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H1Z1 Strikes 1.5 Million Playstation 4 Systems


H1Z1 has officially hit the Playstation 4 and in the 24 hours since open beta began more than 1.5 million players have downloaded the game to their system.

“This is an incredible milestone and we want to thank all of our player who helped make this possible,” said H1Z1 Producer Terrence Yee. “We believe we’ve found the right balance for battle royale on console and players have responded positively to our reimagining of H1Z1. We will continue to refine the game based on feedback from Open Beta to ensure the best experience possible for our actively growing community.”

Redesigned for the PS4, H1Z1 features more weapons, a reworked user interface, and faster paced gameplay. The open beta can be downloaded for free on Playstation.

(Source: H1Z1 Press Release)

Jagex To Shut Down RuneScape Classic


After seventeen years of existence, Jagex today made the surprising announcement that its flagship title RuneScape Classic will shut down over the next few months.

Posted on the official website, Jagex’s explanation for the sunset is related to advancing technology making it more difficult to properly police the game of macros and for community safety. Over time the game has gradually broken down and Jagex is unable to fix them or promise any sort of reliable long term support.

RuneScape Classic has not been officially supported for about 14 years now and hasn’t been open to the general public for most of that time. There have been several periods where Jagex opened up account creation to the public, however the game has been mostly closed off to those who weren’t already playing for most of the last decade.

(Source: RuneScape)

H1Z1 Orders More Hardware To Deal With PS4 Overload


The H1Z1 open beta has arrived on Playstation 4 today, and many of you trying to log in may be unlucky enough to find yourself getting stopped at the door. Daybreak Game Company has announced via Twitter that 200,000+ concurrent users are trying to get online and the servers are having some trouble keeping up. As a result, more hardware is being spun up to accommodate the extra server load.

Daybreak has asked that players hold on tight while the servers stabilize.

(Source: H1Z1)

Wild Buster Relaunching Under New Publisher As Champions of Titan


Wild Buster hasn’t had such great success on Steam, especially after Valve severed its ties to Insel Games over that whole fraudulent review fiasco and removed their entire library from the platform. In response to the lack of simoleons flowing in and likely several angry phone calls with developer Nuri Works, Insel Games has agreed to transfer publishing rights to a new company, IDC Games who will relaunch Wild Buster under the new moniker Champions of Titan.

Unfortunately this means that all of your progression is going to be wiped.

With these changes also comes the necessity for a server wipe and new game client which means that all character progress will be reset and you need to re-register your account. While this might sadden some of you it simply is the best way to ensure a fair start for everyone and a growing community from the point of the re-launch.

Those who backed Wild Buster have been promised compensation in the form of rewards for the upcoming Champions of Titan relaunch.

(Source: Steam)

505 Games Reveals Memories of Mars: Open World Survival Shooter


Limbic Entertainment has released the latest trailer for Memories of Mars, an open world survival game set on none other than the red planet itself. Memories of Mars will task players with surviving the harsh conditions of the planetary surface, competing with other players and fending off the wildlife as they build their home away from home and make life just a smidgen easier on themselves.

To keep the game fun and fresh, Memories of Mars will implement seasons, periodic solar flares that wipe out all life and construction on the planet and force everyone to start anew. Thanks to the existence of cloning, however, you’ll be able to get a head start with some blueprints carried over from the previous season. The game will also feature a series of events to encourage players to compete with one another to salvage valuable resources.

Memories of Mars hits early access on Steam later this Spring. It is being developed by Limbic Entertainment who you may recognize from their work on Might and Magic: Heroes VII, and is being published by 505 Games who also published games like Payday 2 and Terraria.

(Source: Press Release)

505 Games Details No Man’s Sky Xbox One Launch


505 Games this week revealed the official launch date for No Man’s Sky on the Xbox One. The title will launch in North America on July 24 and in Europe on July 27 and will include a major update that will also hit the Playstation and PC versions of the game. Dubbed No Man’s Sky NEXT and revealed earlier this year, the update promises a full multiplayer experience.

“Multiplayer completely changes the No Man’s Sky experience; it’s emergent, fun and intense in ways we always wanted it to be. I’m so happy this is finally happening,” said Sean Murray, founder, Hello Games. “It is genuinely exciting to be able to fully realize the potential so many people could see in No Man’s Sky. This will be our biggest update yet and we’re pumped to be bringing Xbox players along on the journey with us now too.”

NEXT is a free update expected to launch simultaneously on all systems.

(Source: 505 Games Press Release)

Wild West Online On PvE “They Have Literally Nothing To Do And Never Will”


Wild West Online launched to mostly negative reviews and a peak of 559 players on Steam that has since continually dwindled downward. In a post on the official forums, 612 Games is pitching ideas on overhauling certain aspects of the game including the faction systems and offering players activities that aren’t devoted to just shooting other people. In response to a player concern that the activities would take the game in a more player vs environment sort of direction, 612 responded that the game is not being developed to care about PvE players and never will be.

