Destiny 2’s Faction Rally is live for Season 3 and with it comes a number of changes to the way the event works. Most notably, players will only be able to pledge to one faction per event, which should make the choice a little more difficult. It also means that each player will have a week to earn tokens for their respective Faction and try to unlock the new rewards each offer....
As promised, the third forge for Destiny 2’s Black Armory add-on has gone live this week, giving players a new area to forge weapons. However, unlocking the Izanami Forge is going to prove quite the tall task, even more than was necessary to open the Gofannon Forge two weeks ago. Step 1: Get a Vex Transponder The first thing players need to do is obtain a Vex Transponder, which can drop simply from killing random Vex enemies in the wild....
Seraph Bunkers represent the seasonal progression centerpiece for Destiny 2: Season of The Worthy. There are a number of activities associated with the Seraph Bunkers, including a new public event and a new type of Lost Sector: Legendary Lost Sectors. The bunkers themselves have a daily challenge and, most importantly, offer weapons and permanent seasonal enhancements on a tiered upgrade system. The Seraph Bunkers share a lot in common with last season’s Obelisks, but they are also different in a number of ways....
After months of dwindling player counts, Destiny 2’s weekly Trials of the Nine multiplayer mode has hit a series low. This past weekend’s session of Destiny 2’s premier competitive multiplayer mode saw its worst outing yet, hosting only 77,814 players. Trials of the Nine is meant to be Destiny 2’s top-tier PvP offering but so far it hasn’t been able to live up to the experience offered by Trials of Osiris, its predecessor from Destiny 1....
As developer Bungie pulls back the veil further on Destiny 2: Forsaken, the game’s major fall expansion, a number of significant changes to what players have come to know about Destiny 2 is completely changing. One of those aspects has to do with the strike activities in the game. In this week’s blog posted by Bungie, the developer covered how regular, Heroic, and Nightfall strikes are changing come August 28....
Destiny 2’s latest season, Season of the Splicer, started back in May, but content creators are only just now getting their welcome packages from Bungie. Called the Season of the Splicer Survival Kit, according to KackisHD, it contains a welcome message to select Guardians that honestly sounds like it probably should have gone out a month ago. Inside the package is a piece of paper with the word “splicer” written in bizarrely spaced fonts (more on that later), a pair of headphones and a cassette player, a cassette containing the Season of the Splicer soundtrack, a Destiny 2 Tricorn lamp, and a UV flashlight....
Yesterday was a huge day for both Bungie and its Destiny 2 community as the developer finally laid out its plans for the future of the franchise. As expected, the Fall expansion was highlighted, taking players to a new destination on Europa where the Darkness and newly formed Fallen faction. Players will also finally get to use the Darkness with the new Stasis subclass, which will also be added as a new fourth damage type for weapons....
When Destiny 2 first launched it did so with a selection of PS4 exclusive content not unlike what was available in Destiny 1. And according to the promotional material for Destiny 2, this content would be exclusive to the Sony platform until at least fall 2018. Now we know fall 2018 is the official cutoff and the exclusivity will come to a close. With the launch of the Forsaken expansion, all Year 1 PS4 exclusive content will become available for PC and Xbox One players....
Discounts on Civilization VI deals are updated now that the game has been released! Prior to this week, if you wanted a discount on the October 21 releasing Civilization VI, you were out of luck from authorized digital retailers. Today it all changes (cue dramatic Civ intro music). A fire has been lit under at least two popular PC digital retailer with cheap discounts for Civilization VI. Note: As mentioned above, discounts have taken a new spin for Steam key of Civilization VI pre-orders in North America....
Recent events like The Game Awards and PSX 2015 have been filled with exciting gaming news, but very little on new properties. Is nostalgia damaging the industry? Last week, there were a pair of huge gaming events in the form of The Game Awards and this year’s PlayStation Experience – and with those events came some massive announcements. Perhaps the most intriguing were the further details surrounding the long-awaited Final Fantasy 7 remake....
