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Apex Legends community furious over new item packs
The new Iron Crown event is causing quite some commotion among the Apex Legends community. This limited-time event introduces solos in the popular battle toyale game from Electronic Arts and Respawn Entertainment, but it also adds the Iron Crown Collection Packs, which is where the problem lies for some. Many players are raging over these packs on Reddit, with multiple posts pointing fingers ...read more
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Borderlands 3 development did not involve crunch
With Borderlands 3 less than a month away from release, one would expect that Gearbox Software would be in crunch mode. However, it looks like that isn’t the case. The studio confirmed that it is not enforcing crunch on Borderlands 3‘s development team. Talking to VG247, Borderlands 3 multiplayer producer Chris Burke confirmed that no crunch was forced on the team. “We are not a crunch ...read more
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TimeSplitters Creator Joins THQ to Work on the Future of the Franchise
Steve Ellis, one of the original creators of TimeSplitters, has now teamed up with THQ to help work on the franchise moving forward. Last year, THQ Nordic-owned publisher Deep Silver announced that it had acquired the rights to the TimeSplitters franchise. While we haven’t heard word yet on what THQ might be doing with the property since that time, today, they shed some light on just what its ...read more
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Borderlands 3 Will Require 40 GB of Free Storage Space on Xbox One
Borderlands 3 promises to be a huge game, with Gearbox Software claiming that it’s significantly bigger than its predecessors (just its main story will allegedly take players between 30-35 hours to finish). But what does that mean in terms of its file size? We now have that specific detail. Thanks to an update to the game’s page on the Microsoft Store, we know that Borderlands 3 will ...read more
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New Saints Row Is In Development
During its latest earnings call, publisher THQ Nordic confirmed that a new Saints Row game is in development at series developer Volition. As you may know, Volition hasn't shipped a full game in the series since 2013 when it released Saints Row IV. That said, that should be changing soon. Unfortunately, no further pertinent details are disclosed by THQ Nordic, but this is the first time we've ...read more
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Xbox Scarlett Will Prioritize Frame Rate Over Graphics
Xbox boss Phil Spencer and his team have really been pushing 4K gaming this generation with the Xbox One. It was a big point of marketing for the Xbox One X. However, for the next generation -- the generation of the Xbox Scarlett -- the team at Xbox is putting a bigger emphasis on frame rate and playability than visuals. Speaking with our sister site GameSpot, Spencer Microsoft is prioritizing ...read more
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Modern Warfare Confirms Multiple Big Gameplay Features
Activision and Infinity Ward have confirmed multiple, big gameplay features for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, this year's Call of Duty coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC in October. More specifically, over on Reddit, co-design director of multiplayer Joe Cecot has confirmed the series will continue to have offline bots, and this includes in the Modern Warfare soft reboot. In other words, you can ...read more
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Gears 5’s Newest Escape Trailer Details Abilities, Scavenging
The Coalition obviously want Gears 5 to be the next big step forward for the franchise, and though we’re yet to see what that will mean in terms of the campaign, at least as far as the multiplayer component is concerned, we’ve already seen quite a lot of new stuff from them. The headlining new addition is probably Escape, the three player co-op mode that sees players planting a gas bomb in a ...read more
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Skateboarding Sim Session Gets a New Trailer Ahead of Release
Crea-ture Studios skateboarding sim Session comes to early access on PC on September 17 and Xbox Game Preview in October. It’s been a minute since gamers have had a quality skateboarding game to enjoy. Skate 3 released in 2010 and, outside of the OlliOlli series, the genre hasn’t had anything to play worth your time. That might all be changing with Crea-ture Studios upcoming release of ...read more
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Xbox may allow its new studios to create multiplatform games
Xbox first-party studios boss Matt Booty says the company is willing to consider putting future games on rival platforms, on a per-franchise basis. Game Informer asked Booty if he would allow newly acquired studios, like Double Fine, Obsidian, and Ninja Theory, to keep creating multiplatform games, to which he replied: “Yeah, I think we would. I think that the question is less binary ...read more
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