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World of Warcraft Classic’s Season of Discovery Phase 2 launch takes players from level 25 to 40–and also opens up new class runes, which give all of WoW Classic SoD players new abilities to experiment with. These runes come from a combination of drops from mobs, ground spawns and quests. Once collected, they work the…
The Relics of the Past contract in Skull and Bones is likely your first taste of treasure hunting in the game. When you acquire this quest from the Sea People Merchant in Vorona Falls, you’ll be tasked with using a map to hunt down a long-lost relic. This is the first of many treasure maps…
As World of Warcraft Classic’s wild Season of Discovery moves into Phase 2, a slew of class quests arrive alongside the new level-40 character cap. These longer questlines are only available to specific classes, and they award major items and abilities. Warlocks get their demons and the fiery Felsteed mount, Shamans get new totems, and…
Audacity has become the absolute go-to recommendation when it comes to free audio recording software for your PC, and while it’s an easy program to start recording with, the built in noise reduction in particular has always been a bit of a bugbear of mine. It’s often prone to introducing a lot of digital artifacts…
Why I Love This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 392 in January 2024, as part of our Why I Love series. Every month we talk about our favourite characters, mechanics, moments, and concepts in games—and explain why we adore them so much. My heart will always return to the MMORPG for one…
Jagged Alliance 3, the well-received sequel to the classic mercenary tactics games, infiltrated enemy lines to extract a big new update this week. Going by the unusual alias “Larry”, patch 1.5 added several new ways to explore and expand your adventures in the politically unstable nation of Grand Chien. The biggest of these new features…
I’ve always loved Euro and American Truck Simulator, at least conceptually. But I spent too much of my youth stuck in my parents’ car, driving across Europe, to find the series’ purposefully mundane road trips particularly novel. Space, though? That’s a more thrilling—and crucially dangerous—setting, and the source of Star Trucker’s more thrilling journeys. While…
Nexus Mods, the world’s largest mod site and almost certainly a bookmark in your browser if you’ve ever wanted to fiddle with Skyrim, obliterate yourself in Fallout, or annihilate thugs with cans of soft drink, is celebrating a milestone. Specifically, it’s celebrating the fact that the site will today hit 10 billion total file downloads….
City of Mist has been one of the biggest breakout hits in tabletop roleplaying in recent years—a unique noir-superhero game about people gaining the powers of the heroes and villains of mythology. Now, after two hit Kickstarters and the release of a whole flood of adventures, supplements, and spin-offs, the creators at small independent studio…
World of Warcraft Classic’s wacky Season of Discovery servers has finally hit Phase 2, and with that advance comes an avalanche of new content. WoW players will match up against each other in PVP contests and new dungeons, a new raid and new quests as they move from level 25 to the new cap of…