In Diablo 4, there are particularly rare, unique items – the Mythic Uniques. Especially popular is the Harlequin Crown, also known as Shako. We show you how to obtain the headgear and what makes it special.
What is the Harlequin Crown? The Harlequin Crown is a headgear that many players also call “Shako.” The name “Shako” comes from the designation of the item type in Diablo 2, from where the helmet originates.
What can the Harlequin Crown do? The Mythic Unique (formerly: Uber Unique) has fixed properties and is considered the best headgear for almost any build in Diablo 4. All five classes can equip the headgear, and it grants you +4 ranks on all your skills. In addition, you receive a damage reduction of 20%.
Additionally, the headgear provides a bonus to the following stats:
maximum health
maximum resource
armor
cooldown reduction
The Mythic Unique Harlequin Crown/ “Shako” in Diablo 4. Source: Blizzard
Anyone who wants to find the coveted Mythic Uniques, especially the Harlequin Crown, needs quite a bit of luck. One player even got two Mythics in a short time, both of which can be used by any class – and a developer envies him for that.
To determine which item is better, you should activate two settings in Diablo 4:
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Diablo 4: Immediately activate these 2 settings, otherwise you will miss important equipment values
Farming the Harlequin Crown
Where can I find the Harlequin Crown? To get the Mythic Unique to drop, you can try your luck with the bosses starting from Qual Level 1. They have a chance to drop Mythics when you defeat them, making them suitable for targeted farming of Uniques and Mythic Uniques.
Additionally, it is possible to obtain Mythics as random loot drops also outside of the bosses – but this is rare. You can try your luck with the Curiosity Merchant, in the Pit, and in the Under City of Kurast.
You can also craft Mythic Uniques yourself at the blacksmith and jeweler of your choice in Diablo 4. However, you will need “Magnificent Sparks,” gold, and in one case a bunch of runes. You can find out more about this here: Diablo 4: Crafting Magnificent Sparks – How to craft Mythic Uniques with it
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In EA FC 25 you can now earn a guaranteed Hero. Many of these special cards even promise a big profit. On MeinMMO, we reveal which players are really worth it and what a valuable card from the Hero Pack is.
What is this Hero Pack? You can unlock the pack through a new Squad Building Challenge (SBC). The new SBC has been released under the name “Max.-88-Basis-Hero-Upgrade” on Wednesday, October 23 at 7:00 PM and is available for 6 days. You can repeat the pack after 4 days.
As the name suggests, the Hero you draw can have a maximum rating of 88. This means some expensive, but also less valuable Heroes are excluded.
How do you get the Hero Pack? To receive the pack, you need to complete 3 individual SBCs with the following requirements (and costs) for the “Max.-88-Basis-Hero-Upgrade”:
1 team with an 84 rating (about 30,000 coins)
1 team with an 85 rating, with 1 Team of the Week player (about 55,000 coins)
1 team with an 86 rating, with 1 player of at least 87 rating (about 80,000 coins)
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EA FC 25 trailer shows new features for Ultimate Team
The 10 most valuable Heroes from the Pack
How much does the Hero Pack cost? If you have to buy all players for the Hero Upgrade, you will land at a price of about 165,000 coins according to Ultimate Team service Futbin. That’s quite expensive. However, many of the possible Heroes are worth many times that.
Keep in mind that the drawn card is untradeable and therefore cannot be sold on the transfer market. So you need to be clear beforehand whether the Hero Pack is worth it for you.
Below, we show you the 10 most valuable cards you can draw from the pack.
10. Blaise Matuidi (710,000 coins)
9. Zé Roberto (710,000 coins)
8. Paulo Futre (855,000 coins)
7. Jay-Jay Okocha (875,000 coins)
6. Jaap Stam (995,000 coins)
5. Ramires (1.1 million coins)
4. Marek Hamšík (1.1 million coins)
3. Yaya Touré (1.5 million coins)
2. Eden Hazard (1.9 million coins)
1. Antonio Di Natale (2.2 million coins)
If you draw one of these players, you can theoretically multiply the value of cards you need to exchange for the SBC. Other valuable Heroes worth over 500,000 coins that you can draw include:
Harry Kewell (500,000 coins)
Diego Forlán (550,000 coins)
Sidney Gouvou (600,000 coins)
Carlos Tévez (600,000 coins)
Maicon (610,000 coins)
Iván Córdoba (620,000 coins)
Vincent Kompany (620,000 coins)
Saeed Al Owairan (650,000 coins)
Claudio Marchisio (705,000 coins)
Wesley Sneijder (705,000 coins)
Is the SBC worth it? – This is how great the chance of a win is
In total, there are 65 cards available in the Hero SBC. Based on the prices, the following data arises:
26 cards are worth at least twice the SBC price
4 cards will earn you a profit of around 100,000 coins
5 cards are approximately as expensive as the SBC
30 cards will result in a loss of between 10,000 to 145,000 coins
However, we do not know exactly how high the chance of obtaining a specific individual card is, as not every card appears with the same frequency.
New World Aeternum may be the best version of the MMORPG by Amazon Games so far, but that doesn’t mean New World Aeternum is perfect. There is plenty of room for improvement.
In the MeinMMO special 5 reasons why you should play New World Aeternum at launch, we explain that New World Aeternum represents the best, because most versatile and polished version of the MMORPG so far. Especially in direct comparison with the problematic launch version, many things have improved in Aeternum.
