July 2021 - Page 15 of 18

US Department Of Justice Investigates Activision Blizzard For Limiting Overwatch League Team Earnings

July 6, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

Activision Blizzard is once again in hot water following a year of layoffs and controversies surrounding the inflated salaries of its executives. The US Department of Justice’s antitrust division is currently investigating the company for allegedly putting limits on how much Overwatch League teams can earn in a given season. According to Dot Esports, Activision Blizzard enforces a “secret soft [...]

Swords Of Legends Online Answers Questions About Monetization, Launch Content, And More

July 6, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

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The Swords of Legends Online dev team addressed community concerns and questions about the upcoming Xianxia-inspired MMORPG in an AMA session on Reddit yesterday. Most of the questions in the thread touched on the game’s monetization and whether Gameforge will be offering boost items, lockboxes, and other pay-for-convenience items. Basically, whether or not the game will be pay-to-win, to which [...]

Star Citizen Explains Injury, Death, And Hacking In Their Latest Dev Vlog

July 6, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

In the latest episode of the Calling All Devs video update, Star Citizen Core Gameplay Director Richard Tyrer talks up new gameplay features and mechanics that will be coming to the still-in-development space simulation MMO. These features include health, injury, and death mechanics and hacking. In the current health system, players have both an overall health pool and a health [...]

Waving Will Initiate NPC Dialogue In VR MMO Zenith: The Last City

July 6, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

Chatting up NPCs is a pretty straightforward affair, just walk up to one and tap or click the interact button. RamenVR takes NPC interaction in Zenith to the next level, making it much more immersive and life-like by allowing players to wave at NPCs to initiate conversations. The team released a video preview of the new feature on Reddit, showing [...]

Path of Exile 3.15 Expansion Reveal Scheduled For July 15, Watch The New Teaser

July 6, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

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Path of Exile players waiting for word on the online ARPG’s next expansion will be happy to know that Grinding Gear Games will be hosting a livestream later this month to officially reveal Expansion 3.15. The reveal stream is scheduled for July 15 at 1pm PDT on the game’s official Twitch channel. The reveal announcement also comes with a short [...]

Final Fantasy XI Will Get A New High-Tier Battlefield With The July Update

July 6, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

Square Enix is hitting pause on the ongoing Final Fantasy XI Voracious Resurgence storyline in this month’s update, and will instead be adding a new high-tier battlefield. New rewards are up for grabs for players who successfully complete the challenge within. The July update will also feature the return of the Sahagin for Expert Ambuscades, while the normal version will [...]

Claim Rising Flames Episode For Free This Week On Guild Wars 2, Week-Long PvP Tournamend Underway

July 6, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

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The Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons expansion may have been delayed by a couple of months but that’s not stopping ArenaNet from continuing to give away free Living World episodes to help players catch up to the game’s current storyline, and hopefully reel in new players ahead of the expansion’s release. Unlike the Season 2 rerun, ArenaNet seems to [...]

Hearthstone Announces ‘United In Stormwind’ Expansion Arriving On August 3

July 5, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

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Blizzard Entertainment has just announced the next Hearthstone expansion, United in Stormwind, which will be coming out on August 3. The expansion will introduce 135 new cards to the World of Warcraft-inspired collectible card game, including new Questline cards for each of the available classes. “United in Stormwind introduces Questline cards for every class, each one providing a peek into [...]

Swords Of Legends Online Players Run Into Issues During Name Reservation, Devs Say ‘No Wipe’

July 5, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

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“Character name unavailable/already in use.” - one of the most frustrating messages a gamer can encounter when creating a new character, especially those who have been going by a certain name for a long time. That message was what Swords of Legends Online players were hoping to avoid when they logged in last Friday to reserve their character names in [...]

PUBG Mobile Permabans Over 3.8 Million Cheaters And Hackers

July 5, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

PUBG Mobile players says goodbye to millions of cheaters as PUBG Corp. brings the mighty banhammer down on over 3.8 million accounts in just one week. The cleansing took place between June 18 and June 24, that resulted in a surprising number of accounts being permanently banned from the game, 3,884,690 to be exact. According to the update on Twitter, [...]

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