Developer “Red Hook Studios” announced the first paid DLC for “Darkest Dungeon 2”. It is titled “The Binding Blade” and is set to be released in December of this year on Steam.
The content of this DLC mainly includes 2 new characters: the Duelist (originally: “The Duelist”) and the Crusader (originally: “The Crusader”).
Who are the characters? The Duelist is a new class. To adapt to each situation, she moves to different combat positions and switches between defensive and aggressive stances.
The second class will be familiar to fans of the predecessor. In that game, the Crusader was considered one of the strongest classes. Conceptually, he resembles a classic paladin. With righteous fury, he faces his enemies in melee combat or supports his companions by strengthening and healing them.
What does the community say? Especially players who also played the first part of “Darkest Dungeon” are celebrating the duo. “An old friend returning and a new hero joining, I can hardly wait for the release,” writes a user on YouTube.
The top comment under the DLC trailer is also excited about the Crusader’s return: “The man, the myth, the legend. Reynauld is back, baby!”.
What else does the DLC bring? In addition to the two characters with playable backstories, “Darkest Dungeon 2: The Binding Blade” introduces a new miniboss – the Warlord.
Have you played “Darkest Dungeon 2” or its predecessor? And if so, are you looking forward to the new DLC?
If you haven’t had the chance to check out the dark roguelite title yet or are unsure about purchasing it, we have a brief overview for you here on MeinMMO:
The German development studio Stratosphere Games is currently working on a co-op game on Steam that is supposed to shake up the gaming scene next year. You can find out what kind of game it is here on MeinMMO.
What is it about? The Desolation is a mix of looter shooter and action RPG that is set to start in Early Access in 2024. A full release is also planned for next year on Steam.
On their official Discord channel, the developers are already looking for some testers by November 20, 2023.
We have embedded the trailer for the upcoming co-op game from Germany here for you:
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The Desolation Trailer
What kind of game is this? The Desolation takes place in 2140. The fragmented and militarized humanity has colonized Mars, merged with technology, and left only a small part of the population on Earth.
They could be less equipped to fight “The Schade.” This highly adaptable, synthetic life form infects human forces with its insidious, parasitic technology.
Your task will be to combat these invaders in your various missions on Earth and Mars.
What can you expect in The Desolation? In the fight against the hostile life form, you will team up with other players to increase your chances of success.
As is customary in a good RPG, you have the opportunity to develop your chosen class into different roles. Whether you want to take on the role of damage dealer, tank, or support is entirely up to you.
In the trailer, you will get to know these as Serpah, Frontliner, and Fortress. The trailer also clearly shows in some gameplay scenes how important it will be to work together with the different roles in the team.
Aside from fighting the aliens, you will of course want to get your hands on the best loot. This includes many customizable weapons to develop your own playstyle.
Hordes of aliens stand in your way in The Desolation
As seen in the trailer, you should fight through hordes of enemies in the co-op game, similar to Diablo, with your friends, leaving behind a lot of chaos and loot.
Your enemies can appear from all directions and attack from everywhere. The trailer suggests that your team is your best weapon and coordinating against attacks is incredibly important.
The three available classes remind you of those from Destiny. In addition, there are many weapons you can find on your journeys in various rarities, which is also the case in Destiny 2. However, whether the talents of the classes resemble those from the loot shooter will be revealed upon release. The Desolation resembles a Destiny-lite version.
What The Desolation promises sounds like a fun mix of the best that a good looter-shooter and a good action RPG have to offer.
What do you think of The Desolation? Feel free to share your opinion in the comments.
After the big announcement about GTA 6, the CEO of Take-Two, the game’s publisher, explains how video game prices should actually be calculated.
The GTA community is eagerly awaiting a trailer for GTA 6, which is rumored to be released in December. While the hype following the official announcement of GTA 6 is palpable throughout the gaming community, the publisher shares exciting pricing insights.
Strauss Zelnick is the CEO of Take-Two and explained in the latest earnings call to investors (via RockPaperShotgun) that video games are quite inexpensive. Considering what you get for the price.
“… our prices are still very, very low”
What does Zelnick say? He explains that players get a lot of value for the money they spend. They want to provide consumers with a premium experience:
As for our pricing for any type of entertainment property, the algorithm is basically the value of the expected entertainment usage, i.e., the value per hour times the number of expected hours plus the end value that the customer perceives as an owner when the title is owned and not rented or subscribed.
By these standards, our prices are still very, very low, because we offer many hours of engagement; the value of that engagement is very high. So I think the industry as a whole offers excellent value for consumers.
This does not necessarily mean that the industry has or wants pricing power. However, a lot of value is offered, and it is our strategy to provide consumers with much more value than we charge them; that has always been our strategy.
