Author: [email protected] (Tyler Colp)
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Diablo 4’s 10K-word patch notes bless necromancers and curse barbarians for next week’s season 4 PTR
Diablo 4 is about to become a wildly different game. Starting in season 4 and onwards, every class, item, and progression system will work differently. Blizzard has released the over 10,000-word patch notes for all the changes you’ll be able to test out in next week’s season 4 playtest, or public test realm (PTR). It’s…
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PSA: Diablo 4 is now on PC Game Pass, just in time to prepare for its biggest update ever
Game Pass subscribers can play Diablo 4 on the eve of its most substantial update ever starting today. On May 14, Blizzard will release Diablo 4 season 4 and overhaul almost everything about it. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get anything out of jumping into season 3 right now. The game’s campaign is worth…
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Overwatch 2’s first free hero will be playable this weekend ahead of their season 10 debut
Overwatch 2’s first free hero will be playable for a limited time—before their proper release in season 10—starting tomorrow and ending on Sunday, March 31. Venture is Overwatch 2’s first non-binary hero, and its first DPS hero since Sojourn was released alongside it in 2022. A lot has changed since then. Everyone in the game…
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The award for Dragon’s Dogma 2’s biggest jerks goes to the griffins
Not since Elden Ring have players been posting as many Ls as they have with Dragon’s Dogma 2. It’s another open world RPG where everything can and will go wrong. If it’s not pawns, the game’s clumsy NPC party members, getting themselves killed, it’s players minding their own business when a griffin swoops in for…
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Against all odds, World of Warcraft’s subscription price hasn’t changed in 20 years: ‘I’d rather have a big, healthy, happy audience’ than risk driving players away with a price hike, Warcraft boss says
World of Warcraft’s subscription price hasn’t budged in most parts of the world for 20 years. Long before our collective nostalgia birthed WoW Classic, you had to pay Blizzard $15 a month to spend hours auto-attacking wolves in Elwynn Forest. The only difference now is that the wolves are in high-definition. John Hight, Warcraft’s senior…
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5 crucial changes in Diablo 4’s gigantic season 4 rework
The Diablo 4 you know is gone. Blizzard’s massive list of changes coming with its next season—and staying for its future—affect almost everything in it. It’s practically a new game wearing the skin of the one that only came out less than a year ago. Whether you fell off around its first season or stuck…
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 Nameless Village: How to find the secret cave and items
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The Nameless Village in Dragon’s Dogma 2 has a secret and it’ll take a little bit of finesse to find it. You’re told to turn back as soon as you arrive, but won’t face any consequences for poking around anyway. All the people here will refuse to tell you what’s going on until you discover…
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Blizzard just killed Diablo 4 by announcing a list of changes so massive that it’s practically a new game
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Blizzard should call Diablo 4’s next season Diablo 5 because the changes coming are so fundamental and widespread, it’s going to feel like you’re playing a full-on sequel. After months of teasing a massive overhaul to Diablo 4’s core design, Blizzard used today’s Campfire Chat steam to walk through season 4’s rework to loot and…
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You won’t need to propose to Elden Ring’s heretical moon witch to wield her legendary sword—$500 will do just fine
Panda Studio has opened preorders for a resin replica of the Elden Ring sword Ranni bestows upon Tarnished near the end of her long questline. It’s about 5 feet long and is painted to mimic the frosty blue glow that it takes on when you power it up in the game. The Dark Moon Greatsword…
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Helldivers 2’s friendly fire and killer bugs show ‘the fragility of humans’ and are also just funny, creative director says
Helldivers 2 threw out the first game’s top-down camera perspective, bringing us closer to our soldiers to make us feel extra vulnerable as we face off with extraterrestrial killer bugs and robots, Arrowhead Studios CEO and creative director Johan Pilestedt told PlayStation Blog. “Helldivers 1 took a lot of inspiration from real life and military-sim…