Author: [email protected] (Tyler Wilde)
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Blizzard announces World of Warcraft’s next 3 expansions: ‘We ain’t screwin’ around,’ declares Chris Metzen
Chris Metzen made a full-throated return to the World of Warcraft spotlight today, commanding the BlizzCon 2023 stage to announce not just one World of Warcraft expansion, but three expansions that will make up the “Worldsoul Saga.” The next three World of Warcraft expansions, as revealed by Metzen, will be: The War Within: “You will…
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Fortnite rockets to the top of Twitch on the back of nostalgia for 5 years ago
Fortnite peaked at around 153,000 Twitch viewers yesterday, well below a number of other categories, such as League of Legends and Counter-Strike. Just a day later, Fortnite is the #1 category on Twitch, with more than 490,000 people watching streamers play the battle royale shooter as I write. Ninja, who became famous for streaming Fortnite…
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The PC game releases we’re most excited about in November
I’m starting to measure the passage of time in terms of how long I’ve been dawdling in Baldur’s Gate 3’s second act—this will surely be the month I finally make a decision about Shadowheart’s fate and see my way to the titular city, because with Alan Wake 2 and Lords of the Fallen out last…
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After ‘suffering’ internet skepticism and a trademark dispute, The Day Before is returning to Steam with a new early access release date
We might actually play The Day Before soon. After spending the year without a Steam page due to an apparent trademark dispute, the drama-prone survival game has returned with a new trailer and a new release date. Instead of November 10, The Day Before is now scheduled to release on December 5, and in early…
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South Park makes Baldur’s Gate 3 joke, Larian quickly corrects it
It’s not quite the leviathan of TV satire it once was, but there must still be some thrill in seeing South Park reference something you’ve made. No one needed the rude cartoon boys to confirm that Baldur’s Gate 3 has been a huge success, but a joke about cross-dimensional BG3 save files in the latest…
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I ranked all 16 of Return to Moria’s beard options from worst to best
For Return to Moria, a new Lord of the Rings survival game all about dwarves, a strong beard selection was a must. Indeed, the deep-mountain mining adventure includes 16 beard options in its character creator. Some are commonplace, others are fantastical. Over a decade in games media has given me an insatiable urge to rank…
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Squadron 42 looks like it cost the millions it should have, but we’re not sold on it yet
Over a decade after announcing Star Citizen, mastermind Chris Roberts has finally declared that its Squadron 42 singleplayer campaign—just a piece of the bigger Star Citizen “persistent universe,” which has raised over $600 million in crowdfunding—is feature complete and entering the “polish” phase. No release date has been announced, and polishing may take “some time,”…
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Lords of the Fallen has already sold 1 million copies
We just can’t get enough punishing fantasy horror action RPGs. After Elden Ring last year and Lies of P in September, and despite some early performance complaints and proximity to RPG juggernauts Baldur’s Gate 3 and Starfied, Lords of the Fallen has already sold more than a million copies, according to its publisher. Lies of…
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Bandcamp is the best of the internet, please stop hurting it
Where else but Bandcamp are you going to buy the Halo theme rendered on sitar on an album called SitarCraft? It must be protected. After years of chill profitability, one of our favorite websites—which is a great place to buy and listen to videogame and videogame-inspired music—has been dealt a crushing blow: Epic Games bought…
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Battlefield 2042 is finally having a little moment thanks to 2 years of updates and a big discount
Battlefield 2042 had some problems when it launched a couple years ago, but I said then that it was a fun game, and I say it again now: It’s fun! I feel a little less alone in thinking so lately, because it’s presently sitting at the respectable position of #13 on Steam’s list of top…