Yearly Archives: 2019

No Man’s Sky Beyond Update Now Live

After a couple of weeks of teasing the massive No Man’s Sky update, Beyond, Hello Games has launched it – with massive patch notes to boot.

Beyond, which is flagged as Update 2.0, marks the third anniversary of No Man’s Sky. This massive update introduces full VR support, new multiplayer gameplay, fauna riding and farming, cooking, and countless numbers of quality life improvements across the spectrum.

No Man's Sky Heart GIF

Highlights of the update include:

  • Increased and seamless VR support, including improved controls;
  • Massive multiplayer improvements, expanding the maximum number of players, making a new multiplayer hub (the Space Anamoly), adding multiplayer missions, improving multiplayer encounters while exploring the galaxy;
  • Fauna can now be tamed, ridden, and harvested, with new ingredients being used in over 300 new cooking recipes;
  • New alien encounters, increased alien encounters including ambient NPCs on the surface, new interactions, and new language;
  • New base technology including powering, logic, industrial options; new base parts; new ways to scale and rotate base parts;
  • Technology reworked into technology trees to allow players to choose their upgrade paths;
  • Improved mining mechanics, inventory limits, and new utility recipes;
  • Ability to install upgrades in parts (similar to starship repairs), and ability to move technology to different slots once installed.

For full update notes, read the Beyond Update patch notes.

Call of Duty World League Championship Begins Today

CoD World League Championship

The finale to the fourth season of the Call of Duty World League begins today (August 14th), when the best CoD players from around the world gather to compete. The goal is to be crowned the 2019 Call of Duty World League Champion. This five-day competition will be held at the Edwin W. Pauley Pavilion sports complex in Los Angeles, with elimination play beginning for all 32 teams. All the action from the start will be broadcast live for viewers around the world. Fans can catch every epic contest on MLG.com, Twitch and even in-game inside Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

“This season of the CWL has been thrilling to watch and the Call of Duty community has responded as viewership continues to grow this year,” said Johanna Faries, Commissioner of Call of Duty Esports. “After months of storylines, drama and outstanding competition, we’re about to see who is the best Call of Duty Esports team in the world.”

Sea of Thieves Content Update: Dark Relics and Developer Update

The latest Sea of Thieves content update is “Dark Relics”, and will have players going on voyages to recover stolen artefacts. Of course, they’re held by hordes of skeletons, but it’s probably fine. In addition, further information is given during the Developer Update! It also has a Gamescom preview thrown in, and all the latest in the world of Sea of Thieves.