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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.
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Monster Hunter: World is getting a brand new addition in a dynamic difficulty setting, that will come in one of the future updates. The new feature will scale the difficulty down if players leave or get disconnected during the hunt.
JUNE 21
Cyberpunk 2077 long term romances will be similar to The Witcher 3 relationships it's been confirmed by the game's lead quest designer Pawel Sasko. He also said that players will now have more options when choosing their NPC partners.
JUNE 21
Halo developer 343 Industries confirmed that if everything goes according to plan, the first closed beta test for Halo: Reach will start next week, exclusively for a small subsection of Halo Insider members. This beta will run only on PC.
JUNE 21
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
