Rare has just announced this week, that their upcoming swashbuckling shared-world MMO Sea of Thieves will be seeing cross-platform play between Xbox One and PC players. Not only that, it turns out that Rare has been sneaking their own PC players into the Xbox playtest for some cross-platform interaction and testing. The devs are happy to report that cross-platform play [...]
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What is dead may never die, and the Archlich of Naxxramas Kel'thuzad has once again been resurrected to enter the fray of battle in Heroes of the Storm. Blizzard's eternally frosty fiend will be armed as a Ranged Assassin, whose main role is to deal massive spell damage as well as icy debuffs to slow the enemy. The Lich King's [...]
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VR Esports viewing platform Sliver.tv, has managed to raise $9.8 million in its latest round of funding. Having initially launched last year, Sliver.tv boasts a 360-degree immersive stadium experience for spectators across PC, mobile and VR platforms. The Esports viewing platform also comes bundled with other features and goodies, such as its Esports betting component Watch & Win, as well [...]
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Ark: Survival Evolved on PS4 will not be seeing cross-platform play between Xbox One players, despite cross-platform features having been already developed and ready to go. We have it working internally, but currently Sony won't allow it 🙁 — Jeremy Stieglitz (@arkjeremy) August 18, 2017 Sony has ruled that cross-platform play will not be allowed, on the moral grounds that [...]
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In a recent press release, Bluehole Studios has just announced that their beloved battle royale shooter Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has sold over 8 million copies. This is another huge milestone for the immensely popular game, which had announced its 2 million copies sold milestone earlier just this May. With over 8 million units sold on Steam, Bluehole has also revealed their [...]
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According to data gathered by Newzoo, players are now leaving Overwatch for the new battle royale shooter PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Numbers cite that 25% of the players that stopped playing Overwatch had switched over to PUBG, meanwhile CS:GO saw 21% of former players switching over to PUBG as well. In its data, Newzoo defined the term "churn rate" as referring to [...]
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Just last month, Tencent had begun imposing time restrictions on its mega-hit game Arena of Valor (Honor of Kings) in China, thanks to increasing concern from Chinese officials and the general public from recent game-related incidents that had taken place. According to the new time restrictions imposed, children under the age of 13 were only allowed 1 hour of daily [...]
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After this year's much anticipated spotlight release of Starcraft Remastered, Blizzard is looking to give Starcraft 2 a much-needed overhaul as well. According to Blizzard's recent news post, Starcraft 2 will be seeing some major design and balance changes, much of it focused on its current roster of underused abilities and units, as well as reducing the number of sudden [...]
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Valve is clamping down on Steam Key requests by developers, according to a recent comment posting made by Sean Jenkin, a Valve engineer on the Steamworks developer platform. “If we are denying keys for normal size batches it’s likely because your Steam sales don’t reflect a need for as many keys as you’re distributing. You’re probably asking for more keys [...]
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Secret World Legends has opened up a new and exciting realm in its latest 2.1 patch. Introducing Kaidan, the scorched earth region of Tokyo that was originally hit by the Filth Bomb, otherwise known as Ground Zero. Players will be invited to experience where it all began, the events of which "set everything you know into motion". It can be [...]
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