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Semir edits and writes at AltChar where he covers the latest news from the video games industry. He also likes to drop an opinion piece about the hot topics here and there. Semir is a PC gamer at heart but loves a short couch session on his console every once in a while.
Semir mainly covers exciting news and rumours from the video games industry, and often writes about Xbox and PlayStation Studios. He also loves writing reviews for the games.
Semir was a gamer from his early childhood. While games like the original Doom and Wolfenstein 3D were his early childhood occupations, he leans more towards addictive strategies, smaller narrative-driven adventures like Pentiment and exploration-focused RPGs these days.
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Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled has returned to the top spot on UK physical sales chart for the week ending on 13 July 2019. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order debuts at number two while Super Mario Maker 2 slips to the third spot.
JULY 24
Blizzard's hero shooter Overwatch has generated over $1 billion from in-game purchases alone according to the latest report from Superdata. Overwatch is the 64th game on either console, PC or mobile to generate that amount of money.
JULY 24
Vienna-based publisher THQ Nordic have revealed their Gamescom 2019 lineup in the latest announcement. The company will reveal three brand new games at the show as well as share new footage of Biomutant, Destroy All Humans and Spongebob.
JULY 24
Pearl Abyss, the developer of MMORPG Black Desert Online have announced an open beta test on PlayStation 4. The beta will start on 09 August 2019 and will run until 13 August 2019 and you'll be able to play it without PlayStation Plus.
JULY 24
Player Unknown's Battlegrounds Season 4 update has officially arrived on the PC platform. The update introduces a huge visual change to Erangel map, adds a new Survivor Pass, new cooperative mission system and ton of balancing tweaks.
JULY 24
Capcom revealed Acidic Glavenus, a subspecies of the Glavenus monster during their San Diego Comic-Con show. According to the devs, the creature has better control over its tail and special corrosive sulphuric acid with debuffing abilities.
JULY 24
Ubisoft have introduced the third Apparel Event for The Division 2. The event is now live on all platforms and it brings a fresh batch of apparel items including clothing, weapon and signature weapon skins, emotes and one brand new mask.
JULY 23
CD Projekt Red shared a couple of new details about Nanowires - a weapon which can be seen in the short Cyberpunk 2077 trailer from E3 2019. Players will use Nanowire to hack other characters with malware and slice them into tiny pieces.
JULY 23
Spawn is set to appear in NetherRealm's Mortal Kombat 11, and earlier this week, the character's creator Todd McFarlane shared new details about Spawn appearance in the brutal fighter. Unfortunately, he did not mention the release date.
JULY 23
Recently, a Reddit user claimed that the original Red Dead Redemption is getting a remake and will release on PC. He also said that DLC with aliens is in the works for Red Dead Redemption 2. However, this couldn't be further from the truth.
JULY 23
In the latest video on Twitter, Infinity Ward have teased Gunsmith, which is a weapon customisation feature in the upcoming Call of Duty Modern Warfare. According to the devs, players will have nine areas of the weapon to augment.
JULY 22
After some initial testing on Rainbow Six Siege test servers, Ubisoft have today released a patch that buffs Glaz and nerfs Ballistic Shield operators. The patch is live on the PC platform and will also arrive to consoles on 24 July 2019.
JULY 22
