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The Guild Wars 2 site has been updated with a brief look at forthcoming changes to underwater combat. Originally designed to be “realistic and where fighting was slower”, the team determined that some of those foundations needed to go and were ready to “rebuild something better”.
Anthem was originally to have released in Q4 2018 but EA delayed the release (though said it wasn’t actually a delay…) to Q1 2018. In the most recent investor’s call, EA is still targeting Fiscal Year Q4 2019 for Anthem. This is the equivalent of Q1 2019 (much easier to write too!) with dates that span January 1st to March 31st, 2019. Whether they can make it remains to be seen, but fans are expecting to see EA trot Anthem out at this year’s E3.
While it may only tangentially involve Daybreak Games, it seems that the case against Michael Cohen via Stormi Daniels’ law team, Avenatti & Associates, does indeed involve Columbus Nova and Russian Oligarch Mr. Vekselberg and his cousin Mr. Andrew Intrater.
Blizzard has partnered with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to sell a pink skin for Overwatch’s Mercy. The skin will cost $15 with 100% of the proceeds going to the charity. The skin will be on sale from May 8th to May 21st. Blizzard has other ways players can participate even in as simple a way as watching a Pink Mercy charity stream and unlocking icons and sprays.
The Gloria Victis team has sent word that the game is now part of the Humble Bundle as part of the War Gamez Bundle. War Gamez includes other titles including Panzer Corps, Mercenary Kings, Insurgency in the first tier. Gloria Victis, Day of Infamy and 8-Bit Armies are in the $4 tier while all of the above plus Rising Storm 2: Vietnam is in the $10+ category.
The Ship of Heroes forum has a new post from Casey McGeever to provide the community with some insights into where the developers have been spending their time for the past several weeks. McGeever calls it a “stream of consciousness update” and writes on six different topics.
HyperX is on a roll. Over the last year, we’ve reviewed two of their headsets, the best-in-its-bracket HyperX Cloud Alpha and their first impressive take on a wireless headset with the Cloud Flight. Today, we’re looking at the Cloud Revolver, re-released in the brand new gunmetal colorway. The original Revolver’s been out for a little over two years – does the new version hold up to the high standards of their latest and greatest?
If you played in the Paladins beta, you’ll definitely want to log in any time between today and May 31st to take possession of a free gift of 200 Crystals in thanks for participation. With over 25M of you out there, that’s over $100M worth of Crystals! The gift is being given in celebration of the full launch of Paladins.
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire launches today, the next in an ever-growing line of masterful cRPGs. Obsidian Entertainment has brought gamers a new cRPG that both expands the Pillars universe and provides fans with exciting new ways to play this most-beloved genre. Deadfire offers proof that epic single-player games are worth making despite what some in the industry have said to the contrary.
The first ever closed alpha test for Behaviour Digital’s Deathgarden will be kicking off on May 9th and will run through May 14th. Players interested in taking part in the testing of “this asymmetrical multiplayer action game” can head to the game’s site to sign up.