However, New World Aeternum is by no means perfect. Various discussions within the community show how much room there is for potential improvements. The thread by PerishBtw is especially worth a look (via Reddit). The player has created a long list of areas of the online role-playing game that Amazon Games should definitely take a look at for a noticeably better gaming experience.
This video also presents you with good reasons to try New World Aeternum:
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4 Reasons Why You Should Play New World: Aeternum
ToDos for the Future of New World
What should be improved?
Customization options for the UI – especially concerning the scaling and moving of interface elements.
Customization options for the display of nameplates – healers have a hard time healing allies in fights with many characters.
Customization options for existing characters, for example through a new barber NPC (which would also be a great way to take gold out of the game) – old characters currently have no access to the new options for hairstyles or faces.
Revision of the transmog offering – the change from the weekly free transmog skin to a $5 token has been sharply criticized.
Revision of the shop – everything is too expensive and much looks too bad for the prices asked.
DLCs – upcoming expansions and content packages must offer more content than what was the case with Brimstone Sands and Rise of the Angry Earth. Too many objectives are reached too quickly, too much content becomes irrelevant too quickly.
The offer of raids and dungeons needs to be expanded. Additionally, Amazon Games should find a way to make low-level instances attractive for the endgame or for high-level characters.
There should be alternatives to Outpost Rush and fresh game modes like Capture the Flag or King of the Hill.
Players should be able to queue for cross-region content – similar to Final Fantasy XIV.
Resources like ores, trees, or plants should remain gatherable for some time for other players before they disappear.
Auto-dismantling of item drops of a certain quality – so you don’t have to manually dismantle gray, green, and blue items constantly.
There should be an activity where new companies can learn how the war mode works and through which they can try out their own strategies.
Each company should be able to own only one territory to encourage more companies to participate in the war.
Company leaders should not have free access to the gold earned through the war. Instead, it should be tied to the company and investments for upgrading territories or the next war.
How does the community react to these suggestions? In the comments, there is a lot of praise, but also further improvement suggestions:
nychuman briefly summarizes on Reddit: “Great list. Here’s an upvote.”
hakfi also praises on Reddit: “Really good list, buddy. It’s a shame the developers use their own […] data to determine what players ‘really’ want.”
Ricenbacker wishes (via Reddit): “The storage MUST be revised, so you can take EVERYTHING OUT OF ALL STORAGE. […] Make sure you have access to everything while crafting.”
zugarrette also has an addition (via Reddit): “Some players completely ignore the trading post because it’s so clunky. It needs a complete overhaul in terms of usability and responsiveness.”
How does MeinMMO editor Karsten Scholz evaluate the suggestions? The improvements mentioned by PerishBtw would increase comfort, significantly enhance the player experience in certain situations, and bring some of the currently annoyed PC community back on board.
Furthermore, I agree with the player that there are currently some content in New World that is undervalued because it gets lost in the currently quite fast leveling or character progression phase or because it is dominated by an elite from a few companies. From my perspective, some potential remains untapped.
If it were up to the CEO of the video platform Rumble, Twitch streamers like MontanaBlack or Asmongold will soon be unemployed. Chris Pavlovski predicts the end, or at least the sale, of the streaming platform Twitch by Amazon – within 2 years or less.
This is what the CEO of Rumble says: In a tweet from October 23, the CEO of Rumble says:
Prediction… Amazon closes Twitch or sells it within the next 2 years. Probably sooner.
As proof that he has been right with such predictions before, the Canadian tech entrepreneur mentions in a conversation with a Twitter user that he correctly predicted the end of the organization GARM “Global Alliance for Responsible Media”.
In contrast to the streaming market leader Twitch, GARM was a small initiative that was non-profit.
Streamers earn a lot of money through Twitch, but the platform itself is struggling:
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„Stop giving me money against my will“ – This is how confused Gronkh was by his first donation on Twitch
What is Rumble? Rumble is a Canadian website founded by Pavlovski in 2013.
Rumble is generally seen as an alternative to platforms like YouTube, but with a stronger political orientation to the right. The platform has been criticized in the past, for example, in an article by the news agency Reuters, for spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Reuters wrote in 2022:
Today, Rumble offers a mix of pets and politics, with one foot in the fevered, Trump-friendly world where the 2020 election was stolen and climate change does not exist.
Is he right with his statement? Twitch is indeed in a difficult state. Although Twitch dominates the market and has already outlived competitors like Mixer. YouTube and new competitors like Kick are eating up market shares:
YouTube grew 6% in live streaming in Q2 2024 compared to the previous year
Kick managed to capture 5.5% of the market shares
However, Twitch lost 10% market share in the same period (via esportsadvocate)
The main problem for Twitch remains that it generates too little revenue. According to reports from July 2024, Twitch is still a loss-making business for Amazon. Although Twitch has twice as many users as in 2019, it does not generate more revenue.
In Baldur’s Gate 3, sausages can help solve some of the trickiest puzzles – if you know how to use them correctly.
In Baldur’s Gate 3, there are some tricky puzzles that have surely driven many of you to the brink of frustration. But even when the answer seems obvious, there are often creative ways to interpret the puzzles differently. The best method so far: sausage. Because with plenty of sausages, you can tackle a trial of Shar.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is 1 year old and to celebrate the creators share your dirty secrets
A path full of safety sausages in Baldur’s Gate 3
What kind of puzzle is this? One of Shar’s trials is called “Leap of Faith.” The puzzle consists of a large area that appears to be completely filled with engulfing darkness. If the character touches this darkness, they are almost instantly killed. However, there is a hard-to-see path that allows you to navigate through the hallway to reach the goal on the other side of the void.
