TV tie-in MMO looter shooter Defiance returns for a free-to-play third shot at life and gigantic messy boss battles

Admit it, we all have an MMO of questionable pedigree that we could happily sink dozens more hours into. Unfortunately for me, mine was Defiance. Yep, the one that ran alongside the moderately popular sci-fi (sorry, SyFy) TV show. Defunct twice over as both a retail game and the F2P relaunch Defiance 2050, it’s now back from the dead once more under new publisher Fawkes Games, and I’ve got my fingers tightly crossed that the new owners will be able to keep it running long into its twilight years—even...