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MLB The Show 19 was released on Tuesday and with it comes a new and improved Road to the Show game experience that fans will surely enjoy. Ahh, Spring is in the air, and you know what that means; baseball season. More importantly, that means that the latest installment of Sony’s baseball gaming franchise, MLB The Show 19, is out and ready to be played by millions of baseball fans. For a sports video game nut like myself, I have lost the enjoyment in playing baseball video games in recent years. I yearn for the days of MVP baseball where I could create my own stadiums, but this year MLB The Show has me hooked for one reason, Road to the Show. Road to the Show is the popular career mode where you create your own playable ball player and try to rise to the Major League’s and become a star. Right from the start, you can notice a difference. While creating your player you are in your bedroom. When you pick your nationality, you see your country’s flag hanging above your bed. When you pick y...

RuneScape was once declared the world’s largest multiplayer online game. Millions of people were entranced by its blocky graphics and repetitive gameplay. Like many young people in the early noughties, I was naively drawn in by RuneScape’s promise that hard work, industrious labour, and a lava battle staff would allow me to earn enjoyment and success. Capitalism, too, has promised the workers of the world that faithfulness to our employers is the path to contentment. Yet the relation of exploitation between the capitalist and working classes has led the proletariat into open revolt against our rulers over and over again. RuneScape, like capitalism, has repeatedly entered into periods of crisis in which the people have demanded change. And as I learned today while procrastinating, in RuneScape just as in capitalism, the people have turned to communism to build a new world. An ancient fan wiki revealed to me the lost history of class struggle in RuneScape, and now I bring it to the world...

We are not fans of Forza Horizon 4’s Festival Playlist, introduced in Series 7. However, after a backlash from the community, it looks like Playground Games is exploring a patch to make it more palatable. The question remains though, is it enough to fix it? According to the Forza Week in Review for March 22, the new patch will lower the 100% completion reward to just 80%. Sounds great right? Well, it still poses a problem and continues to force players to play the way PG wants you to play. In order to get an 80% completion, you still need to participate in multiplayer events. This means you’re still relying on other people in order to complete the events. The Luck of the Random Teammate Draw For example, let’s look at the Trial. For the Autumn Season, players need to team up and beat another team of Drivatars on the unbeatable difficulty. You also need to turn up in an S2 998 class hypercar, which adds to the challenge just a bit. In theory, completing this event seems like someth...

As most of the Maplers might have known about, MapleStory 2 was officially rolling out Mar. 28th update and already deployed into the game. The so-called Mar. 28th update features 3 diverse main aspects, including the establishment of the MapleStory 2 Mesos Market, an escalation of Epic Pet drop rate and fixes of Meso Sink Reduction issue. Although it was made clear in the last announcement that this update would be merely a prelude to the massive subsequent fix-ups, still, many praised for the improvements the update have brought along after an immersive experience of the new game.  In the meantime, MapleStory 2 is still sticking to the Project New Leaf, which has been inaugurated for an overhaul to the game inside out, and ready to surmount another obstacle ahead of it - Accessory Socket.  Earlier today, In the official announcement, MapleStory 2 pledged to release another update concerned with Progression Improvement in the next month, as well as expanded on the s...

Phil Balke, the first pro gamer hired by Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment, has been suspended for the remainder of the FIFA 19 competitive season for violations of the soccer video game's rules and code of conduct. Balke, a Toronto native, represents Toronto FC in MLS esports competitions. "MLSE takes the rules and regulations governing our partner leagues seriously and competitive FIFA is no exception," MLSE said in a brief statement. "We will be further evaluating the situation with Major League Soccer and will provide additional comment at an appropriate time." Balke, who was 23 when hired by MLSE in February 2018, issued an apology via social media. "I apologize to everyone who supported me this season and deeply regret my actions," he wrote. "This mistake does not define my career and I will grow from this and will be back next year having learned from my mistake." Balke apparently fell afoul of publisher EA Sports' rules gov...

The discussion of new potential console ports for Final Fantasy XIV is brought up in the latest talk with the game director Naoki Yoshida. Nintendo and Xbox may be the next havens for Final Fantasy XIV Online . Discussions are still in the works even though hinted. There is a possibility that Final Fantasy XIV Online may extend its compatible platform into Nintendo and Xbox someday in the near feature. In an interview with FFXIV game director Naoki Yoshida by Gamespot, it was made clear that discussion with Microsoft, Nintendo, and Google are currently in progress.  In a previous interview, the game director also stressed that cross-platform play is needed for the unity of Final Fantasy player bases and the offer of the best experience. The game only with PS4 and PC needs to be past history. With Sony and Nintendo starting to allow cross-play with competing platforms for games like Fortnite and Rocket League , there is a higher possibility for Final Fantasy XIV...