How was the puzzle solved? In the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit, Rastasputin shares how his partner approached the puzzle:
My partner is currently on her first playthrough. I am notorious for giving her unwanted tips and ruining her fun, which is why I didn’t say anything this time unless she asked. Last night she had the Leap of Faith trial in Act 2.
She realized there were invisible platforms, and her method of revealing them was … throwing sausages everywhere. Soon she had a path full of safety sausages that led her to the end. I was extremely impressed, absolutely brilliant; that’s one of the many reasons I love her.
Another example that creativity is constantly rewarded in Baldur’s Gate 3 and can lead to unexpected success.
How do you actually solve the puzzle? There are many potential solutions for the puzzle. The most obvious method is to take a closer look at the room before the puzzle. The passable path is embedded as a picture on the ground, so you can basically see in advance which route you need to take through the void to avoid the deadly threat.
Other methods, such as jumping with “Long Jump” or just “Flying” to the target, have been removed from Baldur’s Gate 3 in recent patches – they typically lead to the character’s immediate death now.
About a year ago, the first season of the anime Solo Leveling started. The anime was able to capture many fans right away. The second season is set to follow in early 2025, but there is a way to see it before everyone else.
What kind of opportunity is that? On November 26, 2024, the movie Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- will be released in theaters here. It mostly consists of a summary from the first season of the anime and the first two episodes of season 2, which will be titled:
Episode 13: You aren’t E-Rank, are You
Episode 14: I Suppose You aren’t Aware
Thus, anime fans who go to the cinema have the opportunity to watch the beginning of season 2 as a short version before anyone else. If you want to see the movie, you should keep an eye on the schedule of your trusted cinema. Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- should premiere here on November 26.
By the way, Germany is the very first country in the world to see the movie in theaters. Even Korea and Japan will show the film on November 28 and 29, 2024.
You can watch the Japanese trailer here:
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Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-: Trailer for the Anime Movie
The hunters make a living by clearing the dungeons behind the gates. The hero of the story, Jin Woo, is also a hunter. However, he is considered the weakest hunter of all humanity.
Through a deadly accident in a high-ranking dungeon, a strange quest window appears, allowing him to level up. This unlocks unforeseen powers for Jin Woo, and he gets a second chance to prove himself as a hunter.
When does the second season premiere? If you don’t want to go to the movies, you’ll have to wait until January 2025. Then the second season of Solo Leveling is supposed to start. You will need an active subscription on Crunchyroll to watch the anime.
Unfortunately, MeinMMO editor Niko Hernes couldn’t find any excitement in the hype surrounding Solo Leveling. He does not understand why the anime is so popular, even though it ranked among the best animes at the turn of the year 2023/2024. He discusses his reasons in the following article: Solo Leveling is the new anime hit of 2024, but I don’t understand the hype
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Are you grinding the new dungeon “Vespers Host” in Destiny 2 but can’t get the God-Roll for your desired weapon? You’re not alone. Many fans even go so far as to devise conspiracy theories, believing that Bungie is deliberately manipulating the system to force you into farming, but now the developers have clarified the issue.
What are fans complaining about? It’s about the perks that can be obtained on the new weapons from the dungeon “Vespers Host”. These weapons have no blueprints and thus cannot be crafted in the enclave. Fans are therefore reliant on their loot luck and have to grind for hours for their God-Roll.
Some guardians are now going so far as to formulate conspiracy theories. According to a X post by JpDeathBlade, some perks are supposed to be weighted, which could then influence your rolls from the respective drops. This means it should be much harder to obtain the God-Roll that many want.
The Global Community Lead of Bungie, dmg04, has been closely monitoring the discussions on X and Reddit and has now intervened to clarify for fans whether this is a bug, a hidden system from Bungie, or something similar.
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Destiny 2: The launch trailer for the new episode ‘Returners’
No manipulation, your RNG is just bad
What has been revealed? The official Reddit account of Destiny 2 spoke internally with the sandbox team and asked whether such a system was implemented in Destiny 2. The team clarified after their investigation that such a system does not exist for legendary weapons. A focusing system for exotic class items is supposed to be in the works, but that has nothing to do with the current issues.
dmg04 then intervened in a similar Reddit thread where the issue was further discussed and Bungie’s response was debated. According to the Global Community Lead, Bungie double-checked the issue before addressing the community.
The team frequently conducts spot checks to locate and eliminate such bugs. However, in this case, nothing was found that indicates it’s an error. According to dmg04, this is simply bad RNG luck. Theories about Destiny 2 are welcomed, but he had to intervene when theories turn into facts that are incorrect.
What else are fans complaining about? Fans are unsure whether they can trust Bungie. Players are reporting a lie from 2017, where allegedly Bungie deliberately withheld XP points to encourage fans to play longer.
Even the community checked the case back then and found that something was off. Later, Bungie declared the case as a bug and fixed it. Whether one can trust Bungie now is unclear and is a decision everyone has to make for themselves.
Since these and other weapons cannot be built at all, it clearly shows that Bungie wants to keep its players engaged longer with grinding, but whether the plan will succeed is another matter. What do you think about the loot drops? Have you had your God-Roll yet or are you still farming? Feel free to share your experiences with the community. You can find more about Destiny 2 here: Sony is now attracting the creative team from Destiny 2 – Needs Bungie’s experience for new MMOs on PS5
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Pokémon GO gets a new event. We show you all the information about Dyna-Monday.
