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From February 12th to February 25th, EVE Online capsuleers will be able to take part in Guardian’s Gala with “new and exciting challenges, visuals and content”. Players will be able to earn a variety of rare modules, Spirit SKINs, facial augmentations, implants, boosters and cerebral accelerators. Angel Cartel and Serpentis pirate factions are in partying moods and players are invited to “crash the party and share the spoils”.
Heroes of the Storm Production Director Kaeo Milker published a lengthy post on the game’s official site to give the community a forward look at what it can expect to see from the game in the coming months. He begins with an apology for the silence of late, “We’ve been working very hard behind the scenes to regroup as a team and align on our goals for 2019 and beyond.”
Kingshunt is an up and coming game currently in development at Vaki Studios. We had the opportunity to play through a vertical slice of Kingshunt with the developers to get a look at the game that is aiming for a niche not occupied by any other at the present time. How well the game progresses through development, through testing, and into release remains to be seen, but at first glance, Kingshunt seems to be onto something truly different.
MMORPG.com has been given a very limited number of closed beta test keys for Conquerer’s Blade. Get your key now while supplies last!
The Legends of Aria team is planning to run its first-ever serverwide scripted event from February 15th to February 17th. Players will be able to take part in a special scavenger hunt all weekend to “earn exclusive items and power hour potions”. This is, according to the brief post, the “first of many” coming events.
Unknown Worlds Entertainment releases the next installment of their fantastically innovative Subnautica. How does Subnautica: Below Zero stack up against its predecessor? Red Thomas dives in to give readers his thoughts on the new game.
Tuesday, February 12th is the date for the next Activision Blizzard (ATVI) investor earnings call. According to Bloomberg, the company will also be announcing layoffs due to “slowing sales”. The information has come through “people familiar with the matter”. The move will be part of a restructuring initiative that may see hundreds of ATVI employees lose their jobs. It’s “aimed at centralizing functions and boosting profit” according to the sources.
Tuesday, February 12th is the date for the next Activision Blizzard (ATVI) investor earnings call. According to Bloomberg, the company will also be announcing layoffs due to “slowing sales”. The information has come through “people familiar with the matter”. The move will be part of a restructuring initiative that may see hundreds of ATVI employees lose their jobs. It’s “aimed at centralizing functions and boosting profit” according to the sources.
The votes have been counted and the results tabulated for this year’s Steam Awards. The Game of the Year 2019 has been named as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds! PUBG beat out Monster Hunter World, Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Hitman 2 to take top honors.
The Fallout 76 blog has been updated with a forward look at changes coming to Scorchbeasts and the Scorchbeast Queen. Most notably, Sonic Scream frequency will be reduced and the Scorchbeast Queen will feature better loot across a wider variety of items.