Diablo 4’s second expansion won’t be out until 2026

Diablo 4’s plan for annual expansions seems to have gone mildly awry, as franchise general manager Rod Fergusson said during a DICE panel today that the game’s second expansion won’t be out until sometime in 2026. Word of the longer-than-expected wait for the second expansion comes from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, who posted Fergusson’s update on…

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Bobby Kotick reckons the Warcraft film was ‘a terrible idea’ for Blizzard, and in the end ‘was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen’

Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard, made a recent appearance on the Girt podcast discussing his career in videogames and various elements of the publisher’s history. Kotick at one point discusses Blizzard, and specifically what he felt were some of the developer’s biggest issues with World of Warcraft: Making a movie, burning out…

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With Adventure mode squared away, Dwarf Fortress is entering a ‘new era of development’ as its devs shift focus toward future features

Last month, the Steam version of Dwarf Fortress received the long-awaited addition of its absentee roguelike Adventure Mode after a lengthy beta period. The fan-favorite feature from the game’s ASCII era allows players to venture the vast, procedural wilderness as a lone, probably doomed wanderer. Today, Dwarf Fortress publisher Kitfox Games announced via a Steam…

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The Alters is altered again: 11 Bit Studios’ survival game about creating alt-universe versions of yourself on a hostile alien world is delayed

The Alters, 11 Bit Studios’ weird-looking game about recruiting alt-universe versions of yourself to survive on a hostile alien world, has been altered again. Following a delay in 2024 that pushed it into the first quarter of 2025, it’s now been delayed again to an unspecified 2025 release. “Following a comprehensive assessment of Project Dolly,…

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Overwatch 2 is getting radical changes that might finally help that ‘2’ make sense, starting with a third-person mode and over 160 hero perks

Two months ago, the internet gathered around and informally crowned Marvel Rivals as the new popular hero shooter of note. I’m having lots of fun with it, but its rule-breaking heroes and experimental abilities have kept a question nagging in my noggin: Why isn’t Overwatch 2 trying anything like this? Well, now it is. In…

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Overwatch 2 is bringing loot boxes back from the dead

It’s a big week for Overwatch 2 fans, new and old—there’s a ton of new content to sift through, including hero perks, a new third-person game mode, and the return of loot boxes, something I’m particularly excited about. “Season 15 also features the return of loot boxes,” a press release says. “You will be able…

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