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The Division Player Banned While Working On Photo Tools, Ubisoft Investigating

The Division player Matti Hietanen has been banned from the game following the creation and use of homemade photo tools, reports PC Gamer. Ubisoft's The Division is one of quite a few games out there…

February 17, 2018 | 04:30 EST

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BattlEye PUBG Bans Escalate, Developers Detail Anti-Cheat Improvements

Battleye, one of the anti-cheat measures used in PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS, has reported that they banned over 1,044,000 cheaters in January 2018 alone, according to a tweet from the service. Two…

February 6, 2018 | 02:00 EST

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SteamWorld Devs Merge With Zoink Games To Create "Thunderful"

Indie studio Image & Form is merging with fellow developer Zoink to create a new entity named Thunderful. Rather than replacing either studio, Thunderful will operate more as a label. The newly-…

January 27, 2018 | 07:51 EST

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Tencent Works With China to Arrest Over 120 PUBG Cheat Makers

Chinese publisher Tencent has helped indie game PlayerUnkonown'sBattlegrounds and the Chinese authorities in cracking down on cheat-makers for the title. Tencent has, according to Bloomberg, aided…

January 16, 2018 | 12:37 EST

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Passes 3 Million Players on Xbox One

Recently, Aaron Greenberg, Head of Xbox Games Marketing at Microsoft, has released news that the Xbox One version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds now has over 3 million players. This is quite…

January 12, 2018 | 05:00 EST

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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Hits New Milestone with 3M Players

As we reach the conclusion of 2017, it is perhaps fitting that this year's breakout gaming hit PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has yet another story set for it. As of today, PlayerUnknown's…

December 29, 2017 | 06:22 EST

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BattlEye Has Banned Over 1.5 Million PUBG Players

Anti-cheat software BattlEye has announced an update on the number of people banned from PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS on their Twitter account: 1.5 million and counting. The last announcement from…

December 28, 2017 | 08:45 EST

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PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 1.0 Launches Today

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 1.0 is ready and raring to go - the game will finally be leaving early access (at least on PC) on December 20, 2017, according to a tweet from the game's official…

December 20, 2017 | 09:59 EST

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PUBG Passes 1 Million Players On Xbox, Free With Xbox One X

PLAYERUNNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS has racked up over 1 million players on the Xbox One in 48 hours according to a news post on the official Xbox website. Additionally, the game will be bundled with every…

December 16, 2017 | 10:00 EST

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TGA 2017 - PUBG Release Date for PC and Xbox One, New Map

Bluehole, the developers behind PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, announced during the Game Awards that PUBG 1.0 for the PC will officially come out on December 20th of this year. This would officially…

December 8, 2017 | 12:21 EST

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PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Enters Chinese Market With "Socialist Core Values"

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS has secured a deal to enter into the Chinese gaming market with the condition that the game will receive certain changes for the region (such as better alignment with "…

November 22, 2017 | 08:15 EST

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Gears Of War 4 Comes To Xbox Game Pass December 1

Gears of War 4 will be added to the Xbox Game Pass on December 1, 2017, according to a mildly cryptic tweet from Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb, the Director of Programming for Xbox Live. https://twitter.…

November 16, 2017 | 02:25 EST

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Kinzie Kensington Joins Agents Of Mayhem In Safeword DLC

Kinzie Kensington is now available as the agent "Safeword" in Agents of Mayhem according to a news post on the game's Steam Community page. Agents of Mayhem has released a new DLC titled "Safeword"…

November 16, 2017 | 12:03 EST

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N7 Day Recap: Mass Effect Archives Released

BioWare, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Mass Effect series, has released some new goodies to the fanbase. According to their blog post, the celebration this year focuses on all the…

November 8, 2017 | 10:29 EST

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Watch Dogs Free On UPlay Until November 13

If you haven't had the chance to play Watch Dogs, you can grab a copy for yourself completely for free on UPlay according to a tweet from Ubisoft's official Twitter account. Watch Dogs tells the tale…

November 7, 2017 | 12:00 EST

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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Passes 2 Million Concurrent Players

The worldwide sensation that is PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds just won't stop, recently setting a new record for having the most concurrent players online thanks to 2 million people. The previous…

October 13, 2017 | 12:27 EDT

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[Rumor] Microsoft Wants To Extend PUBG Exclusivity on Xbox

