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JEMC on 13 July 2018
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Friday news, the second part:

Old School Runescape pulled offline as billions of gold appear out of nowhere
https://www.pcgamer.com/old-school-runescape-pulled-offline-as-billions-of-gold-appear-out-of-nowhere/
Every Old School Runescape player dreams of one day attaining the most gold you can possibly carry: 2.147 billion, the fabled "max cash." Due to a bug introduced in an update this morning, for many players that dream suddenly came true: countless OSRS players received max cash stacks from sources which would normally yield a few thousand gold. As a result, roughly 20 minutes after the update went live, developer Jagex outright turned the game off, temporarily disabling all servers while they look into the gold duplication bug.
Update: Old School Runescape is back online following a 20-minute server rollback. In other words, all of the gold generated by the bug has vanished as quickly as it appeared. Additionally, mischievous players who purchased in-game bonds using ill-gotten gold and redeemed them for membership have had their 'bonus' membership revoked and "will also see action taken against their accounts and will temporarily be removed from the game." Everyone else should be in the clear, though Jagex advises some players "may be affected by an issue attributed to their save files which will prevent them from logging in," which the studio is still working to resolve.

 

Ben Brode's new studio is called Second Dinner
https://www.pcgamer.com/ben-brodes-new-studio-is-called-second-dinner/
Earlier this year, Ben Brode, Hearthstone's booming, bearded and beloved former director, abruptly announced that he was leaving Blizzard to help start a new company that would "probably make games." Today Brode took to Twitter to formally announce that company: Second Dinner.

 

Fortnite is making so much money that Epic is giving Unreal Marketplace creators a big raise
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-is-making-so-much-money-that-epic-is-giving-unreal-marketplace-creators-a-big-raise/
Epic announced "a sweeping change" to the marketplace yesterday that will boost creators' take on their sales to 88 percent, a significantly above-standard rate increase that applies to all transactions going forward—and (this is the really good bit) to all previous transactions as well, all the way back to the launch of the UE Marketplace in 2014. In other words, marketplace sellers, especially those who have been around for awhile, could be in for a surprise, and potentially very lucrative, windfall.

 

CS:GO players in Belgium and the Netherlands can no longer open loot cases
https://www.pcgamer.com/csgo-players-in-belgium-and-the-netherlands-can-no-longer-open-loot-cases/
The latest update to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive brings both good news and bad news for players in the Netherlands. Steam trading and Steam Market functionality, which were disabled last month, have been re-enabled, but players in the country, as well as Belgium, are no longer able to open containers—which is to say, loot boxes.

 

Baldur's Gate lead designer James Ohlen has left BioWare after 22 years
https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-lead-designer-james-ohlen-has-left-bioware-after-22-years/
James Ohlen has been with BioWare for an awfully long time: 22 years, in fact. He was the lead designer on the original Baldur's Gate and has racked up design and writing credits since then on games including Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Dragon Age: Origins, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Mass Effect: Andromeda. Most recently, he'd been working on the upcoming Anthem. So it really marked the end of an era when he announced today on Twitter that he has left the company.

 

World of Warcraft: Battle For Azeroth pre-patch goes live on July 17
https://www.pcgamer.com/world-of-warcraft-battle-for-azeroth-pre-patch-goes-live-on-july-17/
Ahead of the expansion's launch on August 14, Blizzard has just announced a date for the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth pre-patch – and it's coming next week. On July 17 the patch will roll out, serving to bridge the gap between Battle for Azeroth and last year's Legion expansion. As always, it's not just tweaks and changes: there's actual gameplay stuff added as well.

 

Fortnite servers reinstated after temporary down time (Updated)
https://www.pcgamer.com/fortnite-servers-are-temporarily-down-while-epic-investigates-problems/
Epic has just announced it is taking Fortnite's servers down temporarily, due to ongoing server issues following the roll out of Season 5 earlier today.
Update: As outlined in our original story below, Epic disabled Fortnite's servers earlier. The developer sought to "further investigate the root cause" of the problem, and, it seems, all is now well.

 

'Indie is bigger than ever and also it is dead,' says Vlambeer's Rami Ismail
https://www.pcgamer.com/indie-is-bigger-than-ever-and-also-it-is-dead-says-vlambeers-rami-ismail/
The indie scene is busier than ever, and as such has become increasingly difficult to define. Speaking at the Develop conference in Brighton, Vlambeer's Rami Ismail said "indie is bigger than ever, and also it is dead."
As reported by MCV (via PCGamesN), Ismail explains this is a good thing—during his keynote alongside Mike Bithell—and that the "best thing that has happened to game development is that somebody took a sledgehammer to all those big concepts and then shattered them into a million pieces." He reckons indie game development, as it's perceived today, echoes the foundations of punk rock.

 

Cities: Skylines, Orwell, Darksiders join EA's Origin Access
https://www.pcgamer.com/cities-skylines-orwell-darksiders-join-eas-origin-access/
Here's what happens when four players try to run one town in Cities: Skylines. It ain't pretty. In fact it's so ugly, I reckon you're better going it alone—which you can now do via EA's Origin Access. The subscription service has now opened its doors to Colossal Order's city-builder, and seven other games.
Darksiders: Warmastered Edition also joins Origin, alongside Rime, Orwell: Ignorance is Strength, Mad Games Tycoon, Jotun Valhalla Edition, Ghost 1.0 and Crashlands.

>>Call me suspicious, but I think the author of the article doesn't like Origin...

 

Let's check the GOG and Steam deals for this weekend:

+GOG

+Steam

 

And that's all for this week. Have a happy and gaming weekend.



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