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The Ship of Heroes team has published a new video featuring some internal footage “to show our devs how the main level is coming along”. The video is narrated by the lead environmental artist with commentary on recent changes that include day/night cycle, road designs, streetlights and street signs.
In last week’s This Week at Bungie newsletter, the Destiny 2 community was provided with a forward look at some big quality of life changes coming to the game with Update 2.2.1 currently slated for deployment on April 9th. Notably, players will find that drop rates for a variety of cosmetic items and Lore Books have been significantly increased.
During Bethesda’s Game Days at PAX East, I finally got time to try the Necromancer in Elder Scrolls Online’s forthcoming Elsweyr chapter. I can say, with some trepidation, that the Necromancer may be the most interesting class Zenimax has ever imagined for their MMO.
Surging light heavyweight Dominick Reyes who narrowly beat former title challenger Volkan Oezdemir last month at UFC London, says he wasn’t completely satisfied with his performance.
Justin Gaethje scored another impressive knockout over the weekend at UFC Philadelphia in the highly anticipated main event bout against fellow striker Edson Barboza, and just minutes later found himself fielding a face-to-face offer from a potential next opponent.
Fresh off another devastating knockout, this time against the No. 6-ranked lightweight in Edson Barboza at UFC Philadelphia over the weekend, Justin Gaethje now has his sights set on undefeated lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.
The Brazilian games rating board, Classificacao Indicativa, has posted new ratings for Bless Unleashed on XBox One and for PlayStation 4. Bandai Namco has been developing Bless Unleashed for XBox One “first”, though has not specifically mentioned other platforms to which the game might come. With this news out of Brazil, we now known that Bless Unleashed will be out for PS4 at some point after the XB1 version is released. Whether other platforms will be included remains to be seen.
This is no joke, folks. Bethesda has announced that 82-year-old Shirley “Skyrim Granny” Curry will be immortalized in Elder Scrolls 6. Curry is a prolific and experienced Skyrim player and streamer who was the subject of a petition by fans to see her included in the upcoming game. Over 50,000 signatures were collected and that got the attention of Bethesda’s Todd Howard. “She will be immortalized in the game”. The video for the series’ 25th anniversary shows Curry visiting the studio.
Once a year, every news writer’s day is trashed by the annual “just plausible enough to maybe be real but really aren’t” jokes that game developers seem to have a penchant for foisting on the world. That’s right. Today is April Fools’ Day, the day of silly jokes, goofy devs and outrageous pokes at the games they make. We’ll be adding to the article throughout the day, so put on your chuckle shoes and join us.
By popular demand, TheHiveLeader has finally caved and decided to talk about Sword Art Online. So let’s watch the first episode and see how exactly SAO holds up. The answer? We probably shouldn’t mess with developers anymore…