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First Europa Universalis IV Expansion Announced.

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Paradox Interactive announced Conquest of Paradise which is the first expansion for Europa Universalis IV, the award-winning empire building and grand strategy game for Windows, Mac and Linux. Europa Universalis IV is a game where the player has the chance to lead one of many countries through the history. Players can change the history in the game with their actions and this means it is a game that allows the player to set their own goals. Do they want to shock the world with wars or do they want to create a huge trading empire? Nothing is set in stone … Continue reading First Europa Universalis IV Expansion Announced.

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Greg Street “Ghostcrawler” leaves Blizzard Entertainment

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Lead Systems Designer Greg Street known as “Ghostcrawler” in the World of Warcraft forums, leaves Blizzard Entertainment. He posted his goodbye on the official World of Warcraft forums. He wrote “An opportunity has come my way, and I have made the very tough decision to move on from Blizzard.” and thanks the World of Warcraft community with his following words “I wanted to thank all of you for being a part of this grand quest. I have said a hundred times that having passionate gamers, including the angry ones, is a far better place to be than having a community … Continue reading Greg Street “Ghostcrawler” leaves Blizzard Entertainment

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Upcoming Battlefield 4 PC Patch in December 2

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DICE has just announced that the next Battlefield 4 update for PC will be released on December 2. The update will allegedly fix some problems with Battefield 4. December 2 Battlefield 4 PC Patch Notes: -Removed the blur effect on soldiers that appeared when Commanders were using EMP attacks -Fixed the audio bug where audio sometimes randomly dropped out while playing on certain multiplayer maps (typically Golmud Railway and Hainan Resort) -Fixed the “one-hit kill bug” where occasionally damage from a single bullet was applied multiple times – Fixed a common crash that would occur when exiting from the Single … Continue reading Upcoming Battlefield 4 PC Patch in December 2

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The mess does not get fixed in Battlefield 4…

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To be honest, Battlefield 4 is a great game but technically it is a buggy piece of software that has been rushed out by a money-hungry publisher called Electronic Arts. A little bit more time and the developer DICE would have been able to create a really amazing and technically perfect game. But it didn´t happen as EA wanted to publish the game before Activision´s Call of Duty Ghosts. The problem is not that we all here bought a game with bugs. Many game releases come with some bugs as the mass of players get the hands on it to … Continue reading The mess does not get fixed in Battlefield 4…

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BF4 Double XP Week Compensation for all the Trouble

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DICE and EA and all the buyer of Battlefield 4 had recently a very rough start. The release of Battlfield 4 was everything else but not fine and there were many problems. The release was accompanied by many technical difficulties. The recent news is that DICE now wants to show compensation to all players. From November 28 to December 5 players will get double XP bonus. That counts for players of all platforms. DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson mentioned “We understand that the launch issues may have impacted your progression, and we want to do everything we can to … Continue reading BF4 Double XP Week Compensation for all the Trouble

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Sequel of the next WoW expansion already in the works too…

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Blizzard did let the cat out of the bag last week. It´s now known that the next World of Warcraft expansion will be called Warlords of Draenor. But Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Morhaime states now in an interview with Polygon, that they even have already a team workin on a Warlords of Draenor sequel. In other words, Blizzard plans to release WoW expansions more frequently than they did before. Mike Morhaime said: “We’ve already started working on the expansion after this one (Warlords of Draenor). We’ve never done that in the past. We’ve been doing one expansion at a time, … Continue reading Sequel of the next WoW expansion already in the works too…