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After leaving Early Access and getting marred by some technical issues, Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem will receive a brand-new patch that makes some significant nerfs to a few of the game’s abilities.

One particular nerf hits the minor passive ability Bane of Tyranny. The ability is part of the Siege Breaker branch of passive skills, and when unlocked it granted a ridiculous damage multiplier of +50. But developer Wolcen Studio has scaled that back, bringing Bane of Tyranny to a more modest 0.5 multiplier instead.

The Secure Parry minor passive ability was nerfed as well, going from 10% health regeneration per Inexorable point down to 0.1%. Additionally, Wolcen Studio increased the Acute Tracking node to hold a maximum of 10 Cold Blooded points instead of the five maximum previously.

Elsewhere in the patch, Wolcen Studio fixed a number of network issues and bugs, such as problems revolving around date loading and retrieval, missing audio, duplicating items, text typos, and more.

The latest update will be applied sometime this week, though Wolcen Studio has yet to provide an exact date when the patch will arrive. The team also said that in an effort to prevent further issues from occurring, patches will be implemented once per week and server capacity will be limited for a while. This is a temporary situation though, as Wolcen Studio confirmed that it’s working to upgrade its server infrastructure.

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem has seemingly been a success for developer Wolcen Studio, with Steam Charts reporting that the Diablo-inspired isometric RPG reached a peak Steam concurrent player count of 127,542, up from the studio’s previously confirmed 1,934. Still, the massive jump in players doesn’t mean Lords of Mayhem is a shoo-in for PS4 and Xbox One, though Wolcen Studio would “like to extend it to consoles.”

People say variety is the spice of life, and Netflix in March definitely has an eclectic slate of movies and TV shows for you to binge.

To kick things off, the streamer is releasing several high-profile original series, including Castlevania Season 3, Ozark’s third season, the premiere of the Altered Carbon: Resleeved anime, and the premiere of Netflix’s new teen fantasy series, The Letter for the King. Here’s how the streamer describes the show:

“When a ruthless prince threatens to cast the world into darkness, a young knight in training named Tiuri (Amir Wilson) embarks on an epic quest to deliver a secret letter to the king. Along the way, he unexpectedly finds himself at the center of a magical prophecy foretelling the rise of a hero who can defeat the prince and restore peace. If he’s going to survive the journey, Tiuri will have to learn what it means to be a true knight — and a true leader.”

On the movie front, you can watch The Shawshank Redemption, Space Jam, Hook, and Martin Scorsese’s gangster classic, Goodfellas.

Check out the slideshow gallery below for a spotlight of some of the most notable March Netflix offerings, followed by the full list (U.S. Netflix only):

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Coming Soon in March (Exact Date TBD)

• ARASHI’s Diary – Voyage (New Episodes) — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
• The English Game — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Ladies Up — NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL

Avail. 3/1/20

• Go! Go! Cory Carson: Season 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
• Always a Bridesmaid
• Beyond the Mat
• Cop Out
• Corpse Bride
• Donnie Brasco
• Freedom Writers
• Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
• GoodFellas
• Haywire
• He’s Just Not That Into You
• Hook
• Hugo
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Life as We Know It
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action
• Outbreak
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse
• Resident Evil: Extinction
• Richie Rich
• Semi-Pro
• Sleepover
• Space Jam
• The Gift
• The Interview
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Story of God with Morgan Freeman: S3
• There Will Be Blood
• Tootsie
• Valentine’s Day
• Velvet Colección: Grand Finale
• ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas

Avail. 3/3/20

• Taylor Tomlinson: Quarter-Life Crisis — NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL

Avail. 3/4/20

• Lil Peep: Everybody’s Everything

Avail. 3/5/20

• Castlevania: Season 3 — NETFLIX ANIME
• Mighty Little Bheem: Festival of Colors — NETFLIX FAMILY

Avail. 3/6/20

• Guilty — NETFLIX FILM
• I am Jonas — NETFLIX FILM
• Paradise PD: Part 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Protector: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Spenser Confidential — NETFLIX FILM
• Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City — NETFLIX FILM
• Ugly Delicious: Season 2 — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Avail. 3/8/20

• Sitara: Let Girls Dream — NETFLIX FILM

Avail. 3/10/20

• Carmen Sandiego: To Steal or Not to Steal — NETFLIX FAMILY
• Marc Maron: End Times Fun — NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL

Avail. 3/11/20

• The Circle Brazil — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Dirty Money: Season 2 — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
• Last Ferry
• On My Block: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Summer Night

Avail. 3/12/20

• Hospital Playlist — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Avail. 3/13/20

