Month: June 2019

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Hexgears Venture Low Profile Mechanical Keyboard Review

Just shy of a year ago, Hexgears made a splash in the wireless keyboard market with their Kickstarter campaign for the X-1 keyboard. They are back again this year with another crowdfunding project. The team at Hexgears did something more companies need to do: they took the feedback the community provided for their initial offering and applied it to a new design, the Venture Wireless Keyboard. Were the changes made enough to warrant a new Kickstarter campaign? Let’s explore that question in our H

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Champions Online Players Will Soon Find Episodic ‘Serialized’ Story Content

The Champions Online team has posted a brief note to introduce players to “a new era in storytelling”. Called Serialized Stories, players will experience an episodic storyline. The first episode is called Death Rattle and is the first “act of a four part experience”. It is slated to arrive on the PTR later today. Once Death Rattle wraps up, a new serial will begin which may include “investigations, betrayals, twists and turns, and more”.

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Sing Along with the Guild Wars 2 Devs to Prep for the Dragon Bash Festival

With the start of the Guild Wars 2 Dragon Bash Festival, ArenaNet is inviting players to “sing along with the devs”. The festival theme song is called “Bash the Dragon” and members of the team have recorded the instrumental version and the site has the lyrics so that you too can prepare for the epicness that comes with the Dragon Bash Festival tomorrow!

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Relic Hunters Legend New Alpha Loot Trailer Featuring Ace!

We have received an exclusive trailer from Rogue Snail about loot, Loot, LOOT coming in Relic Hunters Legend, the sequel to Relic Hunters Zero. Legends is a “character focused co-op that will task players with some ‘timey wimey’ travel to the past to thwart a mysterious villain” that is currently in Steam Early Access. Devs are priming the game for a 2020 release.

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Sells Nearly 5M Copies in 2019 Alone

While Fortnite is the undisputed champ of battle royale games at the moment, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has been quietly plugging away. According to Super Data Research, PUBG has sold 4.7M copies of the game in 2019 alone. As PUBG sells for $30 per copy, that amounts to $141M dollars in 2019 not including any shop purchases, battle pass revenue, etc.

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14 Days of Summer Lands in Fortnite as Revenues Tumble Year-Over-Year

Epic has officially kicked off the 14 Days of Summer in all of versions of Fortnite. During the event, each day will bring new challenges, Limited Time Modes, rewards, outfits and new items in the shop. Creative players will also be find a new featured island each day of the event and Save the World players will complete a daily mission to “help Homebase host the hottest summer party around and score some summer freebies in the store”.

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Ashes of Creation Team Shows Off the Fellbeak Macaw

The Ashes of Creation site has been updated with a look at the Fellbeak Macaw, one of the creatures that players will find in and around the game world. The article is written as “research notes” from a team out studying the flora and fauna of the world.