World of Warcraft: Midnight has some of Blizzard’s most controversial changes yet, but playing the alpha still has me hopeful it’ll figure them out in the next few months

World of Warcraft’s upcoming Midnight expansion recently went into its first alpha phases of testing, and Blizzard has chosen to give an unprecedented number of players access to a dramatically early phase of development. That’s not surprising, as the company is enacting one of the most significant shakedowns of the player experience ever implemented in…

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A Minecraft Movie sequel is coming in 2027, because iffy reviews couldn’t stop it from chicken jockeying its way to almost $1 billion so far

Reviews for A Minecraft Movie were a bit mid, as PC Gamer’s resident movie pro Chris Livingston put it, and that 47% critics consensus tells no lies. But the people loved it, and there was never any real question that it would get a sequel once that record-setting opening weekend hit. In fact, it was…

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Battlefield 6’s bots tea-bag when they’re scared, sacrifice themselves, and are so blissfully unaware they couldn’t kill me while I was AFK texting

Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: getting stuck into Battlefield 6, testing out weapons and all the new maps. This week I’ve been: observing Battlefield 6’s bots in the natural habitat, feeling a lot like David Attenborough. During my many hours putting Battlefield 6 through its paces in early access,…

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EA is charging Skate players $35 for a cardboard Dead Space skin and it took me 40 straight minutes of game crashes to confirm it

This week, the first season pass arrived for the recently-reborn Skate in an update that—as a quick glance at the Skate subreddit will tell you—isn’t being received very well, with players complaining that a spattering of superficial challenge additions are being used to justify a pile of new microtransactions. The most reviled among Skate’s new…

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After creating countless boring hotels, I’ve made a list of Sims 4 custom venue ideas for more tailored getaways and stories

The Sims 4 Adventure Awaits expansion takes the hassle out of micromanaging households by introducing its new Getaway system, which adds custom venues, daily schedules, and roles tailored to each Sim. It makes it easy to set ’em and forget ’em, and just like brainstorming small business ideas in Businesses & Hobbies, so much of…

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Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs with an edition that explains all the jokes, says ‘this holiday season… don’t give Donald Trump a f***ing cent’

Cards Against Humanity is a party game where the humour revolves around fill-in-the-blank statements on cards, which players then complete with taboo or offensive terms. It’s a very fun game, if you get the right kind of group together, and frankly a little bit of a tonic in a world where censoriousness feels like a…

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