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EA is currently testing a complete UI redesign for its Origin client on PC. The new changes are available to those who opt-in Origin’s beta programme. NeoGAF member SmartWaffles has received the update, and decided to take a couple of screenshots of the thing, and it looks a lot better than it does now. As you can see in the gallery below, the design is now based almost entirely on tiles, ...read more
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Just over two weeks are left between players and the long-awaited No Man’s Sky and its ambitious, procedurally-generated universe, though the release date of the title on PC appears to have been pushed back a few days from the game’s debut on PS4. An update on the “About” section of the game’s website now lists the PC release date for No Man’s Sky as August 12th, 2016, putting the ...read more
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No Man’s Sky may take a few additional days to reach the PC massive, which is probably going to result in several court-ordered anger management sessions. No Man’s Sky releases on PS4 in August – it hits the North American PSN on August 9 and comes to Europe on August 10, which isn’t much of a difference once you take timezones into account. Until recently we believed the PC version ...read more
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We have another No Man’s Sky video for you today, and this one focuses on Trade. The other two videos focused on exploration and combat. The fourth and final video in the series to be released will touch upon survival. If you give it a watch, you’ll get a quick look at the trading menu, the gathering of resources, inventory and upgrades. No Man’s Sky launches on August 9 for PC and ...read more
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Recently, there has been a lot of drama surrounding Valve and gambling websites. These websites allow Steam users to bet their in-game items on professional eSports matches, coin flips, etc. Users bet their items on these websites, and if they win, they receive items according to the odds of the bet. These gambling websites have gained a lot of popularity recently, with popular Youtubers such ...read more
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Just a few days after Twitch announced it would be cracking down on folks streaming Counter-Strike gambling sites, one of the most popular streamers, PhantomL0rd, had their account closed by Twitch. “The community has closed this channel due to terms of service violations,” reads a statement from Twitch on PhantomL0rd’s channel. Twitch refused to provide any clarification on ...read more
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Steam has been facing disconnection issues since 7:42 AM EDT. Steam users took to NeoGAF to confirm the issue and several users commented on how they randomly disconnect from the Steam Servers and are unable to reconnect. Several popular Dota personalities have tweeted about the steam servers going down. Famous Dota 2 caster, Toby Dawson (TobiWan) experienced issues during his livestream. It ...read more
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Although there are many gambling sites centred around in-game items and skins from Steam games it was CSGO Lotto that hit the headlines recently when two prominent YouTubers 'Syndicate' and 'tmartn' started advertising it while pretending they’d merely stumbled up on it by accident – when in fact they were the owners. It has now come to light via Richard Lewis that popular Twitch streamer ...read more
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In spite of the confusion surrounding the initiative thanks to Microsoft’s recent backtracking, Xbox Play Anywhere remains an ambitious initiative, and it is a far more thorough attempt to bridge the divide between PC and console gaming than any we have gotten so far. But Microsoft dislikes the idea that they are attempting to fuse the PC and Xbox platforms together into one, or any such ...read more
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In a welcome move earlier today, Valve made its position clear regarding the use of Steam's in-game item trading functionality, and its use by CS:GO weapon skin gambling sites. Basically, the company confirmed that it's not permitted, writing that the use of "the OpenID API and making the same web calls as Steam users to run a gambling business is not allowed by our API nor our user ...read more
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