It’s safe to say that Anthem has been a bit of a disaster for both BioWare and Electronic Arts since it launched back in February. The online RPG promised so much but delivered so little, picking up a mixed critical reception and failing to meet EA’s commercial expectations. The game was boring, repetitive, riddled with … Read more
BioWare has jumped on the Halloween event bandwagon, releasing brand new content for its struggling loot shooter Anthem. The event is titled the Season of Skulls, and will offer players unique rewards and challenges for its duration. As well as these rewards, the maps has been changed slightly from the Cataclysm, now featuring a strange … Read more
Just a day on from the release of a patch that introduced a new Stronghold and made a number of quality-of-life improvements, BioWare has delayed a number of key Act 1 features that were due to be introduced to Anthem over the next couple of months. BioWare explained the delay in a developer update from … Read more
A new patch for Anthem is now live on all platforms, adding a new Stronghold and making a number of quality-of-life improvements, the most notable of which is the ability to access The Forge without having to return to Fort Tarsis. That means that The Forge will now be accessible during Missions, during Strongholds, and … Read more
Earlier today, Kotaku published a very lengthy report on Anthem’s six-and-a-half-year development cycle, continually quoting current or former anonymous BioWare employees who had been involved in the games creation. It’s a massive report and it’s very interesting (I highly recommend you give it a read), painting a picture of a dysfunctional studio that were making … Read more
Anthem’s latest patch is live, adding Legendary Missions and Elysian Caches to the game as well as making changes to loot. Legendary Missions will allow you to “replay critical path missions again with a much higher difficulty level”. Each day, one mission will be available to complete an unlimited number of times, which apparently offers … Read more
Levelling up in Anthem can be time consuming if you’re not doing it the quickest way possible. If you play in Free Play, for example, you’ll gain XP at an extremely slow rate. The XP in Anthem is strange, you don’t get XP for killing enemies and it’s never actually explained how to gain XP … Read more
BioWare has just released a hefty update for Anthem which brings with it a whole host of welcomed changes and fixes. It doesn’t fix everything, far from it, and it doesn’t even fix enough things for us to modify our Anthem review, but it is a step in the right direction. The update brings with … Read more
Titans in Anthem are big, annoying bullet sponges that are pretty difficult to take down with a team, let alone by yourself, but if you take the time to learn the Titan’s attack patterns then it’s much easier. Luckily for you I’ve killed loads of them all by myself, and I’m going to show you … Read more
Following widespread reports of Anthem crashing PS4 consoles earlier this week, BioWare has confirmed that the issue will be addressed in a patch that will release next week, according to BioWare’s Head of Live Service Chad Robertson over on Twitter: UPDATE: We’ve identified several causes for the temp power-down crash some PS4 users experienced. Fixes … Read more