The state of WoW going into 2024: Blizzard had to deliver the best year ever for World of Warcraft, and it did

World of Warcraft soars triumphantly into its 20th anniversary year in 2024, but just two years ago, that milestone was hardly guaranteed. Blizzard’s modern MMO was on life support toward the end of the Shadowlands expansion. Players had dropped away in droves as complicated power systems, endless grinds for “fun” rewards, content droughts and unevenly…

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Mickey Mouse has been in the public domain for under 48 hours and there’s already a horror game and 2 horror movies on the way

After multiple changes to US law that kept it copyrighted for nearly 100 years, 1928 Disney cartoon Steamboat Willie—which contains the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse—is now in the public domain. And what do we do when a beloved children’s character becomes available to use in new creative works? We make them into…

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The Sinking City legal battle ends with victory for Frogwares, new version of the game ‘coming soon’

Following a drawn-out legal dispute with original publisher Nacon, Ukrainian studio Frogwares has announced that it is now the one true publisher of the Lovecraft-inspired detective adventure The Sinking City, and that a new version of the game “with all the latest bug fixes and optimizations” is coming soon. “Frogwares is now the sole publisher…

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‘If [money] is an issue, pirate it and buy a copy later’: the devs of our favourite surprise horror hit want you to play it spoiler free—by any means necessary

Slay the Princess is one of our favourite unexpected hits from this year. It’s a choose-your-own adventure style narrative game about a dutiful mission to (you guessed it) slay a princess. I’m too much of a wuss myself, but PC Gamer senior editor Robin Valentine highly recommended it back in November, calling it the year’s…

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Talking Point: Our 2024 Nintendo Gaming Predictions

More Mario? Surely not!? Welcome to the future. You, dear reader, are reading these words in the far-off, distant, sci-fi future year that is 2024. While the hoverboards, flying vehicles, and inside-out trousers have all apparently been delayed in this branch of the timeline due to some spacetime-related cock up, at least Skynet is coming…

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