Month: March 2021

After asking players not to buy a version of Lovecraftian horror game The Sinking City that appeared on Steam last week, developer Frogwares has now posted a blog explaining that the Steam upload is a hacked version of the game allegedly stolen by publisher Nacon. The game was originally delisted from Steam in an ongoing dispute between the developer and their contracted publisher on The Sinking City.

As reported by Vice, the studio published an extensive blog post titled “How Nacon Cracked and Pirated The Sinking City,” which calls the Steam re-release “corporate bullying, and incompetent hacking, at its finest.”

The blog post details how “Alain Falc, Nacon owner and CEO, warned us on December 28th 2020 in writing that ‘you have 48 hours to upload a new Steam master otherwise we will use all solutions available within the law and the contract.'” The post alleges that after the 48 hours was up, Nacon aquired a version of the game from DRM-free marketplace Gamesplanet in order to upload it onto Steam.

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While raids in Destiny 2 normally cap out with a team of six, players have figured out a way to cram 12 players into a raid team.

The glitch was reported by PCGamer this week, but has been floating around Destiny 2 communities for a while before that. A number of videos from high-profile players showing the exploit have made the rounds recently, however, bringing it to the attention of more of the community and, no doubt, Bungie itself.

Instructions on how to pull off the raid can be found in this Reddit post–all you need is 11 of your closest friends, a voice call, and some pretty spot-on timing.

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Judge Yvonne Gonzalez has met with lawyers from Apple and Epic Games in order to arrange the specifics of a trial that will seek to decide whether Apple’s App Store practices are monopolistic and anti-competitive, as reported by MacRumors. The judge has said that the case is significant enough to be heard in person, with witnesses believed to be less likely to lie when testifying in a physical court.

The trial may be changed to a virtual one taking place over Zoom if COVID-19 numbers are high at the time of the trial, but it is due to start on May 3 no matter what happens. If the current plans go ahead, witnesses will have to travel to Northern California to testify, unless they have valid health reasons not to travel. The trial will be held as a bench trial, meaning there will be no jury.

Epic’s lawsuit against Apple alleges that the tech giant is a “behemoth seeking to control markets, block competition, and stifle innovation,” saying that Apple’s practices are anti-competitive and monopolistic. Epic’s main beef with Apple is over the 30% cut it takes from App Store payments, as well as rules disallowing apps on the App Store from processing microtransactions outside of Apple’s payment system.

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Hero Forge’s range of options for its customizable tabletop minis just got a little bigger, with the addition of a set of wheelchairs for adventure-ready wheelchair-using characters. The new options include three different styles of wheelchair, which have been added in time for International Wheelchair Day.

Hero Forge is a service that allows you to design a customized TTRPG miniature, complete with weapons, mounts, and even animal companions. The finished designs can then be bought as a pre-made figure, or downloaded as a 3D-printable STL file.

The new wheelchairs have been added in the “Mounts” category, and include a basic “Modern Wheelchair,” a decorative “Fantasy Town Wheelchair,” and a “Fantasy Battle Wheelchair” that’s exactly what it sounds like. The parts can also be mixed and matched between styles, with customizable wheels and handles.

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