We want to ensure that our experience is top-notch, and the nature of that experience is not only the quality of what we offer but also what you pay for it. Everyone knows this anecdotally. That’s how we see it. There have been very few price increases in our business. The price increase to, for example, 70 dollars for certain frontline products [in 2022] was the first price increase in many years and after many generations. So I think we provide consumers with great value.
Keep this in mind: In many games, the “purchase price” doesn’t cover everything that can be utilized. Games like GTA Online rely significantly on microtransactions. This allows you to buy in-game currency instead of having to earn it through many hours of work in the game. This way, new content from free updates can be quickly bought with money.
What do you think about Strauss Zelnick’s pricing philosophy? Do you agree, and should games actually be much more expensive?
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From now on, you can purchase tickets for CAGGTUS 2024 in Leipzig. We have all the information about prices, ticket categories, and all other questions.
Once again, CAGGTUS will take place in Leipzig in 2024. From April 4 to 7, 2024, you can spend up to 70 hours with your friends at one of the largest LAN parties in Germany.
Additionally, from April 5 to 7, 2024, the Entertainment and Stream Area will open, where you can not only meet your favorite streamers and content creators, but also play a lot of games and attend shows and competitions.
GameStar, GamePro, and MeinMMO are also joining the party again as official media partners.
Where can I buy tickets?
There are two types of tickets. A ticket with a seat in the LAN Area and a ticket for the Entertainment and Stream Area. Depending on whether you want to participate in the LAN or not, you will need to purchase different tickets.
The Entertainment and Streaming Area is accessible from 12 years old. For the LAN Area, you must be at least 18 years old. These age limits are binding and cannot be circumvented by the good old “Muttizettel”.
What is included with the LAN ticket?
As the name suggests, when you buy LAN tickets, you get a seat in the LAN Area and can play there with your friends throughout the fair.
On the ticket page, you can choose a seat and book it, similar to a cinema. You can decide whether you want to book the Beginner or the Expert LAN Seat. With the Expert LAN Seat, you also receive a limited goodie bag (while supplies last) and a free parking space in a monitored area.
The LAN Area is open continuously from Thursday, 6 PM to Sunday, 4 PM.
What is included with the Entertainment ticket?
The Entertainment ticket opens the doors to the eponymous area, including the Stream area. So you do not need a special ticket to see your favorite streamers. Or also the occasional familiar face from your favorite websites.
When purchasing a ticket, you can choose whether you want a ticket for all three days or just one single day. If you want to save money, it’s best to buy a ticket through the online shop. All tickets conveniently come with a local transport ticket from MDV.
All information regarding family tickets (combined day ticket) and possible discounts can be found on the official CAGGTUS homepage.
The Entertainment Area is open on Friday and Saturday from 11 AM to 7 PM and on Sunday one hour shorter from 11 AM to 6 PM.
Currently, we cannot yet say who from our editorial teams will be there. But expect that you can meet many of us on-site!
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On Sunday morning German time, on November 12th, the probably most important game of the year 2023 took place in League of Legends. 4.3 million watched the semi-final of the LoL Worlds between T1 with fan-favorite Faker and JDG Gaming, the favorite to win the tournament. For the German Twitch streamer Tolkin (25), the game was apparently a bit too much. He couldn’t compose himself during the LoL thriller.
What a game was that? The 2nd semi-final of the LoL Worlds was like a pre-final:
The Chinese champion JDG Gaming was the clear favorite to win the tournament. With Ruler, they have a nemesis of Faker on the team, who many consider to be the best ADC. Kanavi is a force in the jungle, and Knight is considered one of the mid-laners who have now surpassed Faker.
Three-time world champion Faker is regarded as “the greatest player of all time”, but the man is now 27 and is under constant suspicion of being “washed up”, meaning past his prime. However, these reports proved once again to be false.
Many LoL fans and pros wish that he would finally become world champion again:
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The Life of Faker – Why He is a Living Legend
LoL and LoL Streamers Dominate Twitch
How many were watching? According to esportscharts, the semi-final had 4.3 million viewers. And some Chinese channels are not even included.
Riot Games has also been the largest Twitch channel in the world over the last 3 days, and co-streamers of the World Championship, like Ibai (Spain) or Caedrel (English), dominate the charts among individual streamers.
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How is it in Germany? In Germany, Summoner’s Inn has the broadcasting rights for the official stream and had about 20,000 viewers at peak on Sunday.
The former pro and Twitch streamer Tolkin is allowed to stream the LoL Worlds as the only German co-streamer as well and has significantly more viewers than the official channel. At peak, 32,000 people watched Tolkin.
This is spicy because Tolkin worked for Freaks 4 U Gaming until 2022. We from MeinMMO had requested a statement from Freaks 4 U about this and they said they wished Tolkin only the best, but some employees at Freaks 4 U are actually a bit worried that they see their pet project in danger through Tolkin’s success. The ecosystem must ultimately work for everyone.
