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Reno Jackson (center right), continues his association with ‘Highlander’ or no duplicate decks in the Showdown in the Badlands expansion. (Image credit: Blizzard) Ahead of next year’s 10th anniversary for Hearthstone, senior game designer Cora Georgiou took to the stage at BlizzCon today to reveal what’s coming next for both the standard game mode and…
At BlizzCon 2023, the Diablo 4 team took to the stage to announce Vessel of Hatred, the live service action RPG’s first expansion. Vessel of Hatred’s announcement was accompanied by a pre-rendered trailer previewing a new take on Diablo 2’s jungles of Torajan and narrated by legacy baddie, Mephisto. There’s not a ton to go…
December 10 will be the 30th anniversary of the groundbreaking FPS Doom, and to mark the big day two of the driving forces behind the game, John Carmack and John Romero, will be taking part in a livestreamed discussion moderated by videogame historian David Craddock about one of the most influential videogames of all time….
Microsoft Gaming head Phil Spencer popped onto the stage during today’s BlizzCon 2023 Opening Ceremony to greet the fans of his latest conquest. After clearing considerable regulatory resistance, Microsoft closed its landmark acquisition of Activision Blizzard last month. Spencer’s appearance starts near the beginning of the show, at about an hour and a half into…
Eight years after Metal Gear Solid 5, the actor behind bikini-clad sniper assassin Quiet has spoken about the role and working with Kojima in a new interview with IGN. Actor Stefanie Joosten called making Metal Gear Solid 5 “an absolutely wonderful experience,” but also reflected on “the perspective of the people that are not as…
Overwatch 2 is capping off 2023 with a new tank, and he sounds like an absolute unit. Mauga, who’s soon to be revealed at BlizzCon but was leaked a tad early by a rogue Nintendo Switch ad shared on Reddit, is a beefy brawler packing not one, but two massive chainguns. In a first for…
Blizzard is a legendary RTS developer, which is easy to forget in 2023. Along with Westwood, it effectively built the genre, establishing its foundations and designing mechanics and features that modern RTS games still stick with today. With that in mind, it’s pretty tragic to see how little attention Blizzard is giving the genre these…
Quick menu (Image credit: Future) 1. The list in brief 2. Best overall 3. Best budget 4. Best big screen 5. Best small screen 6. Also tested A dream shared by PC gamers everywhere has been to take our entire gaming PCs on-the-go. From LAN parties to powerful gaming laptops, we’ve gotten close to portable…
There isn’t an official competition for ‘coolest movie actor to appear in a fighting game’ happening right now, but you would certainly think so. Aside from Jean Claude Van Damme and Megan Fox making appearances in Mortal Kombat 1, upcoming fighter Tekken 8 may have just cinched victory with its latest character reveal and the…
As any fule kno, the most conspicuous shortcoming of IPS screen tech is contrast, as in the relative lack of. By comparison, VA panels offer anywhere from twice to four times the contrast of a typical IPS alternative. At least they did until LG rolled out its IPS Black tech with double the contrast of…