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New World is making server transfers free for now because it's too damn popular

As an MMO, New World relies on the age-old model of letting players choose a server and locking their characters to said server. This greatly helps MMO developers manage capacity, and it helps build communities when you know you'll be coming across roughly the same group of people every time. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings This is all well and good, but the issue is that New World has been incredibly popular in the 24 hours since it launched.

A new South Park game is in development

A new South Park title is in development at Question Games. Based in California and Virginia, Question is made up of ex-AAA developers whose past team credits include: Thief: Deadly Shadows, BioShock, BioShock 2, BioShock Infinite, Dishonored, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and South Park: The Fractured But Whole. Outed via through a job listing, the company and South Park Digital Studios are seeking a lead level designer to work on a new Unreal Engine video game set in the world of the long-running series.

Newell: Valve may have been doing "something stupid" with bans

Asked about a high-profile Steam ban, Valve boss Gabe Newell said the company is still looking into the case, and constantly re-evaluating its policies. The PA Report asked the Valve founder about a ban highlighted by Rock Paper Shotgun, in which a Russian user lost his entire Steam account; after press interest blossom, the account was restored. "I think we’re actually checking to find out what was going on with our Russian customer, I got mail from people saying 'what’s the deal with this?

Rumor: Call of Duty Elite, MW3 logo and cover outed

A post over on the Electric Hydra forums (via Destructoid) has what it claims are logos for Modern Warfare 3 and something called Call of Duty: Elite. Kotaku has also posted what looks to be the game's cover art. Get all the images in the gallery below. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 getting an official reveal could honestly happen any day now, so if the logo posted is indeed the real deal, it's really not so outrageous.