How was it for Tolkin? The 25-year-old Tolkin was known as a top-laner in LoL for his nerves of steel, but as a caster, he is a ruthless T1 fan and for him, it was the game of the year.
Even before the first encounter, he said he was so hyped that he couldn’t sleep at all. He was so caught up in the hype. With triple speed, Tolkin analyzed the draft, the team’s strategies, provided background information, and rushed through the team fights.
At one point, when T1 won a close fight, Tolkin apparently couldn’t handle it anymore. He said he had been shaking the whole time, was just so excited, couldn’t handle it all anymore.
You can see how excited Tolkin was in this clip. He is so into the match that he apparently jumps up and down as a way to cope.
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Many current pros revere Faker, really wish him to win
What’s behind it: Faker is the role model for many current pros in LoL, with whom they grew up and to whom they are loyal. He had his peak from 2013 to 2016 – when many current pros were still young teenagers dreaming of becoming a pro.
There are a multitude of well-known streamers and LoL pros on Twitter showing excitement for T1 and Faker and wishing him all the best to win the LoL Worlds again after 7 lean years.
This is so exciting because LoL pros usually take nothing and no one seriously, constantly trolling and speaking ironically. But with Faker, even cynics like Jankos suddenly become sentimental:
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With “impartial casting”, you can’t expect much from the co-streamers. Especially since Faker is competing in South Korea, and the fans are cheering him on.
Therefore, Tolkin wasn’t the only streamer showing so much hype: The Englishman Caedrel also couldn’t contain himself during the decisive moment.
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Faker’s victory is also likely to please the soft drink company Red Bull. They have shown a keen instinct and planned an event in Berlin for December 2023. Especially for Tolkin, this could become another highlight in his life:
The skin trading on Steam is taking absurd turns in Counter-Strike 2 in 2023. Ubisoft is now willing to take on the annoyance and announces a marketplace for skin trading in their shooter Rainbow Six Siege.
What kind of feature is this?
In many multiplayer games today, there are purely cosmetic skins for heroes or weapons. In games like LoL or Fortnite, such cosmetic skins are permanently tied to the account and cannot be exchanged. There is simply no system for this.
Ubisoft is now planning its own version of this skin trading in their popular tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege: a skin marketplace.
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Rainbow Six: Siege Launch Trailer
Marketplace with premium currency for Rainbow Six Siege
How is this supposed to work? According to PC Gamer, the “skin marketplace” will be accessible via a browser and mobile. It will only be possible to trade using R6 Credits, the premium currency of Rainbow Six Siege.
It is still unclear whether the skins will go to the highest bidder or if there will be fixed prices.
A beta for the feature is supposed to start “soon” (via Ubisoft), with the full launch of the marketplace planned for 2024.
Why do the skins in CS:GO cause so much trouble? The skins and the trading of skins have contributed significantly to CS:GO’s popularity: The skins are practically assets and speculation objects that can be sold for real money at any time.
However, the skins have also caused problems for Valve repeatedly: There were betting sites where players could use skins to gamble or place bets on the outcomes of e-sports matches. This was heading towards “illegal gambling.”
It is unclear how Ubisoft plans to design the shop to avoid such problems.
A long-standing game like Rainbow Six Siege has countless skins, so it is uncertain how the market for skins in the game could develop if a marketplace goes online, like in CS 2.
In Counter-Strike 2, there are traders who specialize in skins and whose account is incredibly valuable:
Elias “Upset” Lipp (23) is probably the best German player in League of Legends, but the 23-year-old has had a tough year. At Fnatic, where he played successfully for a long time, he was replaced by LoL veteran Rekkles. After that, Team Vitality dropped to the bottom of the table. Now a cool new project seems to be waiting for him.
Who is Upset and why is he considered so strong?
Elias “Upset” Lipp played for Schalke for 3 years and was regarded as a huge talent in the role of bot laner.
From 2020 to 2022, Upset was the star player of Fnatic, impressing with his controlled, aggressive, yet premature playstyle, leading statistics across Europe and earning a reputation as one of the best ADCs outside of Asia.
Upset is probably the best LoL player in Germany. The other candidate for the title of “best German LoL pro” would probably be BrokenBlade, who plays for G2.
But despite all his talent and personal success, Upset’s career fell into a slump in 2023.
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A spectacular video about League of Legends has now 138 million views – Shows how huge LoL is
Personal problems and Covid ruined his Worlds chances twice
What went wrong? Even though Upset is such a great player, things have not gone smoothly for him in recent years, especially the Worlds have repeatedly become a career low:
At Fnatic, he had to leave the Worlds early in 2021 due to personal issues – that nearly tore the team apart. The players had fought for a year for the chance to shine at the Worlds, but without Upset, the linchpin of their team, it was all for nothing.
In 2022, the Worlds went terribly for Fnatic again – due to Covid and other issues , the team never managed to train properly and failed to make a good impression on the big stage.
