casting devastating spells and equipping powerful weapons.

CoC features Asynchronous PVP or Real Time PVP as well as single player practice battles, with a plan to implement a full single player campaign in the future. There are 3 factions to choose from (Stonehold, Briarwood, and Embercult) and each soldier has unique attributes and up to two special abilities that they can use in battle. You’ll earn experience, gold, components and cards through battle. These cards can be fused together and made more powerful, and components can be crafted to create rare exotic cards.

It’s a good looking and deeply strategic game that draws inspiration from Magic the Gathering, Warhammer and Chess to create a fun tabletop tactical warfare game that doesn’t take ages to set up and pack away.

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Archlord 2 Beta Sign-Ups are now live on the games odd side-scrolling website. It’s an intense PvP medieval fantasy MMORPG with a rich universe, varied content and quick quest-based levelling.

You can instantly join parties for fast-paced, instanced PvP Battlegrounds and PvE content for both parties and raids. Participate in massive 400 player battles that offer a variety of playstyles and tactics and place you in a conflict between two warring factions. Emerge victorious and be the last one standing to become the Archlord, the supreme ruler of the world of Chantra.

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Barony is a 3D first-person RPG, featuring cooperative multiplayer, dungeon-crawling mechanics, rogue-like elements and real-time action all wrapped up in a glorious retro shell. It’s a rogue-like romp inspired by Ultima Underworld, System Shock and Dagerfall, which you travel through the vast subterranean complex known as the Devil’s Bastion, on a mission to kill the evil Litch, Baron Helix.

You’ll make your way through procedurally generated levels filled with a diverse array of friends, foes and challenges. Creatures are driven by needs (food, sleep, water, etc.) and all have their own personalities. Some creatures would beat you to death for their own amusement, while others prefer only to be left alone.

You have a choice of 10 character classes, from Barbarian to Joker, each with their own skills and bonuses, yet are still able to master any skill with enough practice. Don’t get too attached to your character though, the permadeath system means that when you’re dead, you’re dead, although there’s plenty of loot and equipment to collect that will give you a fighting chance.

The procedurally generated dungeons of Barony mean every game will offer something new, but it’s also highly moddable and comes with it’s own level editor for those that want to customise their experience.

It’s a nice blend of retro visuals, RPG and Roguelike gameplay that’s good fun on your own and great fun with friends.

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Happy Wars, the cartoon-style online role-playing strategy game for Xbox 360 is now coming to Steam. It recieved mixed reviews upon release on 360, but with a few minor improvements it could make for a fun, chaotic multiplayer experience upon it’s Steam release.

The 360 version is an enjoyable enough game with a short story driven single player campaign and a focus on multiplayer, which consists of 2 teams of 15 players attacking each other’s castle, while defending their own. There’s a choice of 3 classes - warrior, mage & cleric - with a few subclasses too, each class has it’s own unique base attack and unique abilities.

The gameplay in the 360 version was most let down by uneven matchmaking, lost connections and a lack of variety in the campaigns. However, the basic gameplay was genuinely pretty fun, with chaotic combat, plenty of customisation options and a good sense of humor.

If they manage to fix the matchmaking/server issues and add a little variety to the campaign for the Steam release, it could be a very enjoyable game, full of chaotic 30 player battles and lots of character.

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Eclipse War Online is a new card collecting MMORPG with over 700 cards to collect and the ability for your character to transform into an monster in the game.

This transformation ability dramatically changes the game, with a selection of monsters that’s wide and varied, including Ent-style creatures, behemoths, sorcerers, ogres, insects and birds. It’s an interesting gameplay mechanic, and means that there’s always a new monster to play as and a new skill-set to master.

As well as monster card collecting, there’s also arena and AoS Based PvP combat for players to do battle . Eclipse War Online is free to play, but the developers promise that it is not going to be Pay to Win, with all game items available through in-game currency.

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Rubble N Strafe is an addictive side-scrolling helicopter game with some wonderful pixel art and fast paced arcade gameplay inspired by Harrier Attack.