Microsoft is supposedly in talks with Bluehole about extending the exclusivity of PUBG on Xbox platforms. According to Bloomberg, this information comes from people "familiar with the matter." The…

October 5, 2017 | 12:46 EDT

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Bluehole Forms PUBG Corp., Which Will Handle Further Development

Bluehole, Inc. announced today the formation of PUBG Corp., which will handle business and development of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Chang Han Kim, who lead PUBG development as its Executive…

September 29, 2017 | 02:00 EDT

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Agents of Mayhem Developer Volition Lays Off 30+ People

Volition, the developers behind Agents of Mayhem and the Saints Row series of games, has laid off over 30 people as reported by Kotaku. Agents of Mayhem is a game set in the Saints Row universe and…

September 28, 2017 | 10:26 EDT

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PUBG Creator Comments on Fortnite's Battle Royale Mode

A couple of weeks ago Epic Games announced a 100 person Battle Royale mode for Fortnite, the base building/defending third person shooter. In that linked article, the description of how the Battle…

September 22, 2017 | 10:52 EDT

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Square Enix Reveals Survival Shooter "Left Alive"

Left Alive is a brand new IP just revealed by Square Enix that is coming both to the PlayStation 4 and Steam sometime during 2018. The game was revealed with a trailer during a PlayStation conference…

September 19, 2017 | 12:37 EDT

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Editing PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Files Is Now A Bannable Offense

Editing configuration files in PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS is now a bannable offense in the game after players removed fog effects, as reported by PC Games N. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS …

September 18, 2017 | 10:00 EDT

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PUBG Now Holds Record for Must Concurrent Players on Steam All Time

The popularity of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) is astronomical for any game, but considering PUBG only came out in March of this year and is a brand new IP. PUBG has been slowly creeping…

September 16, 2017 | 09:05 EDT

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PUBG Has Banned Over 150,000 Cheaters So Far

Less than two weeks ago the wildly popular PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds crossed the 10 million units sold mark, which is an incredible feat considering it only came to Steam's early access in March…

September 16, 2017 | 09:30 EDT

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Bruce Straley, Co-Director of Uncharted and The Last of Us, Leaving Naughty Dog

Yesterday, Bruce Straley announced his departure from Naughty Dog. He worked there for 18 years, meaning he started at the tail end of the Crash Bandicoot era and at the beginning of Jak and Daxter.…

September 14, 2017 | 10:34 EDT

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PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Hits 10 Million Units sold

Today, Bluehole Inc., has announced that their title PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG) has hit the ten million unit sold mark as of September 1st since their Steam Early Access launch on March 23…

September 5, 2017 | 09:15 EDT

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GTA Online Charges You When People Blow Up Your DLC Plane

In what so far has shown to be an already unfortunate five days for some GTA Online players, a new problem has arisen with the latest DLC, Smuggler's Run. GTA Online's latest DLC permits players to…

August 31, 2017 | 01:12 EDT

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GTA Online Meets PUBG In The Smuggler's Run

GTA Online's latest DLC has arrived, bringing along a variety of new content, including several new vehicles such as cars and aircrafts. Additionally, a new Adversary Mode has been added that eerily…

August 29, 2017 | 07:00 EDT

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Fe Announced for Nintendo Switch, Coming Early 2018

At gamescom, Electronic Arts and Zoink Games shared some new information about the beautiful platformer Fe, which was announced back in 2016 as an EA Original. There were several pieces of…

August 24, 2017 | 11:07 EDT

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Bluehole and Microsoft Partner Up For Playerunknown's Battleground

A couple of days ago at Gamescom 2017 Bluehole, Inc. developers of the wildly popular Battle Royale style game Playerunknown's Battleground revealed that their game will be published by Microsoft on…

August 23, 2017 | 02:58 EDT

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Mass Effect: Andromeda Single Player Getting No More Updates

BioWare has released a final statement regarding Mass Effect: Andromeda, addressing longstanding rumors regarding the fate of the game's single player. According to the statement, the last patch…

August 19, 2017 | 08:07 EDT

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PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Drops Regular Patch Schedule

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS will no longer be updating on a weekly basis for the foreseeable future according to a news post on the game's Steam community page. Up until this point, PLAYERUNKNOWN'S…

August 17, 2017 | 09:20 EDT

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The Division Update 1.7 Live on PC, PS4, and Xbox One

