How Blizzard balances and rebalances World of Warcraft’s raids to evolve with players: ‘It is important to keep in mind the audience that is engaging with an encounter at a given time’

For an online game’s long-term success, balance is king. For massively multiplayer online games with dozens of character types and dungeons and raid instances, it’s also a massive headache. This many years into World of Warcraft’s life, balancing raids is a challenge Blizzard has tons of experience with. But even then it can be hard…

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Helldivers 2 help is coming: Updates focused on fixing ‘login, matchmaking, and server load’ problems will begin rolling out tomorrow

If you’ve been struggling to get into Helldivers 2, you can at least take some small measure of comfort in knowing you’re not alone. Servers are crushed, matchmaking isn’t working properly, and some clever diehards are trying to avoid the queue issues by simply staying logged in overnight, a strategy enabled by the lack of…

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