Kotaku UK, a website that bills itself as “Kotaku, but without the integrity of Jason Schreier.” When Kotaku UK isn’t pumping out plain old clickbait compost for articles, they’re pumping out slanderous clickbait compost. Last night marked the launch of Smash Bros Ultimate 3.0, and also the release of Nintendo’s first DLC fighter Joker from Persona 5. As is standard for Smash character releases, Joker comes with his own stage, a number of costumes, and a number of songs. In other words, it’s the perfect time for tabloid e-zine Kotaku to rev up the faux outrage and find something you should be offended by. Enter Laura K. Dale penning an article that posted today, “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s Persona 5 DLC Includes a Disability Slur.” Dale listened to the track “Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There” and decided that not only does the song use the term “retarded,” but apparently justifies its use by saying “I … [Read more...] about [Bad Press] Kotaku Lies About Smash, Doubles Down
MapleStory Kicks Off 14th Anniversary Event
MapleStory is turning 14 and wants you to join in on the celebrations. From April 24 through June 12, events named after past seasonal updates will be available under the 14th Street event. Players will receive a 14th Street Fairgoer title increase their reputation and stats as they complete missions. Once all missions are complete, Maplers will receive the 14th Street Celeb medal. In addition to the event, players will also be able to create a Pink Bean character. Players will also be able to complete the Pink Bean’s Movie Script, a set of 30 missions that award the Holy Pink Beanity Title. And finally the Big Bang Store will offer rewards for the 14th Street Coins such as new mounts, chairs, and rings. More information can be found at the official website. Source: Nexon Press Release Advertisements … [Read more...] about MapleStory Kicks Off 14th Anniversary Event
Plan trade routes and share ship fittings with the EVE Online Workbench
Whether you’re a space truckin’ sort, a player that likes to hop in to Abyssal Deadspace, or one of those Capsuleers looking to start a fight with anyone within radar range, there’s a new tool to help you out. It’s the Workbench, a new website for EVE Online that lets players browse ship fittings of all sorts, browse the in-game market, or plan a shipping route. The EVE Workbench has a couple of handy-dandy functions, starting with its Fittings section that will likely be familiar to anyone who’s used similar web-based tools like Osmium. Player-made ship fittings can be browsed by Alpha or Omega Clone type, and clicking a specific build breaks down all of the salient information one could possibly need. Next is the market browser board, which lets players enter in an item and see current buy and sell orders in all regions or specific ones. This feature can go hand-in-hand with the trade tool, which can help haulers plan the most lucrative station to … [Read more...] about Plan trade routes and share ship fittings with the EVE Online Workbench
Heroes and Villains works on crafting story, villain content, and sewers
It has been some time since we last checked in with Heroes and Villains, perhaps the most overlooked of all of the City of Heroes spiritual successor projects. But superhero MMOs are very much on our mind this week, so we thought it would be a good time to recap the progress that’s been made on this game. But to get this out of the way first, there doesn’t seem to be any posted timeline as to public testing and release. Just FYI. Reading through the list of weekly volunteer dev updates so far in 2019 show a team that’s slowly but surely working to advance the project. One big project is crafting strong narrative for Heroes and Villains: “We’ve been continuing with work on various ways to try and push past the storytelling limitations that come with an MMO shared persistent world and the build-in advantage that it gives to stories that threaten changes to the game world but always end with the game world unchanged in any significant way, which naturally … [Read more...] about Heroes and Villains works on crafting story, villain content, and sewers
Albion Online announces Outland map expansion coming next month
Last month, Albion Online dev Sandbox Interactive announced that it is working on a massive overhaul of the game’s Outlands map, which will substantially increase the size of the world, but with the influx of new players following the game’s recent transition to free-to-play, a more timely expansion seems to be in order. To that end, the devs have announced the imminent release of an expansion based on the current map layout that will add three new regions to the Outlands. These three regions, Siluria, West Glouvia, and East Glouvia, which will be situated to the north of the current Outlands, are roughly “equivalent in size and value” to Cumbria, West Anglia, and East Anglia, respectively, which means they should provide new players ample opportunities to claim some bits of the world for themselves. The expansion is set to launch during GvG Season 6, which is currently slated to begin in early May, and the territories within the new regions “will become … [Read more...] about Albion Online announces Outland map expansion coming next month