For the first time since 2014, I'm happy to report that Planetside 2 has just added a brand new continent - Oshur! These tropical isles offer plenty of cliffs and beachheds to pin potential invaders, wide swaths of open space where tanks and aircraft can dominate, as well as a whole assortment

[Update]: Planetside 2's January 2022 update has brought in the new continent of Oshur and underwater-based gameplay!

After being mostly stagnant for quite a few

[Update #2]: Planetside 2's January 2022 update has brought in the new continent of Oshur and underwater-based gameplay!

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[Update #2]: Planetside 2's The Shattered Warpgate update has brought in a giant chunk of new content.

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[Update #2]: Planetside 2's The Shattered Warpgate update has brought in a giant chunk of new content.

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[Update]: The Escalation update has now arrived alongside Fleet Carriers, Outfit improvements, and a whole bunch of other changes.

If there is one thing that separates

[Update]: The massive Escalation update has now arrived alongside Fleet Carriers, Outfit improvements, and a whole bunch of other changes.

A little while ago ...

While I was initially optimistic about the idea behind PlanetSide Arena, the longer the development went on the more obvious it became that it simply wasn't as interesting as

[Update]: The NSO faction has now received a bunch of new content: a new weapon, vehicle and MAX variant!

After ...

[Update]: PlanetSide Arena will be closing down its servers on January 10, 2020.

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[Update]: PlanetSide Arena will be closing down its servers on January 10, 2020.

With Fortnite dominating the PC/console world and PUBG Mobile sporting a

[Update]: The developers haven't spoken much about the Nanite Systems Operatives just yet, but they are currently working on a brand new PlanetSide game - PlanetSide Arena.

Like with

Ever since Planetside 2 received a massive rework back in April things have definitely started looking up it. The once stale metagame got shaken up by the addition of resource gathering and base

The original Planetside was one of the most unique games I've ever played, a nearly perfect blend of MMO and FPS elements, but its heyday had long since past and without a consistent patching schedule the population slowly withered away into nothingness.

As you would expect, this

Planetside 1 was one of the first "MMO" games I've ever laid my hands on, and as such it will forever hold a very special place in my heart, but there's no denying that its heyday has long since past. With almost no active players and the last important content update being nearly a decade ago,

I've played Planetside 2 with a zealous fervor during its initial few months, constantly riding around in my Magrider, shooting all of the uncivilized mongrels trying to take over my continent, and having a whole bunch of fun in the process. Unfortunately, as the months rolled on the only

I've put in about 100-150 hours in to Planetside 2 since its release but throughout my playtime all I could feel is that SOE, the guys behind the game, had almost no idea what exactly they wanted to do with it. And so, despite loving the game, I ended up quitting because all I've seen were