Blizzard devs talk about going back to WoW’s beloved expansion continent, Northrend, and rebuilding it for The Last Titan: ‘We wanna make sure we’re doing justice to those memories’

World of Warcraft: Midnight’s just around the corner, with the pre-patch releasing this week. But Blizzard’s already got eyes on the ball for its next expansion, as part of the three-expansion plan it revealed back in 2023 that we’ll soon be coming up on halfway through. The Last Titan, as it was announced back then,…

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Larian’s nine-year-old RPG has just had its best month since launch: ‘Sales for both BG3 and D:OS 2 have been incredible’ thanks to Divinity

Of all the things that amaze me about Larian Studios’ RPGs, it’s undoubtedly their longevity that’s the most surprising. Pulling in over 875k concurrent players on Steam alone, Baldur’s Gate 3 was a massive success at launch, and close to three years later, it’s still one of the most played games on PC, routinely hitting…

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Intel signals the end for its 12th Gen Core processors, though the architecture lives on under the guise of its 13th and 14th Gen

Nothing lasts forever, especially when it comes to PC hardware. Even if the devices continue to work for decades, at some point, the manufacturer will pull the plug on supporting them. In the case of Intel’s 12th Gen Core processors, the end officially started at the beginning of 2026, with January 22, 2027 being the…

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Marathon’s full voice cast includes talent from Deus Ex, Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Red Dead Redemption and loads more

Marathon got a release date earlier today, confirming a March 5 launch for Bungie’s extraction shooter. The studio hasn’t skimped where voice talent is concerned: actors from pretty much every successful game from the last decade are present, though it’s yet to be confirmed what roles each will play (and how big they’ll be). Among…

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Devs recall ‘sweating bullets’ at showing The Beatles Rock Band to the actual Beatles, and ‘tough customer’ Yoko Ono making sure they made John Lennon a ‘balls out rock and roll god not giving a f**k’

The Beatles: Rock Band was the single greatest thing to come out of the games industry’s plastic instrument craze, an absurdly lavish and beautifully judged tribute to the most important music band in history. It cost me an absolute tonne but I still have an old 360 in the garage somewhere with all the DLC,…

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Devs recall ‘sweating bullets’ at showing The Beatles Rock Band to the actual Beatles, and ‘tough customer’ Yoko Ono making sure they made John Lennon a ‘balls out rock and roll god not giving a f**k’

The Beatles: Rock Band was the single greatest thing to come out of the games industry’s plastic instrument craze, an absurdly lavish and beautifully judged tribute to the most important music band in history. It cost me an absolute tonne but I still have an old 360 in the garage somewhere with all the DLC,…

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