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Pre-Sequel Grinder bug causes games to crash

The recent update for the Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel game was released alongside the Lady Hammerlock DLC pack. Unfortunately it has come with an unforeseen bug that’s causing crashes for players says Gearbox.

 

The problem occurs when players put in three purple rarity items into the Grinder, hoping to turn their unuseable loot into something they can use. Gearbox have said that it has “the potential to cause a crash”. The studio is already working on a patch for fix the issue and recommends being careful about using the Grinder until they have finished and released it.

 

The update is an automatic one, needed for access to parts of the DLC and for the online play. If you’re prepared to live without those things and wait it out though, try to go into offline mode if that’s an option. Gearbox have said they will post an update on Knowledge Base as soon as they can confirm that their patch is fixing the problem.

 

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January 28th, 2015 by
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Hearthstone’s Undertaker gets a nerf: no more health buff

Blizzard have handed down another nerf smackdown to a card in the Hearthstone game, finally making it a little less of a pain to go up against. The card in the firing line this time? Undertaker.

 

Previously the Undertaker’s card text read “Whenever you summon a minion with Deathrattle gain +1/+1” which in special Deathrattle decks could lead to an Undertaker getting buffed to hell in one turn. Blizzard have now revised it to merely “Whenever you summon a minion with Deathrattle, gain +1 Attack”. This means while it will still be a powerful card if played right, its less of a fully-armed fortress and more of a glass cannon now.

 

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Blizzard’s community manager Zeriyah explained the need to make the change saying “Undertaker was frustrating to play against. It often gained both Attack and Health stats significantly above those of other inexpensive minions very early in the game. With this change, we expect Undertaker will still be better than other 1-Mana minions when played in a deck with a Deathrattle theme, but more likely to die in combat against other minions.”

 

The Undertaker’s been a bit of an issue for a few months, having been released in the Naxxramas event and some of the cards included in December’s expansion, Goblins vs. Gnomes were noticeably set up to counter Deathrattles in an attempt to solve the problem. Seems it wasn’t enough though so the Undertaker’s health buff had to go.


January 28th, 2015 by
Posted in Gaming, General, Multiplatform, PC | No Comments »

Microsoft breaks the Surface to profitability

After writing off unsold stocks of previous models and causing numerous jokes about whether profit would ever surface for Surface, Microsoft’s most recent earnings report seem to suggest the company’s fortunes are finally turning around. Microsoft claim that its Devices and Consumer group’s revenue grew 8 percent year over year in the last calendar quarter of 2014, thanks in no small part to healthy Surface and Xbox sales. Though Microsoft refuse to reveal exact shipment numbers, revenues from Surface Tablets are said to have increased by 24% from Fiscal Quarter 2 in 2014 compared to this year – which Microsoft credits, as you may expect, mainly on the popularity of the Surface Pro 3.

 

And as for the XBox? Though the figures are less rosy, they remain still quite healthy. Microsoft state 6.6 million Xbox systems were sold during the rush to Christmas 2014. In the same quarter last year, Microsoft shifted 7.4 million consoles, so this represents a small decline. While last year’s figures were broken down into 3.9 million XBox Ones and 3.5 million XBox 360s, Microsoft refused to offer any such breakdown this year; so it is hard to determine if the decrease is due to reducing sales of the older or the newer consoles – however, all indications suggest the new system represented a significantly larger chunk of sales compared to last year, in part due to the new console’s game selection improving over the last year; as well as aggressive price cuts by Microsoft. Sony was quick to say that it sold 4.1 million PlayStation 4s just during the last month of holiday shopping, so it’s apparent that there was at least a fierce fight between current-generation platforms.

 

It’s otherwise a mixed quarter for Microsoft, whose total income this quarter shows a rare loss for the company – an operating loss of $243 million. Microsoft’s move to offer Windows licences for free to smaller devices as long as they promote Bing as standard – and a generally slow-moving PC market which hasn’t warmed to Windows 8 OR 8.1 – has cut revenue from Windows licences by 13%; however the promotion seems to have worked as revenues from the company’s online services have mostly mitigated this loss. The main cause of the losses seems to be more down to the costs of both its massive restructuring plan and integrating Nokia’s former mobile team. Speaking of which, Microsoft also appears to have turned around declines under Nokia’s tenure, selling 10.5 million Lumia phones in the last year. All of this points to a company for which a PC Operating System – while still important – may not be as make-or-break as it once was.


January 27th, 2015 by CrimsonShade
Posted in General, Technology | No Comments »

Free Download of Dragon Age: Inquisition’s Tavern Songs, Before Feb 9th

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Now you can get drunk with you favorite Dwarf and sing along with the songs you heard in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Bioware created a place on its website where you can download the tavern songs for free.

 

The songs include “I Am The One,” “Grey Warden,” and “Empress of Fire” among others, and you have until February 9th to download the MP3s.


January 27th, 2015 by Lonesamurai
Posted in Gaming, General, Massive Multiplayer Online, Multiplatform, Music, PC, Playstation, Xbox | No Comments »

Movie Trailer:  Fantastic Four Trailer Arrives (#FantasticFour)

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Fox has shown us next to nothing from its Fantastic Four reboot – even though it’s out in August – but that’s finally changed with the release of this new trailer. Directed by Chronicle’s Josh Trank (who’s described his new movie as “hard sci-fi”), it stars Miles Teller as Reed Richards/Mr Fantastic, Kate Mara as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm/The Thing.

 

 

We’d already been promised a new take on the quartet, last seen on the big screen in 2007’s Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer. Is this trailer what you expected? Let us know in the comments below.

 

Fantastic Four is released on Thursday 6 August in the UK and Friday 7 August in the US.


January 27th, 2015 by Lonesamurai
Posted in General, Movie Review | No Comments »

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