Bungie has capped off a bad year for Destiny 2 by releasing a $15 pack of mid guns and materials that you should never, ever buy

Destiny 2 is not having a great year. If you’ve not been following the trials and tribulations of Bungie’s 2023, here’s a quick rundown of the major lowlights: Lightfall launched in February to middling reviews. The campaign—a highlight of the previous year’s Witch Queen expansion—was a mess, and many of the planned sandbox changes fell…

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RTX 4090s reportedly being stockpiled as China ban looms

Within picoseconds of news landing of the US government’s impending ban on RTX 4090 sales to China, prices of the world’s fastest gaming graphics card ticked up sharply. Now come reports that traders-come-scalpers are buying up 4090s en masse with intentions to ship the cards into China. X user I_Like_NV (via Tom’s Hardware) has posted…

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Wireless headset gets modded with a battery from a baby monitor for a substantial upgrade in battery life and substantial change in looks

Hunting for hardware news sometimes takes you places you’ve never been before or shows you things that will forever be etched in your mind. Our superchiefintendo Dave pointed me to this one and well, you can’t deny that it’s definitely a thing. What you’ve got is a wireless headset that’s been modded to sport a…

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Thanks to the meta, one of the most busted cards in TCG Disney Lorcana is Hiram Flaversham—and if you have no idea who that is, you’re in good company

Disney Lorcana’s sure been interesting to follow. Aside from the big, dramatic lawsuit where the words “the legal equivalent of alchemy” were used in a courtroom, it’s also picked up some pretty good steam as a competitive card game. Which shouldn’t be a surprise, really: When you see an Elsa card going up on eBay…

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Critical Role’s D&D dungeon master Matthew Mercer would love to make a videogame ‘should all those stars align’, though I think it’s a little more likely than that

Critical Role is pretty much the biggest livestreamed D&D campaign, by sheer popularity and volume alone. Starting halfway through the group’s home game in 2015, to call the game’s rise to popularity ‘meteoric’ is an understatement. It’s gone from an experiment by Geek & Sundry to its own enterprise with heaps of merch, a charity…

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Geralt gets out of the bathtub and onto your tabletop in new Witcher expansion for Unmatched, the board game where he can fight King Arthur and Spider-Man

Good news, folks, Geralt is bound for your coffee table. So says Restoration Games, publishers of card and miniatures game Unmatched, who announced today that it’s partnering with CD Projekt Red to bring a bunch of Witcher-themed stuff into the game over the course of two new sets.  ⚔️ The Witcher is coming to Unmatched…

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How item restoration works in World of Warcraft

Item restoration is a service you can use in World of Warcraft if you accidentally sell, disenchant, or otherwise destroy something from your inventory. It’s easily done: you want to clean out your bags before you head to the raid, and you mistakenly sell that piece of gear you’ve been trying to decide is an…

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