ICYMI: Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World Demo Out Now On eShop
Transfer “up to 8 monsters” to the full game. During a sizzle reel in the Nintendo Direct earlier this week, Square Enix gave fans another look at the upcoming release Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World. It also included an eShop demo announcement, and in case you missed it, it can be downloaded right now!…
Playing RTS with a controller? Total War: Warhammer 40,000 dev says it ‘really does work’ in their game: ‘I think we’ve landed in a really solid spot’
The kids who grew up playing StarCraft on Nintendo 64 must have thumbs of steel. With the exception of a handful of games designed specifically for consoles like Herzog Zwei and Halo Wars, the RTS has not been a genre that’s played well with controllers. It remains the heartland of the mouse and keyboard. And…
Diablo 5 gameplay details from BlizzCon: More classes than ever before, procedurally-generated dungeons, and Diablo 2-style loot
Diablo 5 is shaping up to be very different from Diablo 4. The sequel is set a hundred years after Diablo 4 in the aftermath of Diablo (the demon)’s apocalyptic destruction of Sanctuary, and it’s going to bring fundamental changes to combat, classes, and loot. Several Diablo 5 developers took the stage today at BlizzCon…
No more Diablo 4 expansions are planned, but there’s ‘a lot of room’ for more storytelling in the leadup to Diablo 5
Diablo is returning: At BlizzCon today, Blizzard announced that Diablo 5 will be set a century after Diablo 4 in a Sanctuary that has succumbed to the Lord of Terror, Diablo himself. That’s not until 2029, though. In the meantime, Blizzard will continue the story of Diablo 4 with seasons, but no more expansions are…
Retro Review: Lost Planet 3
Set 50 years before the events of the first “Lost Planet,” this game is definitely geared more towards fans of the series. At the same time, since it’s a prequel, it’s not a bad place to start for newcomers either. If you’ve played the series before, the gameplay is similar in the fact that you’ll…
BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony: Starcraft Returns, Diablo V Announced, Warcraft news and more
I’ve been at Blizzard a long time, and I’ve got a bunch of BlizzCons under my belt. Do you know how hard all these announcements were to hold in as we prepared for BlizzCon 2026? I can’t even believe this is real, man, like…okay, sorry, I’m locked in. Whether you’re watching it all unfold live…
The WoW ‘Classic+’ rumors were true: World of Warcraft: Forever promises to be another timeline’s bizzarro version of the MMO
The rumored game known to World of Warcraft fans as “Classic Plus” is real, and it has a proper name now—World of Warcraft: Forever is a new branch of the MMO that once again resets the clock to 2004, the year WoW first launched. But unlike WoW: Classic, the goal of WoW: Forever isn’t just…
Overwatch’s newest hero is a robo-vampire, and reworks are on the way for Roadhog and Sombra
As was revealed in today’s Blizzcon opening ceremony, Overwatch’s newest hero is on the way: Doctrine, a vampire with a cyborg arm and mechanical bats. He was debuted via a story trailer that reveals a connection to Doomfist, the game’s resident punch man. A hero trial is active now, in case you want to try…
Blizzard just dropped a new Warcraft 3 campaign, the first in 23 years
For the first time since its Frozen Throne expansion in 2003, Warcraft 3 is getting a new campaign. Or got one, more accurately: Blizzard just announced at BlizzCon that it’s dropping the expansion today. In a pre-brief before BlizzCon’s opening ceremony, we learned that Warcraft 3: Forsaken Kingdom is a two-part campaign for Warcraft 3:…
Hearthstone just got its first new class in four years: Warcraft’s fire-breathing panda Monk
At today’s Blizzcon opening ceremony, it was announced that Hearthstone will receive a third post-launch class—the game’s first since the Death Knight released in 2022. It’s none other than the Monk, a class with origins you can trace all the way back to Warcraft 3’s pandaren brewmaster. Represented by the playable Chen Stormstout, the Monk…
