A legal threat from Blizzard will see one of the most popular "pirate" servers for World of Warcraft shut down.
For about a year, the Nostalrius Begins server has provided World of Warcraft fans with version 1.12 of the world-conquering MMO – a version of the game that existed way back in 2006, prior to the release of expansion The Burning Crusade.
According to the Nostalrius Begins team running the server, it has 800,000 registered accounts and 150,000 active players.
The French ISP hosting the pirate Nostalrius server recently received a formal letter from French and US lawyers acting on behalf of Blizzard Entertainment that request it shut down the server, citing copyright infringement. A lawsuit was threatened should it not comply.
The letter didn't exactly arrive out of the blue: hosting private servers is explicitly against Blizzard's terms of use. As such, the Nostalrius team will shut down the servers on April 11 – assuming the ISP doesn’t pull the plug before that.
The Attack on Titan game from Dynasty Warriors studio Omega Force will launch on August 27, Koei Tecmo has announced.
Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom closely follows the storyline of the anime’s first season and focuses on the exploits of various key characters, putting the player "in a position to relive its most shocking, courageous and exhilarating moments".
It revolves around the story of three young people who survive the destruction of their walled city district by enormous, man-eating Titans and eventually go on to join the Scout Regiment in order to protect humanity from this overpowering foe.
Popular survival title 7 Days to Die is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in June courtesy of Telltale Publishing.
Set in a brutally unforgiving post-apocalyptic world overrun by the undead, 7 Days to Die is an open-world survival game that is pitched as a unique combination of first person shooter, survival horror, tower defence, and role-playing.
Despite sitting in Early Access since late 2013, it is pretty damn popular on Steam.
A third entry in the Fear Effect action-adventure series will soon be seeking funds on Kickstarter.
The first two in the cel-shaded futuristic thriller released for PlayStation in 2000 and 2001.
This latest sequel, Fear Effect Sedna, will be heavily influenced by Harebrained Schemes’ excellent RPG Shadowrun Returns.
We know from personal experience that when you're super busy, finding the time to clear your "butt controversy" Google alerts becomes harder and harder. As such, some of you might have missed last week's butt-centric battle – one that divided folks on the Internet the way a buttcrack divides a butt.
If that is indeed the case fear not! For those concerned about looking like an ignorant ass at this weekend's dinner party, we've whipped up a quick overpoo. Sorry, overview. Fill your glutes – er, I mean boots...
This month there’s a very special anniversary for one of gaming's most important items: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion’s Horse Armour DLC turns 10.
Horse Armor was a US$2.50 DLC package for Oblivion on Xbox 360. Once it was purchased and installed, you could visit an Orc NPC and receive said set of armour for your horse. The first set was free, but each subsequent set cost 500 gold.
Seen as the very definition of pointlessness and greed, Horse Armour was immediately mocked, and there was much hand-wringing about the future of the industry and paid DLC. Even now, horse armour remains shorthand for something useless and overpriced.
Quantum Break protagonist Jack Joyce appears with a pirate's eyepatch if you run a pirated copy of the time-bending action title.
Reddit and/or NeoGAF made the discovery, but not because a cracked version is available (it uses apparently uncrackable Denuvo protection), but instead because the eyepatch Easter Egg is triggered if you start the game after logging out of the Windows Store.
According to the game’s Windows 10 Store page FAQ, if Jack looks like a pirate, the DRM might've accidentally triggered, and you simply need restart the game.
Gears Of War 4 will launch for Xbox One on October 11, Microsoft has announced.
The publisher is promising an epic new saga, as a new band of heroes rises to confront a fearsome new threat.
“Harkening back to the dark and intense roots of the original classic, fans can expect a familiar, yet distinct evolution of gameplay, including brutal and intimate action, a heart-pounding campaign, genre-defining multiplayer and stunning visuals powered by Unreal Engine 4,” it said.
Progress on the movie version of The Last of Us has stalled, says Naughty Dog creative director Neil Druckmann.
Speaking with IGN, Druckman said that despite a strong script that saw a table read, the project had entered “development hell”.
"There hasn't been any work done on it in over a year and a half," he said.
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