What is Dyna-Monday? Dyna-Monday is a new event series similar to the Spotlight Hour or Raid Hours.
Every Monday at 6:00 PM, a changing Dyna-boss will take over the power sources in your area. You will then have an hour to challenge this boss.
It is still unclear whether there will be an additional bonus like with the Spotlight Hour, or if it will only remain with the power source takeover. That would then be more like the Raid Hour, as there is also no extra bonus here.
When is the first Dyna-Monday? The first Dyna-Monday will take place on November 11 at 6:00 PM. After that, the event will occur every week.
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Dynamax in Pokémon Go – How to participate in the gigantic battles
The first 4 Pokémon during Dyna-Monday in Pokémon GO
Which monsters will appear? The first four Pokémon for Dyna-Monday have already been announced. They are:
Date
Dyna-Boss
November 11
Dynamax-Glumanda
November 18
Dynamax-Rotomurf
November 25
Dynamax-Bisasam
December 2
Dynamax-Schiggy
All four can also be found as Shiny with luck.
Highlight Dyna-Rotomurf: Dynamax-Rotomurf is particularly exciting in this overview, as it has not yet been available as a Dynamax monster – unlike Glumanda, Bisasam, and Schiggy.
Rotomurf evolves into Stalobor, a monster that is among the best attackers in Pokémon GO. And especially interesting is Stalobor regarding the big autumn event “GO-Nature Zone”. Because Gigadynamax-Riffex will appear for the first time there. Dynamax-Stalobor is likely to be a very useful counter against the Poison and Electric-type monster.
In general, the Nature Zone will be an exciting event that could potentially be as big as the GO Tour or the GO Fest. There will definitely be some exciting features, such as the debut of Riffex, but also the return of Ur-Dialga and Ur-Palkia is planned for the event. Additionally, a completely new ball will be introduced in Pokémon GO: You can find out all about the GO Safari Ball here.
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The endgame progression is often a failed balancing act between tedious grinding, pay-to-progress elements, and frustrating luck factors in Asian MMORPGs. However, Throne and Liberty manages this tightrope walk much better than many competitors, at least according to MeinMMO editor Karsten Scholz.
In fact, I should be leveling my new character in New World Aeternum or playing the demo of a potential highlight from the remaining gaming year 2024 in every spare minute. However, I keep catching myself thinking of “just quickly” starting Throne and Liberty.
The next world boss will spawn soon, my Amitoi crew is already waiting for the next expedition, I want to invest my accumulated Abyss Contract or Dimension Contract tokens or stock up with daily offers from merchants.
The fact that the endgame of Throne and Liberty in general and character progression in particular continues to motivate me and regularly draws me to the servers—more than it did in all past Asian MMORPGs—has, of course, reasons that I want to explore in the following.
The launch trailer for Throne and Liberty:
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Throne and Liberty: Claim the Throne – Launch Trailer of the MMORPG
Fortunately, luck plays only a small role
Let’s take Lost Ark as a comparison, which I consider a great free-to-play MMORPG, but one that always loses me after a while in the endgame. The main reason lies in how character development fundamentally functions there:
You earn a gear setup and upgrade it until you eventually reach the next gear level. Then the new set is upgraded.
Normally, you don’t farm new gear, but upgrade materials.
The upgrade process can fail (which causes you to lose the invested upgrade materials). The higher the item level, the more complicated it becomes to perform successful upgrades.
There is a kind of “bad-luck protection” that increases the chance of success through failures, but frustration due to bad luck in upgrading is a constant companion in Lost Ark’s endgame.
Who writes here? Karsten Scholz is the MMORPG expert at MeinMMO. He has been dealing with the best genre in the world almost daily for 15 years and has played all the important (and some less important) new online role-playing games since the launch of World of Warcraft—often deep into the endgame or over many months and years.
Throne and Liberty also has a comprehensive upgrade system for equipment and skills, but the developers have so far refrained from assigning too large and thus frustrating a role to luck.
Those who want to upgrade items or skills or craft certain items cannot fail, but can achieve considerable successes (for example, cooking yields buff food that lasts longer; upgrading equipment offers more progress). This motivates.
You currently need the most luck to get the perfect traits on a weapon. However, if you simply want three fully upgraded traits on your items, you can also work towards that without failures.
While luck plays a role in boss loot, Throne and Liberty offers alternative ways to obtain dungeon loot that just won’t drop (like specifically farming dungeon tokens for purchasing equipment chests).
Even if there isn’t the desired loot, every successful dungeon visit is worthwhile.
Rewarding Tasks
In general, I appreciate that Throne and Liberty offers me various ways to gradually upgrade my equipment from green to blue to epic—through crafting, lithography, dungeons, world bosses, the auction house, chests for abyss currency, chests for dimensional essences, chests for dimensional soul shards, or through the selection chests of merchants.
It helps my motivation immensely that every farming run yields something meaningful. Didn’t get the hoped-for loot in the dungeon or from the world boss? Then special resistance medals or soul shards reward you.
Farming rounds in the abyss dungeons feel particularly rewarding. You simply drop by the corresponding open-world area with multiple contract sheets, look for a group, and in half an hour you already head home with a good amount of abyss currency, blessing bags, Sollant, contract coins, and loot.
