PC Gaming
Activision’s bold new vision for unifying the Call of Duty experience is off to a bad start. With the early release of Modern Warfare 3’s campaign, players are discovering that launching Call of Duty HQ, the unified front end for current and future CoD titles, is required to access the new game. That might not…
Cryptic Studios, the developer of the Star Trek Online and Neverwinter MMOs, has become the latest studio to lay off employees. The studio has confirmed that “difficult personnel changes” have made as a result of parent company Embracer Group’s ongoing restructuring. Word of possible layoffs first came to light in October, when Twitter user bogorad222…
World of Warcraft Classic’s new “Season of Discovery” will break rules that have been in place for 19 years. Classes that were once DPS-focused will be able to heal and tank, and old raids will return with bosses and mechanics that never existed in the original version of the MMO. The Season of Discovery, which…
World of Warcraft fans got some big news at BlizzCon today with the announcement that the world-changing Cataclysm expansion is coming to WoW Classic. Originally released in 2010, Cataclysm was the third expansion for World of Warcraft, and was both critically acclaimed and a huge commercial hit at the time: We called it “a triumph”…
Chris Metzen made a full-throated return to the World of Warcraft spotlight today, commanding the BlizzCon 2023 stage to announce not just one World of Warcraft expansion, but three expansions that will make up the “Worldsoul Saga.” The next three World of Warcraft expansions, as revealed by Metzen, will be: The War Within: “You will…
Reno Jackson (center right), continues his association with ‘Highlander’ or no duplicate decks in the Showdown in the Badlands expansion. (Image credit: Blizzard) Ahead of next year’s 10th anniversary for Hearthstone, senior game designer Cora Georgiou took to the stage at BlizzCon today to reveal what’s coming next for both the standard game mode and…
At BlizzCon 2023, the Diablo 4 team took to the stage to announce Vessel of Hatred, the live service action RPG’s first expansion. Vessel of Hatred’s announcement was accompanied by a pre-rendered trailer previewing a new take on Diablo 2’s jungles of Torajan and narrated by legacy baddie, Mephisto. There’s not a ton to go…
December 10 will be the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking FPS Doom, and to mark the big day two of the driving forces behind the game, John Carmack and John Romero, will be taking part in a livestreamed discussion moderated by videogame historian David Craddock about one of the most influential videogames of all time….
Microsoft Gaming head Phil Spencer popped onto the stage during today’s BlizzCon 2023 Opening Ceremony to greet the fans of his latest conquest. After clearing considerable regulatory resistance, Microsoft closed its landmark acquisition of Activision Blizzard last month. Spencer’s appearance starts near the beginning of the show, at about an hour and a half into…
Eight years after Metal Gear Solid 5, the actor behind bikini-clad sniper assassin Quiet has spoken about the role and working with Kojima in a new interview with IGN. Actor Stefanie Joosten called making Metal Gear Solid 5 “an absolutely wonderful experience,” but also reflected on “the perspective of the people that are not as…