August 2021 - Page 13 of 17

Apex Legends Cross-Progression And Next-Gen Update Still In The Works Says Respawn Entertainment

August 9, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

Last week, Respawn Entertainment rolled out a big update called Emergence that introduced Seer as a new Legend along with major changes to the World’s Edge map. Now that the rush of a new update has settled down, players are now wondering when they’ll finally be getting the next most-requested feature after cross-play came out last fall: cross-progression. Respawn Entertainment’s [...]

Back 4 Blood And Splitgate Join Most-Played Games On Steam Over The Weekend

August 9, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

Back 4 Blood managed to grab a spot on the Steam rankings within the first two days of its early access beta test. The highly-anticipated zombie co-op shooter set a peak player concurrency of just over 98,000 players last Friday night, temporarily ousting Rust as the 6th most-played game on Steam. To put things into context, the early access beta [...]

Runes of Magic Merging Servers Next Week

August 8, 2021 Omer Altay Comments

Runes of Magic, the game best known for being a surprisingly good WoW clone, announced several server mergers earlier this week. After the server mergers are complete Runes of Magic will have the following 4 servers: INT1: Gaia EU4: Aynara EU5: Kadmos US1: Ayvenas The servers are merging as follows: EU1 (EN) Vidar + EU11 (FR) Nuada + EU12 (ES) [...]

Bless Unleashed Hit 71,000 Concurrent Players on Steam 2 Days After Launch

August 8, 2021 Omer Altay Comments

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Bless Unleashed is off to an incredibly strong start. The game launched on PC just 2 days ago on August 6th and it hit 71,577 concurrent players online earlier today. This is despite having a 'mixed' score with a Steamdb rating of 47.66%. Many of the early negative reviews on Steam come from disgruntled Bless Online players, the old version [...]

Evil Dead: The Game Has Been Delayed To Add A Single-Player Mode And More Polish

August 8, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

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Evil Dead: The Game, which was initially scheduled to launch later this year, has been delayed to February 2022 to give the team at Saber Interactive more time to polish the game and add a single-player mode. “Hey groovy gamers, we're targeting a new release date to give the team some extra time for polish and to ensure this is [...]

Focus Home Interactive Acquires French Retro-Style Game Developer Dotemu

August 8, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

French video game developer and publisher Focus Home Interactive has acquired Paris-based developer Dotemu, a studio that specializes in retro-style games such as Streets of Rage 4, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, and Metal Slug Tactics. According to GamesIndustry.biz, Focus bought out 77.5% of its fellow French studio’s shares for €38.5 million, or roughly $45.5 million. Dotemu will also [...]

Back 4 Blood Won’t Be Getting A Campaign-Style Versus Mode, Early Access Beta Now In Full Swing

August 8, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

The first round of the Back 4 Blood early access beta test is in full swing, and like it’s spiritual predecessor, the Left 4 Dead franchise, the game features both cooperative Campaigns and team-based Versus modes. But unlike Left 4 Dead’s Versus mode where Survivors run through the campaign maps while Infected-controlled players try to stop them, the Versus mode [...]

Rust Adds Underwater Biome, Dungeons, And Submarines In This Month’s Going Deep Update

August 7, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

Facepunch Studios has just added a whole host of underwater content in Rust in this month’s Going Deep update. The update features a new underwater biome that comes complete with procedural-generated dungeons, submarines, torpedoes, spear guns, and sharks. “The new underwater labs are fully procedural dungeons that reside on the ocean floor. They will come in a variety of shapes [...]

PUBG: Battlegrounds Going Free-To-Play For A Limited Time, Blackpink Collaboration Event Kicks Off Tomorrow

August 7, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has apparently been renamed to PUBG: Battlegrounds and will be going free-to-play for a limited time from August 10-16. There’s speculation that the free week is a test run to gather feedback on how the community will reach should the popular battle royale shooter ditch it’s $29.99 price tag. “They’ve been trying to go F2P for a while [...]

Activision Blizzard Employees Attest To ‘Frat Boy’ Culture And Harassment In New Exposé

August 7, 2021 Marc Marasigan Comments

Activision Blizzard continues to feel the backlash of the ongoing sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit as Bloomberg publishes a new exposé with firsthand accounts from former and current employees of the company. These employees further attested to the fact that the executives themselves were a party to the alleged frat boy culture and incidents of sexual harassment within the company. [...]

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