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  Blizzard Looks to Improve Diversity

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-08-2022, 05:25 PM
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  Blizzard Looks to Improve Diversity

  The company has a long road ahead of it.
  
  A new Blizzard News post introduces everyone to Makaiya Brown. Brown is Blizzard's Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DE&I) and Development Lead since September 2021. These are all areas in which Blizzard has been severely lacking now for, well, a long time now.
  
  This new post provides some background information on Brown and what she will be doing to improve the areas of representation, accessibility, and player behavior. These...

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  Lost Ark MMO Surpasses 20 Million Users

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-08-2022, 04:57 PM
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  Lost Ark MMO Surpasses 20 Million Users

  A big boost came from the recent Western release.
  
  Smilegate RPG and Amazon Games just announced that their free-to-play MMORPG Lost Ark has surpassed the 20 million user mark. The reveal of this lofty figure says that in the first three days following the launch in the West, more than 4.7 million new users started to play the game. They also note that half of that 20 million user figure come from North America, Europe, South America, and Australia.
  
  Over the past couple...

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  Sony to Hold New State of Play on Wednesday

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-08-2022, 03:14 PM
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  Sony to Hold New State of Play on Wednesday

  A new PlayStation State of Play stream is coming at you very soon.
  
  Sony announces that a new State of Play stream will take place this Wednesday, March 9 at 5PM (ET). The PlayStation Blog post announcing the event says that fans can expect "new reveals and eye-catching updates for PS5 and PS4 titles."
  
  The blog was also quick to note that there won't be any updates on PlayStation VR2 titles or hardware shown during this particular broadcast.
  
  This...

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  Next-Gen Performance Update for Dying Light Detailed

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-08-2022, 02:57 PM
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  Next-Gen Performance Update for Dying Light Detailed

  The original is getting a new performance update on the latest consoles.
  
  The original Dying Light is still kicking along years after its initial release. Developer Techland has continued to support the title for years with new content and a multitude of updates and they're continuing to do so even today. The latest from the studio is a fresh next-gen patch for Dying Light that is being rolled out to PlayStation and Xbox platforms starting today.
  
  To begin with, the PlayStation...

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  How Esports Have Proved That You Can in Fact Achieve Success if All You Do Is Play Video Games

  • Created by: Major 0
  • Published: 03-08-2022, 02:46 PM

  How Esports Have Proved That You Can in Fact Achieve Success if All You Do Is Play Video Games

  We’ve all experienced it, the shrill cry of a parent or loved one, demanding that we need to put down the controller, or get up from the computer to go and do something that we don’t want to do. Gaming has time and again received a bad wrap, but in the early 2000s, a revolution would start to emerge, which gave hope to a generation. Esports have proven that you can become incredibly successful by mastering the craft of performing well at a particular game.
  
  Esports has...

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  Bundle for Ukraine - Pay at Least $10 for Over $6,500 Worth of Games and Content to Help Ukraine

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-07-2022, 09:14 PM
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  Bundle for Ukraine - Pay at Least $10 for Over $6,500 Worth of Games and Content to Help Ukraine

  Itch.io and Necrosoft Games are teaming up to offer a great charity drive for the people of Ukraine.
  
  One of the most well-known indie game storefronts, Itch.io, is partnering with Necrosoft Games to host an incredible charity drive to help support the people of Ukraine. This Bundle for Ukraine is said to offer about 1,000 different works valued at over $6,500 (USD). The minimum amount that you can donate is just $10. $10 to access all of that content.
  
  Itch.io says that...

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  Elden Ring Becomes Sixth Most Played Game on Steam

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-07-2022, 07:00 PM
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  Elden Ring Becomes Sixth Most Played Game on Steam

  The game just continues to grow in numbers.
  
  FromSoftware's latest release, Elden Ring, just continues to grow in popularity. In its second week of availability, Elden Ring has overtaken New World to become the sixth largest title on Steam for concurrent player counts.
  
  This news hits just a week after Elden Ring hit the number seven spot with over 891,000 concurrent players. This placed it just behind New World but well ahead of Valheim. This past weekend, Elden Ring saw...

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  God of War TV Series Coming from Amazon

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-07-2022, 06:17 PM
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  God of War TV Series Coming from Amazon

  It'll be a live-action series based off of the games.
  
  Amazon Prime Video is apparently working on a live-action series based off of the God of War video games. This is according to a new report by Deadline.
  
