WoW's pre-Midnight patch slams players with massive fashion costs as the overhauled transmog system makes outfitting your alts absurdly expensive: 'Feels like they hired a mobile game monetization consultant'

WoW’s pre-Midnight patch slams players with massive fashion costs as the overhauled transmog system makes outfitting your alts absurdly expensive: ‘Feels like they hired a mobile game monetization consultant’

As anyone would tell you, fashion isn’t free—but in World of Warcraft, it’s suddenly feeling less free than ever. WoW’s latest pre-expansion patch introduces a sweeping set of reworked systems ahead of Midnight’s launch in March. Those changes included an overhaul to the armor transmog system, which is generating a lot of angst from players…

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Crimson Desert secures a March release date as the ambitious Frankenstein’s monster of open world fantasy games goes gold

Five and a half years after its 2020 Game Awards reveal, Crimson Desert has remained something of a mystery. Developer Pearl Abyss has promised a growing collection of mechanics and playstyles so bafflingly dense that it’s still hard to picture how exactly it’s all meant to fit together. Thanks to a freshly announced release date,…

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Anthem subreddit gets a new lease on life as modder shows the game running without EA’s servers: ‘We didn’t realize how much demand there’d still be for this forum to keep discussions going’

Well, Anthem is dead, and let’s be honest with ourselves: It’s fine. Most of us forgot Anthem even existed long before the final call, and we were genuinely surprised to discover last summer that the servers were still running. Which isn’t so much an indictment of the game but of the system that produced it….

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‘Everyone will be able to try Marathon’ before launch as Bungie takes a second, sharper stab at reviving the iconic series as an extraction shooter in a post-Arc Raiders world

After a mixed reception to Marathon‘s first public playtest last year (not helped by the whiplash of Arc Raiders‘ remarkably positive playtest), Bungie returned to the drawing board to overhaul some of the extraction shooter’s features. Now it’s back on the menu and almost time for round two, as a second public playtest will happen…

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Ubisoft Cancels 6 Games In Major Organisation Restructure

It’s also investing heavily in “player-facing Generative AI”. Ubisoft has announced a major organisational restructure to refocus its initiatives and improve efficiency. In a press release, the company confirmed that it plans to “close several studios” and “continue restructuring throughout the Group” in order to achieve its goals. It reconfirmed the closure of its Halifax…

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