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I spent all of Diablo 4’s second season melting through monsters as a sorceress standing inside rotating orbs of lightning. Instead of casting spells at a safe distance, Ball Lightning sorcerers brought the magic with them. All it took was a little setup time to get the orbs flowing and then you could carve through…
World of Warcraft has changed players’ lives for 20 years, thanks to an engrossing story and incredible gameplay flexibility. By every estimate, it retains the largest subscription base of any MMO, just edging out its fiercest competition. The internet is awash with stories of couples who met and married after playing WoW, or credit WoW…
Caleb McAlpine, a terminally ill “die hard Borderlands fan” who asked in October for a chance to play Borderlands 4 while he still can, has confirmed on Reddit that Gearbox came through in a big way, saying his experience at the studio was “just awesome.” “Gearbox flew me and a friend down first class the…
When Larian said it was ready to “move on” from Baldur’s Gate 3 back in March, rather than continue to work on an expansion that had started to morph into Baldur’s Gate 4, I assumed that meant it would be winding down the updates, too. But since then we’ve seen a bunch of substantial patches,…
Winter is less than a month away but there’s still enough time left in the current season to squeeze in a Steam sale—and yes, that means the 2024 Steam Autumn Sale is now underway. As always, the start of the Autumn Sale also kicks off the nominations for the 2024 Steam Awards, the annual celebration…
Listen up, friends. Here are my top tips for making sure a date goes well: show interest; make eye contact; laugh at their jokes; under no circumstances give voice to your inner burning desire to escape, to flee, to gnaw off your own leg and break out of the bear trap of your life; wear…
A few months back, we got the news that Cyberpunk was getting a live-action project from the same production company behind True Detective. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of further information concerning this, but at the very least, we know it’s still in the works. “I mean, the conceptual stage has various stages of advancement,…
It’s been a rough week for BioWare veterans trying their hands at new things: Two days after former BioWare general manager Casey Hudson announced the closure of Humanoid Origin, former Mass Effect lead writer and creative director Mac Walters has been forced to “pause operations” at Worlds Untold, just one year after it was founded….
Riot’s anticheat, Vanguard, is a pretty sturdy system in the world of competitive multiplayer online gaming. Well, it would have to be—otherwise, Riot probably wouldn’t offer $100,000 to anyone who could seriously pick it apart. The bounty system has been in place pretty much since Valorant was first launched a few years ago, but the…
You’re skipping through the woods, not a care in the world—except, perhaps, the fire spewing out of the ground, or the weird gravitational anomaly sucking and crushing everything in its vicinity, or maybe the invisible mutants that will strike without warning. Such is life in Stalker 2‘s Zone. But aside from those things? Life is…