Destiny 2 Offering Six Twitch Prime Bundles


Destiny 2 is the latest game to offer Twitch Prime rewards.

Starting today you can get the first of six Twitch Prime bundles. The bundle includes the following items;

  • Suros Regime Auto Rifle
  • Coup de Main Weapon Ornament
  • Skyline Flipside Ghost
  • unsecured/OUTCRY Ship

You’ll need to head to this page and link your Twitch account to your Destiny 2 account, after which you can find the rewards at Amanda Holliday in The Tower the next time your log in to Destiny 2. For more information, check out the link above.

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Ghost Recon Breakpoint: 5 Tips For The Terminator Event


Today marks the launch of the Terminator event in Ghost Recon Breakpoint and MMO Fallout is here with some tips to know before you go in.

For those looking to join in on the crossover, the Terminator event starts on January 29 and runs until February 6. You will immediately receive a notice upon login that a mission is available in Erewhon, your secret hideout. The story mission will send you out to track down the whereabouts of a mysterious person who showed up and managed to kill several drones all on her own. Spoiler: She’s from the future. How does the island in Breakpoint factor into the Terminator universe? You’ll have to play to find out.

Here are five tips on the Breakpoint Terminator event.

#1: You Don’t Need To Be Far To Take Part

The plus side is that you don’t need to be far into Breakpoint’s story in order to take part in the Terminator event. It looks like as long as you have completed the few missions you need to access Erewhon, you’ll be fine. If you bought Breakpoint just to take part in the Terminator event, you’ll need to finish roughly 30 minutes of story mode before you get to Erewhon.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint features a gear score system that shouldn’t have any effect on your enjoyment of the game. We played on a pretty low level character that hadn’t gotten too far in the main story and had no problem taking down Terminators and the standard human opponents that tend to congregate around them. At least on the first day the side missions tend to appear in lower level areas. The only thing getting further into the game will help with is making enemies easier to dispatch and having access to more fast travel locations.

#2: The Battle Pass Looks Ridiculously Fast

If the idea of a battle pass being thrown into this event has you worried, you’re in good hands. For the Terminator event the battle pass has 21 levels each of which offers some kind of customization from the movie such as the punk outfits, Sarah Connor’s glasses, and the Terminator’s motorcycle. There are also blueprints for an Uzi and an AR-18.

After completing the first main mission and day one’s three daily missions (which took about an hour total), our battle pass was already at level 10. End of day one and already halfway done. At this rated it should take three, maybe four days total to get our hands on all of the event items.

#3: Let The Terminator Do Your Work

Small spoiler; the Terminators are not working with the Skell, but they are infiltrating their bases. Once you shoot a Terminator or activate its defenses it does become an enemy to the Skell forces that are around and they will shoot at it.

Marking enemy soldiers with your drone will tell you who the Terminator soldier is, and more often than not it’s not just one. Activate the bot and watch it whittle down the base’s defenses as they fruitlessly try to destroy it. You can even string the Terminators along like pets letting them follow you around the base and pick off any Skell that try to shoot at them. Once you are free of distractions, take the Terminators down.

#4: Don’t Expect Any Stealth

Your Terminator fights are going to be loud and they are going to attract other enemy soldiers over the course of the fight. Outside of the fact that your fight with the Terminator is going to be drawn out and very loud (the Terminators dual wield shotgun/rifle), the Mk14 you are carrying will not stand for being silenced, aka you can’t put a silencer on it.

Given that your battles with the Terminator are going to involve a lot of running and gunning, you’ll need to keep an eye on your compass and deal with the numerous soldiers that are going to be alerted to your position and all the backup that is going to be called. Thankfully if your mark is in a good spot you can always find a vantage point and just let the Terminator deal with the backup. They are very efficient at sweeping things up.

This also means you’re going to want to store that sniper rifle between missions unless you really want to make an entrance.

#5: This Isn’t A World-Over Event

You might be thinking “oh great, now I’ll have to deal with ridiculous bullet sponges ruining my experience for the next week.” Incorrect.

Another plus side to the event is that it is very much contained within a few small areas. Each day is going to bring in new daily missions which revolve around a base or encampment. Outside of these daily missions, you won’t run into an army of T800s running around the island. The event is supposed to be smaller, so there are a handful of Terminators that are on the island, not a thousand.

So at the very least you know exactly where the Terminators are going to show up.

Pearl Abyss Drops Sorceress Class For Black Desert Mobile


Today marks the launch of the Sorceress class for Black Desert Mobile, as announced by Pearl Abyss earlier this month.

