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Most Far Cry 4 players are having a “smooth experience” with Ubisoft’s recently released open-world game, but the title’s launch hasn’t gone swimmingly for everyone, the publisher says in a post on its website.

A launch day patch for Far Cry 4 released yesterday fixes a number of gameplay, performance, and connectivity problems, but more issues with the game have been brought to Ubisoft’s attention. Courtesy of Ubisoft, these are listed below.

1. PC Crashes: Some players have been reporting problems loading the game that result in a crash that manifests as a black screen. We have been able to reproduce this internally. While we are just starting to investigate this, our initial findings suggest that this may be the result of the presence of certain peripherals that are causing conflicts.

2. PlayStation 3 Corruption: We have seen reports from PS3 players that they are receiving a message reading “Game Data is corrupt. Please delete FC3 game data.” While the message suggests this would be limited to players who had also played Far Cry 3 on the same console, we are receiving similar reports from players who have not played FC3. If you are submitting reports about this issue, please clarify if you’ve played Far Cry 3 or Blood Dragon on the same console.

3. Preorder Code Redemption: Players who preordered the game were told that they would receive an email with a redemption code for the “Blood Ruby” bonus mission in advance of the game’s release. Some players have reported that they did not yet receive this email, and some players have reported that they did receive the email but it was missing a valid code.

Ubisoft advises that anyone encountering other issues should submit a ticket on the publisher’s support site. In addition, the company says the launch-day patch should have been applied automatically, so if you’re still encountering problems, you should double-check to make sure it’s installed.

For more on Far Cry 4, check out GameSpot’s review.

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Bungie has released a free trial/demo for its first-person shooter Destiny across all platforms. On Xbox One and PS4 it’s called a Trial, and on Xbox 360 and PS3 it’s labeled a Demo.

Whatever you call it, the trial/demo lets players sample Destiny’s character creation process and progression, as well as some story mission content, and cooperative and social activities.

On Xbox One and PS4, the Destiny trial will require 20 GB of disk space, while the Destiny demo on Xbox 360 and PS3 will mandate that you have 6 GB of free disk space. As a result, the following Xbox last-generation consoles won’t support the demo.

• Xbox 360 Arcade Console
• Xbox 360 4 GB Console
• Xbox 360 Core System
• PlayStation 3 12 GB System

Bungie also explains that an internal hard drive is required for the Destiny demo; external storage devices such as USB flash drives are not supported.

All of your character progression will transfer to the full Destiny game, so long as you purchase a copy on the same platform family you played the demo on. That means Xbox 360 to Xbox One transfers are supported, but not Xbox 360 to PS3 or PS4.

Destiny launched in September, and has 9.5 million registered users by publisher Activision’s latest count. Bungie will support the game with two expansions, the first of which–The Dark Below–will be released next month. Bungie is also now working on a full-on Destiny sequel.

For more on the title, check out GameSpot’s review.

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Massive MOBA League of Legends is currently offline in North America for maintenance, and it will remain that way for many more hours. Riot Games writes on its website that the “extended downtime” began this morning at 12:01 AM Pacific and will run for 12 hours.

“For about 12 hours, you won’t be able to log into the client or play League on the NA sever,” Riot explained. “During this downtime, you also won’t be able to refer a friend, sign up for a new account, change your password, update your email address, or modify your account.”

Maintenance periods for major online games are nothing new, though Riot didn’t explain exactly what it’s hoping to fix or change with the maintenance.

How are you going to spend the downtime? There are tons of new games you could play…

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