Valve Announces Steam Deck OLED, Says Switch OLED Paved The Way

“It’s just a great product from Nintendo”. Valve, responsible for series like Half-Life and Portal, has today unveiled the Steam Deck OLED, a follow up to its original portable device with a longer-lasting battery, faster downloads and many other features. Speaking to The Washington Post, Valve product designer Greg Coomer mentioned how Nintendo paved the…

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WoW director says its most controversial new class specialization is OP because it had to be: ‘The community is naturally skeptical of things they don’t understand’

Blizzard knew that its controversial new augmentation evokers—the first support class ever in World of Warcraft—were going to be overpowered. That choice was “deliberate,” the game’s director told us in a BlizzCon interview, although he added that “obviously they came out the gates too strong.” Augmentation evokers dropped like a bomb into WoW last summer,…

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World of Warcraft director says players who pay for early access to the next expansion won’t have a ‘long-term advantage’

World of Warcraft: The War Within is the first WoW expansion where purchasing a more-expensive edition gets you into the new content more quickly. The announcement caused an immediate controversy, but the game’s director claims it will not ultimately affect players’ progression relative to each other. A standard version of the pack, coming out next…

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