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Chinese regulators may be having second thoughts about online gaming crackdown: Proposed rule changes have been removed from government website

China may be walking back a series of sweeping new restrictions on gaming that were announced in December 2023, as a Reuters report says the country’s gaming regulator has removed the proposed rule changes from the National Press and Publication Administration website entirely. The proposed changes, which apparently appeared without warning to gaming companies, included…

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WoW’s latest patch is drowning in bugs, with players worried that Blizzard is struggling to keep its head above water

As a routine World of Warcraft player, I’ve been pretty warm on Midnight—at the very least, the offerings it provided on launch all seemed well put together, with a few asterisks. Those asterisks are starting to bog down the sentences they’re attached to, though, as the game’s latest patch, 12.0.5, is utterly rife with bugs….

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Blades of Fire: hands-on report

Magic, monsters, and… metalwork? Epic action-adventure comes in many fantastical forms, but MercurySteam’s forthcoming voyage into an all-new world of fantasy-based peril has a particularly unique approach. Yes, there’s the mysterious and slightly brooding protagonist – Aran de Lira – on a quest to defeat a brutal, army-wielding queen hell-bent on destruction. Play Video And…

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 didn’t invent Final Frenchtasy or the J’RPG: the newly dubbed subgenre has a long and complicated history

Sometimes all it takes to make a new subgenre is an apostrophe. With just one hardworking punctuation mark, the newly christened J’RPG describes a refreshingly French spin on Japanese turn-based roleplaying games, and players can’t get enough of its irresistible je ne sais quoi. J’RPG is a particularly brilliant fit for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33….

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