Since Ubisoft released the Falcon Lost Incursion for The Division players have been assembling teams to take back the water treatment facility from Last Man Battalion control. Easier said than done. Because of the difficulty level many agents have been exploiting glitches in the Incursion that allow them to skip the entire mission and gain access to powerful end game [...]
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In light of recent news regarding Black Desert Online and DayZ's hacking issues I thought this week would be a good time to talk cheating in games. Have you ever hacked in an MMO before? While I'm no programmer (HTML for life) I've used my fair share of cheat programs back in the day to mess around in MMOs. My first [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, and Dota 2. Expect spoilers! Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational As the second most significant League of Legends tournament of the year, The Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) starts on [...]
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I recently had the chance to sit down with Executive Producer Tim Anderson, Producer Giovanni Martello, and Programmers Robert Thompson and Richard Kuhn of Stormhaven Studios, the developers of Saga of Lucimia. We talked about the caravan system, emergent gameplay, tomorrow's Early Access build, and more. [singlepic id=51087 w=600 h=338 float=none] Me: You talked a bit about emergent gameplay and [...]
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Playing a game takes time, time that could be spent doing other things. As an increasingly busy student, finding the time to play the games I love is getting difficult. Assuming I don’t abandon my responsibilities, I have to start really scrutinizing what I play and when I have time to play it. Sinking hours and/or dollars into a game [...]
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“OMG Azrall you f**king n00b! Just leave or something.” A statement once delivered to me by what was clearly a disgruntled teammate during an online session of Dota 2. Now I won’t lie to you, I’m by far no expert Dota 2 player, but I’m certainly not complete garbage either. I’m human, I make mistakes. But on this occasion I [...]
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With more developers and independent studios turning to crowdfunding services how do we know who to give our money to? There's no step-by-step criteria, no checklist to run through when looking at a KickStarter's overall mission statement. And I don't want to open my wallet just because the proposed MMO sounds like everything I've dreamed about while playing. When I [...]
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for League of Legends, CS:GO, and Dota 2. Expect spoilers! Contents (Click to Jump to Section) League of Legends NA LCS EU LCS LCK LPL Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dota 2 League of Legends NA LCS: On Break EU LCS: On Break LCK: SKT beat Jin Air and KT Rolster to meet the ROX Tigers next week [...]
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Grappling hooks, jetpacks, and zero gravity. These are all features you can find in Boss Key Productions' upcoming class-based arena FPS, LawBreakers. I was recently given the chance to visit Boss Key Productions HQ and play the game myself as part of a press event that the company held. Here's what I learned. Lawbreakers takes place after a cataclysmic event permanently [...]
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To distract myself from refreshing my Oculus shipping information now might be a good time to check in on the state of the upcoming Virtual Reality market. Luckily, the wizards at SuperData Research have compiled a new report titled Virtual Reality & the Next Killer App. Lacking $1500 for the full PDF I figured it’s still worth discussing some of [...]
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