but even though those items are time limited you can go out and explicitly purchase those things if you want them.

As much as I’m interested in playing the campaign I’m just not going to go near this game on principle. Not worth it, have no interest in supporting EA’s practices, and there’s already too many other good games to play.

pretty sure the PC version is not free.

My office mate pines for Vanilla WoW and by the sounds of it would love to go back and play that version of the game.

3.5 million copies, but I’m fairly confident a lot of those were during Steam sales, where it was a couple of bucks maybe?

maybe they made Hob because they were all worn out on Torchlight and the weight of everyone’s expectations.

Have faith! It’s happened before. A developer closes but some bright-eyed employee sees the potential in what they have and strive to gain access to either the IP or tech, and a great new game is (eventually) born!

some of their (Housemarque) games offered on PS+ have add-on content purchasable through the store. eg. Alienation had weapon packs and stuff people could buy. So being free means it builds a customer base and hype around a game that they might not be able to get elsewhere.

would be nice to be able to turn his eagerness down to say 10

so... that all looks terrible.

you have a Hunter and a Warlock left to level.

Mark Brown / Game Maker’s Toolkit did a really great three-part overview of the Dead Space franchise. Worth a look if you haven’t seen them before as they track the demise of the series quite well.

whoa, I thought this was just an XBox thing but now Microsoft cannot get their first party PC games released on time?

are you sure it’s a K/D you are seeing and not a KDA ?

so

you absolutely can get a Super Orc from the loot boxes in Shadow of Mordor. that’s the whole freaking point, and something WB are keen to make customers aware of.

and seeing the thumbnails of youtube videos where YTers or streamers are opening hundreds of crates/boxes/packs make me feel sick.

The spokesperson added that any game with real gambling will always receive an “Adults Only” rating, which would be poisonous for big publishers, as most big-box retailers will not sell A-O games in their stores.

... Shadow of War, Destiny 2, and the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront II, feature systems in which you can spend real money to get randomized gear in the form of loot boxes. The addition of these microtransactions in $60 games is always a sore subject, made far worse when they have an impact on your character’s…

and the law can (and in this case should be) changed.