  Deadline says that Amazon is in talks with Sony to adapt God of War into a live-action series. Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, the creators and executive producers on The Expanse are said to be interested in joining this series. They will also possibly be joined by producer...

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  Battlefield 2042 Scoreboard Arrives March 8 with Update 3.3

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-07-2022, 05:40 PM
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  Battlefield 2042 Scoreboard Arrives March 8 with Update 3.3

  DICE has done the unthinkable and added a scoreboard to Battlefield.
  
  DICE just detailed the changes and content coming in Update 3.3 for Battlefield 2042. This update, set to drop on March 8, includes the long-awaited scoreboard. Yep, a scoreboard is a highlight of a patch releasing some four months after the game's initial release. What a time to be alive.
  
  Besides the scoreboard, this update also includes more bug fixes, some changes related to control and key bindings,...

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  Forspoken Delayed Until October

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-07-2022, 04:27 PM
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  Forspoken Delayed Until October

  The delay will help the team focus on polish.
  
  Luminous Productions announced a delay for their upcoming open-world action-RPG Forspoken. The delay will see the release shift from May 25 all the way to October 11, 2022.
  
  The Forspoken team says that the additional time will allow them to focus on "polishing the game." The original May release date was only revealed this past December. Forspoken is a PlayStation 5 and PC title that was first announced back in 2020....

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  LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga to Get Mandalorian and Rogue One DLC

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-07-2022, 03:53 PM
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  LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga to Get Mandalorian and Rogue One DLC

  These will be some of the seven planned DLC packs for the base game.
  
  LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is about to get even larger. The game will be getting some extended universe DLC that includes content from The Mandalorian and even Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
  
  According to Nintendo Everything, there are seven total DLC packs planned for The Skywalker Saga. These have apparently been revealed by Warner Bros. Games, TT Games, LEGO Group, and Lucasfilm Games today....

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  Poll: Are You Playing Elden Ring?

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-06-2022, 06:28 PM
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  Poll: Are You Playing Elden Ring?

  5 Voters

  Yes, I'm playing Elden Ring	40.00%	2 votes
  No, I'm not playing Elden Ring	60.00%	3 votes

  The poll is expired.

  A simple one for March 2022.
  
  Maybe I'll do another poll later this month. I just wanted to get something up so that we can have a new poll going!
  
  So, the question is pretty simple here: Are you playing Elden Ring? I'll leave it as a simple "yes" or "no" option, but feel free to share some thoughts in the comments below.
  
  If you chose "yes," then maybe comment about whether or not you're enjoying your time with it. If you said "no,"...

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  Battlefield 2042 Team Begins 'Core Feedback' System for Maps

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-03-2022, 07:31 PM
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  Battlefield 2042 Team Begins 'Core Feedback' System for Maps

  A new blogpost suggests DICE has some doubts about their 128-player count.
  
  Battlefield 2042 hasn't had what anybody would consider to be a "good" launch. Here we are, less than 4 months since release with a game that can't even get as many Steam players as Battlefield 4, a game that came out over eight years ago now. In terms of player count, Battlefield 2042's 24-hour peak Steam player count (2,090) sits behind Battlefield 4 (2,195), Battlefield 1 (7,498), and Battlefield...

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  Twitch Has Banned Several QAnon Streamers

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-03-2022, 06:32 PM
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  Twitch Has Banned Several QAnon Streamers

  Twitch, like most every other sane person, is tired of the group's lies.
  
  Twitch just updated their community guidelines with a new section aimed at weeding out those who spread "harmful misinformation." The new section is listed as "Harmful Misinformation Actors" and some streamers have already gotten hit with the ban hammer as a result of this new policy update.
  
  Twitch says that this policy probably isn't going to "impact you or the streamers...

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  John Romero Released a New Doom 2 Map to Raise Money for Ukraine

  • Created by: Shawn Zipay
  • Published: 03-03-2022, 06:03 PM
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  John Romero Released a New Doom 2 Map to Raise Money for Ukraine

  All proceeds raised are going to help Ukraine.
  
  The co-founder of id Software John Romero just released a new Doom II level. Yes, a new Doom II level was released from one of the game's original creators almost 30 years after the game was released.
  
  This is a special map release. Romero is selling the level to every interested party for a price of €5.00 (or $5.53 USD). All of the proceeds raised are going to the Red Cross and the UN Central Emergency Response Fund,...

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