Money does grow on trees: Carbine disable gardening to end Wildstar gold exploit
Carbine have temporarily disabled gardening in Wildstar to block players from using a gold exploit. The studio are working on a hotfix to solve the issue entirely but until that’s deployed you won’t be able to tend to your garden.
Creative Assembly gamejam and auction to raise money for Surrey Hospital
Creative Assembly’s holding a GameJam this weekend to raise money for Millbridge Ward of The Royal Surrey County Hospital.Game Jam: Franco Jam commemorates Simon Franco, senior programmer on Alien Isolation, who died in June this year.
As well as the gamejam, Creative are auctioning a load of signed merchandise, too.
Heroes of the Storm draft doesn’t have a ban phase. Blizzard say it “holds us to a higher level”
You can’t ban heroes in Heroes of the Storm’s draft mode. Blizzard say this is to get players into the game faster, it “takes out part of the out-of-game experience”, and because it holds them “to a higher level” when designing and balancing their heroes.
It took 20 minutes for Blizzard to decide to kill the Diablo 3 auction house
It took one meeting for Blizzard to decide to kill off the auction house. Within in 20 minutes of the idea being floated the entire leadership agreed it had to go. That week they announced the end of the bane of Diablo 3’s existence and within the year it was gone.
Never Alone looks gorgeous, and it launches next week
Next week, November 18th, sees the launch of Never Alone, Upper One Games’ Arctic puzzle platformer. It’s a pretty, dreamlike game following a wee Iñupiat girl, Nuna, and her fox chum as they attempt to power through the hostile tundra in an effort to find the source of a mystical blizzard.
The game’s been designed in collaboration with the Iñupiat, who are an Alaskan Native people. It’s based on an Iñupiat legend, and Alaskan Native storytellers and elders helped bring it to life. Take a gander at the launch trailer.
Far Cry 4's map editor won't allow you to make competitive multiplayer maps
Ubisoft’s had a hard time making friends, lately. News that Far Cry 4’s map editor would not support competitive multiplayer inspired a 17-page thread of anger on the official forums.
The lack of multiplayer map editing came to light on Twitch, when a streamer played a leaked copy of the game. Before this, Ubisoft had not mentioned its absence.
New Armikrog trailer crash lands, getting clay everywhere
Armikrog, Doug TenNapel and Pencil Test Studios claymation adventure game, looks good enough to eat. Unfortunately, unlike non-toxic playdough, eating it would probably give you some serious digestive problems.
Instead of stuffing it into your mouth, you can feed your hungry eyes with a trailer originally shared with Kickstarter backers.
Assuming direct control: CCP is experimenting with manual controls for EVE Online
The very first time I played EVE Online, in 2004, I was immediately bamboozled by the controls. Not because they were obtuse - though they were - but because I expected to be able to control my ship just like I could in Freespace or countless other space and flight sims, which EVE Valkyrie now employs.
CCP has observed that this is a common experience among new players, who are surprised to find that EVE’s control scheme is more tactical and automated. This has led to the designers donning their lab coats and starting up an experiment: keyboard flight controls. An opt-in beta version will hit the MMO in the Rhea mini expansion, next month.
Battlefield 4's war concludes with Final Stand on November 18th
Battlefield: Final Stand, the last piece of Battlefield 4 DLC, which finally concludes the really rather long war, has a release date: November 18th. Expect future tech, four new maps and lots of lovely snow.
Non-premium members will have to wait a couple more weeks, however, and will get their mitts on the expansion on December 2nd.
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