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4 million Path of Exile players
Action RPG Path of Exile recently marked four million registered users. The creators of the game from Grinding Gear Games explain that Path of Exile daily play more than 250,000 users, and that they have recorded a significant number of new users after the game came out in late October from an open beta.
Rockstar Cutting GTA Online Re-Played Mission Payouts by 50%
GTA online is back in the news again as a recent update has reduced the payout for replayed missions. The move was an odd one considering the bad press they received many issues in the recent past. The move has caused more than one strongly worded comment to be posted on their support page as players do not understand why they are being penalized for wanting to play missions over again.
New DotA from Blizzard
Recently quite a lot of hype is going around Blizzard and their games. Beside Hearthstone, recently we had a lot of rumors about Blizzard copyrighting the Heroes of the Storm, which is a mysterious MOBA game on which they work under the name Blizzard All-Stars.
The Warcraft movie arrives in 2015
After long period of waiting, fans of Warcraft can breathe a sigh of relief, because things around the movie adaption of this popular franchise finally started moving in the right direction. In fact, two days ago it was announced that the film Warcraft will arrive on 18th of December 2015 sponsored by Universal Studios Entertainment.
Online multiplayer troubles for PES 2014
Before you can engage in online competing against owners of the console version of the new Pro Evolution Soccer you will have to install two patches that unlock access to online mode. The first patch upgrades the game to version 1.01 and the other one (problematic) ensures that all players have updated information on clubs and players.
Microtransactions in Grand Theft Auto Online
Next month we can expect the release of the Grand Theft Auto Online, and some individuals were able to came up with some interesting findings while looking into Grand Theft Auto V folders. In fact, it seems that the network component of the aforementioned title will support the purchase of virtual money in four categories, from 100,000 to 1.25 million dollars, virtual ones of course.
Great success for Humble Origin Bundle
Recently we talked about Humble Bundle and the one that was currently active that week, which included some impressive titles from EA. Electronic Arts has reason to be satisfied even though in the whole story about selling Humble Origin bundle they have not earned a cent, but they certainly improved public opinion about them.
World of Warcraft will not become free-to-play anytime soon
While the bigger part, or rather all, of MMORPG developers eventually move to free-to-play business model, Blizzard with World of Warcraft obviously does not want to move in this direction yet.
League of Legends accounts in danger
On the pages of the popular MOBA title League of Legends warning appeared which states that the date of the players from the North American servers are in danger. According to the statement, unknown perpetrators have come up with user names, e-mail address, masked passwords and some full names.
Zynga takes the "litigate over innovate" path; sues the makers of “bang with friends”
Yesterday we talked about how the social network gaming company Zynga was having a rough time of things. Now we are hearing that they could be pulling off a desperation move by suing another company over trademark infringement. The culprit here is the developer behind the adult app Bang with Friends (who has the same name as the app). Now, while we could see Zynga getting a little upset over the title for a few reasons not the least of which is associating this title with their kid friendly games that have the same naming scheme. However to try and claim trademark infringement because of the “with friends” part is a little much.