No, this is not what we want to do. We want game to be PVP game, but we also want to allow PVP players to enjoy other activities as well. Here’s what happening right now in a game – PVP players, who LIKES to shoot other players are sitting in a safety of towns until Town Capture or other event starts. Then they teleport to the event, shoot each other brains out and then retreat back to safety of towns.

Our goals is improve that part, not care about PVE players. Game is not for them. they have literally nothing to do in a game and they will never will. It’ll never be a PVE game.

More on the proposed changes can be found on the official forum.

(Source: Wild West Online)

Lord of the Rings Online Lays Out 2018 And Beyond


Standing Stone Games Executive Producer Severlin posted a short announcement on the Lord of the Rings Online forums this week detailing the company’s plans for the title going forward into the rest of 2018 and beyond. The post talks about changes to classes, festivals, and more, including the coming update that will take adventurers to the Lonely Mountain and also increase the level cap to 120.

Let’s look ahead to Update 23! We will be journeying to the Lonely Mountain, and from there following the eastern paths to the Iron Hills, and north to the Grey Mountains. We’re excited to put these important parts of Dwarf culture and history on the map. Update 23 will also come with an instance cluster and, later in the year, a new raid. Our new instances will be designed for both groups and solo players, allowing everyone to see the storyline that unfolds in those instances. Full groups will also be able to enter into the more dangerous tiers of these adventures. The new landscape has 80 new quests, and the Black Book of Mordor will continue its story into these new regions. Update 23 will also increase the level cap to 120.

More information can be found at the link below.

(Source: LOTRO)

Impressions: Torn on Android


I live in a detached house somewhere in the city. My clothes consist of a pair of trainers I found in the dump, some leather clothes I bought at the local clothing store, and a crowbar and Glock 17 that I carry around for personal safety. My job as a bag boy at the local grocery store helps pay for my modest accommodations, but I mostly get my income through gambling at the casino and finding various items at the dump and selling them at the pawn shop for cash. I found two personal computers thrown out by some guy, they work so I sold one and kept the other for when I’m smart enough to use it for its intended purpose: Writing viruses and selling them on the open market.

I may have also waited for a dude to get out of the hospital, only to mug him and put him back in the hospital. With my crowbar.

Such is life in Torn, a game that by its own admission is meant to be played for the long term. Torn has been running on PC for a long time, it has thousands of people online and living their lives in the city at any given time, with tens of thousands online over any 24 hour period. It is a completely text based game and it just launched an app for Android devices that I was invited to take a look at. Over a week later, I’m hooked.

Torn is something of a life simulator, not in the sense that you’ll need to click the button to eat your morning bowl of pizza before heading off to work at exactly 7:30am or you’ll be fired and screw you if you think you’re going to have a real life and play this game, but in the meaning that you’ll be doing life things like going to the gym, betting money on League of Legends games, beating up a random stranger and sending him to the hospital, and then losing the money you stole from him playing craps at the casino.

There is always something to do in Torn, some new feature popping up as you level up, some new goal that comes your way, some new activity to take part in. Upon hitting level three, I gained the ability to visit the bookie at the casino where I found out that players who I believe are employed by the casino (in the video game sense) are able to set up betting pools on actual events. I bet $100 that Fnatic would be Flash Wolves in an actual League of Legends match and came out with the winning bet. There are also bets on real life sports games, in fact I threw down a grand on the 6/4 odds that Manchester United will beat Chelsea in an FA Cup match later this week.

Otherwise I like the fact that everything in this game is going toward an overall goal. Having a job doesn’t just provide a daily income, it boosts your various skills and grants points that over time allow you to do things like steal out of the till and get some cash. Education not only unlocks new things but grants boosts to various stats like intelligence which in turn allows you to get promoted at work faster, upping your daily income even further. Running low level crimes like searching for cash or selling bootleg DVDs gives experience that can lead you to bigger crimes, but getting caught will reduce that experience.

I’m looking forward to continuing to play Torn and will continue to document my experiences as they come about. I apologize to anyone for whom the formatting of this page is absolutely borked because of the mobile screenshots.

Boss Key Shuts Down After Radical Heights Flounders


Following its launch into “extreme early access” after five months of development, Radical Heights developer Boss Key has announced that it is going into extreme defunct mode. Big boss Cliff Bleszinski released an announcement on Twitter today noting that the servers for Radical Heights will remain online for the near future, however the studio itself is effectively no more. Radical Heights launched into early access and managed to pull peak numbers of less than 13,000, higher than Lawbreakers and around the same numbers as Gearbox’s Battleborn.

Nothing has been confirmed for the future of Lawbreakers, and as of yet Boss Key Productions has not made any official announcement on the Steam pages for either title. The Twitter account for Boss Key Productions has similarly made no acknowledgement of its closure.

(Source: Twitter)