After you’ve chosen your helicopter (Rubble or Strafe), you set forth into a 2D procedurally generated pixellated battlezone, blowing up things to an excellent soundtrack reminiscent of John Carpenter scores. As in the old classic Chopper (NOT Flapppy bird - this is definitely NOT a Flappy Bird clone), you constantly travel forward, using the left mouse button to fly higher, while the right muse button drops bombs.

You then machine gun, bomb and rocket your way through an infinite horde of enemy troops, completing missions, blowing up buildings, terrain, aircraft and boats, all the while collecting ammo and fuel so you don’t run out. Complete missions and keep your chopper in the air for as long as possible and you’ll earn a place on the online leader board.

It's an addictive, action packed piece of retro arcade action, full of destruction and pixellated carnage.

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Survarium is a massively multiplayer FPS set a desolate, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. style, near future where environmental disasters, NPP explosions and chemical plant catastrophes have caused extensive contamination over large areas. Civilization has been derailed and nature has slowly taken over, with new species, better adapted to survive in the new conditions.

The game focuses on the aftermath of a massive ecological catastrophe on Earth, with you trying to survive in a decaying city that nature has reclaimed. Poisonous plants, mutants, wild animals and yet unknown threats of anomalies, all make this world a dangerous place to explore, a place where entire squads disappear.

As well as taking on the local wildlife there are also be PvP matches between warring factions which will be the focus of the Open Beta day. It’s a good looking game, with detailed environments and fast paced gameplay.

The Survarium Open Beta day starts from 2pm GMT (7am PDT) today for 24 hours and finishes on April 26 at 2pm GMT (7am PDT). Simply visit the main page, and click on the ‘Play Now’ button and download the client.

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SightLine is an adventure puzzle game which uses line of sight as a core gameplay mechanic, with items and scenery dramatically changing when you’re not looking. An all-knowing narrator helps guide you through the disorientating, somewhat creepy game, with visual trickery reminiscent of that seen in Antichamber.

There is a Prototype and a Playground available to download, the playground is a small test arena, while the Prototype has more intricate puzzle elements and takes you through a variety of destinations, such as a floating mountain town, a forest or just nothingness. One thing is prevalent throughout both builds though, whether you’re in a dangerous situation or not, it can all change depending on where you look and your perspective of it.

SightLine is a thoroughly disorientating, perplexing, wonderful experience that full of surprises and clever touches. Also, if you’re lucky enough to have an Oculus Rift it’s a must-play (though it’s still works well on a normal screen).

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Shards is an interesting indie sandbox MMORPG with huge modding potential being developed by Citadel Studios, a team made up of developers from Ultima Online, DAOC and Warhammer Online.
It’s a seriously ambitious game, allowing players can fully...

Shards is an interesting indie sandbox MMORPG with huge modding potential being developed by Citadel Studios, a team made up of developers from Ultima Online, DAOC and Warhammer Online.

It’s a seriously ambitious game, allowing players can fully customize their experience with extensive modding tools that will allow them to create and run their own MMO, with their own rules, themes and systems. You’ll be able to create any style of MMO you like, such as steampunk, fantasy, horror or sci-fi. The possibilities seem to be endless, if everything works as planned this could be the Little Big Planet of MMOs.

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Tom vs The Armies of Hell is humorous top-down isometric action adventure game with a that plays like a mix of Ratchet & Clank and Bastion. It has some minor puzzles and light RPG elements but mainly you will be fighting things and advancing the genuinely funny storyline.

In AOH you play as Tom, a computer programmer whose office is plunged into the depth of Hell, with a left arm that was replaced by a demonic one when you were saved by a demonic imp. As well as looking cool, this arm allows you to change from your into a large demonic monster for short periods of time when you collect power-upscapable of killing enemies with a single hit.

The Alpha Demo gives you access to the whole first level (bar the massive end boss), with a huge variety of weapons to pick up and dispatch the demonic hordes with. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable romp, with a colourful cartoony graphical style, lots of weaponry and a wry sense of humour.

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