Riot, the company behind the extremely popular MOBA League of Legends is offering cash to their employees…if they quit. The new initiative called Queue Dogde is aiming to root out people who are only in it for the money by paying 10% of their annual salary if they leave the company. This is only available to North American Riot workers for now, ...
Read More »Nokia releases the Z Launcher app for Android phones
Nokia rolled out a home screen replacement app for Android phones called Z Launcher and reviewers are already praising it to the heavens. It looks similar to the Aviate Launcher, which was recently acquired by Yahoo and what it does is it learns about what kinds of apps you want to launch depending on where you are and what the ...
Read More »Call of Duty: Ghosts Invasion DLC Hits PC, PSN July 3
Call of Duty: Ghosts Invasion DLC will hit PC and PSN on July 3, Activision announced today. The Invasion DLC has been available on Xbox 360 and Xbox One since June 3. It added three brand new maps (Departed, Pharaoh, Mutiny) and one remade fan favorite from Modern Warfare 2 (Favela). The DLC also includes Episode 3: Awakening, the next ...
Read More »Steam Summer Sale 2014’s Best Buys
It’s that wonderful time of year again–when Valve intends to raid your wallet with its super mega awesome summer sale! Valve is back with its digital bargain bin, which contains steep discounts on some great (and not so great) PC games. Each day, Steam will see new daily deals added on top of their already extensive list of deeply discounted goodies. Best ...
Read More »Ubisoft admits that DRM will not stop piracy
CD Projekt Red are not the only company that thinks DRM is bad for the industry, Ubisoft also shares a similar opinion. The Witcher 3 devs recently stated that gamers “are not criminals and they do not need DRM.” Now Ubisoft steps forth and says that digital rights management are punishing paying players while also admitting that this system will not stop ...
Read More »Heroes of the Storm enters next Alpha phase soon
Blizzard announced today that preparations have started for the next phase of the Heroes of the Storm Technical Alpha. The title is deep in development and new changes are constantly being made. Just these last few weeks the game received an overhauled user interface and new skins and heroes have also been added. But the company has just started and now they want ...
Read More »Ubisoft sheds light on Far Cry 4 protagonist
While pretty much everyone was talking about Far Cry 4’s colorful, maniacal villain from the brilliant E3 reveal, we had few details on who we would actually be playing as. Yesterday Ubisoft tweeted an image of the protagonist, whose name is Ajay Ghale, who they describe as “Kyrat native, devoted son, and Pagan Min’s guest of honor.” Meet #FarCry4 protagonist Ajay ...
Read More »LEGO Fusion Allows Virtual World Building With Actual LEGOs
LEGO has announced this morning LEGO Fusion, a unique new system that will allow a sort of synchronization between fun app-based games and physical, creative LEGO building. The mash-up is developed by LEGO’s Future Lab, and its intent is to marry digital and analog play. A senior design manager behind the project, Ditte Bruun Pederson, noted that while researching a new project ...
Read More »Latest Watch Dogs patch starts rolling out for PC
Ubisoft just announced that the latest patch of Watch Dogs will be releasing for PC “in the next hours.” The PS4 version of the game already received this patch yesterday and the other platforms will also follow in the near future. Interestingly enough, Ubisoft only announced this after a user managed to create a mod which greatly improves the graphics quality of ...
Read More »Assassin’s Creed Unity targeting 1080p/60fps on next-gen
The latest trend for developers is to target 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second on PS4 /Xbox One for all their upcoming games and Ubisoft is no exception. The company revealed in an interview with GamingBolt that Assassin’s Creed Unity is one of their titles that will reach the magic numbers. AC Unity level designer Bruno St. Andre was uncertain at ...
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