Author: Harvey Randall
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WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery devs announce plans to slash mount prices in half, ramp up XP gains to 100%, and create an eventual 20-player Molten Core
Season of Discovery phase 2 has been chugging along, bringing players to a level cap of 40—also leading to a harsher demand when it comes to Classic’s old XP and gold grinds. In case you missed the boat entirely, SoD is a version of WoW Classic with a smaller team that’s all about mixing things…
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WoW unveils 8 new hero tree previews before The War Within, one of which makes you 5% taller than everybody else at all times
One of the marquee features of World of Warcraft’s upcoming expansion The War Within is its hero talent trees, an extra layer of icing to Dragonflight’s talent rework cake. They’re flavourful, themed additions to your core abilities that are meant to be “an evergreen form of character progression”. Blizzard’s been harvesting feedback in the run-up…
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Helldivers 2 devs say no, farmers aren’t handing planets to the Automatons on a silver platter—they just aren’t helping
Helldivers 2 has a great metagame layered over all the bug- and bot-blasting: The Galactic War, which sees players defending and liberating planets in a dev-controlled campaign. The whole thing has this fun air of mystique to it at the moment—can you actually cut off supply lines? Are the devs making it hard on purpose?…
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Helldivers 2’s first big war isn’t suffering because of tough evac missions or medal-hoarding farmers—it’s the pass-or-fail reward structure that’s spoiling the fun
I’ve been enjoying Helldivers 2 a whole lot—specifically, I’ve loved the feeling of being that disposable, fragile grunt in the middle of a large-scale galactic war. That feeling that there’s something bad happening at every turn is a whole lot of fun. It’s why every other day there’s a TikTok of some Helldiver ducking and…
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Alan Wake 2 speedrunner is possessed by the spirit of dance, sacrifices a whole minute to rock out to the game’s best song via audience flash mob
Speedrunners are some of the most dedicated people in gaming, devoting hours upon hours to mastering their respective games and achieving excellence—but when it comes to raising money for charity, they’re often completely unhinged for a good cause. As is the case with TaintedTali, a speedrunner who blazed through Alan Wake 2 for ESAWinter24 last…
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Helldivers 2 finally liberated from the bulk of its server issues as Arrowhead CEO celebrates having ‘time to focus on improvements’ like rad mechs and (probably) stealth gear
As you may have noticed, Helldivers 2 got really popular real fast—and has been suffering under the weight of success for a week and change. Reviews lamenting server problems caused it to dip into ‘mixed’ territory on Steam, and a harsh 15-minute AFK timer had to be implemented to curb server squatters. But after raising…
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Helldivers 2’s CEO deletes sleep-deprived tweet forged ‘at 2 am’ implying the login woes are over—clarifies ‘we don’t yet know if we can support everyone this weekend’
Helldiver’s 2’s latest patch bumped the concurrent user cap from around 450,000 to 700,000 which (alongside an AFK kick timer of around 15 minutes) should make Arrowhead Games’ triumphant horde shooter actually playable for the majority of divers. Should is the operative word here, though—as several devs shared earlier this week, servers for online games…
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‘We love you, we hate money’: Ultrakill and Gloomwood developer New Blood is offering discounts on all its games (and some body pillows) for its 10 year anniversary
New Blood is getting pretty old, huh? The developer (which is behind several indie hits of the past decade) is having a 10 year anniversary sale to celebrate the occasion, aptly titled “We love you, we hate money”. As announced on the studio’s Twitter yesterday, New Blood is offering discounts on its catalogue of games—which…
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Some Helldivers 2 players are inexplicably killing each other for resources, despite a dozen different UI elements telling you they’re shared
Helldivers 2 is a co-op game, and its mechanics are designed around that. All the samples, super credits, and medals you pick up get shared among your teammates at the end of a mission. Yet for some inexplicable reason, some players say randoms are gunning them down to swipe their goods—or yelling at them for…
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Helldivers 2’s community manager gets mistaken for an automaton by Discord, gets locked out of account for over 40 hours due to ‘sending too many DMs too fast’
The team over at Arrowhead Games has been wildly busy with Helldivers 2—which is to be expected. After a meteoric rise in concurrent players that forced a raised cap to 700,000, the game’s playerbase has swelled to near-unmanageable levels which, as you might imagine, would keep a community manager very busy. So busy in fact…