As part of Bungie’s commitment to updating Destiny periodically (i.e. whenever they feel like it), the upcoming April update promises to bring a large amount of old content forward to Year Two standards (i.e. bigger numbers). Plus it’s free stuff, since it’s technically just an update. However, it should be kept in mind that as with all of Destiny’s updates, there ...
Read More »Fallout 4’s Super-Survival mode will feature dehydration, starvation, and defecation
Originally, Fallout 4’s Survival difficulty simply modifies how much damage your enemies can do and receive; a fairly primitive method of making a game more difficult. Soon, Survival difficulty will be revamped entirely so that you won’t simply have to deal with shooting someone a bit more to kill them. And in the near future, Super-Survival mode will push the ...
Read More »Rooster Teeth’s Barbara Dunkelman and Blaine Gibson to go without technology in upcoming documentary, Connected
Like it or not, technology has become integrated into almost every facet of our lives. Phones are one of the first and last things that we see every day, it’s almost impossible to find a building that doesn’t have at least one computer, and everything is connected to the internet at all times. But what if someone were to be ...
Read More »A battle of semantics: Ubisoft says The Division will have “no microtransactions”
Following the update to The Division’s Ubisoft Club rewards page that led to some (reasonable) concerns over whether or not The Division will be “pay to win”, Ubisoft’s Community Manager, natchai, stated that “There will be no microtransactions, and definitely no P2W” on Twitter. Normally, this would mean that the case is closed, the mystery is solved, and everyone can go ...
Read More »Pokémon Sun & Moon Confirmed for Holiday 2016
This morning, Nintendo released a brand new Nintendo Direct video focused entirely on Pokémon. In addition to discussing the imminent digital release of Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition on the Nintendo 3DS eShop, a new announcement was made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzDL1l3Fag This holiday, we’ll be seeing two brand new entries in the Pokémon series: Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon. The video shows ...
Read More »Pay to win coming to The Division? Concerns over “Phoenix Credits” in Uplay shop
Like most RPGs, The Division has a currency system that lets you get progressively better gear from vendors, offering an alternative to human sacrifices to the Random Number Generator god for good loot. On paper, that sounds fine and dandy in that it guarantees that those who are dedicated to playing the game will be rewarded, even if they are ...
Read More »The return of the king: Halo: CE’s pistol comes to Halo 5 in Hammer Storm update, plus Firefight news
One of the most memorable aspects of Halo: Combat Evolved is the incredibly powerful M6D pistol. Those who beat Halo: CE on Legendary know of its propensity to kill Hunters in a single shot, annihilate Banshees as if they were made of paper, and murder more or less everything that you aim it at. Naturally, it came to be the ...
Read More »Is your body ready? No saving in Fallout 4’s revamped survival mode. Plus, mod news!
In Fallout: New Vegas, you could choose between several fairly standard difficulty settings. If you wanted to, you could also choose to turn on Hardcore mode, a setting that can cause you to question your life choices. Among other things, Hardcore mode made it so that your character can suffer from dehydration, hunger, etc., and best of all, each individual ...
Read More »Grifball and more coming to Halo 5 in Hammer Storm update
Keeping up with their promise of free monthly updates to Halo 5: Guardians, 343 Industries has just announced the return of several classic gamemodes and features to the game. This February, you can expect to be able to grab all sorts of giant, explosive balls in Grifball, Assault, and Fiesta with the Hammer Storm update. Of course, you may ask, “But ...
Read More »The Division open beta: dates and details announced
If you’ve missed your chance to try out The Division during the last closed beta period, then you’re in luck, because Ubisoft just announced that The Division will have an open beta that anyone can join. To do so, all you have to do is wait until February 16, at which point you can pre-download the beta from your platform’s ...
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