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“That was a game that did not come together, and we never should have been working on a games-as-a-service game, to be honest,” says Harvey Smith, former creative director at Arkane Austin, now CEO of Black Pony Immersive. He is, of course, talking to us about Redfall—a rare black mark on Arkane’s otherwise impressive record….
Just a couple months after hitting “quite a big milestone” on its way toward a planned release in September, a multiplayer mod for The Last of Us Part 2 has been scrapped thanks to a cease-and-desist letter from Sony. “Hey everyone, as you all know, the TLOU 2 multiplayer mod that has been in development…
World of Warcraft: Forever, in case you missed the wild news that came out of BlizzCon over the weekend, is essentially Classic+. A reimagining of vanilla WoW with updated talent trees, new raids and dungeons, more horizontal progression, and some shiny, glossic graphics thrown over the top of the whole thing. Given it’s aping a…
The last time an Overwatch hero captured my heart like this, I ended up maining an old sniper for almost a decade, so I think I’ll be seeing a hell of a lot of Overwatch’s newest hero: Doctrine. Unveiled at Blizzcon over the weekend, Doctrine is the newest addition to the Support roster (alongside Sombra),…
Randy Smith Evergreen had been pitching the idea to publishers for a while. A nonviolent RPG, in tune with the values of the Looking Glass games he worked on in the ’90s, about a young American woman searching for her missing uncle in Eastern Europe. But the publishers weren’t biting. Often, they’d tell Smith Evergreen…
World of Warcraft has a long-standing tradition of datamining and min-maxing. So it should come as no surprise that, despite only just being shown at Blizzcon, World of Warcraft: Forever now already has online talent calculators available, assembled from a delightful tapestry of streams and ravenous info-gatherers. There’s the old reliable that is WoWHead, but…
For security reasons, a Microsoft account is required to set up a fresh installation of Windows 11—unless you exploit this one weird oversight. After navigating through the usual setup screens for a fresh installation of Windows 11 Home and connecting to the internet, Windows Latest reports that you’ll want to keep your eyes peeled for…
World of Warcraft: Forever looks—well, pretty interesting, all told. Rather than just being a Season of Discovery-style reimagining of Classic, Forever promises to be a full-on remake of classic-era WoW. Reimagined class trees, new raids, and $30 elves. Don’t think about the $30 elves too hard. But it does beg the question, why is Blizzard…
Diablo 5 may be set in a lonely world ravaged by a demon lord, but you’ll still be able to team up with your friends like in previous Diablo games. Senior game director Joe Shely confirmed that Diablo 5 will fully support multiplayer in a group interview with PC Gamer: “Like Diablo 4, it is…
Wouldn’t it be nice if more of Blizzard’s classic games were available on Steam? People could easily play them on their Steam Decks! But no, that’s not happening. Instead, we’re getting Cyberpunk 2077 on Battle.net. After announcing at GamesCom that The Witcher 3’s upcoming remastered version would release on Battle.net as well as the expected…