Activision Blizzard has earned more than $ 4 billion with sales of micro-transactions in 2017

According to a recent report, sales of items inside video game showed a more profitable business for Activision Blizzard than selling the titles themselves.

Despite the fact that gamers are opposed to the implementation of micro-transactions in modern video games, they do not hesitate to open their own wallets to spend money on such virtual products. Namely, some companies have already confirmed that selling items within a games earns them more money than selling games themselves, and recently US company Activision Blizzard joined them.

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Rainbow Six Siege emerged in a serious eSports title

The Rainbow Six Pro League will be divided into two seasons, each of which will last for six months: from June to November 2018 and from December 2018 to May 2019. The world's largest eSports organizations have already formed their Rainbow Six Siege teams while some are still looking for their future stars.

If you do not know yet Rainbow Six Siege is a tactical first-person shooter in which a team of five people is trying to defend or destroy a bomb site. Ubisoft released the game at the end of 2015 and has so far accumulated an enviable number of players playing on a daily basis. The creator's original idea was to focus on eSports, and new players would be able to embark on a ranked play and competing for themselves after the twentieth level.

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The fifth season For Honor comes in a few days, and with dedicated servers

Ubisoft officially confirmed that the fifth season of hack & slash action game For Honor, known as Age of Wolves, will start on February 15 and that only a few days later its PC version will get long-deserved dedicated servers. On this occasion, Ubisoft has not been precise when dedicated servers can be expected on consoles, but coming to the PC should result in much better matchmaking and more fluid and stable matches.

One of the biggest minuses of last year's For Honor game was definitely the P2P network multiplayer performance. In short, that performance has made it easier to launch the game, lowering some online traffic to the players. The adverse effects of this were the slowdown and general breaks during the match. For one game that relied so much on the multiplayer component, Ubisoft's move was "inexpensive" in the absence of another description.

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Ash of Gods - A visual novel designed as a turn-based RPG with a roguelike story

The Ash of Gods game wants to turn us into brave people who are willing to make difficult decisions and sacrifice others and also to stop the devastation of darkness and death that destroys their homeland.

Last year, American Independent Studio AurumDust presented its first project on Kickstarter; and as it used to be, they asked the generous people who saw the potential in their projectto fund them. Given that nearly two thousand people supported their idea with just over half a million dollars this year, we will enjoy a visual novel called Ash of Gods.

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Gigabyte has launched a new motherboard for cryptocurrency mining

The new motherboard is intended for crypto miners and comes with 12 PCIe slots.

Gigabyte has launched a new B250-FinTech motherboard, which specializes in crypto mining and allows „miners“ to install the 12 g graphics cards,, and each can individually employ for mining another cryptocurrency.

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Fear the Wolves - Battle royale game in irradiated Chernobyl

Fear the Wolves takes place, like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., in the creepy radiation-blasted wasteland of Chernobyl. Deadly anomalies constantly threaten your health, and mutated forms lurking in the shadows.

With the massive success of PUBG and the free-to-play battle royale mode in Fortnite it should come as no surprise that developers are starting to hop on the bandwagon. The people who brought us S.T.A.L.K.E.R., after they left the GSC Game World, they joined together under a newly-founded studio called Vostok Games - from which they launched Steam Early Access game Survarium, a shooter multiplayer game in 2015. With Survarium still in development, Vostok Games presents its new game, derived from the ever-increasing popularity of the Battle Royale genre, called Fear the Wolves.

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Rocket League this spring gets tournaments and other new content

Developer of Rocket League has revealed a program of future game updates that we will be meet in the spring of 2018

The Rocket League has a very successful year, and for 2018 it is planed to continue at a similar pace with a lot of new content. The content package for the spring of 2018 will certainly mark the introduction of the Tournaments. Testing of the same will start next month, but the launch for all players will occur in the third or fourth month, they have been discovered by Psyonix.

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Horror game "The Peterson Case" looks frighteningly good

 A new horror game that is announced that will take place in 1947 and will be visiting an alien on our planet.

The Independent English Studio Quarter Circle Games announced its first game called The Peterson Case. It's a horror title that was set up after the fall of an unknown facility in Roswell in 1947. In the game, we will take the role of Detective Franklin Reinhardt, who is investigating the disappearance of a family, and soon finds that in their home is something that is not from this world.

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The best player in Football Manager 2018 will get 20,000 £ and the chance to be a real trainer

Thanks to the Norwich City Football Club and the superb Community Sports Foundation, the winner of this game changing eSport tournament will be up and close with the stars, tactics and behind the scenes action in the upcoming Norwich City Legends vs. Inter Forever charity match on May 20th, at Carrow Road.

As part of Insomnia 62, one of the biggest gaming events in the United Kingdom, Football Management 2018 World Esports Championship will be held from March 30 to April 2, a tournament in Football Manager 2018. The winner will receive 25,000 pounds and the opportunity to lead the Norwich legends in the match against the Inter Forever team, the legends of great Milan.

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Need for speed : Payback – Drifting all the way

Need for Speed™, one of the world’s bestselling video game franchises, returns with a vengeance in the new action-driving blockbuster, Need for Speed Payback. Set in the underworld of Fortune Valley, you and your crew were divided by betrayal and reunited by revenge to take down The House, a nefarious cartel that rules the city’s casinos, criminals and cops.

Need For Speed Payback sees the long-running franchise return after a two year-long absence. The last entry acted as a bit of a reboot and saw things shift from open-world racing to more of a narrative-driven structure complete with live-action footage mixing in with game models. Prior to the release of Need for Speed Payback I made a joke how this could be NFS Refund or NFS Retrovizor. After I invested more time in that game than she deserved, I think it would be better to be NFS Payoff. Namely, everything in the new NFS is about paying. For every possible thing, even the most ridiculous, the game pays you some points.

