After several years in development, the long-awaited Sea of Thieves first released last year on Xbox One and PC, and while it was met with a bit of a mixed reception, in the long run the game has maintained a steady and passionate audience after launch. After the release of two major expansion last year, Rare
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While Sea of Thieves had a rocky launch back in March 2018, Rare has stuck by the game ever since consistently updating and improving the experience. Today, Rare and Microsoft revealed an impending optimization focused update for the game that will actually reduce the file size of Sea of Thieves. This should surely pleases those
Yesterday, we reported that hardware company Razer had recently listed 9 new titles that would supposedly soon be receiving mouse and keyboard support for the Xbox One platform on its website. The only questionable part of this story was that it wasn’t backed up by a formal announcement from Microsoft and the team at Xbox, which
As 2018 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2018 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just 2018
As 2018 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2018 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
At some point this year you’ve probably used Google to search for the latest news for an upcoming title that you were interested in, or maybe you needed help with finding out what material those bags from Bethesda were made from? You might have even added us on the Google news app. Well, Google has
Sea of Thieves launched earlier this year, bringing a large pirate-themed world to life that allows players to sail ships, find treasure, and more piratey activities such as drinking countless amounts of rum. We’ve seen a range of content updates since the game’s launch, such as Shrouded Spoils, The Arena, Forsaken Shores, and Cursed Sails. As 2018
Today, Sea of Thieves is rolling out its fourth free content update, Shrouded Spoils, bringing a ton of new features to Rare’s pirate game. One such feature is the implementation of fog. This will make sailing the seas a bit more difficult as your view is obscured not knowing what hazards await. It could just
At X018’s Inside Xbox event, Rare announced the next content update for Sea of Thieves, The Arena, will be coming early 2019. First, we saw a trailer giving us a glimpse of just what The Arena will bring to Rare’s open-world pirate adventure game. According to the trailer, the new competitive mode seems simple: fight
Rare has shared some details on the next Sea of Thieves expansion named Shrouded Spoils in a developer update video posted to their YouTube channel. In this video Joe Neate, executive producer, talks about how every update includes beta testing, player feedback, and bug testing and how important it is to development. Festival of the
The next “Bilgerat Adventure” event for popular online swashbuckling game Sea of Thieves is titled “Festival of the Damned,” and will feature the addition of a much-requested feature: the ability to add makeup to your character. Developer Rare made the announcement at a New York Comic-Con panel about the Sea of Thieves expanded universe. As the
Rare has announced Sea of Thieves: Forsaken Shores has been delayed to September 27, 2018 due to a memory issue causing crashes. This arose after a weekend of testing from players and once Rare discovered that required more time than the original release date for Forsaken Shores afforded. With this delay, their new goal is
Rare’s Sea of Thieves is getting its third free content update with Forsaken Shores. All players with access to Sea of Thieves will get the chance to try out the update later this month on September 19. You can check out the new teaser trailer down below. The new content update will open up a new region of the map to
Today Microsoft announced the date and time of its Gamescom livestream from Cologne, Germany. The Inside Xbox broadcast will start Tuesday, August 21st at 7:30 a.m. PDT or 10:30 a.m. EDT, and it will be broadcasted on Mixer, Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Not only it will showcase the latest news about Forza Horizon 4, Sea of Thieves, and State of Decay 2,
Today Microsoft and Rare launched the new content update of Sea of Thieves titled Cursed Sails, and to celebrate the house of Xbox announced a new player count milestone for the game The game has now passed five million players between Xbox One and PC. That’s certainly not bad for a new IP. Cursed Sails includes enemy skeleton
Rare is celebrating the 20th anniversary for everyone’s favorite bear-bird combo by releasing a Banjo-Kazooie-themed in-game item for Sea of Thieves. Also releasing with the new item are some updates to the game in a new patch. These include cannonballs rocking boats upon impact, a PC exit-to-desktop function from the front end, a reduction of
Since it set sails earlier this year, Rare’s Sea of Thieves has offered players Speaking with IGN, Rare studio head Craig Duncan and design director Mike Chapman gave a bit more of a look into the upcoming content that players can expect from Sea of Thieves, and revealed that three larger content updates are planned through the later
Since its March release, Rare’s Sea of Thieves has found a passionate fanbase, but the game has had its critics. In an interview with GameSpot, the game’s Executive Producer Joe Neate, Senior Designer Shelley Preston, and Design Director Mike Chapman discussed its growth since launch and their response to some of the critiques the game has received and
A little over two months after launch, Rare today released the first major content update for Sea of Thieves which is called The Hungering Deep. The launch of The Hungering Deep coincides with Rare’s weekly developer update video series and as you may have guessed, today’s episode focuses entirely on the new add-on. Sea of Thieves Executive Producer Joe Neate talks about how
Today Rare and Microsoft announced the release date for Sea of Thieves‘ first major content update. The update is titled The Hungering Deep and it will be released on May 29th, which means that it’s less than two weeks away. Alongside the announcement, we get a trailer talking about giant sea monsters, ancient seafarers, sacrifices, which is
One of the major issues some seem to find with Sea of Thieves is that it isn’t exactly a solo-friendly game. Even governing a small sloop by yourself is pretty busy work, and not everyone is used to the ins and outs of finding people to play with online. Today Rare released a trailer to
Today Microsoft and Rare announced the plans for upcoming content updates coming to the shared world adventure game Sea of Thieves. Below you can check out an official list of upcoming additions directly from the press release. Our plan is for regular content updates and weekly events: Content updates will add major new features alongside
Sea of Thieves is admittedly a little empty right now, but it feels even more so when the person whose ship you’ve just sunk comes back to bother you five minutes later. Rare is addressing this issue as a part of their latest patch, 1.0.2, which is available now. Sinking a ship is a difficult
Next to Nintendo, Rare is responsible for my love of video games. Banjo Kazooie, Battletoads, and Killer Instinct are some of my favorites in their respective genres. Every game I have played from the British developer has this charm that you can’t help but smile at with gameplay that is both creative and fun. These
Today Microsoft announced that Rare’s newest game Sea of Thieves has passed two million players on Xbox One and PC. On top of this achievement, the shared-world adventure title is now the fastest-selling first party new IP of this generation. According to Microsoft’s own Aaron Greenberg, this specific achievement does not include copies distributed with Game Pass,
Sea of Thieves finally set sail last week after several years of anticipation, and while the game’s compatibility with the Xbox Game Pass subscription service has been in the spotlight for some time, at the moment it seems that players of the game through Game Pass may be unable to access the game. According to
Today Rare released a video giving an update on the state of its shared-world adventure game Sea of Thieves. First of all, we learn that the first client update is coming tomorrow. It includes 170 different changes including bug fixes, performance optimization, stability improvements, and more. Unfortunately, in order to get the patch out as soon
Sea of Thieves‘ first update, simply called 1.0.1, is out now focusing on the game’s performance and stability. The full patch notes are available on the game’s website. Many of the game’s fixed issues range from small indicators like the addition of having seagulls fly over floating barrels to problematic glitches such as the chance
Avast ye scurvy dogs, it’s time to hit the Sea of Thieves! Usually we do an PS4 game for our community night, but tonight we’re switching consoles. Gather round for an Xbox One community night. Or PC. A bunch of us will be playing on PC. Ain’t crossplay a (potentially) beautiful thing? It’s time for DualShockers’ Community
Sea of Thieves has been out in the wild for a couple of days now if we consider the early opening in New Zealand, an Rare released a video to address some of the launch issues the developers are working on. First of all, we get some numbers. According to Studio Head Craig Duncan and Executive