MapleStory 2 is now celebrating the final result of a poll which was held back in Valentine's day just to pick up the most popular NPC in the game, as well as rewarding the participants in this poll with some giveaways that won't be dispatched until the Mar. 28th update. The Valentine's poll, which was originally one of the last sections of the so-called "Decadent Delivery Event", is designed to collect the data of which Maple World denizen is most lovable in the game and then sort all six candidates and choose the winner by votes.  Maplers even get rewards at the start of this event simply by giving you hand-made chocolates to the favorite candidate of yours. Of course, crafting your own chocolates and sending them as a vote is actually part of the task too. If you complete your vote, you will be rewarded with five more Valentine's exclusive chocolates plus some other bonus on a daily basis.  I am thrilled to tell you that the vote has now officiall...

The steal in baseball is one of the most thrilling actions. It usually comes out all of a sudden and catches someone off guard, and always issues in someone getting upset on one of the sides of the ball. Here’s how to steal in MLB the Show 19. We'll delve a little more into RTTS's version of the steal than all of the other game modes due to its distinct peculiarity, assuming you are not controlling an individual character in the game. Base Running in MLB The Show 19 can be a bit convoluted due to loads of buttons to press and many things that are going on, whether you are playing RTTS, the new Moments, Diamond Dynasty, or what else modes. Getting a steal or any other baserunning move in a jam can be extremely dispiriting since it can result in unnecessary outs that are just killer when you're striking against pitching that's hard to score off of, especially online.  Stealing Normally in MLB The Show 19 If you're in full control of all the players f...

Here, we'all thrilled to be informed that Path of Exile and its latest 3.6.0 expansion will come out on PlayStation 4 in a couple of hours. As the official post mentioned before and the latest update provides, the PS4 version of Path of Exile will go live on March 26th and showcase for American regions first at 8 am while Europea will have its premiere at midnight later.  Allegedly, Path of Exile on PS4 will be only available for players in American and European regions. As for Asia, Russia, Australia, and some other regions, it won't show up and be purchasable until developers work that out someday.  About one day ago, Path of Exile official website released a post about answering all sorts of questions related to this PS4 roll-out. Based on what we gathered from this post, a number of avid players who happen to possess both PC and a PS4 console wouldn't be exhilarated by the information from this post that openly declared the cross-platform account connectivity,...

Square Enix kicked off the 2019 Fan Fest in Tokyo with a stunning new trailer and lots more details for the PS4 and PC game's next expansion. The 2019 Final Fantasy Fan Fest in Tokyo began today with a keynote address from game director Naoki Yoshida, and the 90-minute briefing was packed with news and insight on the new Shadowbringers expansion for Final Fantasy XIV coming out later this year. Perhaps the biggest news was the announcement of a new Job. The new Job is Dancer. As the name suggests, Dancer uses dance moves, in a way, to combat their enemies. Performing dances executes certain abilities, while some specific dances buff nearby party members. Dancer is a ranged DPS Job, and its main arm is used for throwing weapons. It has no associated class, according to Square Enix, and you'll be able to start using Dancer at level 60. Another huge announcement was the next playable race for Final Fantasy XIV--the Hrothgar. Cat-like humanoids, the Hrothgar will be avai...

MapleStory 2 Project New Leaf has recently extended the longevity of a band-aid solution to current Progression issues, which would be replaced by the Progression Improvement update in the next month, according to the latest post issued on the official website.  As is well known for all Maplers, the Progression Mechanics in MapleStory 2 has been drowning in the mire of unfairness and suppression for a very long time. For the majority of players whose progressions are way below the ones from the apex of the pyramid, all progression mechanics and other correlatives this game has now almost backfired and did more harm than good to bridge the gap between low-level players and high-level ones. Even the FairFight system, which basically nerfs players' damages towards dungeon bosses up to a certain point, has devoted nothing to the redemption of the wide disparity between these two classes.  The band-aid solution called Dungeon Delight event was initially announced a...

According to an official post published earlier on Mar 20th, Grinding Gear Games in cooperation with a South Korea game company Kakao Games would bring Path of Exile to Korea. Now the building of a Korean version is in the phase of forging a new gateway of the main Path of Exile realm. Soon, it will be moving to finishing touches. This Korean Version would be the third Asia version of Path of Exile following Southeast Version agented by Garena from 2014, and Chinese Version agented by Tencent from 2016. By convention, we would presume that Kakao Games will run Korean Version for GGG and becomes the only agent of this game. However, when it comes to the other roles that Kakao Games possibly plays, for instance, developing and updating the game as requested, we can't be sure enough to draw a conclusion on that.  It is, however, a big surprise for all Korean players rooted for this game for years. With a Korean version of Path of Exile built, The barrier to reading, communicat...

