EVE Online’s Battle Due to an Unpaid Bill Lead to Around $500,000 Worth Damages

An issue over an unpaid bill in CCP Games’ spacefaring MMORPG EVE online escalated to a battle of epic proportions on Monday, cost accounting its participants an estimated $500,000 in real-world money so far,according to a USA Today report. When a incomprehensible payment left a contested area of space unprotected, the most important battle in EVE Online’s ten-year history erupted, involving more than 4,000 players. The fight saw the destruction of over a hundredprized Titan vessels, that take months of gameplay to make and are value around $3,000 each. A series of animated .gifs capture the massacre as …

Ken Kutaragi to Get Lifetime Achievement Award at GDC

Ken Kutaragi or better known as “The Father of PlayStation” is all set to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to gaming during the Game Developers Choice Awards. The ceremony will be taking place on March 19 beginning at 6:30PM Pacific. Hosting the awards for the first time will be Abbie Heppe, community manager over at Titanfall developer Respawn Games. Before the GDC Awards another award show, The Independent Games Festival Awards will be hosted, and …

Dota 2 Bloom Festival Adds Two New Heroes to the Game

Dota 2′s latest on-going event, the Bloom Festival, adds not one but 2 new heroes to the combination. There may be more to come. Scan on for details of the new face and other additions. According to day three of the Bloom Festival reveals, newly listed member Phoenix is virtually a star. A conscious cosmic being, this “infant son of suns” has taken a terrestrial kind so as to bring heat “wherever events appear their darkest”. The Bloom Update will add an odd new feature – the power to jump into …

Battlefield to Offer Players Daily Battlepacks, Shortcut Kits to Players as a Mode of Thanks

DICE is thanking fans for sticking on with Battlefield 4 through its launch mess with a whole month dedicated to players. Beginning on February 1, DICE will disburse special community missions and initiate daily giveaways throughout the month. Every day players log into Battlefield 4 in February, they will receive a Bronze (weekdays) or Silver (weekends) level Battlepack, which provide random XP boosts and camouflage skins. Two shortcut bundles, that immediately unlock all bomb varieties and handguns, also will be made available throughout February at no cost. DICE says it’ll still work toward improving the Battlefield 4 expertise. The developer is actively working to enhance the game’s coding, which will hopefully end …

Amazon Accidently Reveals Elder Scrolls Collector’s Edition

It seems like Amazon screwed it up this time. An Amazon user by the name of Char noticed that the dishonoured Game of the Year listing had a picture of The Elder Scrolls collector’s edition instead. The Imperial Edition as it’s known as will embody a collector’s edition box and steel-book packaging, a Molag Bal 12″statue, map of Tamriel, and a 224-page illustrated guide book annotated by the Imperial scholar, Flaccus Terentius. …