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Call of Duty : WW2 - New chapter of history

Call of Duty returns to its roots with Call of Duty: WWII—a breathtaking experience that redefines World War II for a new gaming generation. Land in Normandy on D-Day and battle across Europe through iconic locations in history’s most monumental war. Experience classic Call of Duty combat, the bonds of camaraderie, and the unforgiving nature of war.

This year the Activision series used a joker card called "back to roots" in the hope of reconciliation of the haters and lovers, and that everyone in the new CoD will be happy. It is unlikely that this will happen, but it does not diminish the fact that Sledgehammer Games has made a decent WW2 game, that will not be ashamed beside the first two Call of Duty. Decently in this case that means exactly what you would expect from a Call of Duty game, and not much more than that. The campaign is firmly directed and scripted, and the multiplayer is recognizably conservative for the terms of today's shooters. The advantage of all this is that Call of Duty: WWII slides without any need for instructions. Nevremind you have you have to switch from the futuristic Infinite Warfare to World War II since both fronts in the performance of Call of Duty games are very similar.

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Shadow of the Colossus - The 2018 remake is stunning to look at

Rebuilt from the ground up by Bluepoint Games and JAPAN Studio, SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS on PlayStation 4 system introduces the awe of its unforgettable world and towering creatures to a new generation of gamers, while allowing long time fans to revisit the beloved masterpiece with unparalleled visual fidelity and improved performance.

Many consider Shadow of the Colossus as the greatest game ever made upon its 2005 release for PlayStation 2. The game focused on a young adventurer who must slay a plenty of ancient beasts in order to save the life of a loved one. Shadow of the Colossus art design, story beats, large world setting, and involved boss battles made it an instant classic.

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Assassin's Creed Origins - Walk like an Egyptian

Ancient Egypt, a land of majesty and intrigue, is disappearing in a ruthless fight for power. Unveil dark secrets and forgotten myths as you go back to the one founding moment: The Origins of the Assassin’s Brotherhood.

We would think that people are at least partially interested in history when they enjoy Assassin's Creed games. Of course, that does not necessarily have to be the case. One group have just joined this series for love of history, other one love history only after they have allowed Ubisoft to take them to this wonderful world, and the third group is playing just for fun and history does not really interest them in real life. But anyway, most of these players return year after year to the Assassin's Creed series and they stand with it in good and evil.

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PlayStation 4 is sold less than 2016, the president of Sony resigns

The PlayStation 4 had a successful year and is on the good track to overcome the overall sales of PlayStation 3, but sales results are expected to fall year-by-year.

At the beginning of the year the sales of the PlayStation 4 console during the last holiday season were down slightly compared to 2016. Not surprisingly, Sony data shows that sales of the console in the third quarter of Sony's fiscal year also dropped from 9.7 million to 9 million sold consoles.

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Thief - New birth of old series

Step into the silent shoes of Garrett, a dark and lonely thief with an unrivaled set of skills. The most challenging heists, the most inaccessible loots, the best kept secrets: nothing is out of your reach.

When Thief saw for the first time the light of the day back in 1998 it brought a real small revolution as a game where stealth is a primary component of gameplay. Sequels that followed in 2000 and 2004 only cemented the cult status. Of course a variety of copy / paste games followed, but none had such as good quality as the demo. Now, 10 years after the last game, Thief returned.

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Diablo - It is the perfect example of a game that transcends its genre

Diablo invites you to enter a world of dark gothic fantasy. Play as a brave warrior, cunning rogue or mysterious sorceror. As you venture deeper into the labyrinth, you'll discover weapons, armor, and magical treasures, and develop your character's skills and abilities.

Near the end of 1996 in the United States, Blizzard North launched the Diablo game. Blizzard Entertainment, a world renowned video game publisher, that gained worldwide fame with the first and second Warcraft game, again confirmed it's name with a new hit that holds the average rating of 94 on Metacritica today. Regardless of what came out at the very end of 1996, Diablo grabbed GameSpot's GOTY prize and later the title of the best ever game by criteria of the same page. The madness that took over it in this world, so the game soon, at the beginning of 1997, was realeased to the global market. In 1998, the port for Mac was also released, and Climax Studio released PlayStation port at the same year and had a notable success.

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System shock 2 - Truly scary, smart, challenging, fascinating, and disturbing game

System Shock™ 2 is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. It has gone on to inspire some of the greatest titles of our generation with games including Deus Ex® and Bioshock®

In this post, I will talk about FPS's that inspired Bioshock series, but also who is in almost every way went far more than the floating city of Columbia in BioShock: Infinite. The BioShock series, you agree, delivered us a really special atmosphere in the underwater utopia called Rapture. The last game from the series, the Infinite subtitle took us more, among the clouds in the flying city of Columbia. But before Bioshock there was a game that took the player even further.

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Postal - Take control of The Postal Dude as he battles to survive in a world gone mad

Postal (known as Going Postal in Europe) is the first game in the Postal franchise. The development began in 1996 and was released in November 1997 by Running With Scissors and Ripcord Games. At the time, the game was very controversial due to the higher than usual violence and brutality, and therefore was banned in over 10+ countries.

One of the most brutal game ever made is the subject of this new Retro dose, and the silly, sadistic entertainment that this game has been able to offer was outclasses only by its sequel - Postal 2 from 2003. In 1997, a group of enthusiasts form Arizona gathered under the name Running With Scissors and decided to make a video game that was supposed to suit their own taste. I believe that they themselves did not count on making such a sick game that the whole gaming community, various psychologists and psychiatrists, and numerous supporters for banning violence in video games will talk about it for years. This is the title that shared the GOTY prize on the 2002 Gamer List under the title "Most Controversial Game of All Time".

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