Dungeon and world boss runs are usually quick to do. If there isn’t enough time to find comrades, you dive into the contracts of the open world or events while keeping an eye out for mystical orbs or portals. There’s plenty to do without being overwhelmed by a mass of mandatory tasks.
Through the mastered activities, you can often work on several opportunities at once to improve your equipment, and since even small farming rounds contribute a noticeable and predictable amount, the grind—at least for me—feels much less like work than in, for example, Lost Ark.
On top of all this, Throne and Liberty does not just revolve around upgrade materials, but also around the switching of equipment and weapons. For me, the latter simply feels more rewarding, especially when the outfits and peacekeepers look as great as in the new MMORPG from NCSoft and Amazon Games. You don’t need cosmetics to look good.
What do you think? Does the character progression of Throne and Liberty motivate you, or can you name another Asian MMORPG that has managed to keep you motivated and engaged longer? Share it in the comments!
For collectors, one of the best changes in Patch 11.0.5 of World of Warcraft is hidden – but the new feature was kept secret and not announced.
Patch 11.0.5 of World of Warcraft has launched the anniversary event for the game’s 20th birthday. However, the patch also brought a lot of adjustments, especially to the classes. Although the patch notes are quite lengthy, not all changes are included. A small, yet very fine adjustment has now been discovered, making collectors much happier as they save a lot of time.
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WoW celebrates its 20th anniversary – Here’s what you can earn
What was discovered? As MrGM revealed on X, a small change is hidden in Patch 11.0.5. “Raid Skips” are now no longer tied to individual characters, but the unlocking is now account-wide (or “warband wide”). If one character has unlocked the skip, it now applies to all.
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What are Raid Skips? Raid Skips usually refer to quests within a raid that allow skipping certain bosses. This is generally possible by defeating all bosses in the raid 3-4 times while collecting quest items. Subsequently, players receive some sort of unlocking – like a teleport, a secret access, or an NPC dialogue – to jump directly from the start of the raid to the final bosses (to “skip”).
By doing so, only the last bosses of a raid can be targeted, which usually offer especially good or rare rewards.
Who benefits from this? The change is particularly interesting for collectors who primarily want to farm the last bosses from different raids. After all, these bosses usually have very special mounts that only drop at a very low chance (often 1% or less). It can be a significant time investment to clear the entire raid over and over again.
With the change, you can now jump directly to the end on all characters and try your luck with a variety of twinks, without having to complete the quests for each character for weeks to unlock the respective skip.
For example, if someone wants to farm the stylish water elemental from Jaina in the raid “Battle of Dazar’alor” on mythic, they only need to unlock this skip once and can then go directly to Jaina with all characters to beat her over and over again – until she hopefully drops her stylish mount.
This continues Blizzard’s path of unlocking more content in World of Warcraft for the entire account and gradually eliminating tedious “farming repeatedly”. We will probably find out how World of Warcraft progresses in just a few weeks, as the BlizzCon replacement – the Warcraft Direct – is coming then.
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For the first time, fans of Monster Hunter Wilds can test the new game not only at conventions but also in their own homes. The title is launching its first open beta and invites monster hunters on PS5, Xbox, and Steam to participate in the testing.
When does the beta take place? The open beta will take place simultaneously on all three platforms. Players can participate in the beta on PS5, Xbox, and Steam from November 1, 2024, at 05:00 until November 4 at 04:00.
There is a special feature: Players on PS5 who have an active PS Plus membership can even participate a few days earlier. They can test Monster Hunter Wilds starting from October 29 at 05:00. The early access runs until October 31 at 05:00.
In the new trailer for Monster Hunter Wilds, you can see what to expect in the beta:
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Monster Hunter Wilds in the atmospheric 5th trailer
Open beta for Monster Hunter Wilds brings new areas, monsters, and rewards
What are the contents? Players can look forward to several contents that they can try out in the open beta. These include the following three main points:
Character creation
Test version of the story
Doshaguma hunt
The created character and the Palico can be transferred to the full version of the game. The story is located right at the beginning of the game and includes the hunt for Chatacabra. There is also a tutorial for newcomers that teaches you the basics.
In the Doshaguma hunt, the titular monster is targeted as an alpha version. It leads the herd and can be approached in multiplayer mode. Alternatively, up to three NPCs can replace the human hunters if not enough online players are available.
Will the game progress carry over? Unfortunately, game progress will not be transferred to the full version. Only the created character and the Palico will be carried over to Monster Hunter Wilds.
Is there a reward for testing? If you participate in the open beta, you can receive a pendant and an item pack. This will allow you to decorate your weapons and your Saikrii in the full version of the game when you download them starting from February 28, 2025.
Both Chatacabra and Doshaguma are two monsters that have long been confirmed for the game. You can find all other monsters found in Monster Hunter Wilds in the overview from MeinMMO: Monster Hunter Wilds: All monsters currently known in the list
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The new action RPG Monster Hunter Wilds from Capcom is set to release on February 28, 2025, for PC, PS5, and Xbox. The developers unveiled the new area Everforge today, on October 23, and showcased 3 impressive new monsters in a trailer. The initial reactions from players are enthusiastic. Additionally, the developers announced the start of an open beta: In just a few days, it will be available for PS5, Xbox, and Steam.
When does the open beta start? The open beta, exclusive to PS5, starts on October 29 at 5 AM – it ends on October 31 at 4:59 AM.
The open beta for PS5, Xbox, and Steam begins on November 1 at 5 AM and ends on November 4 at 4:59 AM.
