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Blizzard doing ‘a thorough scrub’ of illegitimate World of Warcraft Mythic-Plus dungeon rankings, with more changes to come

Blizzard is scrubbing through its new World of Warcraft Mythic Plus Dungeon top-1% rankings for people who paid for carries, World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas says. The timed dungeon mode offered its first-ever rewards at that level this past season in the Midnight expansion, which ended August 11. Unlike similar high-end rewards in…

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CD Projekt Red opens its ‘Arasaka hardware archives’ to help an indie dev whose gear was stolen during 1 of at least 4 Gamescom thefts

On Friday, August 28, indie developer Ryan Laley posted a video on X to say his Gamescom 2026 attendance was being cut short after discovering that all his team’s laptops had been stolen from its booth during an alleged overnight theft. In the post, the visibly distraught dev called the incident “a huge blow financially…

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Empulse and Splitgate: Arena Reloaded are officially over as 1047 Games says it’s probably done making arena shooters

Just two months after the release of the PvP arena shooter Empulse, 1047 Games is halting work on the game and its predecessor, Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, saying that neither is making enough money to support their operating costs. The studio itself will remain but its “focus is changing,” and its next game “may look very…

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Some of WoW’s hardest dungeons and raids have gotten just a bit easier—that’s on purpose, developers say

World of Warcraft’s developers are making some subtle shifts in dungeons and raids to help players with its more-difficult content, in the hopes that a variety of knock-on effects result, including increased participation in the game overall and a better balance of tanks, healers and damage dealers. In the case of WoW’s timed-dungeon Mythic Plus…

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Haunted Chocolatier’s development has been ‘very productive’ in recent months, Eric Barone says: ‘Working on Haunted Chocolatier is what I’m most eager and driven to do’

We find ourselves at the end of another month, and as ever, the passing phases of the moon leave us asking the same question: What’s going on with Haunted Chocolatier? Knowing all too well how the hungry masses clamor for details about his next game, Stardew Valley developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has posted another of…

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