'No lotteries, and no onerous upkeep': World of Warcraft takes a cheeky potshot at Final Fantasy 14's egregious housing system as it readies up to unleash its own

‘No lotteries, and no onerous upkeep’: World of Warcraft takes a cheeky potshot at Final Fantasy 14’s egregious housing system as it readies up to unleash its own

It only took two decades, but Blizzard is finally adding player housing to World of Warcraft, which’ll be coming with the Midnight expansion. That’s still a ways away, but that hasn’t stopped Blizzard from doing a big ol’ blog post diving into the developer’s core principles for the process, with enough word count to throw…

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League of Legends might be adding public voice chat—and as someone with a combined 2,655 hours in Dota 2 and Deadlock, I can safely say: Oh no

MOBAs are interesting videogames—imagine, if you will, a slot machine. Then imagine that slot machine takes forty minutes to do one pull of the arm, and also it’s yelling colourful and exciting swearwords at you in a language you don’t understand the entire time. That’s sort of what playing a MOBA with public voice chat…

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This is not a drill: The Razer Kuromi collab is finally more widely available, offering a pointy-eared headset, keyboard, mouse, and gaming chair

Previously China-exclusive, the Razer Kuromi collaboration is now available in the US by popular demand. Not only that, but you can kit out almost your entire gaming set up in gear that reps Sanrio’s tomboy jester-bunny. What—you thought Kuromi was a cat this whole time? Shocking revelations aside, the collaboration now offers even more appropriately…

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Developers blast the celeb-laden TGAs as ‘an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation… with little respect for the devs’

The Game Awards have been and gone, turning the PC Gamer homepage into something like the deranged Instagram feed of someone obsessed with Sam Lake and Swen Vincke, but it’s left plenty to discuss—and criticise—in its wake.  In particular, the show has come under fire for the short time allotted to acceptance speeches and celebrations…

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