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Although today’s weekly Bungie update was light on new Destiny 2 details, a companion forum post by community manager dmg_04 helped shed some light on a recent issue. Since the Faction Rally event’s return for Season 2, Destiny 2 players have been wondering how to acquire the new weapons added with Curse of Osiris, and today Bungie detailed that rollout in full. We say rollout because that is exactly what Bungie plans to do....

With the Halloween season upon us, it’s a good time to start carving a pumpkin or two. While many keep things simple with their designs, others go above and beyond, creating some truly impressive pieces. That is exactly the case with one talented Destiny 2 fan that turned an ordinary pumpkin into the menacing Riven, one of the bosses from the Last Wish raid. There are few creatures from Destiny 2 as appropriate in name and appearance than Riven of a Thousand Screams for a Halloween pumpkin carving, so Reddit user u/FranaticArt chose their subject well....

Yesterday, Bungie held its first livestream detailing the Destiny 2 Curse of Osiris DLC. While the stream showcased some of the content fans can expect from the upcoming expansion (including the new social space) it also hinted at a major change for one Destiny 2 weapon class. On Twitter, Bungie’s senior gameplay designer Jon Weisnewski noted: “that Hand Cannon fire animation looks a little different.” One Destiny 2 fan was quick to provide a clip from the Curse of Osiris livestream, highlighting some dramatic changes to the way that hand cannons fire....

When Polish game developer CD Projekt RED created The Witcher 2 (review), the company chose not to include any Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection with the GOG.com version of the game. Within a week of release, the company removed the DRM from the other versions as it felt placing such restrictions on the software mainly hurt legitimate users. CD Projekt Red Development Director, Adam Badowski, explained that DRM schemes did not support CD Projekt RED’s philosophy as they create obstacles for users of legally bought copies....

There’s a new book out called BioWare: Stories and Secrets from 25 Years of Game Development. As you’d expect from the name, it’s a big coffee table book full of art and interesting stories from BioWare developers. It’s the perfect gift idea for the BioWare fan in your life this holiday season. But we’re not here to plug BioWare’s new book. We’re here to talk about what’s inside the book, which got posted to the felassan Tumblr account (who is clearly a Dragon Age fan)....

This Clarice review contains spoilers. Clarice Episode 11 Clarice, episode 11, “Achilles Heel,” could almost be called the “I-told-you-so” episode. After half a season of knocking down Agent Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) as a rogue, unreliable, dangerous or mentally unbalanced cop, almost every character who got screen time this season gets to say their version of “we should have listened to Clarice.” This bodes well for the investigation, but also for the psyches of her closest acquaintances....

Over the past few years, eSports-based events have transformed from tiny convention center gatherings to worldwide phenomena. DotA 2’s The International event, for example, brings in tons of worldwide attention and generates millions of dollars in both revenue and player prize money. eSports has become so prolific, in fact, that many have turned competitive gaming into a profession, using anything from StarCraft 2 to League of Legends to pay their bills....

The organizers behind Combo Breaker 2020 have recently announced that the event, scheduled for May 22nd to 24th, has been cancelled due to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak. The event joins a number of similar gaming events that have been either postponed or outright cancelled in the face of the pandemic. In a detailed blog post published on Combo Breaker’s website, the team announces that they are “gutted” to cancel the event, but that this is “the only move to make....

Musician Frank Klepacki is something of a legend in the video game world. His work for Westwood Studios, particularly his iconic work on the Command & Conquer series, is still talked about today. So, when the studio that’s made up of ex-Westwood devs is making a game that’s heavily based on an old Command & Conquer spinoff, it only makes sense to call in the guy whose music helped define the series....

The next-gen console upgrade for 505 Games’ Control: Ultimate Edition will become available for the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on February 2. The Ultimate Edition upgrade will feature two modes: Performance Mode, which offers 60fps and 4K output, and Graphics Mode, which lowers the game’s frames per second to 30 in exchange for the transparency and reflections provided by ray tracing. 505 recently updated their support page for Control: Ultimate Edition and hinted that the game will make use of the unique features of the PS5 DualSense controller....

