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The spirit of Halloween has descended on Paragon with the start of the Shadow’s Eve event. Exclusive Halloween-themed skins and banners for Narbash, Wukong, and Yin, and limited Shadow’s Eve chests will be up for grabs during the duration of the event which will run until November 1st. Old Halloween skins will also be available in weekly sets so keep [...]
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With the recent hype over Battle Royale games like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite, Daybreak Games seems to be looking to bring H1Z1 back to the forefront of the genre, or at least get a bigger piece of the pie, with the establishment of the H1Z1 Pro League. Here’s the official press release: “Daybreak Games has partnered with Twin Galaxies, whose [...]
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Full steam ahead into that time of the year, folks! The time of the year where skeletons, pumpkins, and ghosts fill pop culture for the next few weeks - the next victim to the Halloween Train is Overwatch! Yes, it has already been one year, and Halloween Terror is rearing its ugly head once more. Once again, Doctor Junkenstein will challenge [...]
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Fate/Grand Order NA is also getting into the Halloween Spirit, having announced its 2017 Halloween Event, known as The Adventure of Singing Pumpkin Castle Mad Party - 2017! That's a mouthful if I ever heard of one. Though the infamous Elizabeth Bathory comes to spooky North America for the first time, this event has already taken place in Japan - [...]
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Some "spoOoOoOoOoOoOoky" events are right around the corner, if Vindictus is anything to go by! The hit action MMORPG has announced a server maintenance between the times of 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Pacific Time, or 10:30 AM - 11 AM Eastern Time, taking the cake for what is probably the shortest video game maintenance before an event in MMO history. [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV Patch 4.1 is officially live and with it comes the brand new housing district of Shirogane, the 4th such district to be added to the game. As expected there was quite a land rush with thousands of players trying to log seconds after the servers came up. The new district introduced 12 new wards (each with 60 [...]
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Heroes of the Storm has no shortage of Overwatch heroes, starting with Tracer to the most recent Nexus addition, Ana Amari. According to Blizzard Entertainment, Aussie demolitionist Junkrat will be the next Overwatch hero to make his way to the Nexus. “The destruction of the Australian omnium left the area an irradiated waste and survivors like Jamison Fawkes were greatly [...]
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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is continuing its unprecedented rise to the top of the Battle Royale genre, and conversely, the top of the Steam rankings. Steam reports that PUBG reached nearly 2 million concurrent players over the weekend, just a month after breaking the 1M mark last September. According to GamesIndustry.biz, the survival shooter's closest competitor is Valve’s Dota 2. Fortnite is [...]
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A good anti-cheat software is a must-have for any game, especially for a competitive game like Fortnite. Epic Games vowed to crack down on cheating and apparently employed a cheat-detection system to help them carry it out. The problem is that the system turned out to be a bit too aggressive, erroneously flagging and banning players who weren’t necessarily doing [...]
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Diablo 3 Season 11 is in the home stretch. The season ends on October 20th at 5PM PDT which gives you a little over a week to earn those seasonal rewards. If you’re all good then you can just sit back, relax, and wait for the season to close, if not, it’s probably time to kick things in high gear. [...]
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