Black Desert drops class balancing patch on PC, plans Hashashin pre-creation next week

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While it's been relatively quiet over in the Black Desert console versions, PC and mobile are hopping today. On the PC side, you're either going to be super enthused about the patch - or over on Reddit griping about it. Why? It's a class balancing patch. "This week we bring you a special patch which many of you have been...

Oculus now demands you connect via Facebook for VR

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While it doesn't seem like the virtual reality headset revolution truly swept the land as industry experts were expertly expecting a few years ago, there are certainly plenty of gamers who made the jump to VR. Unfortunately, if you're one of those who did purchase a VR headset and decided that the Oculus Rift or Quest was the way to...

Lord of the Rings Online’s merged Farmer’s Faire and Summer Festival are live today

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With the addition of the Midsummer Festival a little while back, Lord of the Rings Online's summer season got more than a little full with a total of three events. To keep things more sane, Standing Stone Games has decided to merge the two older festivals into one with today's update. Update 27.3 brings the Farmer's Faire and the Summer...

Untitled Goose Game goes from antisocial to social with multiplayer

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Honk honk honk honk honk! Honk honk? Honk. Honking honk honk, honk honk honk multiplayer (honk honk). Honk honk; honk honk honk. Honk! Last year's bizarre viral hit is about to become this year's weird buddy comedy. House House's Untitled Goose Game, which put players in the flippers of a very irate gander, is adding two-player co-op in a free...
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Activision takes heat for poor female representation in its games over the last decade

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If for some reason you're not already annoyed enough with Activision-Blizzard right now, GIbiz has a new piece up that digs into problems that faced Activision 10 years ago - specifically, sexism - and attempts to determine whether the company has improved in the ensuing years. Back then, the company was under fire for allegedly telling developers of True...

The Daily Grind: How successful do you think Crowfall will be?

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When Crowfall went into beta recently, I felt like my interest in this game was awakening from a long slumber. Some of these Kickstarted MMOs are in development for so long that it becomes pretty easy to forget about them or to let one's hype die down to a faint murmur in the back of the mind. But beta? That...
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Star Trek Online previews a set of new support carriers for all of the game’s factions

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Players will have some new options for carrying support ships into battle in Star Trek Online on August 20th. The game is releasing four new carriers as Tier 6 Support Carriers in both fleet versions and in the game's cash shop, with two of them serving as upgrades of existing vessels and two new ones for Romulan or Jem'Hadar...

Phantasy Star Online 2 drops a new urgent quest to cap off your August

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Phantasy Star Online 2 has a wee bit of new content in store for players of the western version in the form of its latest urgent quest. No really, that's what these content drops are literally called. In all caps, to boot. "An ARKS Operative is never quite off duty, as there always exists the potential for unplanned attacks from...

Sea of Thieves delays bigger patch features and fights toxicity

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Sea of Thieves' August update is going to be a mite bit skimpier than players were previously led to believe. This is because Rare said that it made the decision to hold back some of the patch's bigger features until September in order to make sure these systems are on the up-and-up. "Since we started working from home, we've definitely...
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Fractured outlines its plans for meaningful city selection in its next alpha test

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In the most recent Fractured test, your goal for selecting a player-run city spot was just picking out a place you liked. That was it. But the next alpha test wants to make your location matter, and the key to that is placing resources there. Yes, that's the big change coming with the next major update to the game's...