Update: Gearbox has teased its upcoming PAX East 2019 main theater show with a new image that undoubtedly points to something Borderlands-related appearing at the show, which would line up with heavy speculation of a proper Borderlands 3 announcement.
Gearbox’s teaser image teases the March 28 show in Boston, Massachusetts, with a stylized, cel-shaded highway sign set in a desert area.
via Gearbox’s Twitter
Dead Cells developer Motion Twin has revealed details and a PC date for its previously announced Rise of the Giant DLC.
The free update will arrive for the PC version on March 28, and will add an entirely new area called the Caverns that will have a brand new boss as the end. It will also bring a new “Skinning” system that will add more than 50 outfits for your character that can be found as blueprints from enemies in higher difficulties, from bosses, and in certain secret areas.
Motion Twin released a new trailer that shows off a few moments of the new content, which you can watch below:
While 2018’s Monster Hunter World served as many players’ introduction to the action RPG series, the franchise is one of Capcom’s oldest, originally debuting during the PlayStation 2 era. This year marks the series’ 15th anniversary, and the publisher is commemorating the occasion with a special trailer.
The video, which you can watch below, takes a look back on all of the mainline installments in the series to date, beginning with 2004’s Monster Hunter. Since then, the franchise has appeared on numerous handheld and home consoles, including the PSP, Wii, and 3DS, most recently making its home on PS4, Xbox One, and PC with Monster Hunter World.
The video ends with another teaser for Iceborne, this year’s major Monster Hunter World expansion. Capcom hasn’t revealed any new details about the DLC, but it has previously said it will introduce new locales, monsters, gear, quests, and other content.
In addition to the above trailer, Capcom has been celebrating Monster Hunter’s 15th anniversary by sharing cards from developers who’ve worked on the series, one of which has caught the attention of users on Resetera. Specifically, eagle-eyed fans have spotted the word “NEXT” apparently hidden in the card from Yasunori Ichinose, who has directed several portable Monster Hunter games.
Whether or not this is a hint at things to come for the franchise remains to be seen, but we’ll undoubtedly hear more about Monster Hunter World’s Iceborne expansion before long. The DLC is slated to launch for PS4 and Xbox One this fall, with a PC release to follow.
from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/monster-hunter-celebrates-15th-anniversary-possibl/1100-6465519/
Apparently, with certain button-mapping and equipment on PC, you can transform many of the burst-fire or single-shot weapons in Apex Legends into auto-fire. Which, if done while wielding the Hemlock, can allow you to deal out a ton of damage very quickly.
The Hemlock is a burst-fire assault rifle that uses heavy ammo and is ideal for mid-range combat. Because of its slower fire-rate, it can’t hold up at close-range in comparison to several other weapons. However, according to Reddit user mnkymnk, you can kind of transform the firearm into a fully automatic rifle while using a mouse and keyboard on PC–making it ideal for close-range combat. Mapping both left mouse click and mouse wheel up to attack, and then quickly alternating between the two while the Hemlock is in single-shot mode will cause the gun to shoot fast enough that it seems to be going full auto.
This strategy could be applied to pretty much any weapon that has a single-shot firing mode. However, the Hemlock is one of the few that both deals enough damage and has a fast enough single-shot rate to make the strategy worth it. In terms of rapid fire weapons at close-range, we still recommend both the R-301 Carbine and EVA-8. Apex Legends’ new Havoc is pretty good as well, and if you’re looking for more weapon recommendations for handling enemy squads at all ranges, check out our guide.
If you’ve been playing Apex Legends and you’re looking for more complex or advanced battle strategies for each character, check out our new series of videos. Each focuses on one of the game’s Legends, offering specific details on how each character can be countered or overcome their respective weaknesses.
Speaking of Legends, the next one–who allegedly goes by the codename Octane–may be added to Apex Legends the same day as the game’s upcoming battle pass, if apparant leaks are to be believed.
Apex Legends is available on Xbox One, PS4, and PC.
from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/you-can-fire-apex-legends-hemlock-fully-auto-on-pc/1100-6465525/
Destiny 2‘s latest reset has brought two big new quest lines: the allegiance quest, which has players choosing between the Drifter and the Vanguard to advance the story, and the quest to retrieve Thorn, an Exotic hand cannon of Destiny 1 legend. Here’s how you can get started on obtaining Thorn for yourself.