Capcom also states that PS5 players with a PlayStation Plus subscription can play even earlier (via reddit).
Here is the new trailer for Monster Hunter Wilds:
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Monster Hunter Wilds in the atmospheric 5th trailer
New area reminiscent of the Dwarf city from The Hobbit films
This is what the trailer shows: The new trailer for Monster Hunter Worlds takes players to the “Oilwell Basin” and into the Everforge, the Eternal Forge.
The area evokes the vibe of a fiery Dwarf city when the furnaces are fired up and everything is burning and working. It reminded me of the scenes from the “Hobbit Trilogy” when the Dwarf city inside the mountain Erebor comes to life, and the Dwarves fight against the dragon Smaug.
These monsters can be seen: There are 3 monsters to be seen. A player on YouTube describes the monsters as:
Oil octopus that shoots oil instead of ink
A metal fire monkey – to me, it looked like a fiery Godzilla
And a wyvern – the “Black Flame”
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Call of Duty Black Ops 6 is just around the corner and many fans can hardly wait to dive into the new multiplayer. To be among the first, players are using a legendary trick so they can play earlier than their time zone allows.
What is the problem with releases? Many online games do not immediately open their servers for all countries at release. Each time zone has its starting time, and that’s the case with CoD: Black Ops 6 as well. While New Zealand gets to play first, we in Germany have to wait.
However, there is a trick to shorten the waiting time, and it is called the “New Zealand Trick“. Players specify on their platform that they are in New Zealand, thus gaining early access to the game.
If you can’t wait and want to grind right at the first release time, we will show you how to do it. Depending on which platform you are on, the steps you need to take will differ. We will go through everything step by step.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 shows the zombie mode in the trailer
How to do the New Zealand trick on Xbox Series X and PS5
What do I need to do on Xbox Series X?
Go to your settings
Press on System
Select Language and Region
Now go to Region and change it to “New Zealand”
Now you just need to restart your console
You also need to change your region on your Activision account to New Zealand
What do I need to do on PS5?
Go to your settings
Press on System
Select Date and Time
Now choose the time zone in Wellington or Sydney
You also need to change your region on your Activision account to New Zealand
Unfortunately, this is more of a trial on the PS5 and there is no guarantee that it will work. Your region is tied to your account. So if you want to be safe, you would have to create a new account and purchase Black Ops 6 with that, which is rather complicated and not worth it. However, you can still try it with our trick.
How to do the New Zealand trick on PC with Xbox Game Pass
What do I need to do?
Change your region on your PC to New Zealand
Change your region on your Microsoft account to New Zealand
These were all the details on how you can get in faster in Black Ops 6. Will you use the trick or will you patiently wait for your time to officially join? Let us know your thoughts in the comments. More about the release of BO6 can be found here on MeinMMO: CoD Black Ops 6: All information about the release – time, preload, and price
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Sci-Fi fans can’t miss the trilogy of Back to the Future. In the film series, which was released between 1985 and 1990, time travel plays an important role. But did you know that there was actually a fourth part?
What is this fourth part? Just a year later in 1991, the sequel to the last part followed. Back to the Future: The Ride is not a film that was shown in theaters, but an attraction at Universal Parks. Accordingly, only visitors in the USA and Japan were able to see the fourth part.
Dr. Emmett Brown founds a futuristic institute for time travel in the attraction. The guests board a DeLorean and witness the scientist set off for the year 2015 to check the stability of the timeline. The year plays a significant role in the second part of the trilogy.
There are other researchers who control the years 1885 and 1955. However, Biff Tannen, the antagonist of the series, steals the DeLorean. Therefore, the visitors embark on a chase through time. Unfortunately, the protagonist of the trilogy, Marty McFly, does not appear in the story.
In the following video, you can see a trailer for the second part of the time travel saga:
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Trailer to Back to the Future 2 from 1989
How the creators think about the fourth part of Back to the Future
Is the story official? The two creators of the saga, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, did not actively participate in the creation process of the attraction. However, the project received their approval and was recognized by both of them.
However: The two creators clarified that a real, official sequel will never be created. Therefore, the attraction will probably forever remain the sequel that fans wished for.
Is there a way to visit the attraction? As amusement parks thematically adapt to newer films and franchises, the attractions have now been replaced in all parks. Back to the Future: The Ride lasted the longest in Japan. The attraction was only closed in 2016 and was replaced a year later by an attraction from Despicable Me.
If you still want to experience the ride, you can do so on YouTube. There is a clip from Retro Recipes that shows the entire ride. Artificial intelligence was used to enhance the video quality.
Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel sends you to hell – the Nordic version. You can currently try out the combination of Diablo 4 and Vampire Survivors on Steam.
What kind of game is this? Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel is a roguelike action game where you fight your way out of Helheim, the realm of the dead in Norse mythology.
As part of the Steam Next Fest 2024, the developers have released a free demo of Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel, which includes an additional class. It is still playable due to high demand, as the developers revealed on Steam – but only for a limited time.
You can watch a trailer for the game here:
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Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel in the trailer for the free demo on Steam
Vampire Survivors in dark 3D graphics
How does Hordes of Hel play? You look down at your character from a slight angle and move through the map while being attacked by hordes of monsters. Your character automatically targets nearby enemies, so you don’t have to manually click on each opponent.
