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Steam says “see ya!” Yesterday, we told you game developer Digital Homicide was attempting to sue 100 Steam users over negative statements made about the company and its games. Statements like “They’re more likely at this point to become mass murderers than actually be a respected game dev” and “this dev should go from digital homicide to physical suicide,” both of which are actual Steam user comments that were included in the affidavit....

[Editor’s note: Community member Nekobun interviewed MAGFest’s Nick Marinelli to get the lowdown on what MAGFest is all about. — Hamza CTZ Aziz] MAGFest Xlooms nigh on the horizon, and with only less than a month left, I made the discovery that a certain Nick Marinelli, with whom I was acquainted with already, and who’s served at several MAGFests to date, was actually their PR guy. Seeing as how ten years is usually a notable anniversary for anything, I interviewed Nick to find out what MAGFest is all about and some of the highlights from the past years of the festival....

‘Division 2 is the industry’s biggest hit since the beginning of the year’ Ubisoft has been having a pretty good past few years. Not only did they invest time and money into older games likeRainbow Six SiegeandFor Honor, but they also backed off the whole “annualAssassin’s Creed” thing this year, ridingOdysseyinto 2019 (the last DLC for it was released just this week). And even if theydidn’t,OriginsandOdysseyaren’t a bad 2017 and 2018 respective duo....

Entry to the beta and availability will vary by territory. U.S. residents will able to log on for a chance to receive a token on a first come basis. Updates for International soldiers will become available on Charlie Oscar Delta, where details will be shared about the International rollout of the multiplayer beta.Here’s hoping that Charlie Oscar Delta doesn’t go down like all beta Web sites inevitably do. If you don’t end up with a beta token, you’ll have to wait until November 5 for the game to hit stores....

The Beastmen are loose Warhammer: Vermintide 2is getting even more chaotic this August. The first full expansion,Winds of Magic, will unleash the Beastmen along with adding a higher player level cap and difficulty setting, one new adventure level, a new weapon for each of the five heroes, and a remix-centric mode. The first footage forWarhammer: Vermintide 2 – Winds of Magicis a cinematic trailer. The brutish Children of Chaos hope to claim Reikwald Forest as the site of aHerdstone, and we can’t have that, no siree....

Soulstones are one of the more important upgrade materials inThe First Berserker: Khazan, found in almost every level of the game. Stormpass, the second area, plays host to three of them, and we’ll show you how to find them all in this guide. Table of contents All Soulstone locations on Stormpass in The First Berserker: Khazan Stormpass is a much larger location thanMount Heinmach, though that makes sense as the first non-tutorial zone....

Charge it I’ve written quite a few TM guides forPokemon Scarlet & Violet, and it warms my heart to see Charge Beam come up. Hyper Beam was one of my favorite moves growing up in the original generation, so anything beam related: I’m in. Here’s where to find Charge Beam in the ninth generation ofPokemon. You can find Charge Beam (TM 023) below Cascarrafa Charge Beam is conveniently located below Cascarrafa, outside of the Giacomo (Dark type) Team Star base, on a cliff....

Chances are, it’s not you [Brett Makedonski is a freelance writer based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, whose regular work can be found on 360Sync. Seeing how he’s the conversational type, feel free to talk to him on Twitter at@Donski3.] Most videogame publishers are particularly adept at their jobs. It’s tough to argue with results, and any publisher that is operating at a profit is, in the scheme of things, succeeding. Publishers fill many much-needed roles – from funding developers to marketing the games – but their primary function is always, always, always to make money....

It does support HTML 5 though Hey, guess how long until the Wii U launches in North America? A little over two weeks.Two weeks; it hadn’t even crossed my mind. I suppose, then, that now would be a pretty good time for Nintendo to go into a bit more detail about the Wii U’s web browser that many of us have been wondering about. Oh, wait, they just did? Yay!...

A look at which games trailers get the most attention As we wound down from E3 last year, the view count for theFinal Fantasy VIItrailer on the PlayStation YouTube channel surprised me and so I set out to take a casual glance at PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo’s official channels to seewhat was performing best. And I figured I’d do that again this year. Possibly an important contextual consideration:PlayStationhas 4.7M subscribers,Nintendo1.8M, andXbox1....

This is my aesthetic Due Processis a five-on-five tactical shooter that lets you pore over the map, converse with your team, and draw up a literal plan John Madden-style before heading into your match. We covered the gameseveral years agobut now it’s back looking better than ever under publisher Annapurna Interactive. The art has undergone a big makeover, with creator Giant Enemy Crab citingTime Crisisas inspiration. One team is on offense, the other on defense, and maps are procedurally generated to makeDue Process“more about outsmarting your opponent than memorizing a map....

‘Die Pig!!’ Suikoden IIis 20 years old this month and is arguably one of the best JRPGs ever made. I could sit here and list out every reason why, but our ownRay Porrecaalready made a case forSuikoden II’sbig picture. I only just beatSuikodenIIfor the first time in 2018 and couldn’t feel like a bigger moron for taking as long as I did. Instead of reiterating on the amazing article Ray wrote about why this game is so god damn fantastic, I wanted to zero in on one of its characters that stuck with me the most....

A conglomerate of indie game developers appears to have come up with something known only as the “Triple-I Initiative,” with an appropriately befuddling website to go along with it. Allcheekiness aside, the Triple-I Initiativeseemsto have some serious talent behind it, and an announcement is coming soon. More specifically, the mysteriousTriple-I Initiative websitedescribes itself as a “mysterious teasing page by the studios behind…Darkest Dungeon, Risk of Rain, Slay the Spire, Vampire Survivors, V Rising& many others....