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January 21, 2019

Jagex Permanently Bans Twitch Streamer for Telling a Suicidal Person to Kill Themselves on Air

A YouTube streamer named “Aus_Swag” has been permanently banned from RuneScape after an incident when, while playing the game, he made a phone call to a suicidal person. According to Dexerto.com, Aus_Swag was asked by a friend to phone a suicidal woman “for advice and support”. He did so during his RuneScape stream and, rather than offering support, “he instead simply states, ‘I think you should just kill yourself'” while laughing along with other participants in the call.

January 21, 2019

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey as Therapy Has Helped One Stroke Victim Cope with Lingering Issues

Twitter user Susan, “OneOddGamerGirl”, has written a series of posts discussing how she is using Assassin’s Creed Odyssey as therapy after suffering from a stroke not long ago. “I’ve been prescribed Assassin’s Creed Odyssey by a doctor with a real live medical degree and I feel like I’m living my best life now,” she wrote.

January 21, 2019

Secret Lab Titan (Softweave Fabric) Review

Secret Lab is a company synonymous with quality and they’ve been a heavy hitter in the world of gaming chairs since their debut. Nowhere is this truer than with their premiere line, the Titan Series. Now equipped with a Softweave Fabric, they aim to deliver quality in a whole new way. This is our review of the Secret Lab Titan Softweave Fabric Gaming Chair.

January 21, 2019

Torchlight Frontiers to Offer You Wardrobes So You Can Always Sport the Right Gear

The Torchlight Frontiers site has been updated with a new developer diary that outlines a new feature called Wardrobes. As the name implies, “players need a place to store and swap entire sets of equipment when adventuring on the Frontier”. The decision to add a wardrobe system to the game came from feedback from testers during Alpha 1 and Alpha 2. Rather than just a cosmetic storage, however, it is more utilitarian in that players can create and store “the right tools for the job”.

January 21, 2019

Huge Dragon Age: Origins Fan-Made Patch Fixes Nearly 800 Bugs & Restores Dialog

This news is of particular interest to fans of the Dragon Age series: A fan-made patch has been released at NexusMods that fixes nearly 800 bugs in Dragon Age: Origins as well as restores fascinating conversations, dialogs, story choices and items. “This fixpack attempts to address ALL dialogue, quest, scripting, plot, and most item bugs in the base game of Dragon Age: Origins. It also restores a great deal of previously inaccessible content,” the notes read.

January 21, 2019

The RPG Files – Atom RPG Review

If you are looking for a classic RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world to play, then you’ll be glad to know that Russian developer AtomTeam recently released Atom RPG. In Atom RPG, instead of tearing down the Berlin Wall the Cold War ended with the nukes launching. You play as a member of ATOM, an elite Russian force tasked with recovering pre-war era tech and restoring the Soviet way of life. Did the indy developer put out a worthy title, or did they just drop another bomb?

January 21, 2019

AxE: Alliance vs Empire – A Chat with the CEO of Nexon Red

Nexon has announced that AxE: Alliance vs Empire, an expansive massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), will be launching to the App Store for iPhone and iPad and on Google Play for Android devices worldwide this winter. AxE ushers in the next generation of fully featured MMORPGs on mobile devices with a sprawling and ever changing open-world and an immersive fantasy story of a civil war between the Darkhaan Empire and the Galanos Alliance.

January 21, 2019

League of Legends Cinematic Highlights the Start of the 2019 Ranked Season

Riot Games has released an amazing new League of Legends cinematic trailer called “Awaken” (featuring Valerie Broussard) that showcases a number of the game’s heroes as “a deadly masterpiece unfolds”. “A lone resistance made whole. A chance to come alive.” For fans of the game, this is a must-watch — heck, even folks who’ve never played will appreciate how well the trailer is made.

January 21, 2019

EVE Online’s Team Security Details Recent Ban Wave & Work to Stop ‘Illicit ISK’ Sales

The first EVE Online security report for 2019 has been published. In it, the development team lays out its case for a recent action that saw over 600 accounts permanently banned as a result of ‘modified clients, also known as client hacking’. In addition, Team Security is working with Business Development and the Legal department to try to stamp out “advertising and sales of illicit ISK”.

January 20, 2019

Astellia Online ? Falling Our Way

Astellia Online is another MMO headed our way from the Asian market, but will it remain an awe-inspiring heavenly body like Halley’s comet or explode on (near) impact like the Tunguska object? Red attends a launch party and endures all forms of hardships to find out for his readers.