If you’re a regular Call of Duty: Warzone player, but you don’t touch many of the other titles, then you might be confused as to what a Special Weapon is. With all of the Call of Duty games there are currently available and online to play, you really can’t be blamed, especially when a “Special Weapon” specific quest or challenge comes up. That’s exactly what’s happened recently, and if you’re looking for a Special Weapon within Call of Duty Warzone or Modern Warfare, it’s very likely that you won’t find what you need....
Pokemon trading cards have become increasingly valuable this year, with many particularly rare Pokemon cards selling for five-digit or even six-digit figures. Meanwhile, the average cost of college tuition is increasing at a considerable rate, with many students finding it harder to be able to afford tertiary education. So, one college student manage to turn their favorite childhood pastime into something that can financially guarantee his future livelihood. As per a report from FOX 5 Atlanta, a University of North Georgia student named Caleb King has sold his collection of Pokemon cards for about $80,000 on eBay....
Phil Spencer, head of Xbox, said in an interview with Kinda Funny Games (via PC Gamer), “I really wish as an industry we’d come together and help preserve the history of what gaming is about, so we don’t lose the ability to go back”. He compared “what the Paley Center did for TV”, with the way he hopes the video game industry will come together “to help preserve the history of what our industry is about, so we don’t lose access to some of the things that got us to where we are today....
CD Projekt Red is responsible for creating The Witcher game series and the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077, and both games feature a protagonist that serves as a kind of mercenary in their respective worlds. Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, or monster hunter, in The Witcher series and V is an outlaw mercenary from Cyberpunk 2077, but both are looking to make some money. Thematically speaking, Geralt of Rivia and V come from two very different worlds....
Pearl Abyss is set to reveal the first gameplay trailer for the open-world fantasy massively multiplayer online RPG Crimson Desert at The Game Awards 2020, which will be broadcast live on December 10 at 15:30 PST, according to the developer. In the trailer, fans get a sneak peek at the the animated symbol shown in the game’s logo. The new game, described as “A saga written in blood in an age of fading legends… A story of survival unfolds across the vast continent of Pywel....
This article is sponsored by: Be it trading cards, collectibles, or tabletop games, Cryptozoic Entertainment is committed to putting “Fans First.” In fact, those two words are the company’s mantra – symbolizing their vow to bring great pop culture products to the consumers who will appreciate them most. One of the company’s most beloved recent releases is their CZX Crisis on Infinite Earth super-premium trading card release. Based on the CW’s “Crisis on Infinite Earths” television event – which itself was inspired by the DC comics – this ambitious crossover aired in late 2019/early 2020, incorporating episodes of The Flash, Batgirl, Arrow, Batwoman, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow....
Cuphead has sold over 300,000 copies on PC and is likely just as big a success on Xbox One. The difficult retro run and gun is a bona fide hit, so it comes as very little surprise that other developers are trying to benefit from the game’s success. It seems that several Cuphead clones have already been released on Android in an attempt to capitalize on the searches for the game....
The game, for which the entire gaming community had been waiting with bated breaths is finally here. CD Projekt Red’s latest AAA title is packed with explosive action, extensive customization with a comfortable amount of lore to back it all up. Almost all the main characters have been introduced in trailers and other footage prior to release. But all of it is surface-level knowledge. In the world of Cyberpunk 2077, there is always something more than what meets the eye....
After many years and multiple delays, the long-awaited Cyberpunk 2077 is just around the corner. The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red’s ambitious new RPG hopes to hit the ground running and define the genre on the next generation of consoles, taking on the world of the pen-and-paper RPGs, its cybernetic sci-fi look, and colorful characters. One of the most interesting characters in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe established in the RPGs is Michiko Arasaka....
Big news for fans anticipating the release of Cyberpunk 2077, as Keanu Reeves revealed that the game will release on April 16, 2020, and he himself will be playing a role by lending his voice to a character with his likeness. More importantly, did Keanu give everyone a not-so-subtle hint about his role in the game with his T-shirt? As if we needed any more proof that Keanu Reeves is immortal, now he’s showboating by showing up in a game set nearly seventy years into the future (likely as a long-con so that we don’t notice him aging as time goes by)....