Ubisoft has rolled Tom Clancy’s The Division update 1.7 on all platforms, adding global events, Commendations, new gear and customization options, and improvements to the paid Survival mode DLC. The…

August 15, 2017 | 09:40 EDT

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New Agents of Mayhem Trailer Shows Off Final Squad

The final set of characters were showed off today with a new Agents of Mayhem trailer, which you can check out below. For those unacquainted with Agents of Mayhem, it is a open-world action game from…

July 31, 2017 | 10:23 EDT

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BioWare Montreal Merging with Motive Studios

BioWare Montreal, the development team behind Mass Effect: Andromeda, is merging with Motive Studios. The news was circulating for the past few days that Electronic Arts, the parent company of both…

July 31, 2017 | 03:45 EDT

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PUBG Microtransactions Added in New Patch, But Only For Limited Time

On August 3rd Player Playerunknown's Battlegrounds will receive a new patch that brings quite a few fixes and some long-awaited features like first person server options and an FOV slider. The more…

July 25, 2017 | 10:17 EDT

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Bioware Removes Denuvo DRM from Mass Effect: Andromeda

Mass Effect: Andromeda received patch 1.09 recently, which brought about a bunch of fixes to the game and continued to improve the game's facial animations. Bioware failed to mention that the Denuvo…

July 8, 2017 | 08:26 EDT

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Splatoon 2 Details Include New Gameplay Modes and Splatnet 2

Splatoon 2 had it's own Nintendo Direct recently, which showed off some new features for the upcoming Switch exclusive. The Nintendo Direct was mostly a refresher on most of the basics of Splatoon,…

July 8, 2017 | 02:42 EDT

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Report: Mass Effect: Andromeda Won't Receive Single-Player DLC

Three people close to Mass Effect: Andromeda have told Kotaku that there will not be any single-player DLC for the game. This does not mean that Andromeda will see no DLC coming its way in the future…

July 1, 2017 | 09:32 EDT

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Four-Player Party Mode Coming to Watch Dogs 2

Starting on July 4th, you and up to three other friends will be able to group up to explore the open-world of Watch Dogs 2, according to a recent post on the Ubisoft Blog. The four-player party…

June 29, 2017 | 11:55 EDT

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PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS Updates, Bans 25,000+ Cheaters

PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS has released the Early Access Month 3 Update and banned 25,000+ cheaters over the last few months according to a news post on the game's official Steam Community page.…

June 28, 2017 | 10:20 EDT

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[The Wire] Agents of Mayhem Bombshells Trailer

Agents of Mayhem, an upcoming open-world action game from Deep Silver Volition, has released a "Bombshells" Trailer going over three of the game's characters. Additionally, a press release was…

June 28, 2017 | 08:41 EDT

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[Updated] OpenIV Mod For Grand Theft Auto V Returns After Take-Two Kerfuffle

The OpenIV modding tool for Grand Theft Auto V is back in business and has released an update, signaling an end to a conflict brought on by Take-Two Interactive taking an anti-modding stance just…

June 25, 2017 | 10:13 EDT

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Take Two Interactive Issues C&D Against GTA V Modding Tool OpenIV

OpenIV, the widely used modding tool for GTA V has been shut down by it's creators after receiving a cease and desist order from Rockstar's parent company Take Two Interactive. The cease and desist…

June 16, 2017 | 03:58 EDT

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PlayStation E3 2017 - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

After an opening that showed a small band preforming some great music, Sony started their conference with Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. The trailer had some audio issues while running which made the…

June 12, 2017 | 10:12 EDT

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PC Gaming Show E3 2017 - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

At PC Gaming Show, Branden Greene, the titular PlayerUnknown, came on stage to talk about his game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and work with Bluehold. He talked about the game and revealed that…

June 12, 2017 | 02:54 EDT

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E3 2017 - Gears of War 4 Devs Talk About Xbox One X Update

If you happened to watch the introduction to Microsoft's E3 2017 conference, you might have noticed that Gears of War 4 characters were spotted in its montage of titles that will take advantage of…

June 11, 2017 | 11:56 EDT

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Xbox E3 2017 - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is Coming to All Xbox One Platforms

The sheer rise in popularity for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been insane, but it should have been expected given the status of similar games like ARK: Survival of the Fittest and H1Z1.…

June 11, 2017 | 06:54 EDT