We’d previously reported that among a swathe of improvements coming to Ubisoft’s struggling multiplayer brawler For Honor was support for static, dedicated servers, completely replacing the public hosting system that the game currently uses.
We now know exactly when this game-changing improvement will be landing, and it’s not far off: You’ll be able to butt heads with the Vikings, Knights & Samurai in a much more stable fashion on February 19th.
I’ve been playing the closed beta of Conqueror’s Blade, a lavish medieval warfare MMO from a team led by assorted Halo alumni. It arrives with eerily similar timing to that other big-scale medieval game Kingdom Come: Deliverance, but entirely multiplayer rather than singleplayer, and is all about bundling together hacky-slashy third-person tropes with a massed-army siege mentality.
Total War has made its own attempt to provide a boots-on-the-ground view of its enormous historical skirmishes, but 2005’s Spartan: Total Warrior wasn’t exactly a crowd-pleaser. Here’s a fresh take on playing as a general who gets their hands oh-so-dirty.