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In a November financial briefing picked up on by My Nintendo News, Square Enix CEO Takashi Kiryu said that he wants to structure Square Enix “to ensure higher quality from each title by slimming down our lineup.” It’s the exact kind of thing CEOs say all the time, and most videogame publishers seem to vacillate…
Microsoft said today that it was hacked by a “Russian state-sponsored actor” called Midnight Blizzard, also known as Nobelium. That’s the same group of hackers suspected to be responsible for the major SolarWinds supply chain hack that occurred in 2020. “Beginning in late November 2023, the threat actor used a password spray attack to compromise…
In case you haven’t heard the good news, the Nazi-punching experts at MachineGames revealed their next game during yesterday’s Xbox Developer Direct stream: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. It was a strong debut for the long-awaited action adventure project, and in keeping with the Wolfenstein studio’s speciality, we were pleasantly surprised to learn The…
Follower Dungeons are a new addition that arrived with patch 10.2.5 in World of Warcraft. These are essentially Dragonflight dungeons where any open spots in your party are filled by NPCs. They’re a particular godsend for DPS players who don’t have a full group and don’t want to wait for the (inevitably long) dungeon queue…
When Diablo 4 players aren’t smashing bosses into the ground in one swing or becoming invulnerable with an amulet, most of their time is spent squinting at loot. Now that items pour out of every chest and monster since season 2, your inventory gets stuffed real quick, and the process of sorting through all that…
It’s only on screen for a couple seconds, and only partially, but there’s no mistaking it: The Quake logo is drawn on a whiteboard that appears in the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle reveal video from this week’s Xbox Developer Direct. Above it is a cut-off word: “-AKE 6.” I’m guessing that MachineGames did…
America’s Army was at one time the world’s most (in)famous videogame military recruitment tool, but now that it’s out of the picture the British are taking their shot. The British Army has revealed a new “Fortnite experience” called Operation: Belong, and it plans to livestream an influencer-led competition on it next week. Yung Filly and…
The single most expensive hat trade in Team Fortress 2’s history went down this week, with one player exchanging goods worth over 10,000 of the game’s crate keys (around $1.80 each) for an unusual Arcana Crone’s Dome, the characteristics of which make it the only one in existence. It’s a witch’s hat with some Halloween…
The Mythic raid boss blocking a mountain of World of Warcraft guilds from progressing has finally been nuked from orbit. Tindral Sageswift is the penultimate boss in WoW’s Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope raid. It’s a long fight: Tindral is a druid, and he shapeshifts into several forms over the course of the encounter, each with…
Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry and science fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke’s ashes were on board a pirate US lunar lander that, after a failed moonshot, re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Friday and burned-up on the way down. The intention had been to leave the ashes, among those from around 70 individuals including actors James Doohan…