Everyone has a fighting chance
Thanks to travel and accommodations provided by Bungie and Activision, we had the opportunity to experience Destiny 2: Forsaken before launch! So, yes, it’s #sponsored and #paid, but as a #DestinyPartner, I am a-ok with this being considered an #ad.
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth players have a lot more to do this week thanks to the arrival of Warfronts and the expansion’s first raid. The Arathi Highlands Warfront is currently active with the Alliance in control with the Horde making “contributions” that will switch the Warfront’s focus in a week or two. Alliance players able to play in the PvE Warfront have access to a world boss that drops 370+ gear.
Now that low-profile switches have hit the mechanical keyboard market, it was only a matter of time until we saw Cherry’s own solution trickle into consumer keyboards. That time has finally come with the high-end enthusiast keyboard from Mistel. We looked at their split MD600 RGB last year. Today, we’re looking at its slim, lighting-free successor, the MD650L. Is this the ergonomic keyboard you’ve been waiting for?
Perfect World came into town and had Remnant: From the Ashes among their titles. This game surprised us with its fast-paced action and dark mood. Once inside the demo we stayed for the intense gameplay and determination to succeed, that is right fans of Dark Souls, you have something new to look forward to. Remnant is tough, but in a fantastic way.
It appears that things are well underway for the Netflix series based on The Witcher novels. We now know that the leading man is Henry Cavill taking on the role of Geralt of Rivia.
I have a confession to make: I’ve been holding out on you. After the pre-panel which gave us the previous article filled with tons of Anthem goodies there was a small, room-wide Q&A. I made the decision to hold onto those questions and include them in the post for my interview with Mike Gamble and Mike Darrah.
Portalus Games is the developer of Pirates of the Burning Sea, but has announced that the studio is closing down effective September 30th due to the departure of Hamled, “the only code writer associated with Portalus Games” and without him, no one else has the skills to write new code. As a result, the remaining developer wanted to give the community 30 days notice because they “believe the first possible replacement for Portalus Games as operator should be with the game community itself.”
XBox One players can all take part in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds now that it has hit its full retail release. The release version comes with the addition of the Sanhok map along with new in-game rewards, and a “host of optimizations designed to give players the best PUBG experience on XBox One”.
The latest blog on the Path of Exile site lays out the details about some improvements to the game’s latest League, Delve, in the near future. Among other things, players can look forward to shared Azurite and Delve Upgrades across their entire account. The provided list is not to be considered “patch notes”, but rather “a list of concepts we are working on”, according to the post.
Our erstwhile WoW-newb Poorna Shankar has written a provocative new article for GameSpace.com called “Cyberpunk 2077: Revealing Gameplay was a Mistake”. Speaking of player hype and developers trying to temper expectations based on early gameplay footage, Poorna wrote, “Regardless of CDPR’s reasoning and their intent, people will now think of this footage as the baseline against which to compare all future footage and gameplay.”