3 months after Blizzard’s president sank WoW players’ hopes of a swashbuckling adventure with the words ‘No pirates’, roadmap suggests: Yes, yes pirates

World of Warcraft revealed its roadmaps for both retail and Classic yesterday, and while there’s plenty of exciting news—including a confirmed Summer release window for The War Within—one particular stop on the road hit me like a cannon full of grapeshot. A black flag with a skull and crossbones. (Image credit: Blizzard Entertainment) So, some…

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WTF: What Exactly Is This Switch eShop Garbage, Nintendo?

Ah yes, Courageous Reasoning Nori 4 Crossing Sea Street 4… The Switch eShop has some questionable inclusions in its library; we have covered such lowlights as The Last Hope: Dead Zone Survival (a Last of Us ‘clone’, apparently) and the catchily titled Prison Life Simulator 2022: World FIGHT Battle GTA ULTIMATE, which speaks for itself….

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Level-5 Submits ‘Ghost Craft’ Trademark In The US

What could it be? Level-5 is slowly but surely ramping up its game output, with the likes of Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, and more all quietly cooking in the developer’s metaphorical oven. Now, as spotted by X (formerly Twitter)…

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Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD Has Been Rated For Nintendo Switch

Luigi time! Earlier this year during a Direct broadcast, Nintendo announced its 2013 3DS game Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon would be returning on the Switch with HD visuals. More recently in September, it was confirmed Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD would be launching on the hybrid system platform in Summer 2024, and now in another update,…

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