RuneScape is reviewing its Security Measures deployed for protecting the majority of legitimate players against hijacking. Reportedly, more than 60% of RuneScape Players haven't been so convinced of the overrated efficacy of the game Security Barrier and at least 30% of players have been hijacked or scammed once in the game before.  Security Measures wasn't the only character in the show. RuneScape was announced to plan on issuing a batch of corrections and improvements on Account Recovery, Account Security, Customer Support, Anti-cheating, Toxicity in the game and many other issues that concern Players' experiences mostly. The official blog post described this project as a "significant work", which requires much more time and technology to tackle because of some legacy issues and its "no-quick-fix" policy. It's been a very long time since the first group of rantings towards gimcrack RuneScape Security was laid out on social media. Many doubte...

Apex Legends' Wild Frontier Battle Pass arrives on March 19, marking the start of the game's first season. Just as in Fortnite, the Battle Pass costs 950 Apex Coins--roughly $10--and allows you to unlock a wide range of skins, cosmetics, and other rewards as you level it up throughout the season. Even if you don't want to shell out money for it, however, you'll be able to unlock some items for free. As EA confirmed on the Apex Legends website, all players will be able to earn a handful of free rewards during Season 1. These include one Wild Frontier Legend skin, five Apex Packs, and 18 Wild Frontier stat trackers. If you do decide to spring for a Battle Pass partway through the season, you'll also retroactively unlock any items you would have earned so you won't need to worry about missing out on the rewards. Of course, those who do purchase the Battle Pass will have access to even more goodies. Respawn is offering 100 tiers of rewards to unlock througho...

MapleStory Fest, which was inaugurated in the April of the last year, seemingly comes back to Maplers again in the next month, according to the official statement from Nexon. Allegedly, MapleStory Fest is able to pull off due to massive quantities of followings and diehards, mostly driven by nostalgia and fixating on their childhoods. It is why MapleStory is still updating and evolving since its debut in 2005 and MapleStory 2, the orthodox sequel of MapleStory, could get so much attention and engagement in the first month of its release. However, nothing will last forever, even includes video games. After over 5 months of exploration and progressing, MapleStory 2 turned itself into a cover-girl-esque has-been. According to Steam records, 95% of the concurrent players of this game have vanished and evaporated during the five months, and most importantly, it didn't get any better recently. It was gladly seeing the decline of active players' number take a pause for some cau...

Microsoft gave us a live demonstration of its Project xCloud game streaming service Tuesday, showing Forza Horizon 4 being played on an Android phone. Conveniently, the Inside Xbox video came a week before Google is expected to reveal its game-streaming service at Game Developers Conference (GDC) and days after Sony brought PS4 Remote Play to iPhone and iPad. Microsoft's video shows Kareem Choudhry, Microsoft's corporate vice president of cloud gaming, letting presenter Julia Hardy play the open world racing game as it's streamed to a phone, using an Xbox One controller connected via Bluetooth. "We're developing Project xCloud not as a replacement for game consoles, but as a way to provide the same choice and versatility that lovers of music and video enjoy today," Choudhry wrote in an accompanying blog post. "We're adding more ways to play Xbox games." So don't go trading in your Xbox One just yet. Forza Horizon 4 only hit...

As the most Maplers might have seen, MapleStory 2 and its developers were progressing the so-called "Project New Leaf" and gradually extended the untouched categories that have been publically recognized as "contents with fatal flaws". Last Friday, The Project New Leaf updated and published a new announcement about patching up some new contents which have been bothering the game and affected players' retention so long as the others. These patchy contents include Epic Pets, Mesos Sink Reduction, Legendary Gear, Accessory Fragment Fusion and so on. It looks like the fourth overhaul to the game is nailed down and scheduled. Meanwhile, as far as we know, MapleStory 2 developers do not want it as the last stop. It means that there will be definitely one or more sequels of this update in order to address MapleStory 2 Mesos issues successfully.  Although someone might argue with the very first intention from MapleStory 2 developers to issue these overhauls, this...