There’s a ton of story surrounding Thorn, as well as The Last Word, and the two men who wielded those guns. They’re both related to the Drifter and his story, which is central to Joker’s Wild, the latest content expansion with Destiny 2’s Annual Pass. We know the quest is in the game, but up until now, the start of it wasn’t especially clear. Our speculation right now is that finishing the allegiance quest line leads to the start of Thorn–but thanks to the smart (or quick) Redditor arcxschxll, you can find the start of the quest immediately. Hopefully it doesn’t break the quest line.
Warning: Probable spoilers beyond, so read on (and start the quest) at your own risk.
To start the Thorn quest, you need to find the camp of Shin Malphur, the Man With The Golden Gun. He’s the former owner of The Last Word, and if you completed that quest last season, you read some correspondence with him that illuminated his quest to stop former associates of the Drifter called the Shadows of Yor. During the allegiance quest, the Drifter notes that Shin is in the EDZ, and a datamined piece of lore describes a meeting between Shin and Aunor, a Vanguard Warlock who’s also hunting the Shadows. The lore item says that Shin’s confrontation with a few Shadows happens in the EDZ’s Salt Mines area, and if you head there, you can find the location where it all went down.
The video above can show you how to get there. Spawn in at the Trostland location on the map and head north to the tunnel at the end of the area to reach the Salt Mines. Continue forward until you hit the elevator that was part of the early story mission here to reach the top of the mines and meet up with Hawthorne. There’s a small teleporter beside the elevator that will take you to the top of the mountain, back outside.
Once there, continue up the path until you see a Fallen forcefield to your right. Look up at the cliff wall ahead to spot a small cave with a light inside. Climb up and through to find Shin’s camp on the far side, complete with the dead body of a Guardian. Head to the camp fire and you’ll be prompted to “Sift through the ashes.”
That’ll uncover “A Melted Hunk of Metal,” a twisted piece of Thorn. Take it to Banshee-44 in the Tower to start the Thorn quest.
Keep in mind that we don’t know if this breaks the end of the allegiance quest line, so cheat your way to Thorn at your own risk. And speaking of possible bugs with the allegiance quest, apparently if you try to pick up the start of the quest with your Pursuits inventory full, it might disappear. Bungie says it’s investigating the issue, but be sure to check your inventory before you start it–and before you go track down the Melted Hunk of Metal.
from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-2-thorn-quest-heres-how-to-find-the-start-/1100-6465524/
The latest twist in Destiny 2‘s Joker’s Wild content expansion is a new Exotic quest to retrieve Thorn, one of the most-loved and most-hated guns of Destiny 1. What seems to be the opening portion of the quest finds players meeting with the enigmatic Drifter, the guy at the center of the story relating to Thorn, last season’s Exotic quest for The Last Word, and all the stuff going on in Joker’s Wild.
After the latest weekly reset, speaking with the Drifter will ask you to make a choice: side with him, or with the Vanguard, the military leadership of the Guardians. Once you’ve done that, the Drifter sends you to the Spider, the Tangled Shore crime lord players met in the Forsaken expansion, to purchase some illicit goods.
The Spider has more than just “The Jerky,” the item you’re after. His Black Market Goods list, which we’ve never seen before this, includes a bunch of nods to the past of Destiny 2 and Destiny 1. Among those wares is a callback to everyone’s favorite Destiny 1 weapon: Gjallarhorn, a seriously powerful Exotic rocket launcher.
In the Spider’s store, you’ll have to recognize the Gjallarhorn by its icon, which will look familiar to longtime players. It’s known as the Midnight Special to the Spider, and as the description notes, it’s not actually an authentic version of the heavy weapon, but a non-functional replica. It’s also impossible to purchase, like all of these items–but even if you could, the price of 20 Exotic engrams, the rarest drops in the game, wouldn’t be worth it.
There are other goofy items in the Spider’s offerings. They include an imprisoned Ghost (the Spider apparently likes to eat them); a “seedmind,” which is apparently the start of a Warmind like Rasputin; maps with coordinates outside of the solar system; a key to the quarters of Executor Hideo, the Faction representative for New Monarchy in the Tower; and Hadium Flakes, an old Destiny 1 material. Just about all of the items also require you to pay in currencies that no longer exist in Destiny 2 or are impossible to come by.
So unfortunately, Gjallarhorn’s return to Destiny is just a gag–but it’s a pretty good one. With Bungie greatly expanding the story of Destiny 2 in its second year, and with the return of several guns from Destiny 1 including Thorn and The Last Word, though, it’s probably a good idea not to rule out Gjallarhorn ever making it back into the game.
from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/destiny-2-thorn-quest-trolls-fans-with-fake-gjalla/1100-6465523/
Apex Legends will be introducing its first battle pass soon, but we may have gotten an early look at one of its characters by mistake. A purported leak appears to show a new character named Octane, along with some other details about what’s coming in the battle pass.
