Apex Legends is celebrating its 5th anniversary alongside the start of Season 20 this week. Dubbed Breakout, the free-to-play battle royale’s latest season will be breaking out new mechanics, a new map, a revamped ranked mode, and a performance mode for next-gen consoles. First up are the new gameplay mechanics which will include the ability to upgrade your chosen Legend [...]
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Hello Games founder Sean Murray has begun teasing their first major update of the year for No Man’s Sky with a series of cryptic posts on X. No Man’s Sky has consistently received a plethora of free updates over the past seven years which has transformed it from a disappointing mess to a feature-rich game that’s well-loved by its loyal [...]
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Smalland, a game that promises “a big adventure on a tiny scale,” is embarking on a new and even bigger adventure as it prepares to make the leap from early access to full release on February 15. The micro-hero multiplayer sandbox game will be launching simultaneously on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series [...]
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Bungie is giving away a rare Destiny 2 emblem in celebration of the Lunar New Year and as a way to appease players as they await the release of the delayed The Final Shape expansion. Since the delay announcement, the team has been keeping players busy with various in-game events, including the upcoming Guardian Games and Into the Light events, [...]
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Amazon Game Studios has officially taken the wraps off New World’s fifth seasonal update and it’s chock full of new content, features, and in-game events for the open-world MMORPG. Season 5: Season of the Guardian arrives on March 12 and will unlock the gates to a new seasonal trial and will introduce new artifacts, a brand-new season pass, controller support, [...]
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The last we heard from Magic to Master was that its developer Laniatus was preparing to take Gameforge to court over the latter’s copyright complaint which resulted in the cancellation of the oriental MMORPG’s Kickstarter campaign. The DMCA complaint claims that Laniatus, who employed several former Gameforge developers, used stolen assets from Gameforge Metin 2. It’s unclear whether both parties [...]
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Taylor Swift isn’t only a mainstay of Kansas City Chiefs football matches, she now also appears as a new playable character in RoboSquad Revolution, or at least a good parody of the pop superstar. The early access free-to-play arena shooter recently welcomed “Saylor Twist” to its roster of satirical characters, a blonde robot-killer in a white beanie and a red [...]
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Honestly, I wouldn’t have given Helldivers 2 a second glance if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s now PlayStation’s biggest PC launch of all time. The Starship Troopers-inspired co-op shooter recorded an all-time peak concurrency of 155,926 players on Saturday night, decimating God of War’s standing record of 73,529 players. Helldivers 2 slipped past God of War on Friday [...]
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A lot of things in ARK: Survival Ascended are out to eat you, apparently that also includes the game itself. Last week’s massive mod-focused update introduced more dev kit updates and the first phase of its custom cosmetics trading and delivery system. Unfortunately, it also came with a nasty bug that magically made player items disappear. The update was originally [...]
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a federal complaint with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week, claiming that Microsoft went back on its word that no layoffs will happen at Activision Blizzard following its acquisition of the studio, which was among those that were heavily affected by the mass layoffs at Microsoft’s gaming division last month. The FTC [...]
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