If you’re a regular visitor to this site, you probably know that Defiance, the third-person shooter MMO tied to a SyFy TV show of the same name, is my most anticipated game coming out this spring. I’ve been playing the PS3 beta since the servers went up last Tuesday morning, and now that the beta has ended, I’m going to share my beta impressions as someone who was heavily anticipating the game's April 2nd release before the beta. It’s worth noting that the folks at Trion have said repeatedly that the beta wasn’t representative of the final game. It’s easy to look and see that the game will release in a week and say “any beta this close to release is just a demo and actually is representative of the final game,” but Trion has also made it clear that the PS3/360 beta was … [Read more...]