World of Warcraft: Midnight’s lack of combat addons lets the devs make raids harder without resorting to ‘shoot more bullets at you’ design, says encounter lead

World of Warcraft: Midnight is a singular expansion in the game’s 20+ year lifespan, in that it’ll be the first of its kind to not feature combat addons after Blizzard took an axe to them in its pre-patch. To compensate, a lot of the game’s classes were redesigned, since they’d been built under the assumption…

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REPO’s upcoming cosmetic update is much more than just funny hats and clothes: ‘It has become way bigger and way crazier than we anticipated from the start’

REPO is gearing up to release its next update, the Cosmetic Update, and thanks to a shiny new video uploaded to the Semiwork YouTube channel, we’ve got a sneak peek into what exactly this launch will involve. It’s easy to assume that the update will only contain new outfits and accessories for the Semibots given…

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The upcoming Disco Elysium for D&D nerds just dropped a 90-minute supercut of its weirdly beautiful soundtrack

Over on YouTube, publisher Raw Fury has released “90 Minutes of Esoteric Ebb Music | A Lazy Day in Norvik,” a chill arrangement of the upcoming fantasy RPG’s soundtrack. The kicker is that it’s kinda spectacular, and very distinct from Esoteric Ebb’s primary inspiration, Disco Elysium. With Disco, we got the dreamy indie rock of…

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A Grok update was apparently delayed because Elon Musk wanted it to be better at answering questions about Baldur’s Gate

As well as praising Hitler and banging on about white genocide and creating naked images of actual women and children, apparently Grok can be a resource for answering questions about videogames. According to an investigation by Business Insider into what’s been going on at xAI since Elon Musk stopped being the de facto leader of…

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In defense of Doom (the movie)

Doom the movie has a rating of 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, which puts it on the same tier as Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and the Assassin’s Creed movie. Which is unfair. Assassin’s Creed was terrible because it thought it was clever, drily dumping conspiracy theory-history with a straight face, while Doom was gleefully dumb,…

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New Blood CEO Dave Oshry says he’s ‘always loved GOG’ but ‘they need enough people to give a s**t, or how long are they even going to be around’

The average PC gamer has to wrangle all sorts of different digital storefronts and launchers if they want to play games without leaving the house, and most of them truly suck. Steam’s UX is head and shoulders above the competition. But GOG has long been a valid contender—both with its DRM-free storefront focused on archaic…

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‘It’s pretty sad and pathetic that a game with difficult content can’t get on the larger marketplaces:’ Despite creeping censorship on Steam and Epic, these devs are fighting to make a transgressive stop-motion horror game

Indie duo Talha & Jack Co are working on a disturbing, transgressive horror game in Abide, and they are keenly aware of the risks involved with such a project in today’s climate. “Horror seems to be under pressure from censorship, some subtle and some blatant,” The duo wrote on Abide’s Kickstarter page. “Sites are delisting…

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That golf game with orbital death lasers sold 100k copies in two days: ‘We made Super Battle Golf together in 4.5 months and are so happy’

Mark Frost’s The Greatest Game Ever Played tells the story of golf’s most legendary amateur, Francis Ouimet, whose victory in the 1913 U.S. Open stands as one of the most notorious upsets in the sport’s history. Legendary as it might be, that game was probably boring, that book is probably boring, and the Disney movie…

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