Blizzard will break WoW’s most popular combat mods sooner than expected, kickstarting a new era for the MMO’s boss design in the next major patch

The great purge of World of Warcraft’s most popular combat mods, or addons, is almost here: Blizzard is planning to disable them as early as the patch leading up to the Midnight expansion’s release. It’s a surprise for everyone who had assumed the rollout would happen more slowly to let players adjust to life without…

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EA’s $55 billion acquisition is the biggest leveraged buyout in private equity history. Here’s why it has everyone terrified

On Monday, news broke that EA, one of the world’s largest publicly-traded game publishers, is being taken private in a $55 billion leveraged buyout funded by a group of investors including Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners private equity firm and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. If the deal earns shareholder and regulator approval, it’ll be the…

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Henry Cavill bares rippling chest, powerful triceps, and deep-cut Planescape: Torment knowledge in new photo that inspires one PC Gamer editor to declare, ‘He just like me fr’

Henry Cavill, PC Gamer’s second-favorite jacked gamer, is well known as a fan of Warhammer 40,000 and The Witcher. But it turns out he’s got an appreciation for another uber-nerd game that he shared in a new series of images posted to Instagram. “Endure. In enduring, grow strong.” – Dak’kon, Planescape: Torment A post shared…

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Game Pass gets major price hike ‘to offer more flexibility, choice, and value,’ Microsoft says with a completely straight face

Canadians of a certain age will likely recall the Friendly Giant urging them to “look up—way up” at the beginning of each of his children’s television adventures. I thought of those words today in the wake of Microsoft’s announcement of an overhaul of its Game Pass program, which among other things is now a whole…

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Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles director is a big PC gamer, and says he was ‘very particular’ about making sure they got the new UI just right

“They’ve actually done it: Not only can I finally play Final Fantasy Tactics on my PC, but this timeless classic has been done justice,” begins our 91% review of The Ivalice Chronicles, the long, long-awaited remaster of one of the all-time great strategy games. As the developers at Square Enix have recently attested, pulling off…

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YouTube rolls over and pays $24.5 million to settle Trump lawsuit after suspending his account in the wake of the Capitol riots, president calls himself a ‘shadowbanned patriot’

YouTube has joined the ignominious list of tech companies rushing to settle lawsuits brought by US president Donald Trump. The Alphabet-owned platform has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed after it suspended Trump’s YouTube account following the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump has accused various tech…

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