A user on Reddit and Twitter noted that the Origin landing page had changed to include a look at Octane. The update featured text describing the first battle pass:
“Survive the the [sic] arena, meet the Apex Games’ latest Legend, Octane, wield new weapons, and score unique loot. The Season 01 Battle Pass is here, purchase it at the in-game store for 950 Apex Coins.”
The update is no longer visible on the Origin homepage, but the background image showing Octane himself is still live on the Origin site. That lends credence to the leak, regardless of the typo in the initial text.
Respawn has been relatively quiet so far about exactly what to expect from its first battle pass, so if this leak holds up it’s the most detail we’ve heard yet. A price of 950 coins would make a battle pass cost roughly $10, similar to Apex’s chief competition, Fortnite. Respawn has said there will be new weapons, legends, and loot with each battle pass. The first is set to launch anytime, while the second is scheduled for June.
The studio just banned 355,000 cheaters on PC, and explained its plans for dealing with cheaters going forward. One feature we shouldn’t expect, though, is the ability to reconnect to a match. Respawn feels that’s too exploitable and the energy would be better spent elsewhere.
from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/apex-legends-first-battle-pass-character-may-have-/1100-6465520/
Blizzard has outlined post-launch plans for World of Warcraft Classic, which includes regular content drops. New content will come to the MMORPG over the course of six phases.
“Our focus is still primarily on player power-progression, but we’re also aiming to capture what it felt like to play in a realm community in original WoW,” Blizzard community manager Randy Jordan wrote in a forum post. “To do that, we’re planning to mirror the approach taken by original WoW, with patches paired together. We’ll launch Classic with content from original WoW through patch 1.2.x, then the second update will include content that was in original WoW 1.3 and 1.4, the third Classic update will have 1.5 and 1.6 content, and so on.”
Blizzard hasn’t announced an exact launch date for phases two through six. Also, PvP content is currently not listed in any of the phases, as Blizzard is “still evaluating” all of the options for how PvP rewards might work. For now, phase one–which is the launch of WoW Classic alongside its Molten Core, Onyxia, and Maraudon updates–is scheduled for Summer 2019. The list of all six phases and what’s included in each are outlined below.
WoW Classic allows you to experience the original World of Warcraft game as it was from the very beginning, with the added benefit of quality of life changes. “[We] don’t want to ruin the experience,” WoW Classic production director John Hight told GameSpot. “It has to be an authentic experience. But by the same token, people don’t want some of the funky bugs that we had back then.”
from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/world-of-warcraft-classic-post-launch-content-drop/1100-6465521/
A new Apex Legends character has potentially leaked online.
Twitter user @shrugtal found an image of what could be a new character on EA’s servers, where it remains in the back-end, still live as of time of writing. The URL for the image also mentions the Season 1 Battle Pass for Apex Legends, which has a rumored launch date of March 12.
Initially, the image apparently included text that had details of the character, Octane, and shrugtal reported that it was taken down after 10 minutes. However, we cannot confirm this ourselves at the current time.
source http://www.ign.com/articles/2019/03/12/the-next-apex-legends-character-has-potentially-leaked
Rockstar has rolled out a new batch of content for Red Dead Redemption 2‘s online component, Red Dead Online. This week’s update introduces a new assortment of clothing and accessories, but the biggest addition is a new Showdown mode: Spoils of War.
Rockstar describes Spoils of War as “a frontier take on capture-style multiplayer.” The mode supports two to 16 players and has teams vying to steal loot from the opposing side while defending their own supply. The team that’s able to pilfer the most loot by the end of the match will be declared the winner.
Spoils of War is playable on “a variety of locations,” including Valentine and Fort Mercer. As an added incentive to try the new mode, Rockstar is rewarding players with eight Dynamite Arrows for winning one Spoils of War match. Additionally, the developer is doling out a 20% XP boost in all Showdown modes this week.
Alongside Spoils of War, Rockstar has introduced an assortment of rare clothing items to Red Dead Online. These articles can be purchased from the Wheeler, Rawson & Co Catalogue beginning today, March 12, but they’ll only be available for a limited time. The new clothes include:
Last week’s Red Dead Online update introduced the Fool’s Gold Free Roam event, while future updates will bring additional Showdown modes called Up in Smoke and Plunder. Also on the way to the game are Target Races, which have players racing on horseback and shooting at targets, fishing challenges, and more.
from GameSpot – Game News https://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-red-dead-redemption-2-online-mode-spoils-of-wa/1100-6465515/
