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The lootbox is soon to be officially dead in APB Reloaded. According to a recent dev blog, Joker Mystery Boxes are being removed and legendary weapons will be available to rent or obtain with Joker Tickets. This change holds hands with adjustments to rentals from the Joker Store, which makes legendary weapons available for a period of seven days....

If Amazon's detailed dev blogs on New World's crafting and progression didn't grab you, maybe the studio's latest video will. The devs lay out the five progression systems in the game that all interweave together: character leveling and attributes, weapon abilities, improve-by-use tradeskills, territory standing, and factional PvP and missions. The middle chunk of the video focuses specifically on crafting...

So this was an interesting little event on Twitter. A film blogger tweeted out a brief notice that he was watching the Warcraft film for the first time, noting that director Duncan Jones "made a terrific fantasy film and should have let him continue the story." This summoned Jones from the ether, where he offered up a few...

Dragon Bash has today returned to Guild Wars 2 once more, after its surprise reintroduction to the game last summer, before which it hadn't seen action since 2013. But now it's time to celebrate kicking dragon ass again! "Tyrians held the first Dragon Bash after Zhaitan’s defeat—an expression of relief and joy at beating impossible odds. With Jormag’s influence on...

All right, EVE Online. I'm starting to get you. The mission was to continue with the career path NPCs, and after some more time in the drudgery that was the industrial missions, I elected to push through all of the combat NPC missions, picking up with the basic military career path (which, I finally realized, was also the Cash for...

Electronic Arts is continuing to promise to clean up its communities. In addition to changes to its EA Sports moderation policies and the release of a Positive Play charter, an interview with EA's chief marketing officer Chris Bruzzo offers several words on how the company is reevaluating its influence, spurred by the greater formation of online communities during the...

Thinking back to high school, I'm awash in memories of the many deep, meaningful relationships that spawned as a result of being forced to work on group projects with people I didn't chose to work with. We grew into a tightly knit group of friends, whose coordination and collaboration was unparalleled. Everyone did the work without cajoling or ego....

It appears that the developers of SMITE are continuing to reach into the well of fiction for additions to the game. Starting in July, players will be able to dress up certain gods as characters from the hit animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. Specifically, Aang, Zuko, and Korra will become full transformative skins of...

Earlier this month, we covered moves by Activision-Blizzard shareholders and long-term investor watchdogs to agitate voting against the company's "Say-on-Pay" policy. Critics argued that CEO Bobby Kotick is grossly overpaid, on the order of $100M in options and equity over the last few years, “consistently larger than the total pay… of CEO peers at similar companies,” while most employees...

In a recent update, the battle royale island of Fortnite saw an unannounced change to the game: the removal of police cars. Not only are police cars gone from battle royale, they're completely removed from the game itself, reportedly not dropping out of junk rifts as well as no longer being available in Creative mode. While Epic Games has declined...