Launch week server headaches have rankled everyone trying to play Payday 3, but the most frustrated are those who don’t even want to play the new co-op heist shooter online. Payday 3’s always-online construction means that solo players still have to connect to the matchmaking server to start private heists, which has subjected them to…
Cyberpunk 2077’s cheats and console commands have a tumultuous history. When Cyberpunk first released, you were able to enter cheats through the debug console, bending Night City to your will. That power didn’t last long. CD Projekt Red disabled the debug console with the 1.05 patch released shortly after launch. Soon modders stepped in with…
EVE FanFest is celebrating 20 years of CCP’s unique space MMO, and has given us our first look at new FPS module EVE Vanguard and the reveal of EVE’s next expansion: Havoc, coming November 14. The clue’s in the name. Following the successful overhaul of faction warfare in recent expansions, CCP has decided to mess…
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With the arrival of Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.0 and the separate Phantom Liberty expansion, CD Projekt’s beefy RPG has effectively relaunched, introducing significant additions to the base game for all players to enjoy, as well as an entirely new area with its own storyline, gear and side jobs. It’s a lot to take in, so…
Last week, just about everyone in the games business was mad at Unity over a new, retroactive per-install fee for games made with the engine. Unity developers raised troubling question after troubling question about the proposal: How would installs be counted? What if someone reinstalls a game over and over? What about cases where a…
“Thank you for giving us hard feedback”. It only took just over a week for Unity to make changes to its brand new Runtime Fee policy, but that’s exactly what it has done. Announcing the changes in an open letter published today on the Unity Blog (shared on social media), the revamped model includes some…
It was bound to happen—there’s another dungeon crawling PvP extraction game in the works for those of us who prefer to get our competitive kicks with swords and spells rather than guns. Recently revealed Project Crawl is calling itself “an immersive first-person PvPvE dungeon crawler” and is planning an alpha playtest on Steam next week….
Like an angry cyborg ninja with something to prove, CD Projekt Red has taken a pair of bloat-cutting mantis blades to Cyberpunk 2077’s formerly overwrought crafting and upgrade system. It now couldn’t be easier to keep a favorite iconic weapon up-to-date as your V makes the long march from level one to 60. Cyberpunk’s loot…
Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.0 patch has brought with it sweeping changes to game balance and progression, but the change I’ve appreciated the most since returning to the streets of Night City is how grenades and health consumables now regenerate. No longer must you toil, disassembling mountains of trash plucked from the still-warm hands of freshly killed…