‘No lotteries, and no onerous upkeep’: World of Warcraft takes a cheeky potshot at Final Fantasy 14’s egregious housing system as it readies up to unleash its own

It only took two decades, but Blizzard is finally adding player housing to World of Warcraft, which’ll be coming with the Midnight expansion. That’s still a ways away, but that hasn’t stopped Blizzard from doing a big ol’ blog post diving into the developer’s core principles for the process, with enough word count to throw…

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Sega Files New ‘Sonic Blitz’ Trademark

But what could it be? Sega has filed a new trademark for something called Sonic Blitz, as revealed via Chizai Watch (thanks, Sonic Stadium). Naturally, very little is known about the trademark, but it covers all the usual categories you might expect from a company like Sega: education and entertainment, machinery, ROM cartridges, programs for…

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Disco Elysium game director Robert Kurvitz praises the first Fallout: ‘It makes other post-apocalyptic worldbuilding seem like an amusement park’

Independent publisher Verso Books recently published Marijam Did’s Everything to Play For: How Videogames are Changing the World, and to promote that work Did has been streaming with game designers. First she played Wolfenstein: Youngblood with Josh Sawyer, and now she’s played the original Fallout with Disco Elysium’s game director Robert Kurvitz while chatting about…

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