While we’ve pinned down 2012 or 2013 as the year in which a new generation of consoles will likely be revealed to us, the details on what new technological advances and features they’ll come bearing are no doubt still full of surprises. AMD would have you believe that next-generation visuals will be on par with Avatar. Others like Silicon Knights want to see 3D explode in the coming years. But perhaps the biggest surprise of them all: the next generation of consoles could be the last one you ever see....

Carlos Enrique Casimiro is an icon to the world of soccer at home in Brazil playing for both the Brazilian national team and the legendary Spanish club Real Madrid. What is less known is his adoration of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the brutally competitive 5v5 shooter from Valve which remains on the top of most-played titles on an international scale, eight-and-a-half years after its release. In Brazil, both sports are readily admired by a gargantuan fanbase....

I don’t really do service games, or even online ones very often, so when you look at my ‘most played’ list for any given year, it’s mostly ranked by which single player titles took the longest to beat. The exception to this rule is Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled, which has stolen over 300 hours of my life away from me. Those might seem like rookie numbers, but last year I spent four (that’s one, two, three, four) hours playing online games on PlayStation....

Something strange happened when Crusader Kings 3 got its 1.3 update last month. Mods that allowed for same-sex concubines, a feature not present in the unmodded game, all stopped working without warning. The mods even started outputting an oddly homophobic warning message to the user complaining same-sex concubines weren’t allowed. This all turned out to be a big mistake, of course. In trying to get Crusader Kings 3 ready to duel your friends and family, Paradox accidentally broke part of the game’s mod support....

By the end of Cyberpunk 2077, players will realize that there simply is not enough experience in the game to realistically get every perk before the credits roll. If they’ve been diligent and finished up every single side gig and NCPD assault in progress, then it’s possible that they’ve finished up one skill tree and maybe got a decent chunk into a second, but no more than this. This means that each skill has to be carefully invested....

Cyberpunk 2077 is quickly approaching its latest release date, and with game cases being found out in the wild, it seems likely that this one is going to stick. Via one of the game cases that have been stumbled upon, people now have an idea of the Cyberpunk 2077 file size. Cyberpunk 2077 will be releasing with two discs for those purchasing a physical copy, a rare occurrence that has only been seen a few times during this console generation....

Last week, the official Twitter account for Cyberpunk 2077 tweeted for the first time in four and a half years, fueling speculation that fans will finally get a substantial update on the long-gestating project. While we are still waiting on an official announcement from CD Projekt Red on when we’ll see the game in action, some evidence points to it have a presence at E3 2018. Polish publication GRYOnline has posted an article citing two separate sources that claim Cyberpunk 2077 will be featured at E3 2018 in the form of a trailer during one of the E3 press conferences....

Would you like five whole minutes of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay? Of course you would. So here’s CD Projekt Red with a brand new trailer that’ll help us all get ready for Cyberpunk. There’s a lot to unpack here, starting with swimming. No previous trailer really showed off Cyberpunk’s swimming, which appears to be actual gameplay and not a cinematic cutscene. You can add that to the list of Cyberpunk activities, including walking, running, and shooting giant robots in their faceplates....

Developers have taken huge steps in making games accessible for every consumer by working with different organizations and gamers with disabilities to ensure everybody can enjoy games. Recently, the gaming industry has put a bigger focus on accessibility, like the 2020 Game Awards introducing an “Innovation in Accessibility” Award and offering an audio descriptive feature for its livestream. Although the highly-anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 will have to wait to be nominated for any awards until next year, it is the latest title to promise more accessibility....

This article contains some spoilers for the first two issues of DC’s Dark Crisis. When DC Comics fans hear the word “crisis,” certain things spring to mind: crowded panels featuring luminaries from every corner of the DC multiverse, universe-shattering stakes, dramatic character deaths, and sometimes big changes for DC’s storytelling continuity itself. Several big events bearing the “Crisis” moniker have altered the history of the DC Universe. But Dark Crisis writer Joshua Williamson wants to assure everyone that things are a little different this time around....