At the beginning, the game throws easy enemies like spiders at your feet, but with each round you survive, the enemy hordes grow larger and more dangerous. In later waves, bosses also spawn. Before you slash your way through Helheim, you choose one of three different classes:
The Berserker deals damage in close combat with his twin axes
The Seer is magically gifted and uses spells
The revenant possessed by a wolf spirit is a bowman and only playable in the Steam Next Demo
If you’re familiar with games like the popular Vampire Survivors on Steam, you’ll quickly feel at home here. In terms of gameplay, Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel is very similar. Visually and with its different classes, the game, however, resembles Diablo 4 more.
In Diablo 4, there are numerous cosmetics that you can unlock. The Diadem of the Ancients is one of them – however, players currently cannot equip it as a skin.
What kind of item is this? The Diadem of the Ancients is a cosmetic headgear that you can obtain as a drop from the boss Lord Zir. Usually, you can simply activate cosmetics with a click and add them to your wardrobe. However, this is currently not possible with the Diadem.
Additionally, there is currently a bug where you cannot equip the cosmetic headgear if it is already in the wardrobe. It simply does not show up. If you have already equipped it, for example, in the eternal realm, you can see it on your character, but not in the listing of all headgear variants.
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Blizzard summarizes the story of Diablo 4 in the video
Cosmetic turns into item without stats
What do the players say about it? In a post on Reddit, the user Dunc4n1d4h0 posted a picture of the Diadem on October 13, 2024. It is noticeable that he can equip, stash, or drop the item. However, there is no way to add it as a skin to the wardrobe.
He asks the community what the purpose of the item is, except to troll. Two of the diadems dropped from Lord Zir; he can equip them, but they are not cosmetic, he writes.
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In the comments, GeoTrouveriendutou points out that it is supposed to be a cosmetic item, but currently cannot be used as such. The item states that you can use it to add it to your wardrobe (as you can see in this older Reddit post). Brave-Ad-8456 advises to put the item in the loot chest until the bug is fixed.
Also in the Blizzard Forum, the faulty Diadem is a topic. There, Wh1skey writes: “I just got this from Zir, and it is no longer a cosmetic but an equipable item without stats. 1 armor, 1 item power. Account-bound, non-salvageable.” As a “real” headgear, the item is not worth it.
And Icetor comments: “Blizzard, please do not take away the best cosmetic armor piece from Vessel of Hatred. Bring the crown back to our collections for transmog!”
When will this be fixed? So far, Blizzard has not commented on the Diadem of the Ancients in the forum, on Reddit, or on X. It is currently unclear when the developers will resolve the issue so that players can activate and equip the Diadem as a cosmetic again.
One of the latest horror hits of 2024 is the sequel Terrifier 3. Art the Clown is back at it again. Like the previous films, the movie once again relies on explicit scenes that should only be watched with a strong stomach. But there is a line that the director would never cross.
What is Terrifier 3? It is the third installment of the Terrifier series centered around the evil clown Art, who haunts his victims. This time, explicit violence is shown, and the third installment is again a film for adults. And even as an adult, you should be the type to enjoy such films.
Apparently, there are many fans of such films, as the movie is doing quite well financially, especially since it hasn’t been released in all countries (including Germany) yet. Looking at the numbers on Box Office Mojo, one can see that the film has already grossed over 40 million dollars on a budget of only 2 million dollars.
But even for the brutal clown, there are limits, as director Damien Leone revealed in an interview.
You can find a teaser for Part 3 here:
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Terrifier 3 – Teaser for the brutal sequel with killer clown Art
I would never do that
What limit is that? In an interview with Variety, Damien Leone, the director of the Terrifier films, spoke about the latest installment. He also touched on the topic of which limits he would never cross, as it seems in the films that no taboos are respected.
Leone explains that he is always looking to push boundaries. However, he mentions one boundary: children:
At the beginning of the film, there is a scene where Art murders a child off-screen, and you only hear it. I could have shown that and the glorious way we executed the scene. I would never do that, as it is utterly absurd to me and it alienates a large part of the audience.
Although he himself wants to push boundaries, he does not want to provoke any kind of extreme aversion. Showing such a scene would be, according to him, a desperate attempt to shock the audience.
Killing children in horror films is a big taboo. Very few (US) horror films show how children are brutally killed. This is a taboo that even icons like Michael Myers or Ghost Face largely adhere to. Most of the time, it is only implied.
When looking at slasher films, it is usually teenagers who are hunted and terrorized by the horror villains, but rarely children. One of the few that thematically tackles children is Chucky, but his films are obviously not as brutal as Terrifier 3. For film recommendations rated 18, you can find them here: 5 horror films rated 18 that are not for the faint of heart
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Most children would probably wish to design their children’s room after their favorite TV series or video game. An artistically talented mother has taken it upon herself to fulfill her son’s wish. The fan of One Piece became a real member of the Straw Hat crew after his room was redesigned.
How did the mother redesign the room? The children’s room should ultimately look as if her son is in a cabin aboard the Thousand Sunny. Therefore, the walls were painted brown and decorated with a pattern that makes the walls look like wooden walls.
After that, the artist painted portholes on the wood so that it looks like the boy can look outside at the sea. Finally, she painted a sleeping Zorro and Luffy on the walls, saying he will become the king of the pirates.
The finished room can be seen on the mother’s TikTok channel:
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To complete the room, she obtained small details like a net on the loft bed and a wooden barrel. The carpet, bed linens, and desk are all adorned with One Piece designs or plush toys and figures. On the wall, there is also a straw hat and some wanted posters.