What’s next for him? Perkz has left Team Vitality, and Upset will leave as well. According to current reports, he is set to join the new French team Karmine Corp (via dotesports), which is reportedly planning to send a strong team to the LEC in 2024.
In addition to Upset, they are also said to have verbally agreed on collaboration with coach Jakob “YamatoCannon” Medbi and talented jungler Bo.
Although Upset has not officially confirmed this yet, it looks like he will stay in France with a team that is striving to win.
The German seems to be in a good mood anyway. On Twitter, he shows a screenshot from Korea, where apparently Knight, the top laner of the Chinese top team JDG recognizes and praises him. Perhaps this is a good sign for the future.
Besides Upset, the German mid laner “PowerOfEvil” is also likely to find a new team for 2023, remaining in Germany:
At the end of the year, Google is starting a major cleanup. This affects all private Google accounts that have been inactive for at least 2 years. Whether your account is affected and how to prevent deletion can be found at MeinMMO.
Google and its services like YouTube are used daily by many people. And yet, there seems to be a number of users who either forgo the products of the US company or have forgotten that they have a Google account. For everyone with such a forgotten account, it is now time to act quickly. In a few weeks, Google will start deleting accounts that have not been actively used for over 24 months.
Google will soon delete your inactive accounts
What will happen in December? Google will begin removing longer unused Google accounts from its system starting on 01.12.2023.
Users will then lose access to their account, associated activities, and all data.
This applies to all Google services connected to your account.
Particularly frustrating could be the additional loss of other accounts that rely on the data of your Google account for login. If you have registered your Google email address with another provider and then need to reset your password, the rescue email will go into oblivion.
How can I protect my account from deletion? Google lists several activities in its guidelines that are considered to keep an account active. As long as you use it normally, there is no threat of deletion. This includes reading emails, watching YouTube videos, or using Google Search regularly. If you are logged in with your account during these and other activities, you don’t have to worry about anything else. You can also find corresponding guidelines in the support section of the Google Account Help.
It looks different if you truly have not used Google services with your account for two years or more. For these accounts, complete deletion is imminent. However, the US company does not put you in front of a done deal. These accounts marked as inactive will be informed about the impending deletion via email. However, if the warning ends up only in your unused Google inbox, it could soon be too late.
Provided you use another email address as a recovery account, you are safe. Once another login with your Google account has occurred, the timer for deletion resets to the remaining 24 months.
Why is Google deleting private accounts at all? The US company is not primarily trying to save storage space on its own servers with this. Rather, it is about removing insecure accounts that are no longer on anyone’s radar. Accounts with easily chosen passwords and without two-factor authentication pose a security risk.
Hackers with malicious intent specifically seek out such accounts, gain access, and can cause significant damage with the acquired data. According to Google, such accounts are up to ten times less protected against attacks by additional security measures.
The Twitch streamer Simon “Unge” Wiefels (33) returns after almost six months of absence. Soon, new streams and YouTube videos are expected.
What happened to Unge?After more than 10 years as a content creator, Simon “Unge” Wiefels withdrew from the public eye in May 2023. In a video, he explained that he had been struggling with his mental health for a while.
However, Unge did not disappear completely but streamed under the name “Raik” as a VTuber in English. Now, the 33-year-old is back on X, formerly Twitter, and revealed what the future holds.
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Minecraft, longboards and vegan food made him famous – The career of Unge
Unge is back and “stronger than ever”
Unge has been active on X since the end of October, sharing updates from his everyday life or short videos. On November 12, he followed up with a detailed message to his fans, accompanied by a selfie.
In his post, Unge writes that he simply needed “some distance from this ‘fame'” which can sometimes be a bit too much. Now he is back and “stronger than ever.” The break seems to have done him good, as he learned “more in these months than in 3 full years.”
What’s next? New videos and streams from Unge are expected to follow later in November, according to Unge. The content creator writes that he has “lots of plans.” For instance, he is considering taking advantage of the updated Twitch policies to offer “dual streams,” broadcasting simultaneously on YouTube and Twitch.
For all those who have fallen in love with Unge’s anime avatar with the ears of a red panda, there’s good news: The content creator wants to continue streaming in English as Raik. German streams will continue as usual on the ungespielt channel. It remains to be seen how the 33-year-old will divide his time between the channels.
The excitement is already great among his fans and also his colleagues.
Unge is not the only German Twitch streamer making a comeback after a longer break. Carsten alias “ELoTRiX” returned in September 2023 after having gone through a tough time and being inactive for a while.
In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 you can expect 20 maps in multiplayer at release. You can find all maps in 2023 and their names here in the overview on MeinMMO.
