Category: RAGE NEWS!!!1
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Warcraft III: Reforged – here’s why it sucks and how to get a refund
Warcraft fans are really pissed off this time. Blizzard released the remake of Warcraft III and it’s expansion Frozen Throne on January 29th 2020. It all went downhill afterwards. The game is nothing like the BlizzCon 2018 and BlizzCon 2019 presentations. The main bugs are: the old game is now nowhere to be found, instead…
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#BoycottBlizzard getting even stronger
As you’ve probably heard Blizzard banned one of their Hearthstone professional players around a week ago after he expressed support for protests in Hong Kong – people over there are demanding democracy from the Chinese government. Shortly after that the Internet exploded, people posted a lot of #BoycottBlizzard posts on Twitter and reddit. On Sunday…
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The era of game keys is coming to an end
Recently Ubisoft signed some kind of deal with Genba Digital and it seems that you won’t be able to register standard game keys (CDKeys) on UPlay in the future. You will be able to purchase the desired title to your Ubi account and that’s it. The end of game key sites? Pretty much everyone who…
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Metro Exodus developer doesn’t respect PC gamers
One of the Metro Exodus developers posted online that if you don’t like their brand new Metro Exodus game released on Epic Games Store only they don’t need to release their next game on PC at all in the future. You can read more about it here on Steam Community. The original post by scynet…
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Watch out! Blizzard rips off Europeans
I just saw on one of the sites that I read that Overwatch Legendary Edition is currently on sale, problem is that Blizzard charges Europeans more than Americans (as it usually is worldwide and shouldn’t be).
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2K Games thinks you’re a moron
NBA 2K19 developer 2K asked players to “contact local government” about the Belgian loot box ban. One of the 2K’s senior producers told Trusted Reviews (via PCGamesN) that its games’ Virtual Currency “is an unfortunate reality of modern gaming.” We all know that loot boxes in games are literally like playing in casino but at least in casion you…
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Steam removes games with pornographic content
It seems that in around two weeks Steam is going to remove (some) games with pornographic content, even though those games don’t really contain any of that (officially). The developers of Mutiny have even discounted their game so that people could buy it before it disappears completely from Steam – you’ll still be able to…
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Microsoft Store: Cloud saves corrupted? You’re out of luck!
There’s a pretty interesting topic on /r/windows10 today. Someone is having problems with Superhot VR edition. Basically his savegame got corrupted somehow and unfortunately the broken file is already up in the cloud. What doest that mean? According to Microsoft support you have to “play the game again”. Ouch. On Steam whenever you’re having problems…
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NVIDIA encourages retailers to sell to gamers, not cryptominers
Gamers are pissed off because cryptominers have fucked over the GPU market. Mining cryptocurrency sky rocketed graphics card prices over the last few months. You could grab a GTX 1080 GPU for around $700 on release day AFAIK, right now the prices are around $1000 all over the planet which is pretty ridiculous. Recently German…
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Steam: Watch out for false VAC bans!
There is a huge problem with Valve Anti-Cheat system at the moment. It seems that they have enabled a brand new manual rule that triggers a VAC ban on certain Steam accounts. If you launch Steam on Linux with an account name (OS account, not Steam account!) that contains “Catbot” you WILL be banned on…
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EA situation in few senteces and why it’s good for us
Here is the whole situation in a nutshell. EA releases their brand new AAA title – Star Wars Battlefront 2. There even is a collector’s edition, goes for $80 (wtf). The game itself has locked content in it (like guns, equipment etc) and requires you to play around 4500 hours to unlock all of it.…
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Electronic Arts removed the refund button from Origin
OK it’s been crazy today, Steam launched a lot of new currencies on their platform. GOG apologized for higher prices in Poland and promised to contact developers/publishers to change that (they are higher than Steam’s right now which isn’t quite nice considering GOG is a Polish store). Anyway it’s been pretty loud on reddit today…
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New currencies coming to the Steam store
I know this is rather old news but I don’t have much time to post here. I can’t believe this is finally happening… after 9 fucking years (!) Steam introduces more currencies to the Steam store. Details below! This is an e-mail to all Steamworks developers from Valve Software – New currencies to expect on…
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Steam store is now blocked in Malaysia
It seems that the Steam store is currently disabled in Malaysia because of the game Fight of Gods. The client itself works, you can still download your games that you’re subscribed to but you can no longer buy anything from the store. That’s pretty fucked up that in 2017 because of one title (a game…
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TOP 3 GAMES to play when you’re pissed off!
Every once in a while you get pissed off about something, right? It’s either a bad day at school / uni / work or it’s just one of those days when you don’t wanna wake up, everything is fucked because everybody sucks. Here are three Steam games to play when you’re pissed off! Killing Floor…
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Australians will be charged 10% more for Steam games soon!
Starting July 2017 all Aussies are going to pay 10% more for their Steam games. The report comes from Kotaku, following an email reportedly sent to developers by Valve. “The VAT tax amount will be included in the advertised price of your product, just like VAT is currently treated in the EU … the customer will pay the price…
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Valve wants to shutdown Team Fortress 2 gambling sites
If you’re unfamiliar with how skin gambling works in Team Fortress 2 it’s basically a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive clone made by Valve. They have released the following statement recently: “In July of last year we outlined our position on gambling web sites, specifically noting that Valve has no business relationship with these sites. At that time we…
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Prison for cheating in games? Yep! In South Korea.
South Korea has just started criminalizing the creation and distribution of aimbots, wall hacks, and anything else not allowed by a game’s terms of service. Anyone convicted of doing any of those things could face up to 5 years in prison or $43,000 in fines. The law doesn’t target esports specifically, although that would seem to be its most…
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Call of Duty Infinite Warfare: You won’t be able to play with Steam players if you bought the game on Windows Store
I have no idea who the fuck thought that’s a good idea but according to Activision’s support page you won’t be able to play online with your friends who bought the game on Steam or Windows Store. You either have to own one or another to play with your friends! Also you can’t even play between…
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Origin blocked in Myanmar (Burma)
I’ve just stumbled upon a very concerning post on reddit. According to the OP, and several topics (for example here and here) on EA Answers, Origin has been blocked in Myanmar. Check this out: I live in Myanmar, and I own about 20 games on Origin, and have spent hundreds of dollars on the platform.…
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Video game actors go on strike!
It’s official, the largest actors union in Hollywood called a strike this Friday against video game companies. Apparently they didn’t agree on how to pay performers who do voice-overs and motion-capture work for the most popular video games. They have stopped working at 12:01 a.m. last Friday (21.10.2016). Creating games take a lot of time and…
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Red Dead Redemption 2 won’t come out on PC?
It seems that Rockstar Games decided to release Red Dead Redemption 2 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 first, it isn’t all that weird considering they have a history of doing that. The problem is that they might skip PC at all just like they did with Red Dead Redemption back in the Xbox 360…
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Samsung removes YouTube videos showing GTA V mod that turns Note 7 into a bomb
Oh man, Samsung is having a really bad time this year. Some of their phones are already banned in airlines around the globe. And now gamers are on to them, GTA V modders are usually doing some nasty stuff and this time they’ve decided to put Note 7 into the game and… turn into C4.…