Today, FIFA confirmed the full line-up of participating countries who will compete at the first-ever FIFA eNations Cup, as well as the Host City for the inaugural event taking place next month. As one of the major events in the EA SPORTS FIFA 19 Global Series, the FIFA eNations Cup is a new addition by FIFA to this season’s professional eFootball calendar and will feature 20 national teams from all six confederations (CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, CAF, OFC, AFC and UEFA). In addition to international glory and a prize pool of USD 100,000 at stake for the teams, players selected by their member association for the FIFA eNations Cup 2019 will also have the chance to win up to 1,500 EA SPORTS FIFA 19 Global Series points, providing them with an opportunity to move up the FIFA 19 Global Series Rankings and take a significant step forward on the Road to the FIFA eWorld Cup™ 2019. Following a thorough and extensive evaluation and invitation process conducted by FIFA for the inaugural event, the 20...

How to Get Fighter Torso in Old School RuneScape (OSRS) If you’ve played Old School RuneScape, you probably acquaint yourself with the Fighter Torso, as it offers one of the best strength bonuses for the body in the game. Unfortunately, unlocking it is not necessarily easy to your knowledge. Here is everything you need to know about how to get Fighter Torso in Old School RuneScape. First things first, the prerequisite to even equip this item is that your player must have 40 Defense. Next, it is highly recommended that you have an accordingly high combat level prepped for before accessing the execrable combat environment, as earning this item will be difficult without it, even in a group. Barbarian Assault The reason for this is that this torso can only be earned by completing tasks in the Barbarian Assault minigame in Old School Runescape – especially the Attacker role. To be exact, you have to have 375 honor points in all four roles and have killed the Penan...

Allegedly, Path of Exile plans on launching the first patch to address some admittedly hot issues after the Synthesis league went live. Some issues were claimed to "negatively affect" players or be rampantly abused by the ones with ulterior motives.  There is obviously a list of issues waiting to be addressed yet most of them are still swept under the carpet. One can be confirmed is Watcher's Eye, the unique Jewel in the game which can only drop from The Tier 6 maps or higher if the Sharper lives. Based on the developer's story, one of the modifiers that exclusively applies to this Jewel has its parameter excessively enhanced so that this item, Watcher's Eye is "more powerful than intended".  The parameter, which is "30" in the "30% increased Maximum total Recovery per second from Energy Shield Leech while affected by Zealotry" modifier as was originally designed, moved up to "180" after the Synthesis league release ...

RuneScape looks like experiencing an overhaul to the whole system. Ironically, the motivation that drives the overhaul is, surprisingly, the weariness of playing "Bounty Hunter" from game developers.  Based on the latest post from the official RuneScape site, regardless of its horrid genre and two-year running history, Bounty Hunter, as one of the minigames of the game, is officially removed in Mar. 11 update and no longer exist. This kind of astonishing update doesn't actually come out of nowhere: as early as 3 days ago, there was a hotfix deployed to the game which specifically aimed at evacuating and expelling players from the minigame successively. This hotfix enables the functionality of sending everyone in the game a message about taking down Bounty Hunter three days later. And now, this content is buried under the six feet already.  Although some gamers do take the developers' side and accuse the discomfort and disheartenment they have to deal with...

A piece of breaking news just burst out from Path of Exile official forum, saying that the game, including its newest expansion, will come to PlayStation 4 on March 26th(PDT), exactly two weeks from now. It is more than three months now after Grinding Gear Games announced the PS4 Release plan the first time. Since then, thousands of PS4 users and diehard fans have been waiting for this moment, as well as following through any updates of this. But Reflecting on the game company's performance, things have been nearly patchy. The game developers, in the past three months, deliberately postponed the PS4 release more than once. leaving a multitude of the audiences disheartened and raged. Allegedly, in December of 2018, there are some crucial issues and obstacles ahead of the program's development where needs more time and energy to tackle. However, in next month, game developers patched that up and the main structure was completed, still, a period of time has been claimed to be ...

Are you the kind of baseball fan that only wants to play the most exciting parts of the game? MLB The Show 19’s March to October mode might be for you. I will admit that I don’t watch enough of my hometown Toronto Blue Jays in action over the past few years. I don’t have enough free time in my busy schedule to catch all 162 games of their season, but do make an effort to catch a game here and there. If that’s the kind of shotgun-like approach to your baseball fandom, then MLB The Show 19 has the gameplay mode for you. As well briefed on the PlayStation Blog, the new “March to October” game mode will enable players to hop in on a team’s most pivotal moments in games, requiring players to come in the clutch and help drive the team’s momentum as they push towards the postseason. These snippets of baseball “encounters,” for better or worse, will have an impact on the pacing of the season. Imagine your favourite baseball team is in the bottom of the 9th with the bases loaded in a ...