How many maps will there be in CoD MW 3? Activision has commented on the maps in CoD MW3 and clarified in their blog post that you will have 20 maps available for multiplayer at launch:
6v6 Maps
Afghan
Derail
Estate
Favela
Highrise
Invasion
Karachi
Quarry
Rundown
Rust
Scrapyard
Skidrow
Sub Base
Terminal
Underpass
Wasteland
Battle Maps
Levin Resort
Orlov Military Base
Popov Power
Operation Spearhead
The majority of these maps are reskins of once iconic battlefields that players should still remember from the predecessors of MW2 and MW3. Familiar locations like Rust or Terminal are thus making their way back into the CoD community with improved graphics.
Did you miss the trailer for the multiplayer of MW3? Then we have just the thing for you:
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The new CoD MW3 presents itself with shooter action in the new multiplayer trailer
Will new maps be added? Activision itself stated in its blog post that many well-known maps from Modern Warfare 2 such as Farm 18, Mercado, and Shoot House will make it into Modern Warfare 3. These will also be reskins of the maps that will be offered in special playlists for players, depending on which season is currently active.
Further old favorites are expected to return, but which ones they are is not yet known. It is also not known whether Activision is working on brand new maps and will release them in the upcoming seasons.
However, if something happens, we will inform you about it. What do you think of the old maps that have returned in a fresh shine? Do you like them or would you have preferred new maps? Let us know in the comments!
At the end of January 2024, the latest installment of a popular fighting game series will be released. Now, Tekken 8 introduces its final new character. This fighter impresses in her promotional trailer in every way.
A new trailer has now introduced the last new fighter for Tekken 8. The new entry in the well-known fighting game series will be released on January 26, 2024, for PC, PS5, and Xbox.
We have embedded the promotional trailer of the beautiful yet brutal fighter Reina here for you:
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Tekken 8 Reina Reveal
What does the trailer show? In addition to the introduction of Reina, you also get a glimpse of a new stage. This stage resembles a magnificent temple with huge statues of the gods, golden accents, and large sliding doors that get destroyed in battle, enlarging the stage even further.
However, the stage is definitely just a supporting character, as the real star of the trailer is the fighter Reina. And she shows in the trailer what she’s capable of.
Reina awaits you on a huge chair in the middle of the new stage and challenges you to push her to her limits. That this is quite difficult to achieve is then shown in several fight scenes.
Among other things, she makes the old and beloved fighters Jin and Kazuya look quite bad in the trailer.
Reina is an acrobatic fighter and uses the fighting style Taido. With brutal techniques and quick footwork, she quickly closes the distance between herself and her opponent, leaving them hardly any chance.
Additionally, she seems to utilize electricity and lightning to give her attacks the final touch.
What are the reactions? Fans and players seem completely thrilled with the new fighter, as clearly shown in the comments on YouTube.
Many praise her design and her entire character. For instance, upbeatgames8819 writes: ‘I love her hair and her outfit. I love her raw fighting style, and above all, I love the mocking way in which she speaks to the other characters. The way she looks at Kazuya at the end of the trailer gives me goosebumps.’
We have compiled a few more comments for you here:
tabagathedestroyer9654 writes: ‘She is brutal and I love her.’
aidanru.2469 writes: ‘She is everything I wanted and expected from her since the first leaks appeared. […] Reina joins Jin, Devil Jin, and Hwoarang as my Tekken 8 main.’
RufusM writes: ‘Simply the best new character. Excellent music, great animations. Well done.’
What do you think of Reina as the last new fighter? Feel free to share your opinion in the comments.
If you missed the reveal trailer for Tekken 8, you can find it here:
Sam Sung is a former employee of Apple. Recently, he changed his name to no longer sound like the largest competitor of his former employer. Surprisingly, his old possessions are worth a lot of money.
Sam Sung is a Scot who worked for Apple until 2013. As part of his job for the company, he worked at an Apple Store in Glasgow and later at another Apple Store in Canada.
Recently, he changed his name from Sam Sung to Sam Struan, no longer carrying the name of Apple’s biggest competitor. This was reported by the French colleagues from Jeuxvideo.com.
Another peculiarity, however, is that many people are willing to pay a lot of money for his old work tools. And the former employee donates the money to good causes.
Sam Sung sells T-shirts and business cards for a good cause
What exactly did Sam Sung do with his things? Sam Sung, or Sam Struan, previously sold his old Apple business card printed with “Sam Sung.” In this way, he was able to raise more than $2,600, which he donated to the “Make-a-wish Foundation.”
But that was not all. Later, he sold a frame with an Apple employee T-shirt, his old ID, and another business card. This time, the proceeds went to the “Downtown East Women’s Shelter,” an organization based in Vancouver.
Meanwhile, Sam Struan no longer works for Apple, but he is still auctioning off old products from his Apple days to raise money for good causes.
Samsung and Apple are always considered tough competitors
The two giant tech companies are always seen as major opponents, despite having completely different strategies:
Apple relies heavily on its own ecosystem and on a handful of expensive and high-quality devices like the iPhone or the MacBook. Above all, the proprietary operating system is a unique selling point in the mobile market.
