Tribes: Ascend Is Getting Its First Major Update After Two Years Filled With Massive Changes To The Entire Game
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I was really invested in to Tribes a couple of years back, and despite some balance hurdles I fully enjoyed the high speed gameplay which made things even sadder when Hi:Rez just announced one day they are not going to update Tribes any more and that they will focus on SMITE instead.
But, a month or so ago they decided they want to restart development on Tribes and as a peace offering gave all of the Tribes series for free. Now, after numerous community beta tests the patch, fittingly titled "Out of the Blue", is ready to hit the game on December 10th.
Valve's In-Depth Announcement About Steam Security And Trading
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Christmas truly is a time of miracles because Valve have actually come out and spoken in-depth about an important topic that's been circulating the Steam forums recently, that of account security and trading. To say Valve has little community interaction would be one hell of an understatement so when they do actually talk, it tends to be worth listening to.
In the recent announcement they have confirmed that there is indeed a raise in the number of hacked Steam accounts but they've also detailed all the various options available to them as well as what they're going to do about it moving forward. I'll do a brief overview of the announcement but if you want to read the full version yourself head over here.
Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster Is Set To Arrive On January 19th
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After the disappointment that the last few Resident Evil games were I've started to look forward more towards HD remasters of older games than new titles in the series.
Last time I've played Resident Evil 0 was probably over 10 years ago but I do remember it being quite excellent. Which is a good thing indeed because its HD remaster has been confirmed to arrive on January 19th sporting better graphics and sound, as well as a few other nifty features.
Commercial Versions Of HTC's Vive Headset Are Delayed Till April
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Commercial versions of HTC's Vive headset were expected to release in late 2015 but it would appear they are being delayed for a little while longer in order to add some "last minute" polish to them.
In a Facebook post HTC clarified what exactly is happening and announced that the home versions of Vive headsets are being delayed till April.
Elder Scrolls Online Is Having A Free Week As Well As A $1,000,000 Raffle
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Elder Scrolls Online had a rather poor launch, to say the least. It was buggy and the coop elements didn't work very well so in the minds of a lot of people it slowly faded away.
Fortunately, the developers didn't just spend a year sitting on their thumbs and from what I hear now ESO, is a good MMO in its own right. So if you find yourself interested now would be the time to give it a try since there will be a free week going on from 8 AM GMT this Thursday till 8 AM GMT the following Monday.
Most bizarre thing of it all? Just by playing in December and early January you will enter a raffle with the grand prize being $1,000,000 (yes, that is a million).
Final Fantasy VI Is Coming To Steam On December 16th
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One of the best Final Fantasy games as well as one of the best RPGs out there is finally coming to PC in an official capacity, hooray!!! Its a port of the mobile version whose graphics somehow look worse than the SNES ones... well, crap.
Despite how amazing FF6 is I still can't bring myself to be excited about the fact that this version of it is releasing on Steam on December 16th. I was so hopeful when I first talked about the potential FF6 PC version and now its been confirmed that we're getting the worst one out of the lot, what a sad piece of news.
CS:GO Winter Update Brings New Weapon And Massive Balance Changes
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Well this update came out of nowhere, and while I welcome its changes its still a bit strange Valve would push this update out only a short time before the the finale of a rather big tournament. There are a lot of far-reaching changes here and I can easily see the pros being thrown off balance.
The Winter Update is bringing us a new weapon, the R8 revolver, a reduction to pistol accuracy while moving, an increase in rifle recovery when it comes to long ranged bursting and a few more changes that will really shake up how the game plays. Here's a quick overview of the patch: