Well at least some sites are still providing me with a stream of crap to post
League of Legends Christmas Day gift card fail leaves Riot manually mailing out RP
Gifts! They’re what we had before gifs made entertainment free, intangible and one letter leaner. At Christmastime, though, we still appease the older generations by buying each other traditional presents, like popguns, diabolos and League of Legends Riot Points cards.
This year’s exchange was scuppered for some, however, when RP from prepaid cards failed to turn up in their accounts after they’d been redeemed. Riot have since picked up on the issue, and begun the slow business of manually granting points to the proper players.
Facepunch tackle DDOS attacks: "We can't have the fate of your Rust hanging on the whim of script kiddies"
Thank goodness for honest toil. In lieu of anything work-related to worry about, the last week has seen humankind engage in a multitude of sins. Many chose to leave the TV on long enough to witness 1995’s Casper the Friendly Ghost in its entirety; an oddball few decided to spend their post-Christmas period pummeling the servers of Garry ‘Garry’s Mod’ Newman’s Lord of the Flies-ish survival sim, Rust, into inertia.
“We know it’s not totally our fault,” wrote Garry on Friday, “but at the same time it is. If you have exploits then people are going to exploit them. That’s just how the world works.”
"Strength in numbers": what The Elder Scrolls Online PvP will mean for low-level players
Thus far Zenimax Online have sold their PvP Cyrodiil on the promise of its melodramatic metagame - a high-level waltz of captured keeps and toppled emperors. But nobody starts as emperor - like budding monarchs in the real world, they’ll have to work their way up. All of us will enter that facsimile of Oblivion’s world at level 10, looking for things to do that won’t get us squashed beneath the steel heel of a passing general. Here are some of our options.
Unreal Engine 4 Showcased Via New Screenshots From A Fan Project
Christian Hecht – better known to you perhaps as CRYENGINE modder “The_Distiller” – has informed us about his latest project. Christian is currently creating a film for his portfolio purposes. This film is running in real-time on Unreal Engine 4, and Christian shared with us some images from his project. Enjoy! Continue reading
@TheVoxelman on twitter