Pick the best Anthem Javelin that suits your playstyle to get the most out of your looting and shooting Freelancer adventures. Each of the four Javelin suit types bring their own skills to the table, and although we have an obvious favourite, the composition of your team and your own …
Read More »How would you save Biowares Anthem?
Hard to believe, but it’s been a year since Anthem crash-landed onto PS4, Xbox One, and PC. We sent our intrepid editor in chief back into Bastio (opens in new tab)n and – while surprisingly festive – it’s sad to see just how empty the game now feels. We tasked …
Read More »Anthem Guide: Everything you need to become the best Freelancer in Fort Tarsis
If you’re getting stuck into the expansive world Bioware has created then it’s important to have an Anthem guide to refer to, as you’re on your own once you leave the safety of Fort Tarsis and there’s plenty you need to know about. Whether you’re looking for information on the …
Read More »BioWare delays multiple Anthem features including Guilds, the Mastery System, and the Cataclysm
The latest Anthem patch notes (opens in new tab) are chock-full of quality of life changes, but as BioWare explained in a new Reddit post (opens in new tab), many major features are getting delayed. Lead producer Ben Irving and live service head Chad Robertson jointly said “we are not …
Read More »Anthem reportedly came together in just 16 months after years in development hell
A new report from Kotaku (opens in new tab) supports what many people have suspected for some time: throughout Anthem (opens in new tab)’s development, BioWare was reportedly fraught with identity crises, technical difficulties, and managerial conflicts. The article, which features input from over a dozen current and former designers …
Read More »BioWare says “Anthem is here to stay” in a lengthy open letter to the games frustrated community
Anthem (opens in new tab) isn’t in a good place. Players know it, and BioWare knows it. Yesterday, Reddit user harishcs (opens in new tab) asked BioWare “what’s going on?” in a lengthy Reddit thread with 4,300 upvotes at the time of this writing. The thread criticizes several issues with …
Read More »Over 1400 PS4s now affected by Anthem crashing bug, and now EA needs your help to fix it [UPDATED]
UPDATE: EA has confirmed that a patch is coming out to fix the bug next week. UPDATE: We’ve identified several causes for the temp power-down crash some PS4 users experienced. Fixes for the top issues are in patch next week. If you encounter a game crash where your PS4 console …
Read More »Anthem review: “Empty, utterly frustrating, and genuinely makes me sad”
I really wanted to love Anthem (opens in new tab). Over the years, BioWare has created such memorable journeys for its players – scaley, sexy, spacey and otherwise – that the thought of such a single-player narrative playing out across a multiplayer structure akin to games like Destiny was seriously …
Read More »The Anthem servers are having major issues on the first day of the VIP demo
Update 2: As of Friday 4pm PT, PS4 and PC players might now be in luck – but the Xbox One servers are still experiencing problems. “The main issue impacting the Anthem VIP demo on PC and PS4 has been resolved,” reads an official statement from EA and BioWare. “Anyone …
Read More »The Launch Bay is Anthems equivalent of Destinys Tower, supporting up to 16 players at once
It’s getting reeeally difficult to avoid comparing Bioware’s upcoming Anthem (opens in new tab) game to Destiny 2 (opens in new tab) these days. The upcoming multiplayer open world adventure, in which you play as a robot-suit wearing “Freelancer” on an alien planet, bears a number of the same DNA …
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