World of Warcraft: Forever will get a hardcore mode by winter, say devs—which’ll be interesting, given all the new and undiscovered ways to die

World of Warcraft: Forever, in case you missed the wild news that came out of BlizzCon over the weekend, is essentially Classic+. A reimagining of vanilla WoW with updated talent trees, new raids and dungeons, more horizontal progression, and some shiny, glossic graphics thrown over the top of the whole thing. Given it’s aping a…

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Official Nintendo HORI Arcade Classic Pro Features Swappable Sticks, Paddle, And Even A Trackball

Marble Madness is back on the menu, boys. Veteran controller manufacturer HORI has opened pre-orders on a new arcade stick that seems brilliantly suited to the myriad inputs of retro arcade emulation. The HORI Arcade Classic Pro is compatible with PC and Nintendo Switch 2, and features swappable components adaptable for various classic coin-ops. An…

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Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen refused to work for Xbox because it would be like ‘walking past some stakes with human skulls on them’ and pretending ‘it’s probably fine in this direction’

Randy Smith Evergreen had been pitching the idea to publishers for a while. A nonviolent RPG, in tune with the values of the Looking Glass games he worked on in the ’90s, about a young American woman searching for her missing uncle in Eastern Europe. But the publishers weren’t biting. Often, they’d tell Smith Evergreen…

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