While much of New World is occupied with the PvP faction war, there is a variety of PvE content for players to explore as well. These come in two primary forms: Expeditions and Arenas. Expeditions are essentially dungeons, where a group of up to five players will venture into an …
Read More »California's Activision Blizzard Lawsuit Is Being Accused Of Ethics Violations
Things are about to get messy when it comes to the state of California’s lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, with a federal agency accusing lawyers leading the state’s case of ethical violations that could potentially be against state law. Back in July, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) …
Read More »New World Guide: How To Buy Houses (And What To Do With Them)
Player housing is always in demand when it comes to MMORPGs, and Amazon Game Studios’ New World is no different. Thankfully, you won’t have to compete for real estate when it comes to owning a home in Aeternum. Multiple players can all own the same home, and you can even …
Read More »Blizzard Removes Most "Greenskin" References In World Of Warcraft
Blizzard is continuing to update older World of Warcraft content to be less problematic, this time targeting the phrase “greenskins” as well as a number of dialogue changes that include the removal of additional developer references and toned down sexual remarks. The term greenskins is often used by human NPCs …
Read More »League of Legends Will Disable All Chat To Reduce Abuse
League of Legends’ upcoming patch 11.21 will disable a longtime feature in matchmade queues: all chat. Riot is citing a rise in reports of abuse over the past year as the reason for the change. All chat allows players on both teams to type messages to one another for everyone …
Read More »Diablo 2: Resurrected Server Issues Persist Weeks After Launch
Despite having launched more than two weeks ago, Diablo II: Resurrected is still suffering from many of the same login issues, with the game even going offline for multiple hours over the weekend for emergency maintenance. Even with the maintenance, the issues still persist. Blizzard’s North American Customer Support Twitter …
Read More »Pokemon Legends: Arceus Is Not Fully Open World, Pokemon Company Confirms
Ever since the reveal of Pokemon Legends: Arceus, fans have noted the similarities between it and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with many assuming the upcoming Pokemon title would borrow the latter game’s open-world exploration. That is not the case, with The Pokemon Company now definitively confirming …
Read More »New World's Delayed Free Server Transfers Won't Allow Players To Change Regions
Free New World server transfers have been delayed, with developer Amazon Games citing the discovery of “some edge cases where the transfer experience does not meet our standards for its release,” as the cause of the delay. When server transfers do arrive, however, they won’t allow for region changes, something …
Read More »Diablo 4 Has A New Game Director
Diablo IV has a new game director in Joe Shely, who previously worked as a lead designer for Diablo III. The news comes as part of a Diablo IV quarterly update focused on the sound design of the upcoming action-RPG. “As a design lead who has been working on this …
Read More »Valve Warns Tinkering With The Steam Deck Could End Your Life
Valve’s Steam Deck, the company’s upcoming portable PC that shares more than a little DNA with the Nintendo Switch, is an impressively compact and tightly designed machine, but it could also apparently kill you if you are behaving recklessly. It’s built in a very specific way, and although you can …
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