Samsung predominantly tests many technologies and focuses on a wide range of different items: from smartphones to televisions to SSDs, Samsung offers numerous products.
Nevertheless, both companies continue to play around with this in their advertising and tease the competition.
A few months ago, Samsung introduced a huge gaming monitor that excited both gamers and journalists alike. What the device offers and for what price you can purchase the model, you can read directly on MeinMMO:
Warcraft Rumble is a resounding success – but unfortunately only playable on smartphones. However, you can also play it on PC using software.
Mobile games are not for everyone. But by now, everyone should have realized that Warcraft Rumble is quite fun. However, many cannot deal with the small display of a phone, and not everyone has a tablet on hand. However, it is possible to play Warcraft Rumble on PC – even if you need to install additional software for that.
We will show you how to play Warcraft Rumble on PC using BlueStacks 5.
However, please note that this option is not officially supported by Blizzard and must therefore be used at your own risk. However, it worked flawlessly in our test.
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Warcraft Rumble: Cinematic for the Game Launch
What is needed? The setup only takes a few minutes. Before you can play Rumble on PC, you need:
A Google Play Store account (or the corresponding Apple Store)
After installing BlueStacks 5, you just need to start the application. In the settings, you can choose which smartphone model you want to appear as – but this is usually not very important. Log in here with your corresponding Google or Apple account and just search for “Warcraft Rumble” in the store and install it.
It may happen that BlueStacks switches to a different player version at this point, but that is quite normal.
Short loading times, larger image. Rumble on PC works flawlessly.
What problems can there be? It may be that BlueStacks says when starting Warcraft Rumble that CPU virtualization must be enabled. In that case, you need to enable this on your PC first. How this works is a bit different for each PC. Usually, this can be done in the basic settings of your motherboard (often also called “BIOS”). You can access it by holding down a key when starting your PC – depending on the manufacturer, this is often F1, F2, or F4.
After you have enabled CPU virtualization, restart Rumble again via BlueStacks and it should work.
How does BlueStacks finance itself? The program constantly displays ads in its various players to be offered for free. However, you can simply deactivate these in the options if they bother you too much. Generally, the ads are not very disruptive as they are located outside of the “emulated” phone display.
Have you played Rumble yet – whether on mobile or on PC?
Some monsters in Pokémon GO are quite difficult to obtain. Frospino is one of the best examples of rare monsters. We want to know in the survey: Have you got it yet?
What kind of Pokémon is this? Frospino is a Pokémon from the Paldea region that debuted in Pokémon GO in early September 2023.
It belongs to the pseudo-legendary Pokémon and has two evolutions: Cryospino and Espinodon. Espinodon is one of the best ice attackers in Pokémon GO.
However, getting Frospino, let alone the candies for Cryospino and Espinodon, is quite difficult. Because the monster is still cursed rare.
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Pokémon GO brings the first Paldea Pokémon
How to get Frospino and have you had success?
How to get Frospino: Currently, there are two options to encounter Frospino:
The first option is the 10-kilometer eggs. It is one of the possible hatching options, but it is one of the rarest. Only Ignivor is even harder to obtain when it comes to hatching.
The second option is the wild. According to some trainers, Frospino can still be found in the wild with a lot of luck, but that also hardly happens. However, it is said that you have better chances in windy or snowy weather.
Still: The situations resemble those of monsters like Kaumalat or Miniras, which were extremely difficult to obtain at first.
Have you already got a Frospino? We want to know from you: Have you already caught one of the rare monsters, or even several? Participate in our survey and let us know in the comments how you found it:
Will it get easier? Over time, it is to be expected that Frospino will become easier to obtain. After all, that was also the case with similar Pokémon in the past, which were then easier to find during events or finally at their own community day.
When Blizzard introduced the expansion Vessel of Hatred for Diablo 4, it quickly became clear that no old class such as the Paladin or the Witch Doctor would be returning. But why is that?
Where does the information come from? A few days have passed since BlizzCon and among Diablo fans, the hot topic is still the upcoming expansion called Vessel of Hatred. The addon will be released in 2024 and brings back a few familiar locations. However, the team at Blizzard does not fulfill the big wish for the return of popular classes from previous games with this expansion. Instead, there is a completely new class.
In an interview with GamesRadar+, Blizzard now comments on the reasoning behind this decision. They feel responsible for providing you with new ways to play.
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BlizzCon 2023: Diablo 4 leaders talk to us about the development and future of the game
“We made the decision to do something new”
This is what Blizzard says: In the interview, Brent Gibson, Associate Game Director for Diablo 4, explains why beloved classes like the Paladin or Witch Doctor are not returning with the new addon.
I think it’s important to remember what our goal was with the main game. So we did really well in delivering five classic classes – and their very specific power fantasies were really important – we wanted to get them right. I feel like we did that amazingly well.
