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Bethesda Support Leaks Fallout 76 Customer Names, Addresses & Phone Numbers
Some of the people submitting tickets to get their replacement Fallout 76 canvas baghave encountered a surprise: they’ve been given access to parts of Bethesda’s support system, including the ability to open and close tickets, as well as check out customer’s personal information. The loophole has since been closed, but not before a number of…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 5, 2018 - Uncategorized
Bungie Already Tweaks Newest Destiny 2 Expansion To Reduce Grind
A day after releasing their game’s new Black Armory expansion, the creators of Destiny 2 are lowering the power level requirement to participate in the new content’s marquee feature, a series of weapon-based activities called Lost Forges. They’re also acknowledging that the requirement reduction is small but the best they can do at the moment.…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2018 - Uncategorized
Battlefield V‘s First Expansion Is A Gamble That Doesn’t Pay Off
Battlefield V’s first post-launch addition, Overture, released today after an initial delay. The expansion moves the game’s timeline forward with new story perspectives and massive, tank-focused multiplayer battles. Overture is a mix of disappointing and exciting elements; it has terrific storytelling, but it also has one of the series’ least interesting maps. Also: Nazis. Overture’s…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 5, 2018 - Uncategorized
Apple Pulls Strategy Game Because It Features The Taliban
Not for the first time, and not for the last either, a strategy game on the App Store has been removed because it featured “people from a specific government or other real entity as the enemies”. In this case, the Taliban. Apple’s long-standing and long-stupid policy has been affecting historically accurate (or at least historically…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 5, 2018 - OpinionImpressions
Command And Conquer Mobile Game Would Be Great If It Weren’t Pay-To-Win
Command and Conquer: Rivals, out yesterday, takes the beloved real-time strategy series into the controversial world of free-to-play mobile games, which tend to be fueled by loot boxes and microtransactions. This game is, too, and it goes to absolutely zero lengths to mask that. Worst of all, the game’s still fun despite those things, making…
By Ethan Gach Published December 5, 2018 - Uncategorized
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Competitor Lands Sick Combo Just Before Ultimate Drops
Although most players are eagerly anticipating the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate later this week, tournaments are still being run for the previous installment during what many consider to be its twilight hour. And lucky us, because, otherwise, we wouldn’t have seen this cool moment from an event last weekend where low tier hero…
By Ian Walker Published December 5, 2018 - Uncategorized
This Official Star Wars Keycap Set Leans Towards The Dark Side
I find your lack of custom keycaps disturbing? No. These are the keycaps you’re looking for? Only Imperial Stormtroopers type so precise? I’ll figure this out. In the meantime, the first officially-licensed Star Wars keycap set is going up for sale. NovelKeys, home of the giant mechanical keyboard switch, has teamed up with Disney and…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2018 -
UncategorizedRapper 2 Milly Sues Epic Games For Stealing His Dance
Rapper 2 Milly is suing the maker of Fortnite, Epic Games, for selling his signature “Milly Rock” dance as an emote called “Swipe It.” Pierce Bainbridge, the law firm representing 2 Milly, filed the complaint in the Central District Court of California today, accusing Epic of, among other things, copyright infringement, and exploiting African American…
By Ethan Gach Published December 5, 2018 - Uncategorized
Spacewar! Creators Didn’t Know They Were Making History
Long after I’m dead, if the country remains unscathed, there will be a recording with me on it in the Smithsonian. On it, I will be heard asking the developers of Spacewar! if they had any idea what the video game industry was going to become when they made their game in 1962. The recording…
By Gita Jackson Published December 5, 2018 - Culture
Valve has explained the Steam algorithm troubles that led to smaller games losing traffic. It started with an early October bug that made the “More Like This” section of pages go haywire in favor of “the most popular games on Steam,” and while Valve fixed that shortly after, it kept a change that factored in…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 5, 2018 - Culture
How To Beat A Tough Video Game Boss
Over the last few years, I’ve started playing more difficult video games. Unfortunately, tough video games tend to include tough boss fights, and I don’t really like tough boss fights. This piece originally appeared 6/27/18. From the blood-starved beast in Bloodborne, to the Valkyrie queen in God of War, to Diablos in Monster Hunter: World…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 5, 2018 -
UncategorizedLooks Like A New Far Cry Will Be Announced Tomorrow
In what might be the most revealing teaser in gaming hype history, Ubisoft has just tossed up a trailer that spoils the end of Far Cry 5 (guess I should have finished that by now) and hypes a new Far Cry something or other coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC. “None of us were…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2018 - CultureKotaku Game Diary
I’ll Finish Just Cause 4 Once The Balloon Grapple Stops Being Hilarious
How am I supposed to focus on freeing Just Cause 4‘s fictional South American country of Solis from the grip of the Black Hand mercenary syndicate when the aftermath of every skirmish looks like a birthday party gone horribly wrong? Just Cause 4 is an action adventure game with a story and everything, but the…
By Mike Fahey Published December 5, 2018 - Uncategorized
Former Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw is now working at Ubisoft Quebec, the studio behind Assassin’s Creed Odyssey In a studio blog post, it’s noted that Laidlaw had been consulting with Quebec on an unannounced project for the past nine months. Hmm.
By Stephen Totilo Published December 5, 2018 -
CultureFortnite Is Getting A Creative Mode
Fortnite will get a sandbox mode called Creative starting December 6, Epic announced today. The mode will be a standalone island where players can design map features and game modes. Epic described Creative Mode in their blog post as, “Design games, race around the island, battle your friends in new ways and build your dream…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 5, 2018 - CultureCosplay
Alien Cosplayer Having Trouble With A Vending Machine
Getting a vending machine soft drink while dressed as an Alien is not easy. Spotted at the recent Tokyo Comic Con, an Alien cosplayer appeared to have vending machine difficulties Or maybe the Alien is trying to pick up some uncollected change.
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 5, 2018