This way, the boy can feel like he is sharing his children’s room with the two straw hat pirates. In the comments, the mother receives a lot of praise for what she has done for her son.
In addition to the Thousand Sunny, there are other cool ships sailing the oceans of One Piece:
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One Piece: These are the 5 coolest ships sailing the oceans
Mother Fulfills the Dream of Every One Piece Fan
How is the action received? In another video on TikTok, where the mother documents the process, her son visibly beams at the end. He seems happy about his room. This action has definitely been worth it.
However, the mother receives praise not only from her son but also from many commenters.
User OMarijan89 writes that although he is 35 years old, he still wishes to have a room as cool as that. User N4RA is also an adult but envious of the great room. One user thinks that the child will grow up with wonderful memories thanks to the room.
Generally, there are many users who say that the artist is a great mother and the boy has good anime taste. User Rhein even believes that Eiichiro Oda, the creator of One Piece, needs to see this room.
Blizzard is set to make a big splash with Warcraft. Fans of the franchise should mark the date on their calendars.
For most Blizzard fans, it was likely a severe disappointment that 2024 will pass without a BlizzCon. However, the developers had already announced back then that there would be a replacement event that would particularly delight Warcraft fans. The “Warcraft Direct” in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise (and the 20th anniversary of World of Warcraft) now finally has a date.
In WoW, they are already celebrating the 30th anniversary of the franchise:
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When does the Warcraft Direct start? The event will take place on November 13, 2024, starting at 7:00 PM.
Where can you watch the Warcraft Direct? The event can be streamed on the official Warcraft channels. The stream will be available on Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok.
What is “Warcraft Direct”? The name seems to have been somewhat inspired by the competition, as Nintendo regularly holds a “Nintendo Direct.” In the Warcraft variant of this stream, the 30 years of the Warcraft franchise will be celebrated again, and the developers will announce what they have planned for the respective games in the upcoming time.
What will be shown in the Warcraft Direct? What exactly will be revealed about the individual games is still unclear. However, Blizzard says that the “Direct stream has something for everyone,” regardless of whether one is a “fan of Hearthstone,” “Warcraft Rumble,” “Warcraft: Orcs & Humans,” or “World of Warcraft.” Therefore, there is likely to be some sort of announcement for all these games.
Some common theories are:
World of Warcraft will introduce Patch 11.1 and may even reveal details about the next expansion “Midnight.”
Hearthstone will certainly discuss upcoming expansions and potential new game modes.
Warcraft Rumble will introduce future seasons and new minis.
It is clear that following the announcements, there will be a broadcast of a concert titled “World of Warcraft: 20 Years of Music,” featuring what are likely the most famous musical pieces from 20 years of the game’s history.
The Austrian company behind the copy and cheat protection Denuvo has had enough of its bad image. After unsuccessful attempts to communicate with players via a Discord server, a representative of the company, Andreas Ullmann, now speaks in an interview about gamers’ prejudices, the alleged performance degradation of games, and the poor image of the company.
The project was designed for 2 months, but after just 2 days they had to switch the Discord server to “Read only”. There were simply too many insults coming in.
Now they are trying it differently: Product Manager Andreas Ullmann, who has been with Denuvo for more than 10 years, spoke on October 23 with Rock Paper Shotgun about Denuvo and why gamers hate the company so much.
He also had brilliant ideas:
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Pirates can’t play, have time to complain about Denuvo
Why do gamers hate Denuvo?
First: Our solution simply works. Pirates cannot play games that use our solution for an extended period, usually until the publisher decides to patch our solution.
So there is a huge community, a lot of people on this planet who are unable to play their favorite video games because they are not willing to pay for them, and therefore they have a lot of time to share their views in communities and try to hold Denuvo responsible for many things – they are trying to pressure game publishers not to use our solutions so they can go back to playing pirated games for free.
The second reason is that it is hard for players to understand why games need any copy protection or cheat protection at all. They don’t seem to provide any direct benefits for players. But Ullmann explains: Copy protection is essential for the success of a game. And the more successful a game is, the longer it will continue to be developed.
Denuvo no longer wants to leave the field to the haters
How does the hate manifest? Ullmann says:
You just have to look at the Steam forums, for example. A very toxic, very hostile environment. When a game announces it will use one of our products, all sorts of claims arise in the Steam forums. SSDs are destroyed by our solution. The usual performance issues, and we just don’t want to leave the floor to these people who post everything about us. We also want to be there for people who have never heard of us. We want to share our perspective, our opinion on these issues and act as a trustworthy source of information.
Why is this important to them at all? The interviewer asks Ullmann why he even cares about what players think. What matters is that companies believe in Denuvo and use the product.
Ullmann says: He has been with the company for so long and feels like it’s a family that it hurts him and others in the company to read so much hate, which is also simply wrong.
At the moment, there are two ways to protect your game from pirates:
Either not at all
Or you use protection through Denuvo
He believes developers might be hesitant to approach Denuvo because the reputation is so bad and they fear that they, too, will receive hate if they work with Denuvo.
Does Denuvo negatively affect performance? Ullmann says there are some valid cases where this is indeed the case. But these cases are far rarer than people claim. They protect about 60 to 70 games a year, and often the criticism then focuses on one game, like now with Tekken 7. But there are only, if any, a handful of games where Denuvo degrades performance: Controversial software company from Austria wants to talk to gamers for 2 months – lasts only 2 days
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