However, while developing Vessel of Hatred, the team faced an important decision. Should they try something new or continue as before?
“The team talked a lot about it, and we really feel responsible for providing new gameplay opportunities. So we decided to do something new. And that is sort of the core that we are working on.”
The MMORPG Justice Online has been playable in China since 2018. The game has gained significant attention especially due to its beautiful graphics and action-packed battles. There is now a hint that the title may finally be released in Europe.
What is Justice Online?
Justice Online was released in China in 2018 by NetEase (known in Europe for Diablo Immortal). In 2023, a cross-platform version between PC and mobile was launched.
Now, NetEase itself gives a hint that the release in the West is near (via reddit.com). The company has filed a trademark application for Sword of Justice (via trademarks.justia.com). This might be a new name that the developer and publisher is adopting for the release in Europe.
The application was submitted on September 1, 2023. However, there has been no official announcement since then. So we should wait to see if anything happens regarding this matter soon.
It is not known whether NetEase will release the original PC version or the cross-platform version for PC and mobile here.
How is the game funded? Similar to Swords of Legends, there is a free version available at the beginning. However, later you will need to pay money to buy gaming hours. Additionally, there are microtransactions where players can purchase equipment items for real money.
It is not known how the payment model will look in the West.
In China, one man was upset because a friend sold his character for 500 euros – although he had invested 1.3 million euros into the character:
A nasty error in World of Warcraft is currently overloading your PC? With a little trick, you can prevent the error until the developers fix it.
In World of Warcraft, there is currently a pretty nasty bug that diminishes the gaming experience. After a while, there can be severe stuttering, and the entire system is increasingly slowed down. Pleasant gaming becomes almost impossible, and the cause is hard to find. The culprit is a bug that leads to a “Memory Leak.” The bug was introduced with Patch 10.2 Guardian of the Dreams.
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WoW: Guardians of the Dream – Launch Trailer
What kind of error is this? In the case of a memory leak, your RAM gets overloaded because World of Warcraft keeps demanding more space. While the game normally should only occupy a few gigabytes of RAM, the memory leak causes this value to continually rise, and there seems to be no end in sight. WoW “consumes” as much memory as it can – and the longer the game runs, the worse it gets. An end is only in sight when your memory is completely exhausted.
The result: the entire PC is slow, World of Warcraft stutters heavily.
This error affects all users of DirectX 11 and Mac computers.
How to fix the error? There is currently no permanent solution, but there is a workaround you can apply. If you notice that World of Warcraft is consuming too much memory, which you can see in the Task Manager (CTRL+ALT+DELETE), then a small console command helps, which you simply need to enter in the chat window of the game:
/console gxrestart
This reduces the RAM usage back to the default value – at least temporarily. After a while, the amount starts to increase again. So save this command and use it regularly to avoid overloading your computer.
When will the error be fixed? Blizzard has already identified the error. Apparently, it is due to a faulty line of code that only occurs on the live servers and therefore was overlooked during internal testing. A fix for the problem is expected to be available within this week – so you probably won’t have to deal with this workaround for long.
A bug fix is expected to go live during the current week, likely with scheduled maintenance on Wednesday.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 had a rough start despite a large PR effort, and the multiplayer does not provide a better picture of the shooter. Players are disappointed and are therefore raining down bad reviews on Metacritic.
What is happening on Metacritic? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 had its multiplayer and zombie mode release on November 10. Players could finally start grinding for their weapons and ranks and no longer had to settle for the absurd campaign.
Despite this, the mood around the controversial shooter did not improve. Players have a clear opinion about MW3, and it not only is bad, but it shows that the shooter is the worst title in the CoD series. The game is even worse than the disastrous vampire shooter “Redfall”.
Here you can find the right multiplayer trailer for MW3 from CoD:
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The new CoD MW3 presents itself with shooter action in the new multiplayer trailer
CoD MW3 is the worst CoD ever
This is how MW3 ranks in the ratings: For early access, players could not leave an accurate rating for the shooter, but since the multiplayer was unlocked, many opinions regarding the new game from Activision have come in.
The score on Metacritic was 50 (as of November 13, 10:50 AM), positioning the shooter as the worst installment in the series. We have listed all CoD titles with their scores on Metacritic:
Modern Warfare III (2023) – 50 points
Modern Warfare II (2022) – 75 points
Vanguard – 73 points
Black Ops Cold War – 76 points
Modern Warfare (2019) – 80 points
Black Ops 4 – 83 points
WWII – 79 points
Infinite Warfare – 77 points
Black Ops III – 81 points
Advanced Warfare – 81 points
Ghosts – 78 points
Black Ops II – 81 points
Modern Warfare 3 – 88 points
Black Ops – 87 points
Modern Warfare 2 – 94 points
World at War – 84 points
Modern Warfare – 94 points
Call of Duty 3 – 82 points
Call of Duty 2 – 89 points
Call of Duty – 91 points
The interesting thing here is also the comparison with Bethesda’s disastrous vampire game, Redfall. The game resembled a nightmare, and despite receiving many bad reviews, Redfall, with its 56 points on Metacritic, is better than MW3.
