Category: News
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Factions in World of Warcraft can now understand each other by using a new potion
Ever since WoW launched in 2004, players have been unable to ‘natively’ interact with players of the opposite faction. You’ve been able to see that they are saying something, but the game has always converted their speech into gobbledygook. Kek, anyone? But that’s all about to change thanks to a new potion called the Elixir of […]
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Street Fighter V gets a new character
To celebrate the start of the new season of Street Fighter 5, Capcom has released a new character for their classic beat ’em up. His name is Kage and he’d be easy to mistake for Evil Ryu, because he looks exactly like him. A new blog post over on Capcom Unity provides us with Kage’s […]
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Testing Google’s Project Stream will bag you a free copy of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
Back in October, Ricky was creaming himself over the news that Google were testing out Project Stream, a new game streaming service that would allow players to play games through Google Chrome. Now, Google is offering anybody who playtests this service a freebie. The only game that can currently be tested on Project Stream is […]
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Sony may have accidentally revealed total player counts
Player counts are rarely revealed these days, but Sony may have just accidentally revealed the total player counts for most of their games. Let me explain how this has happened. Sony has recently launched something called “My PS4 Life” which automatically puts together a video showing a collection of a players PS4 highlights, such as […]
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The Infinity Blade has been removed from Fortnite
Thou giveth and thou taketh away. The Infinity Blade—that was only just added in the most recent Fortnite update—has been removed for being too overpowered. To be honest, I don’t understand how no one at Epic realised that introducing a weapon which could destroy buildings in one hit with a high rate of fire wouldn’t […]
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Discord announce new game store rivaling Epic and Steam
It was only last week that the Epic Store launched, and this week Discord has announced that they will be opening up their own game store in 2019 and will be providing developers with a 90% revenue split, which is higher than both steam (70%) and Epic (88%). Not only that, but they will also […]
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Custom games are heading to Blackout
It has been requested by many, and it seems that Treyarch has finally got the message – Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout will gain a custom game feature. The message came via a reddit post from the developers, and it has so far been very well received by the community. ‘Blackout Custom Games […]
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Subnautica is free on the Epic Games Store
The Epic Games Store is beginning to gather some momentum, with some decent exclusives available both now and coming soon. It that wasn’t enough, you can now pick up the excellent ocean survival game, Subnautica, for free. Subnautica is available for free up until 27th December when it will return to it’s normal price of […]
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Microtransactions are now available in Red Dead Online
A new update has gone live for Red Dead Online—the newly released multiplayer component of the phenomenal Red Dead Redemption 2—and the inevitable has finally happened; microtransactions are now available. Microtransactions are available in the form of gold bars that can be bought with your real world, hard-earned money. These gold bars can be used […]
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PlanetSide Arena to launch in January
Daybreak Games has announced the next entry in the PlanetSide series – it’s called PlanetSide Arena, it’s available in January, and its initial focus will be on battle royale. Yes, I hear you, another battle royale game. It’s no surprise seeing as they’re all the rage at the minute, but also because Daybreak Games has prior experience, […]