The Division will be updated to version 1.02 tomorrow, and as numerical increases go, that doesn’t sound like much. But some substantial changes are on the way, including better rewards for venturing into the Dark Zone and an end to respawning “named NCPs,’ which will “prevent situations where players were able to kill a same named...
Scott Lawler and Tomas Neumann had a tough mission when designing the sound for Overwatch. “We were talking with our game director, Jeff Kaplan, and he gave us this lofty goal of, ‘I want to be able to play the game with the monitor practically turned off,” explains Lawlor, senior sound designer on the project. “Of course,...
It took 130 hours of playing crammed into (a little over) a single week, but a player by the name of Chaos 3SK has managed to hit The Division’s level cap in both the main game, which tops out at level 30, and the separately-leveled Dark Zone that goes all the way up to rank 99....
I got to spend a little time with a demo of Sniper Elite 4, from Rebellion Developments, at GDC this week. It was a PS4 build, and I didn’t actually get to play it personally but I watched as one of the developers gave me a tour and killed a whole bunch of Nazis with a sniper rifle, melee...
Build a beautiful online world and you can be sure intrepid explorers will find a way to escape it. In this instance, efforts by members of the Division community have revealed locations which might hint to future DLC. Chaz leveraged a couple of wall glitches, including a convenient vault and liberal use of the Ballistic Shield, to...
Having sunk twenty-some hours into The Division over the last week, my feelings closely mirror those of our reviewer, James. Ubisoft’s looter-shooting shoot-n’-loot is beautiful, and has the fundamentals of a tactical action game down, but it’s repetitive and shallow to a fault. I’ve already stopped feeling the pull to keep playing: there are only...
need to know What is it? A remastering of the third-person shooter that popularized cover systems.Developer: Epic Games (original), The Coalition (remaster) Publisher: Microsoft Expect to pay: $30Reviewed on: Windows 10, 8GB RAM, i5-3570k, GeForce GTX TitanMultiplayer: Co-op and competitive Link: Official site My criticisms of Gears of War haven’t changed much, which is exceptional for an Xbox 360...
