Everyone has a fighting chance
The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first event with new broadcast partner ESPN+ has been plagued with injuries, but one fight at least will go on with a late replacement.
Epic has announced that its Games Store will now match Steam’s refund policy. This means that players have two weeks to request a refund and must have not played more than two hours from date of purchase. Epic’s Director of Publishing Strategy Sergey Galyonkin made the announcement earlier today via Twitter.
The Dark & Light Steam page has been updated to inform the community that servers will be consolidated from 344 official servers to 100 when the consolidation process is complete. The merging process will be completed in two phases. The first round will take place near the end of January to close completely inactive servers. The other will take place in February to consolidate low-population servers so “each server has a healthy population”.
After yesterday’s back-and-forth between Unity and Improbable regarding the future development of SpatialOS games, Epic has stepped into the fray to announce a partnership with Improbable to “help developers transition to more open engines, services and ecosystems”. The announcement was made via a joint letter from Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and Improbable CEO Herman Narula.
Daybreak Games is celebrating the 8th anniversary of DC Universe Online by handing out some free gifts to players just for logging in. All players who log in can grab hold of a free CR210 Character Advance “which comes with the new and improved House of El 2019 gear suit and Episode 30: Earth 3”. Members will receive a “special Member Appreciation Gift box” with an Artifact Cache, Nth Metal, Marks of Victory and the Brainiac Lair theme.
The Breach team starts out the description for the Veil Demon with an interesting quote: “Some days, you don’t feel like being a hero. Some days, you want to be the creature that causes mass chaos in a game, summoning creatures and spawning traps to trip up other players”. Don’t know about you, but that sounds pretty fun…
The Star Citizen team is back with the latest episode of Around the Verse. This time, “Holy Foley! The wild world of practical sound fx, a new flight system update, procedural layout tools, and a full-on map attack” are the central themes of the vlog. Check it out and let us know what you think!
Are we starting to see a trend in the end of big publishers? Yesterday’s split between Bungie and Activision serves as a major move within the games industry. I was writing a column on the power of the EPIC Store and then well, this happened. Are the two related? Maybe, but more on that later. For now, let’s explore the split between Bungie, Destiny, and Activision. What does it mean and who benefits?
Aurora Studios has revealed that a brand new map is coming to Ring of Elysium when Season 2 kicks off. The new volcano map will launch on January 16th along with Adventurer Pass Season 2. “Europa” features an active volcano and players will find three new characters and new ways to travel.
Well, thanks to some enthusiastic data miners, the cat (literally) is out of the bag and next week’s big Elder Scrolls Online reveal is going to be an expansion set in Elsweyr, the home of the Khajiit. As evidenced by a package I received this week from none other than Abnur Tharn, it seems the Imperial mage may have some ideas on how to end the Three Banners War and bring about peace to Tamriel… but I’m betting it won’t be that simple.