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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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With seven nominations, Rockstar's mammoth Red Dead Redemption 2 is leading the list of nominees for the GDC Awards 2019. PlayStation 4 exclusives God of War and Spider-man are close behind with 12 nominations, Game of the Year included.
JANUARY 5
Bethesda and Warner Bros. confirmed that they've amicably resolved the lawsuit filed by Bethesda, which accused Behaviour's Westworld to be a blatant rip-off of their Fallout Shelter game. The exact terms of their settlement remain secret.
JANUARY 5
Slightly Mad Studios have shown a concept image of their new console dubbed the Mad Box. The company's CEO Ian Bell shared the first look at the console, and judging by the photos, Mad Box will feature water cooling and vertical design.
JANUARY 5
Rainbow Six cheaters have come up with a new way to finish off opponents as several players witnessed exploits such as flying during the prep phase and walking through walls. This way, cheaters are winning before the round even starts.
JANUARY 4
Slightly Mad Studios are developing a new console that's aiming for 4K 60 FPS gaming and VR, as has been confirmed by the company's CEO Ian Bell. Dubbed the Mad Box, the console will have a free engine for developers and high-end hardware.
JANUARY 4
Erik Wolpaw, the man who co-wrote Portal 2, both Half-Life 2 episodes and Left 4 Dead is back at Valve two years after he left the company. Wolpaw follows his colleague writer Jay Pinkerton who also returned to Valve in July last year.
JANUARY 4
Developer and publisher Rebellion announced the acquisition of Yorkshire-based studio Tick Tock Games, who worked on Rogue Trooper Redux. With this acquisition, Rebellion now owns a total of four studios working on unannounced projects.
JANUARY 4
The latest report from Entertainment Retailers Association shows that in 2018, games accounted for more than half of the entire UK entertainment market. This also means that the games market is bigger from video and music sector combined.
JANUARY 3
CS:GO went free to play and added a new battle royale mode recently, which led to a record-breaking 20 million player-count in December. These numbers are the highest ever recorded and more than double when compared to November's numbers.
JANUARY 3
Nvidia's exclusive DLSS feature could be coming to Dice's Battlefield V pretty soon. When combined with RTX Ray Tracing, Deep Learning Supersampling will bring improvements to Battlefield V's overall performance on all RTX series cards.
JANUARY 3
Epic's flagship Fortnite is Google's most-searched game of 2018, as was confirmed in Google's Year in Search list. The data is specific to the United States and once again the popular battle royale had a tough competition in RDR2.
JANUARY 3
Bethesda announced that another big update for Fallout 76 is coming in January 2019. Additions will include new quests, daily events, vault openings, a new PVP mode and Player Vending which will allow players to sell their own items.
JANUARY 3
