Fortnite’s collaboration with K-Pop Demon Hunters is the most excited I’ve been since Epic gave Hatsune Miku an AK-47

I’m nothing if not a total sucker. Pandering? Totally works on me, as evidenced by Fortnite’s newest collaboration with K-Pop Demon Hunters. Which is perhaps the most excited I’ve been for silly videogame skins since Epic let me gun people down as Hatsune Miku. In case you’re not Saja Boys-pilled, here’s a quick rundown on…

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Monster Hunter Wilds may be on hard times, but the Pokémon-inspired Monster Hunter Stories 3 seems like it’s checking every box RPG players want

I don’t want to say it’d be impossible for Capcom to screw up “Monster Hunter, but Pokémon,” because in the decades since Pokémon’s debut on the Game Boy we’ve never really seen an imitator come close to its level of success. Still, combining one of Japan’s other best-selling game series of all time with the…

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Blizzard will break WoW’s most popular combat mods sooner than expected, kickstarting a new era for the MMO’s boss design in the next major patch

The great purge of World of Warcraft’s most popular combat mods, or addons, is almost here: Blizzard is planning to disable them as early as the patch leading up to the Midnight expansion’s release. It’s a surprise for everyone who had assumed the rollout would happen more slowly to let players adjust to life without…

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EA’s $55 billion acquisition is the biggest leveraged buyout in private equity history. Here’s why it has everyone terrified

On Monday, news broke that EA, one of the world’s largest publicly-traded game publishers, is being taken private in a $55 billion leveraged buyout funded by a group of investors including Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners private equity firm and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. If the deal earns shareholder and regulator approval, it’ll be the…

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