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World of Warcraft: Midnight’s new roadmap includes prop hunt, mega-dungeon sized delves, and a new experimental game mode from the folks who brought you Remix and Plunderstorm

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Once of the nice things about World of Warcraft‘s post-Shadowlands era is its ability to experiment—I never thought I’d see WoW get a Battle Royale-style pirate mode, or a zany, high-powered remix of a past expansion where actual drama happens over something called a Gulp Frog, but here we are. World of Warcraft: Midnight means…

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I tried to exercise in VR for an entire month, and I think I’ve finally been convinced to adopt the health-headset lifestyle

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James Bentley, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Strapping the VR headset on every day and (regrettably) playing Rocket League again. On the first day of January, I was both cold and had a cold: a terrible start to my new year’s resolution of, well, actually getting enough exercise. Luckily, the Meta…

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Sea of Thieves Becomes a Webtoon Comic Series – and Webtoon Benefits Come to Xbox Game Pass

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Category: Announcements January 29, 2026 Sea of Thieves Becomes a Webtoon Comic Series – and Webtoon Benefits Come to Xbox Game Pass Bogdan BilanDirector of Product Marketing, Xbox Game Pass & Platform The high seas have a new tale to tell. Earlier this week, Sea of Thieves and Webtoon Entertainment officially launched Sea of Thieves: The Last Bite, a brand-new original comic…

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Sea of Thieves Becomes a Webtoon Comic Series – and Webtoon Benefits Come to Xbox Game Pass

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Category: Announcements January 29, 2026 Sea of Thieves Becomes a Webtoon Comic Series – and Webtoon Benefits Come to Xbox Game Pass Bogdan BilanDirector of Product Marketing, Xbox Game Pass & Platform The high seas have a new tale to tell. Earlier this week, Sea of Thieves and Webtoon Entertainment officially launched Sea of Thieves: The Last Bite, a brand-new original comic…

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Anniversary: “Hail To The King, Baby” – Duke Nukem 3D Has Officially Turned 30 Years Old

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The shareware version, that is. Duke Nukem 3D has officially turned 30! According to a social media post from Joe Siegler, the former webmaster at Apogee/3D Realms, it was on January 29th, 1996, that he officially uploaded the shareware version to Apogee’s BBS Software Creations, unleashing the 1.0 PC version of the legendary first-person shooter…

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‘I shouldn’t have announced the game so early,’ Eric Barone admits about Haunted Chocolatier, says he had his reasons for doing so but then doesn’t tell us what they were: ‘The only thing that really matters is that I keep making progress on the game’

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Good news: Eric Barone says in his latest Haunted Chocolatier update that he’s “been very productive lately” on the game. Bad news: Release date? Haha, no. Okay, it’s not really “bad news” in the way of all the actual bad news out there, and I’m not sure it even counts as mildly disappointing: Barone’s been…

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