The Sorceress uses a combination of magic and melee to defeat her opponents, and generates shards of darkness that can be spent on buffs to make her attacks even more powerful. In addition to the new class, players can also enjoy magical enhancements. Throughout February and March Pearl Abyss will be hosting a Black Desert Mobile championship. This is a team competition so you will need to recruit some other members. Winners will be rewarded with pearls and special titles.

Destiny 2 Suffers Rollback After Major Bug Wipes Inventories


Destiny 2’s update 2.7.1 was the source of a whole lot of problems yesterday after players logged in to find that some of their inventories and achievements had just been straight up wiped. The servers were quickly shut down so Bungie could investigate the cause and roll out a fix, however the extent and reach of the glitch meant that accounts would have to be rolled back to where they were at 8:30 a.m. PST.

The good news is that players will lost at most nearly two hours of progress assuming that they played from the moment the server came up through the moment it went offline. Not a huge loss for the grand majority.

Today, Update 2.7.1 introduced an issue that affected currencies and pursuits. We immediately brought the game offline to mitigate any loss of materials while we investigated. We have identified the issue and the good news is that we were able to deploy an update to the server and will not have to update the game client.

We have rolled all character data back to our most recent backup at 8:30 a.m. Pacific before the issue was introduced. This will restore any lost materials caused by the issue, but players will lose any progress they made if they played between 8:30 a.m and 10:20 a.m. when we brought the game down for maintenance. Any purchases made using Silver or Bright Dust during this window will need to be repurchased. Any Silver spent or purchased will be restored.

The server update is complete and we are beginning to bring the game back online now. Stay tuned to @Bungiehelp for updates.

Source: Bungie

Police 10-13 Matt Norman Departs Due To Illness


Wingman Games President Matt Norman has announced his departure from the company and the gaming industry following the return of a brain tumor. Norman posted an official announcement to the official Facebook group stating that he will be leaving the game to a team of developers.

On the 12th of December 2019, I was given the news that a new Brain Tumour was found during an MRI. Obviously, most of you know that I had a brain tumor removed in 2018 that took a lot more time than expected to recover from. This Tumour is new. In a new place and a lot more serious. For the past 5 years, I have devoted my life to Police 1013 through a lot of hard times with my family. Unfortunately, this latest news has left me physically and mentally drained to a point that I can’t continue. This is the hardest thing I’ve had to do, letting go of my baby with all the hard work I’ve done over the years. It’s now become more important that I step back from any further responsibilities in the game and hand everything to the 5 developers that have been on the project since August. I am also stepping away from the games industry completely to concentrate on new endeavors to help support my family, which in all honesty I have not done due to my commitment to the game.

The new team posted that all social media regarding Police 10-13 will be shut down for the time being until they are reopened and managed by a PR company.

MMO Fallout wishes to extend our deepest sympathies to Matt in these difficult times.

Source: Facebook

Steam Cleaned: Valve Gives More Shady Devs The Boot


About a week ago I published an editorial talking about the existence of games on Steam that cost a lot of money and don’t exactly justify their price. Titles that look like mobile ports or Unity shovelware that nobody seems to play and not only are being sold for money but a lot of money at that. My hunch at the time was that some of these games may be falling into a less than legal realm, being used as a form of money laundering which certainly wouldn’t be surprising or the first time such a title has shown up on Steam. This isn’t an accusation, just a speculation.

Well it appears I’m not the only one looking into these games as Valve has seen fit to give several of them the boot this week. Let’s dive in.

#1: Lab3D

Lab3D was developed and published by Tantal back in August 2019 and you may need Lasik surgery if you take a look at this screenshot and don’t immediately say “paying $200 is basically robbing the developer, make it $400.” Two hundred smackers, and the developer sounds completely legitimate when responding to a question about the price with:

“No, not trolling. Consider this a kind of experiment, only shhhh. And I can change the base price at any time.”

Lab3D had one review and 51 followers. Was it a money laundering scheme? A troll game? Only the developer knows.

#2: Fantasy Smith VR

Fantasy Smith VR was a $90 product by developer Okamoto 3 Nori, and in addition to the $90 base price it also featured several pieces of DLC all priced out at $40 a pop. Fantasy Smith VR is a little odd because it started out as a $12.99 product before the price suddenly and without explanation hiked up to $89.99 where it sat until Valve banned the game this week. Out of everything on this list, Fantasy Smith VR actually seems like a real game. If you head over to the community hub you’ll find people talking about it playing it and not being happy that the developer hasn’t spoken to anyone.

One of these things is not like the other.

#3: Hunting In Ancient Asia

Hunting in Ancient Asia is another $200 game, this time by Thoth Technology Ltd. everyone’s favorite game developer. Hunting In Ancient Asia had nobody playing it, roughly four instances of one person logged in since it launched in September despite 125 followers. Thoth Technology’s ban could be linked to some questionable reviews that may or may not have been at the behest of the developer. We will never know.