• 100 Humans — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• BEASTARS — NETFLIX ANIME
• Bloodride — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Elite: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Go Karts — NETFLIX FILM
• Kingdom: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Lost Girls — NETFLIX FILM
• The Valhalla Murders — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Women of the Night — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Avail. 3/15/20

• Aftermath

Avail. 3/16/20

• The Boss Baby: Back in Business: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY
• Search Party
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• The Young Messiah

Avail. 3/17/20

• Bert Kreischer: Hey Big Boy — NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIAL
• All American: Season 2
• Black Lightning: Season 3
• Shaun the Sheep: Adventures from Mossy Bottom — NETFLIX FAMILY

Avail. 3/18/20

• Lu Over the Wall

Avail. 3/19/20

• Altered Carbon: Resleeved — NETFLIX ANIME
• Feel Good — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Avail. 3/20/20

• A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
• Archibald’s Next Big Thing: Season 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
• Buddi — NETFLIX FAMILY
• Dino Girl Gauko: Season 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
• Greenhouse Academy: Season 4 — NETFLIX FAMILY
• The Letter for the King — NETFLIX FAMILY
• Maska — NETFLIX FILM
• The Platform — NETFLIX FILM
• Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Ultras — NETFLIX FILM
• Tiger King — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

Avail. 3/23/20

• Sol Levante — NETFLIX ANIME

Avail. 3/25/20

• Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
• Curtiz — NETFLIX FILM
• The Occupant (Hogar) — NETFLIX FILM
• Signs — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• YooHoo to the Rescue: Season 3 — NETFLIX FAMILY

Avail. 3/26/20

• 7SEEDS: Part 2 — NETFLIX ANIME
• Blood Father
• Unorthodox — NETFLIX ORIGINAL

Avail. 3/27/20

• Car Masters: Rust to Riches: Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• The Decline — NETFLIX FILM
• Dragons: Rescue Riders: Hunt for the Golden Dragon — NETFLIX FAMILY
• Il processo — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• Killing Them Softly
• Ozark: Season 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
• There’s Something in the Water
• True: Wuzzle Wegg Day — NETFLIX FAMILY
• Uncorked — NETFLIX FILM

If you enjoyed Netflix’s Locke & Key, learn more about the biggest differences between the graphic novel and the show in the video below:

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When Grand Theft Auto 4 first came out in 2008, its multiplayer was a game-changer, allowing players to hang out together in the game’s immaculate Liberty City together for the first time in franchise history. Well, if you were hoping to relive those glory days on the PC, we’ve got some bad news: the multiplayer portion of the game has been permanently disabled due to lingering issues with the now-defunct Games for Windows Live platform.

While this is a massive loss, considering how important those multiplayer modes were to the game’s success, it’s still an improvement on the current situation. Since January, GTA 4 has been unavailable for purchase on Steam due to the fact that Rockstar has run out of keys for the Games for Windows Live. Since the service is now dead, Microsoft has declined to provide any more, which has led to this situation. The single-player portion of the game will be playable starting March 19.

If you’re unlucky enough to have bought a physical edition of GTA 4, you’ll have to either use your physical key to update to the new Complete Edition, or connect your Rockstar Social Club account in place of Games for Windows Live. It’s a throwback to the days of “CD keys,” but, hey, that’s what happens when you want to play a retro game like GTA 4. Feel old yet?

The last few months have been rather eventful for Rockstar, especially with the high-profile exit of Dan Houser, the writer and creative force behind many of their most acclaimed games, such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA V. In the meantime, however, the studio has been still been making quite a bit of money, with publisher Take-Two recently announcing that microtransaction spending in GTA Online grew by 54 percent in the first quarter of this year.

DC Comics writer Tom King recently wrapped up a years-long run on Batman’s solo title that put the spotlight on Bruce Wayne’s romance with the cat burglar who stole his heart, Selina Kyle aka Catwoman. But their story isn’t over yet. To cap off their love story, King is teaming with artist Clay Mann on a Batman/Catwoman mini-series, and thanks to a new tweet from King, it appears a third character will be joining them — their child. That’s right, Catwoman is pregnant.

The tweet simply shows a piece of art showing Batman and Catwoman standing atop a Gotham City gargoyle, like they do, but Catwoman is clearly showing a baby bump. The art could be from the upcoming Batman/Catwoman miniseries, but another option could be the Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular, which features a short story by King and his frequent collaborator artist Mikel Janin. King tagged Janin in the tweet along with colorist Jordie Bellaire. IGN reached out to DC for clarification but they declined comment.

Mitch Gerads, the artist who drew the two-part romance arc “Rooftops” in King’s Batman series, replied to the image with one of his pages from Batman #15 showing a naked, post-coital Bruce and Selina cuddling on a rooftop, implying that was the moment of conception for the baby.

