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Kenshi has officially launched after 12 years in development by lone game designer Chris Hunt. Kenshi is described as a “huge sword-punk sandbox RPG” that mixes in a healthy dose of squad-based control and city building features. In four years of early access testing on Steam, Kenshi has earned itself nearly 6,000 Mostly Positive reviews, with the most recent 800 coming in at “Overwhelmingly Positive”.
Epic Games has released a whopping 5GB patch to update Fortnite to Season 7 “You Better Watch Out” and to include new Battle Pass content. To celebrate today’s patch, Fortnite devs have released a festive trailer that brings Sergeant Winter into the game complete with swords and mayhem and not just a few planes to keep things frosty.
Bless Online has been updated to reopen the Rift of Space and Time that also has an additional stage added since it was taken from the game earlier this game. Players will face off against thirty rounds and will be challenged to fight their way through a new area in order to score a chance at the new bracelet reward.
Rockstar may have released Red Dead Online, but that doesn’t mean that the action has stopped in Grand Theft Auto Online. Throughout the balance of the week, GTAO players can take part in Motor Wars in order to earn a whopping Double GTA$ and RP through December 10th. “Team up alongside a squad of equally ill-equipped reprobates and scramble for munitions & weaponized vehicles scattered across the battlefield as you seek to eliminate the mouth breathers from the other teams”.
An evil editor demands yet another Fallout 76 article from Red Thomas. Stepping once more into the “breach,” Red decides to stick it to the man by writing about why he’s uninstalling the game. Will Red get fired? Will he usher in a new golden age of post-apocalyptic entertainment with his no-holds-barred WWF-quality smack down?
In the latest in a series of blunders, it appears that a glitch in the Bethesda Support System has led to customer information being leaked to other users. According to Kotaku, users were given access “to parts of Bethesda’s support system, including the ability to open and close tickets, as well as check out customer’s personal information” which includes credit card information. The issue has since been resolved according to a Bethesda representative.
Torchlight Frontiers is heading into its second round of alpha testing throughout the coming weekend. Developers are also keen to have as many alpha testers log into the game as possible to, as they put it, “WRECK OUR SERVERS!” The event will take place on Friday, December 7th at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. “Melt them down to their very cores until nothing remains but blistered silicon.”
As we learned early this morning, Fortnite players will soon be able to unleash their artistic sides with the new Creative mode that allows Battle Pass owners to have “access to a private island for the first week of Season 7, technically an “early access” phase. Starting December 13th, all players will have access as part of this free update.
When v8.1 “Tides of Vengeance” launches in World of Warcraft next week, players will be able to level and gear up characters through the newly added “Faction Assault” points. Those who played the Legion expansion will be familiar with the mechanic. Specific assault points will appear on the map in a single zone. “A Horde or Alliance crest on the map will indicate the type of invasion that is occurring and the available quests associated with it.”
As PC gamers, we enjoy more than just MMOs. Some of us are into shooters, and space sims, and racing games on top of our online escapades. Recently, Thrustmaster reached out and asked us if we’d be interested in checking out their TS-XW force feedback racing wheel for XBOX One and PC. With The Crew 2 firmly loaded up on our PC, we accepted. Let’s see how it changes the game in our full review.