Unlike the other developers on this list, Thoth Technology Ltd. actually had other games on Steam and at more of a reasonable price. In an effort to become the Digital Homicide of virtual reality, Thoth not so much released as it did spam Steam with a bunch of shoddy looking VR titles over the span of the last eleven months, one of which was being sold for $100. I have to assume that the titles sound more elegant in their original Simplified Chinese and were at some level created with education or therapy based clients in mind.

Check em out.

#4: The Ones That Remain

There is a laundry list of games that in my frank opinion warrant Valve’s second look despite the fact that if any of these titles are involved in less than legal operations those activities are probably long over and done with and the cash paid out. These are games that cost $200 (or $100), have zero customers or close to it as far as I can tell, and have no public activity by the developer.

  1. Crisis Action VR; Pixel Wonder
  2. Strike Mole/Physical Ball; Lize
  3. Mouse Run; ATM Game
  4. NUMBER; rongyao0577
  5. LLK; Chenyun0577
  6. Hiscores Gold; Alexander in Uganda
  7. Lgnorant girl doll; wandwand
  8. Adventure Trip; Sunsmaybe Games
  9. Luna and Cynthia; wandwand
  10. Shoot Pump Shoot; Aurora Borealis
  11. Blast Em!; Xiotex Studios Ltd

Rockstar Celebrates Record Breaking Holiday Season


It’s no secret that Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 have been insane successes, and Rockstar is giving something back in return for a popular holiday season. The Diamond Casino Heist set new player numbers in Grand Theft Auto Online that haven’t been seen since the Casino itself released last July. GTA V also enjoyed record engagement on Youtube while Red Dead Online experienced the highest peak numbers in December following the launch of Moonshiners with even higher numbers in January.

To thank their players, Rockstar is giving GTA Online players $2 million in GTA bucks, with Red Dead Online players receiving free access to frontier pursuit roles, role item giveaways, and more.

Source: Press Release

Continent of the Ninth Seal Drops New Content Update


Webzen this week announced the latest update to Continent of the Ninth Seal which introduces the seventh continent and a swath of new content.

The main highlight of the update is the new continent Hernad where adventurers can find the dungeons Camp of Durahan, Forest of Blasted Spirits, and Faded Temple filled with Nefer’s forest just waiting to be killed for sweet loot. Along with the new dungeons comes new armor and weapons as well as rewards for those who pre-registered. Players will also find a mystery box which can be opened for gears every 24-48 hours.

An in-game event is being held to celebrate the update that gives away a weapon enhancement package with additional events offering bonus exp, dungeon rewards, and more.

For more details, check out the official website.

Steam Cleaned: Undead Vs. Plants Is Terrifying


Undead Vs. Plants might be the most horrifying game I’ve seen on Steam, and as of this week you can’t buy it anymore as the developer has pulled it from sale. On a functional level it’s a ricochet game and might provide for a challenging puzzle game. On the other hand the characters in this game look like the last things I will see when I die and am dragged to hell by the demons of my past.

You play as zombie Arnold using your bullet ricochet powers to kill plants. The plants in the game are just the right combination of detail and awful to fall into the category where their very visage is discomforting. Haunting my dreams for eternity.

The developer Peaksel D.O.O. Nis has a math game still on Steam titled Zeus vs Monsters which is a math game for children and features art that while not great won’t give those children a nightmare just for wanting to learn addition and subtraction. Peaksel has a lot of creepy games on its website, including one about a pregnant talking cat named Emma. If you really want to play Undead vs. Plants you can do so on Android or Google Play. The game is still free there.

Torchlight Frontiers Changes Name: Is Now Torchlight 3


Max Schaefer has announced via Youtube today that Torchlight Frontiers will now be called Torchlight 3. Is that all? Nope.

Torchlight 3 will be ditching the free to play model and will no longer be an MMO. The good news is that the game will be available offline. Even better for you Steam enthusiasts, the game will be shifting its publishing platform from Arc to Steam with current testers to receive a key for further testing.

“Along with this name change comes a major shift in our design approach to Torchlight III. Torchlight III will be released as a premium title. For one box-price, you will own the game and be able to play the way that you want, online or off. Over the past year, we have gathered massive amounts of feedback from our Alpha testers. After reviewing this feedback, discussing with our internal teams, and receiving guidance from our publisher, we determined that this was the best course for the game. This shift helps bring Torchlight back to its roots and makes it the true sequel to Torchlight I & II that it was always meant to be.”

And among the larger updates, horizontal progression is being removed completely; all Frontier-specific levels, gear stats, and scaling has been removed as well. The real money cash shop is gone and players can choose online or offline characters at the creation stage.

Source: Torchlight