Hunt: Showdown just received its massive 1896 re-launch–one that overhauls Crytek’s supernatural extraction shooter and updates it for current-gen consoles–and it’s doing the numbers on Steam to prove it. Crytek’s shooter has always had a consistent player count of around 20,000-30,000 people on Steam over the last few years, slowly …
Read More »Blizzard Forced To Take Action As Major Diablo 4 Duplication Bug Spreads
There is a major item-duplication bug in Diablo 4 right now, one that has forced Blizzard to disable all trading in its ARPG as it investigates the issue. As spotted by Diablo content creator Rob2628, a duplication bug seemingly introduced as part of Season 5 was highlighted in a recent …
Read More »Diablo 4 Update Makes Earning Greater Affix Items Easier Again
Diablo 4 Season 5 is in full swing, but one of its best changes, guaranteed ways to earn greater affix items, wasn’t working properly–until the game’s most recent hotfix, that is. The current season, dubbed Season of the Infernal Hordes, introduced a new endgame activity of the same name that …
Read More »Blizzard May Have Just Inadvertently Confirmed An Unannounced WoW: The War Within Feature
Blizzard may have just inadvertently revealed a new feature coming in World of Warcraft’s new The War Within expansion: the ability for Dracthyr to be classes other than Evoker. In the most-recent episode of the WoWCast, Blizzard shared an image of the game’s new account-wide Warbands login screen, showing four …
Read More »CoD: Black Ops 6 Zombies Will Have An Arachnophobia Setting
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies will introduce a new, spider-like enemy type, but those who aren’t keen on creatures that crawl around on eight legs will be able to activate the game’s Arachnophobia mode to make its terrifying appearance a little more manageable. Activision recently blew the doors …
Read More »2XKO Alpha Lab Playtest Players Can Expect A "Decent Amount Of Jank," Riot Says
Developer Riot Games will soon be running the first at-home playtest for its League of Legends fighting game 2XKO, and is warning players to expect “a decent amount of jank” in addition to detailing all the characters, features, and work-in-progress elements players will be able to go hands-on with from …
Read More »Diablo 4 Has (Terrible) Secret Item Nobody Wants To Use
Diablo 4 secret-hunters have done it again, this time discovering how to acquire a secret Unique item no player on Earth will actually want to use. The ring, ominously named the Ring of Misfortune, has been known to Diablo 4 dataminers for some time now, but what wasn’t clear was …
Read More »Bungie's Canceled Project Payback Was A Third-Person Spinoff Set In Destiny Universe
Following layoffs at Bungie that affected more than 220 people, more details about what the Sony-owned developer has been up to have emerged, including more information about a canceled Destiny spinoff called project Payback that would have taken the franchise in a much different direction. According to a report from …
Read More »Diablo 4 Bosses Are Getting Some Big Changes In Season 5
Diablo 4 Season 5 will finally retool some of the game’s bosses on August 6, making it so its massive world bosses aren’t giant pushovers while also majorly reducing the damage done by boss enemies in the endgame Pit dungeon. Blizzard detailed all the changes coming as part of Season …
Read More »Diablo 4 Season 5 Patch Notes: Barbarian Nerfs, Big XP Boosts, And Huge Unique Item Reworks
Diablo 4 Season 5, Season of the Infernal Hordes, is coming August 6, and it’s bringing with it a new endgame activity, major class changes, increased XP gains, and reworks to nearly every Unique item in the game. The big new addition is the new Infernal Hordes feature, an endgame …
Read More »