King’s Batman story features a flash-forward (seen in Batman Annual #2 and drawn by Janin) showing a possible future of an elderly Bruce and Selina raising their daughter Helena Wayne, so unless some unforeseen twist that changes that, we already know the happy couple is having a girl. A bit of trivia: Helena Wayne was the daughter of Bruce and Selina on Earth-2, and now it seems King is folding that into the main continuity.

But the story of Batman/Catwoman will feature more than just a newborn. The villain will be the titular bad guy from Batman: Mask of the Phantasm making their DC Comics debut, the Phantasm aka Andrea Beaumont.

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Batman and Catwoman have had quite the rocky relationship. At one point they planned to get married but Catwoman left Batman at the altar, which was revealed to be part of an elaborate plan concocted by Bane to “break” Batman’s spirit. Yet despite forces conspiring against them, Batman and Catwoman eventually got back together.

In other Batman news, Ben Affleck opened up about why he really left The Batman, and we analyzed the crazy fan theory about the Batsuit’s strange new chest emblem.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment has filed a patent that may point to a new PSVR controller.

The patent, titled “Controller Device,” details a new design for a remote-like VR controller that shares some similarities with the current PlayStation Move controllers, but it also has its fair share of upgrades.

Like the PlayStation Move controller, which has been around since the PlayStation 3 era, the patent shows a controller with a wand-like shape, four small face buttons, a trigger on the back, and a larger center button.

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The giant light ball is gone, and the patent describes finger-sensing technology that can detect contact from the user’s fingers. PC VR rigs have had similar technology for some time, but the original PS Move controllers currently used for PSVR lack this functionality.

The patent also shows a wrist strap, and some are speculating that the strap may be used to simulate grabbing objects in VR, which is a function seen in Valve’s Index VR controllers.

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It remains to be seen if this patent will become a real product in the future. The PlayStation 5 is set to release this year, and Sony has confirmed that current PSVR hardware will be compatible with PS5.

As for a new VR headset, a recent report from Bloomberg claims that Sony is planning to release a new version of PSVR to go on sale sometime after the PS5.

For more, check out another Sony patent for VR-compatible prescription glasses.

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Patent originally spotted by UploadVR.

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Where would we be without electricity? Our gadgets would be useless. Civilization would crumble. Thankfully we live in a world with electricity that we can use to power our phones, tablets, Switches, and all the delightful technology that makes life so breezy. Today’s Amazon Deal of the Day is on Anker multi-port chargers and other charging accessories like power strips and cables. The only catch is that the deals vanish at midnight, so grab ’em while they’re on sale.

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Sony won’t be attending E3 this year, and now it has confirmed that it will not make a scheduled appearance at this month’s PAX East event. On the PlayStation Blog, the company cited the coronavirus epidemic as the cause for the sudden cancellation.

SIE content communications manager Justin Massongill said that avoiding the event was the “safest option” in the face of the erratic nature of the coronavirus (officially called COVID-19). The virus has affected more than 75,000 people and the death toll has risen above a reported 2,000 cases.

“Update: Today, Sony Interactive Entertainment made the decision to cancel its participation at PAX East in Boston this year due to increasing concerns related to COVID-19 (also known as ‘novel coronavirus’),” Massongill said. “We felt this was the safest option as the situation is changing daily. We are disappointed to cancel our participation in this event, but the health and safety of our global workforce is our highest concern.”

The news comes a week after Sony announced its plans to attend PAX East with a bunch of new playable demos for upcoming games such as Doom Eternal, Nioh 2, Spelunky 2, and more. With Sony skipping the upcoming convention altogether, the company is also pulling these demo previews and some others, including the first public demo for Naughty Dog’s highly-anticipated The Last of Us Part 2.

PAX East will be held in Boston from February 27 through March 1, and tickets for the event are still available.

If you dream of crane kicking anthropomorphic squirrels in the face, your wait is almost over: The open-world RPG Biomutant has entered the last stages of development, according to a tweet from developer Experiment 101.

Published by THQ Nordic, and first announced in late 2017, the martial arts RPG made a splash at industry trade shows like Gamescom with flashy trailers that show off its unique world and cartoonish combat. Still, as the tweet says, there is no release date to announce as of yet. The game’s Steam store page references a planned release window of 2020.

If you’re looking for more games starring bipedal mice, check out Ghost of a Tale, a stealthy adventure RPG. If eking out an existence in a mutated world is more your thing, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is an excellent tactical shooter with plenty of depth. In our review, David Wildgoose called it “a superb tactical combat campaign that you shouldn’t let sneak past.”