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Valve Says Artifact Exploit Had Little Effect On The Game’s Economy
The in-game economy for Valve’s new digital card game, Artifact, was upended earlier today after the company accidentally created an exploit that made it possible to buy its card packs at a heavily-discounted price. While Valve said the impact wasn’t huge, it’s led to renewed debate within the game’s community about what Artifact should be.…
By Ethan Gach Published December 12, 2018 -
Figma’s latest Overwatch figure might also be its best effort yet. Pharah will be out in October 2019 (!)
By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2018 -
Hand-Drawn Strategy Guides Are Works Of Art
To celebrate the original Ninja Gaiden’s 30th birthday, Philip Summers has created his own 20-page strategy guide for the game, full of maps, tips and gorgeous illustrations. I’m in love. It’s available for a name-your-price download here He also did one for Contra earlier in the year if that’s more your style. Via Super Punch
By Luke Plunkett Published December 12, 2018 -
Warframe Players Refuse To Abandon Fortuna 69 (Nice)
I have a theory: The value of a community is directly proportional to its willingness to rally around and fight nearly to the death for deeply dumb things. Warframe players are doing an excellent job of proving it. In Warframe, a co-op sci-fi shooter with MMO elements, instances only stick around for as long as…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 12, 2018 -
World Of Warcraft’s Blood Elf Daddy Got A Makeover
Blood elf fans have long drooled over the elegant tresses and warm, fatherly voice of Lor’themar Theron. The Regent Lord of Quel’Thalas got a serious upgrade with World of Warcraft’s recent Tides of Vengeance update, his flowing clothes and bobbing ponytail putting player characters to shame. The newly physics-fabulous version of Lor’themar was discovered by…
By Mike Fahey Published December 12, 2018 -
It’s time to toss your London Spitfire jersey in the wash because the Overwatch League just announced its 2019 schedule The first match will take place on February 14 and include four games—one more nightly match than the 2018 season’s, perhaps because there are now a whopping 20 teams. First up, we’ll see a reprisal…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 12, 2018 -
World War Two Is Now A Collectible Card Game
Because video game versions of card games are now a license to print money, 1939 games have decided to take the Second World War and turn it into Gwent That game is called Kards and is a digital CCG (collectible card game), so the aim is to get you playing for free then buying packs…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 11, 2018 -
Fortnite Players Are Recreating Classic Call of Duty Levels
Fan-favorite Call of Duty maps are now showing up in Fortnite, via the new creative mode introduced last week. Creative mode is a feature that gives Fortnite players their own private island to create custom maps and games to share. Basically, it gives off the Minecraft creative vibe of being able to float around with…
By S.E. Doster Published December 11, 2018 -
Fallout 76 Event ‘Feed The People’ No Longer Feeds The People
Fallout 76, Bethesda’s troubled online survival shooter, received an update today that included a number of bug fixes and the addition of push-to-talk on PC. These all looked like welcome improvements, except for one small thing: the game’s “Feed the People” public event no longer gives every player on a server cans of meat stew.…
By Ethan Gach Published December 11, 2018 -
It’s Mad Easy To Hack The PlayStation Classic
The PlayStation Classic was a great idea that was disappointingly executed. Not surprisingly, hackers have been hard at work trying to crack the novelty console as they’ve done already with Nintendo’s NES Classic and SNES Classic The job’s been made easier, the hackers claim, thanks to Sony reportedly housing the key to decoding the PlayStation…
By Ethan Gach Published December 11, 2018 -
Battle For Azeroth’s First Major Update Arrives Today, And It’s A Doozy
The first major content update for World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion is upon us. Tides of Vengeance bring the fight between the Alliance and Horde to Darkshore, advances the war campaign, adds heritage armor for blood elves and dwarves and turns Gnomeregan into a pet battle dungeon, because gnomes get no respect. As…
By Mike Fahey Published December 11, 2018 -
That Time I Created All The Greek Gods In The Sims And Made Them Have Sex
Ingenuity is a child’s greatest asset and most dangerous weapon. When you’re small, you aren’t aware of limits yet, because you haven’t bounced off them like a dog on a sliding door. The only limit you have is your imagination. NSFW Warning: This post contains brief, classy cartoon nudity of the sort you might see…
By Kate Gray Published December 11, 2018 -
PUBG‘s New Snow Map Feels Like Classic PUBG
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds mightnot be the top dog in the battle royale area anymore, but it’s continued to grow and expand, most recently with the snow-filled map of Vikendi. It’s a map that brings the game back to its early roots. PUBG’s first map, Erangel, was a mixture of large forested areas and a few depressed…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 11, 2018 -
The Infinity Blade Trilogy has been removed from the App Store. A spokesperson for Epic Games declined to comment to Kotaku on the series’ future. Epic said in a blog post the games were removed because it was becoming “increasingly difficult” to continue supporting the series “at a level that meets our standards.”
By Ethan Gach Published December 11, 2018
