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To the Surprise of No One, Fallout 76’s Map is Called Appalachia

Bethesda loves to provide its Fallout games with appropriately-named maps on which the action takes place, noting specific locations in the US. We’ve had the Capital Wasteland and The Commonwealth in past Fallout games. Now thanks to a new post from the Fallout team, we know the name of the Fallout 76 map: Appalachia. It’s fairly unsurprising given the “Country Roads” theme song that specifically mentions “West Virginia”, a state fully within the region.

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Diablo Animated Series for Netflix Leaked by Hellboy Series Screenwriter

In a now-deleted Twitter post, Hellboy animated series screenwriter Andrew Cosby wrote, “I guess I can confirm I am indeed in final talks to write and show-run the new DIABLO animated series for Activision and Netflix. It’s very exciting and I hope to the High Heavens it all works out.” It’s no secret that Blizzard has been actively ramping up the franchise again with at least one “unannounced project” in the works, a comic series is planned and the team has promised exciting things this fall.

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Crowfall – Crowfall Q&A Live! for September

Crowfall’s Design Director Thomas Blair and Principal Game Designer Mark Halash are back with this month’s ACE Q&A covering a ton of questions from the community including how powers are created and adjusted in real-time; how powers relate to one another and….Hee Haw references. Don’t ask.

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Crowfall Q&A Live! for September

Crowfall’s Design Director Thomas Blair and Principal Game Designer Mark Halash are back with this month’s ACE Q&A covering a ton of questions from the community including how powers are created and adjusted in real-time; how powers relate to one another and….Hee Haw references. Don’t ask.

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Operation: Plague Star Returns to Warframe Through September 30th

From now through September 30th, Warframe players can check out Operation: Plague Star as it makes its return to the game. Tenno will be handed the Plague Star Bounty and sent out to “complete the series of Bounty Missions to earn Operational Supply Standing”. As ever, a long list of nifty rewards accompanies the event.

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Third-Party Apps Banned in Overwatch as the League Hires Its First Female Coach

A pair of interesting Overwatch news items came to light this week. The first is that Blizzard has thrown down the gauntlet regarding real-time predictive stats tracking apps similar to Pursuit or Visor. Players have been warned to stop using them or face bans in the future. The Visor app provides players with predictive information including when enemy ultimates will be ready, how quickly healers are dying and more. Pursuit provides statistical analysis to players after completed matches.

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WildStar Offers Its Players One Last Boss Hunter Challenge

From September 21st to September 28th, WildStar players can take on the new Boss Hunter Challenge. While the game may be closing in the near future, the event offers players a chance to revisit the game and to defeat the most awesome world boss monsters and legendary champions found in the game.

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Star Citizen: Around the Verse – Stop, Hammer(head) Time

It’s Friday, so that means that the next edition of the Star Citizen: Around the Verse is out and about, this time packed with a lot of neat in-game footage showing off mining and much more. It begins with a (literal) bang with a player character demonstrating some of the gunfire noises and then moves along to show off a variety of ships included in an awesome contest-winning “Misc Dedicated Mining Vessel” ad by a group of players.

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Fortnite’s Fall Skirmish Details Emerge

Epic has laid out the first details for its Fortnite Fall Skirmish season that is scheduled to begin in October. Everyone will be able to participate and a number of tweaks to the previous system will be implemented thanks to data gleaned from 78.3 players taking part in the game in August. Having such a large body of data “exposed weak points and allowed [Epic] to make targeted improvements to critical systems such as stats and servers”.