Old School RuneScape says no more Mr Nice Guy, it's time for permabans and confiscations if you're caught buying black market gold

Old School RuneScape says no more Mr Nice Guy, it’s time for permabans and confiscations if you’re caught buying black market gold

Old School RuneScape (OSRS) has a cancer, and that cancer is crime. Or, well, it’s repeated violations of Jagex’s terms of service, anyway. The game is beset by perfidious players who buy in-game gold and items off black market sellers using real-world money, a process called Real World Trading (RWT). Okay, yes, some version of…

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CD Projekt ‘hacked time and space’ to cast Charles Dance in The Witcher 3, because they needed an announcement before the countdown on their website reached zero

On August 14, 2013, CD Projekt announced that veteran British actor and screenwriter Charles Dance (Dracula, Game of Thrones, The Crown) would be playing the ruthless Nilfgaardian Emperor Emhyr var Emreis—an impressive addition to The Witcher 3 cast and a role that fit Dance like a glove. At that time his character Tywin Lannister was…

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Bloodlines 2 narrative director tries to get players to lower their expectations, patiently explains it’s not going to have the scale of Baldur’s Gate 3 or Grand Theft Auto

While we will get to choose the clan and gender of our player-character in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, it’s apparently not going to be a full “how many skill points do I want to put into Security” kind of character creation—a revelation that’s set a few fans on edge. Narrative director Ian Thomas…

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