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Gears 5 developers, The Coalition confirmed in their latest blog post that the game won't contain loot boxes and won't come with a season pass. Instead, the devs will release free DLC content that will include maps, supply drops and more.
JUNE 21
Ready your wallets ladies and gents - Steam Summer Sale is about to begin according to the latest leak. The date is set for Tuesday, 25 June 2019 says Steam Database Twitter profile, who also successfully leaked last year's sale date.
JUNE 20
Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, a quest designer on Cyberpunk 2077 said that everyone at CD Projekt Red is feeling huge pressure due to a release date that's been revealed at E3. However, he also said that the team is super excited about the game.
JUNE 20
EA recently claimed that they don't sell loot boxes in their games, instead, they choose to call them surprise mechanics, similar to those found in Kinder Surprise. Sonic Twitter found this claim hilarious and decided to mock the publisher.
JUNE 20
Video games retailer GameStop shared a list of top 10 most pre-ordered games after E3 2019. Despite the lack of public gameplay footage, Call of Duty Modern Warfare reboot managed to top the list leaving behind Pokemon Sword and Shield.
JUNE 20
CD Projekt Red plan to release expansions for Cyberpunk 2077 just like they did with The Witcher 3. According to UI Coordinator Alvin Liu, they want to build open worlds that players will be able to re-visit once they finish the story.
JUNE 20
NetherRealm have introduced competitive Kombat League mode to Mortal Kombat 11 in the latest update. Kombat League brings ranked play and exclusive seasonal awards over the course of four weeks. The first season officially kicks off today.
JUNE 18
In today's update, Ubisoft finally introduced the fourth specialisation to The Division 2- Gunner. It's the first post-launch specialisation that brings first heavy weapon - minigun. The Gunner is all about tank damage and sustained fire.
JUNE 18
In the latest content update for Fortnite, Epic Games are introducing a new item called Chug Splash. Once thrown, the item grants healing to allies in the area. Creative also got some big additions with Prop Hunt mode and new islands.
JUNE 18
Cyberpunk 2077 could arrive to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Project Scarlett says senior level designer Miles Tost. However, the main focus of the team right now is to wrap up and optimise the game for current-generation consoles and PC.
JUNE 18
Streaming giant Twitch have filed a lawsuit against unknown streamers who were streaming porn, copyright material and violent content under the Artifact directory. At the moment the company don't know the identities of these streamers.
JUNE 18
Tim Sweeney has said that getting Sony to enable cross-play between PlayStation 4 and other consoles was one of the greatest moments in the history of Epic Games. It was a series of tough discussions that left him tired but pleased.
JUNE 17
