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Epic Games is adding a new throwable weapon to Fortnite Battle Royale soon with the Shockwave Grenade being teased as an item that’s being added. An item that appears to be some sort of hybrid between the Hop Rocks and an Impulse Grenade, the Shockwave Grenade was previewed as a new item in the game’s news and updates section. Alongside reminders for the Wingman Starter Pack, the Ravage ...read more
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Gamers love petitions and Fortnite players are no exception. We wrote about a pretty hilarious fan petition that made the rounds back in July, asking for the chance to thank the bus driver that drops players off into the kill-or-be-killed Battle Royale mode and it looks like Epic Games has finally listened! The original petition was featured the creator writing, "Since I was just a boy I have ...read more
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The team behind PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has brought back a fan favourite War Mode with the return of Desert Knights. This diver-person squad event in Miramar is the perfect way for players to take a break from all of those Winner, Winner Chicken Dinners and do something a little different. According to Bluehole's most recent Steam blog post, "As the sun slowly climbs over the horizon, ...read more
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It looks like Twitch is really ready to catch ‘em all — or, in this case, watch ‘em all with its biggest marathon yet. Soon, the service will kick off a massive Pokémon event, and it will keep fans occupied for quite some time. Today, Twitch confirmed its most ambitious marathon plans yet. This month, the site will begin a huge Pokemon anime marathon that will last through 2019. As it ...read more
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A long requested feature is coming to PUBG next month: a shooting range. But wait! That’s not all. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds players will soon be able to try the new PUBG Training Mode which lets 5-20 players explore a 2×2 km map and practice all aspects of gameplay. This includes driving around race tracks, performing parachute landings on targets, and using the shooting range. ...read more
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Some of Valve’s work behind the scenes on Linux compatibility for native Windows games recently came to light when players discovered updates to Steam Play. Valve has now officially revealed what all of this is about. Steam Play was introduced in 2010 to allow customers who buy Windows games to able to own them on Mac, and Linux, provided these versions exist. This feature is now being ...read more
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As promised, Fortnite’s v5.30 patch, which was delayed earlier this week, is now available to download. Patch v5.30’s release is preceded by a few minutes of Fortnite server downtime on all platforms. The patch’s biggest new addition, the Rift-To-Go, was teased in this week’s store update. The Rift-To-Go allows players to create their own rift at any moment, perfect for escaping a ...read more
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A frequently-used PlayStation 3 emulator known as the RPCS3 received a sizeable update recently that added several major improvements. Sharing the update notes through the emulator’s site, the creators and contributors who worked on the latest RPCS3 build shared explanations for the new features and what they do. One of the first features that was added in the update is the implementation of ...read more
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Nvidia’s new high-end graphics cards are the GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, the company announced today during a pre-Gamescom 2018 livestream from Cologne, Germany. These new 20-series cards will succeed Nvidia’s current top-of-the-line GPUs, the GeForce GTX 1070, GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti. While the company usually waits to launch the more powerful Ti version of a GPU, this ...read more
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When news first hit that Fortnite was finally making its way to Android devices, fans were pretty stoked! After all, the title was already available on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, Nintendo Switch, and iOS devices. The full circle of accessibility is here but what was arguably even more exciting was that shiny galactic skin. The only problem was not that it was a Samsung exclusive, but that ...read more
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