WoW director says its most controversial new class specialization is OP because it had to be: ‘The community is naturally skeptical of things they don’t understand’

Blizzard knew that its controversial new augmentation evokers—the first support class ever in World of Warcraft—were going to be overpowered. That choice was “deliberate,” the game’s director told us in a BlizzCon interview, although he added that “obviously they came out the gates too strong.” Augmentation evokers dropped like a bomb into WoW last summer,…

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Ark: Survival Ascended devs made a ‘Super Steamboat Willie’ platformer in the survival game to demonstrate new mod tools

If I’d been asked this morning to guess what’s been going on in Ark: Survival Ascended, the survival game with dinosaurs, and my options were “they added some new dinosaurs” or “they made a Mickey Mouse sidescroller in it,” I definitely would’ve been wrong. This week, Studio Wildcard updated the Ark Development Kit mod tools…

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