Why is MW3 so bad?New insights bring clarity to the release of MW3. According to an insider report, it was explained that the title was only in development for 16 months before it was offered to fans for purchase. In addition, players complained about the following issues with the title:
The game offers far too few contents for its price (70 €)
The story is far too short, with 3-4 hours of gameplay
The zombie mode is a mix of DMZ and zombies and does not feel new
PvP only excites through the re-release of iconic maps and QoL changes that could have also been included in a patch for MW2
It is the bad aftertaste that players feel when thinking about spending so much money on a game for things that normally would have fit into a DLC. Therefore, the price should have been reduced by half, but for 70 €, it is too much money for too little content for many players.
What do you think of MW3? Do you believe the game deserves its rating on Metacritic, or are you enjoying the multiplayer? Let us know in the comments!
A player puts their hard drive in the freezer to save data. But what is behind this method and how safe is it really?
A gamer explains on reddit that his HDD gave up shortly after the warranty expired. There is a kind of electronic alarm that comes from the drive. For this reason, the user explained that he put the hard drive in the freezer. Because this trick is supposed to help make the hard drive briefly usable again.
Freezing trick helps with certain damages, but only temporarily
What kind of trick is this? The method of “freezing” is primarily used when certain components of the hard drive, the bearings, are damaged. Both the spindle and the write and read heads of the hard drive are connected to a bearing.
The “freezing trick” consists of putting the drive in a waterproof plastic bag and then placing it in the freezer. If you leave it alone for a few hours, the cold cools the metal so much that it contracts and, in some cases, frees the hard drive to spin.
The trick was then used to make a hard drive briefly usable again to save important data.
Other damages, when the hard drive is no longer running smoothly and suffers from so-called imbalance, cannot be fixed or bypassed by this method.
Is this method worth it? No, many experts advise against putting a hard drive in the freezer. The strong temperature differences also cause components to contract. This can lead to irreversible damage.
Moreover, you must be aware that condensation can form inside the hard drive if you are not careful – even if you put the hard drive in an airtight bag.
The colleagues from PCWorld additionally explain that modern hard drives are now designed in such a way that the “freezing trick” may not work anymore: In modern drives, the distance between a head and the plate is slightly less than 10 nanometers.
Did the trick help the gamer? No, so far he has not been able to revive his hard drive. In the meantime, he has posted 3 short updates in his article. After 3 hours, there was still the beeping sound, and after another test, the hard drive still did not come back.
If you still have some time to watch after Frieren and want to bridge the waiting time until the release of Dragon Ball Daima, The Pharmacist’s Diaries might be something for you.
You can get a glimpse of the anime in the trailer for The Pharmacist’s Diaries:
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The Pharmacist’s Diaries – Trailer for the Anime on Crunchyroll
What is The Pharmacist’s Diaries about? The story takes place in a fictional country during the Ming Era in China. Maomao is a young girl who makes a living as a pharmacist in the red-light district.
One day, she is kidnapped by human traffickers who sell her to the imperial court as a slave. She tries to maintain a quiet daily life and not draw attention.
Suddenly, the two children of the emperor fall ill. Maomao sets out to find the cause and uncovers the mystery surrounding their illness. Her actions are so well-received that she is hired as a maid. Additionally, her knowledge as a pharmacist becomes known, and she starts receiving increasingly bizarre requests and assignments.
Moreover, her actions are being followed by a beautiful eunuch, whose beauty drives many ladies crazy. However, Maomao seems uninterested in the eunuch’s advances, leading to many humorous situations.
What does the eunuch want with Maomao?
What makes The Pharmacist’s Diaries so special? The protagonist, Maomao, makes the anime so exciting. She is an inconspicuous lone wolf who enjoys conducting toxic experiments on herself, yet suddenly has to take on one of the most important tasks at the imperial court.
I liked Maomao’s ability to combine things. She is a sharp-witted girl, despite having to grow up in poor conditions. Due to her connections to the brothel and her knowledge of medicine and herbs, she is well-equipped for every situation at the imperial court.
It’s also exciting to guess what ailments her clients suffer from. To what extent do the mysterious deaths fall? And why do many of the characters suddenly fall seriously ill? Maomao has been able to solve every riddle so far, and I enjoy watching her do it.
Where can I watch The Pharmacist’s Diaries? The anime is currently airing on Crunchyroll. You can even watch the first three episodes without a subscription. The first season is not yet complete, with a new episode being released every week.
There is the option to switch between the Japanese and English dubbing. However, this only applies to the first three episodes; all subsequent episodes are only available in the Japanese original with German subtitles.
