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XBox One players can all take part in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds now that it has hit its full retail release. The release version comes with the addition of the Sanhok map along with new in-game rewards, and a “host of optimizations designed to give players the best PUBG experience on XBox One”.
The latest blog on the Path of Exile site lays out the details about some improvements to the game’s latest League, Delve, in the near future. Among other things, players can look forward to shared Azurite and Delve Upgrades across their entire account. The provided list is not to be considered “patch notes”, but rather “a list of concepts we are working on”, according to the post.
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Our erstwhile WoW-newb Poorna Shankar has written a provocative new article for GameSpace.com called “Cyberpunk 2077: Revealing Gameplay was a Mistake”. Speaking of player hype and developers trying to temper expectations based on early gameplay footage, Poorna wrote, “Regardless of CDPR’s reasoning and their intent, people will now think of this footage as the baseline against which to compare all future footage and gameplay.”
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I was able to meet up with three members of the Rend team at PAX West recently. We sat down and talked about Rend – the ideas behind gameplay mechanics, current issues facing the game and their possible solutions, as well as a small sneak peek at some not-yet-seen content that will be coming soon.
Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida has dashed the hopes of Fortnite players hoping for true crossplay between all of the available platforms. The company has been under a lot of pressure from Epic and the Fortnite community to open up full cross play on all platforms. While the PS4 version of Fortnite is crossplay-compatible with PC and mobile, it is not with XBox One and Switch. In a recent interview, Yoshida said that “PlayStation is the best place to play”.
It appears that a new Lord of the Rings MMO is going to be coming in the future. The information comes via a “Voluntary Announcement – Business Update” by Leyou Technologies that has established a new publishing brand called Athlon Games. The document reveals that Athlon has partnered with Middle-earth Enterprises “to develop and publish a free-to-play massively multiplayer online video game based on The Lord of the Rings, the landmark fantasy literary work of JRR Tolkien”.
Over the past weekend, the Associated Press (via GamesIndustry) interviewed Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee and asked a pointed question about the possible future inclusion of eSports. “We cannot have in the Olympic program a game which is promoting violence or discrimination,” Bach said. “So-called killer games…they, from our point of view, are contradictory to the Olympic values and cannot therefore be accepted.”
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