Bethesda games are known for being buggy at launch, but Fallout 76 is being regularly updated; it should be getting better with time. And sure, yesterday’s update makes a number of welcome changes, like improving the experience for new players. But fans also say that the 11th patch seems to break just as many things as it fixes. Players say […]
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Prime Day, Amazon’s made-up shopping holiday held annually for Prime members, brings discounts on millions of products, only a fraction of which are dedicated to gaming. We’ve sorted through the overwhelming pile of deals to bring you the very best in PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 sales. Unfortunately, Amazon isn’t discounting very many actual video games this […]
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If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly Exotic item merchant. In Destiny 2, he’s back, and he now appears all over the map. This week, you can find Xur on Titan, taking shelter in a building on the eastern part of The Rig. Bungie/Activision Xur’s inventory this week consists of the following: Hard Light, auto […]
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Age of Wonders 3 isn’t a flawless fantasy RTS (read our review for more), but it’s hard to turn down free stuff. In celebration of Triumph Studios’ upcoming Age of Wonders: Planetfall, Steam users can download Age of Wonders 3 for free. Anyone who downloads it will also have the opportunity to purchase the Planetfall Premium Edition at a 10-percent discount. […]
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If you cheated in Rainbow Six Siege by spamming the shooter’s chat window with garbage, you’re in deep crap. Bans are coming for that today. The recently discovered exploit could either crash the game or make opposing players’ games severely lag, to the point they’d be forced to quit matches. This was, obviously, very disruptive to the game’s ranked competition. […]
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Scott Strichart, senior localization producer at Sega of America, still remembers watching that viral YouTube video where a woman chronicles 10 hours of walking around in New York. While the clip is less than two minutes long, her trek across the city consists of nonstop, wall-to-wall verbal harassment. The men have no idea who the woman is, but they feel […]
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Amazon Game Studios is co-developing a new massively multiplayer online game based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The free-to-play game will be based on Tolkien’s literary trilogy, not the Peter Jackson-helmed films, and is unrelated to Amazon’s upcoming original TV series based on The Lord of the Rings that will be set in the Second Age. Working […]
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Dr. Mario World was set to release tomorrow, July 10, but Nintendo decided to release its mobile take on the classic puzzle game a day early. The title is “free-to-start,” so it’s not clear how far one can go before hitting a paywall. Microtransactions also exist within the game, where players can open what are essentially loot boxes to potentially […]
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The Destiny community has thoroughly datamined the content in Season of Opulence. As usual, Bungie is holding back some secrets, but elements of certain surprises are sneaking out — like the upcoming quest for the Bad Juju Exotic. But two new lines have players thinking a fan favorite Exotic rocket launcher could return: the infamous Gjallarhorn. Players have spent a […]
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Since Warmind, every update to Destiny 2 has included a wave-based mode. With Season of Opulence, Bungie added The Menagerie to the game. After four other iterations, Bungie’s finally created the perfect loot-farming activity. What came before? Warmind added Escalation Protocol, a wave-based mode set in the outside areas of Mars. It was the only way to get some of […]
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