Search results for drop-rates (13 results)
Recent Diablo 3 hotfixes address exploits, high-level item drop rates
Blizzard Entertainment has been keeping busy, tweaking a number of aspects of its best-selling loot-hunting game, Diablo 3. One of the hotfixes released today addresses an exploit used to circumvent the recent decreases in attack speed. Before the h...
Diablo 3 retains Legendary birthday buff, crowd goes wild
Blizzard realizes if you give a mouse a Legendary cookie, he's gonna want more Legendary cookies. So, "due to the overwhelming popularity" of last week's birthday buff, Diablo 3 will retain the doubled drop rate for Legendary items even when the buf...
NCSoft flushing Dungeon Runners on January 1
NCSoft will close down the servers for its free-to-play MMO Dungeon Runners on January 1. Producer and lead programmer Stephen Nichols, delivered the news in the form of a "crap sandwich." No, really. "You know ... you say something nice, drop the ba...
Lord of the Rings Online celebrating 3rd birthday with $10 subscription
To celebrate the arrival of its third birthday -- or, as is more accurate when describing the age of MMOs, the third year it's managed to avoid the sweet release of a global server shutdown -- Lord of the Rings Online is seeing a temporary reduction...
Team Fortress 2 update rings in second annual Australian Christmas
Valve has unwrapped the second-annual Australian Christmas update for Team Fortress 2, bringing with it the kind of cheer that can only come from a pile of heavy-duty, particle-melting weapons and a brand new map to use them in. The update include...
Fallout: New Vegas designer makes his own unofficial mod
Among the modders eagerly tinkering away at Fallout: New Vegas, arguably "correcting" what they see as deficiencies in the original design, is ... lead designer J.E. Sawyer. Sawyer has developed an optional patch for the PC version, which reduces ...
Diablo 3 director Jay Wilson moves on to new Blizzard project
Jay Wilson, who has been directing Diablo 3 for seven years, has decided to move on to other projects within Blizzard. Writing on the Blizzard forums, Wilson says that while working on Diablo 3 has "been one of the most challenging and rewarding per...
EA and Mythic's Ultima Forever comes to an end
Ultima fans were given a dose of unfortunate irony late last week, when an administrator for the Ultima Forever forums revealed that the game would be shutting down. As of August 29, the only place EA and Mythic's game will last forever will be in t...
LGJ: Regulating Virtual Currency
Each week Mark Methenitis contributes Law of the Game on Joystiq ("LGJ"), a column on legal issues as they relate to video games: We're seeing quite the economic turbulence in the United States as of late, and financial problems lead to two thing...
Terraria 1.2 update lands April 17; adds new bosses, sunnier sun
On April 17, Terraria will receive a "massive and free" update on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Vita. Update 1.2 makes numerous tweaks to the console version and adds plenty of fresh content, including four new bosses, additional NPCs, new pets, and "...
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword review: Such great heights
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is a game that is going to mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For the base which took hold of Nintendo's initial vision for the Wii console, imagining future games where the controller i...
Kid Icarus Uprising review: Uplifting
Kid Icarus: Uprising for 3DS is more than the return of a long-dormant Nintendo franchise; it's effectively the birth of a new franchise that feels nothing like anything else in Nintendo's lineup. It's fresh, exciting, funny, and has the ability to ...
Diablo 3 servers back online, 1.0.3 patch makes significant changes [Update]
Diablo 3's servers have come back online earlier than expected, bringing big changes to the game with patch 1.0.3, as promised. Primarily in response to player concerns, many of the changes tweak high-level item drops, reevaluate Inferno difficulty,...
