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In its weekly blog post, Bungie announced plans to nerf some of Destiny 2’s most popular Exotic items in Season of Opulence. Bungie announced that their goal is to keep endgame activities like raids a challenge. But some of these items were too powerful to sustain. Here are the nerfs coming in Season of Opulence. Whisper of the Worm The White Nail perk no longer regenerates ammo on three consecutive Whisper of the Worm precision hits. Instead, the gun pulls from its weapon reserves. To compensate, Bungie is increasing Whisper’s reserves to 18. Sleeper Simulant Sleeper Simulant’s ricochet shots deal less damage. Non-precision hits are more forgiving. Lord of Wolves Bungie is decreasing the damage by 20%. Players can now toggle the Release the Wolves — which doubles the shots fired by the weapon per-burst — perk on or off by holding the reload button. Ace of Spades The Memento Mori — which increases the damage of six Ace shots after reloading — … [Read more...] about Bungie is nerfing Destiny 2’s most popular weapons

A Riot Games walkout that recently took placed has proven to be ineffective in getting the company to address the demands of its employees. The League of Legends developer had previously blocked employees from filing lawsuits against them due to an arbitration clause built into their contract. That policy will continue as the current arbitration cases being brought against the company are working their way through the system. “Ultimately, given the complexities of ongoing litigation, we will not change our employee agreements while in active litigation,” the company said as reported by GamesIndustry.biz. “We know not everyone agrees with this decision, but we also know everyone does want Riot to continue to improve.” Talk of the Riot Games walkout began at the end of April before it finally kicked off on May 6, 2019. The walkout was primarily motivated by a forced arbitration clause in employee contracts. Private arbitration is often used by businesses as a … [Read more...] about Riot Games walkout ineffective as company rebuffs demands

We now have a date for Steam’s next big sale. As it tends to happen every year, the starting date for the Steam Summer Sale has leaked ahead of time. This year’s sale will kick off on Tuesday, June 25. That’s according to Steam Database, who have a good track record when it comes to Steam-related reveals in general. The information was first shared at SteamCN – a Chinese Steam fansite, and SteamDB corroborated it with its own sources. Start and end dates for Steam sales are divulged well ahead of time by Valve, and aren’t exactly secrets. Any developer on Steam receives Valve’s yearly emails to ensure they take sale dates into account when arranging their own sales. Valve often asks developers not share the dates outside of Steam, but that never stops anyone. In any case, this year’s Summer Sale goes live at 10am PT, 1pm ET, 6pm BST on the day, and will be available for two weeks, meaning it ends July 9. … [Read more...] about Steam Summer Sale 2019 start and end dates leak

KENTWOOD, Mich. (WXYZ) — An AMBER Alert has been issued for a missing 4-year-old girl out of Kentwood, Mich. on the west side of the state. Police are looking or Faith Cyndora Martinez, pictured in the photo above. She is believed to be with her mother, 30-year-old Pettra Aliesha Yahya. Yahya is described as a black female, 5-feet tall weighing 160 pounds. She is driving a 2005 red Buick Rendezvous with Michigan license plate EBD2873. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 616-698-6580. … [Read more...] about AMBER Alert issued for 4-year-old girl in West Michigan

Xbox One exclusive (and launch title!) Ryse: Son of Rome was probably the last video game Crytek made that people actually heard of or cared about. Since the game launched in 2013, Crytek went through a major reorganization; was more than once unable to pay its employees; sold off a bunch of studios and assets, and today is known mainly for suing the makers of Star Citizen. That’s not to say that things were peachy-keen up to the point Ryse, a third-person action-adventure, finally launched. Its development goes all the way back to 2006, and at one point, like just about every development hell game from this time period, was going to be a Kinect 1.0 title. We can now see what Crytek developers were noodling on around that time thanks to an Xbox 360 developer kit that someone picked up at auction, and whose contents were posted to YouTube on Friday by Prototype Preservation (seen via Eurogamer). The game was called Codename: Kingdoms at this point, although it definitely carried … [Read more...] about Someone bought a devkit and found an early build of Ryse