Monster Hunter Wilds may be on hard times, but the Pokémon-inspired Monster Hunter Stories 3 seems like it’s checking every box RPG players want

I don’t want to say it’d be impossible for Capcom to screw up “Monster Hunter, but Pokémon,” because in the decades since Pokémon’s debut on the Game Boy we’ve never really seen an imitator come close to its level of success. Still, combining one of Japan’s other best-selling game series of all time with the…

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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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