3 months after Blizzard’s president sank WoW players’ hopes of a swashbuckling adventure with the words ‘No pirates’, roadmap suggests: Yes, yes pirates

World of Warcraft revealed its roadmaps for both retail and Classic yesterday, and while there’s plenty of exciting news—including a confirmed Summer release window for The War Within—one particular stop on the road hit me like a cannon full of grapeshot. A black flag with a skull and crossbones. (Image credit: Blizzard Entertainment) So, some…

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Former Mass Effect lead writer Mac Walters says the success of the Legendary Edition helped convince him to leave BioWare: ‘I don’t want to do any more Mass Effect after this’

Mac Walters amassed an enviable list of credits during his nearly 20-year career at BioWare on games including Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age, eventually rising to lead writer of Mass Effect 2 and 3 and creative director on Mass Effect: Andromeda. He then stepped into the role of production director on Dragon Age:…

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WoW shows off four Hero Talent trees from its upcoming expansion The War Within, and it looks like the Augmentation Evoker’s meta chaos is spreading to other specs

Blizzard have released a sneak peek at some of the Hero Talents from World of Warcraft’s upcoming expansion: The War Within. Hero Talents are meant to be evergreen dashes of spice to the game’s existing talent system—ones which mainly add “class utility [and] defensive bonuses.” The devs maintain that the differences in these trees is…

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