Author: Heather Newman

For an online game’s long-term success, balance is king. For massively multiplayer online games with dozens of character types and dungeons and raid instances, it’s also a massive headache. This many years into World of Warcraft’s life, balancing raids is a challenge Blizzard has tons of experience with. But even then it can be hard…

The World of Warcraft community discovered almost by accident recently that the lead creator of the game’s stories has quietly left Blizzard. Warcraft narrative director Steve Danuser’s departure wasn’t announced, but rather discovered by fans who noticed an update to his LinkedIn page that sets the end of his Blizzard employment to last November, right…

World of Warcraft Classic’s wacky Season of Discovery servers has finally hit Phase 2, and with that advance comes an avalanche of new content. WoW players will match up against each other in PVP contests and new dungeons, a new raid and new quests as they move from level 25 to the new cap of…

Need to know What is it? A remake of the classic 2006 turn-based RPG.Release date February 1, 2024Expect to pay $70/£60Developer AtlusPublisher SegaReviewed on Windows 10 Pro, Intel i9-10920X, 128 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Steam Deck VerifiedLink Official site Persona 3 Reload isn’t just a hi-res tune-up of the 2006 turn-based classic Shin Megami…

Attention, real-time strategy lovers: If you’ve always wanted StarCraft 3, or Warcraft 4, or maybe both combined with a little Command & Conquer thrown in, you should be paying close attention to Stormgate. Stormgate is scheduled to enter early access on Steam this summer. The free-to-play RTS turtles in the camps of those previous games,…

The upcoming RTS Stormgate has three factions, two of which have been announced: Vanguard, with the previously-released hero Blockade, and the Infernal Host, which gets its first hero this week in a new beta build (codenamed “Elephant”). That new build will be available to those who purchase the $40 Kickstarter tier or higher. It’ll introduce…

The Kickstarter campaign for Frost Giant’s fledgling RTS Stormgate met its $100,000 goal in 15 minutes. It hit $1 million in under 48 hours. Now it’s crossed the $2 million line. But Stormgate isn’t a brand-new project: Its development was fully-funded prior to the crowdfunding campaign. I recently spoke to Frost Giant communications director Gerald…

The Azerothian Archives is a surprisingly deep event in World of Warcraft which has arrived with the 10.2.5 patch. It brings opportunities to earn new transmogs, mounts and pets, along with reputation to earn with old and new factions. The Archives creates a new flavor of archaeology with an excavation mini-game, tracking and spotting artifacts,…

Follower Dungeons are a new addition that arrived with patch 10.2.5 in World of Warcraft. These are essentially Dragonflight dungeons where any open spots in your party are filled by NPCs. They’re a particular godsend for DPS players who don’t have a full group and don’t want to wait for the (inevitably long) dungeon queue…

The Mythic raid boss blocking a mountain of World of Warcraft guilds from progressing has finally been nuked from orbit. Tindral Sageswift is the penultimate boss in WoW’s Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope raid. It’s a long fight: Tindral is a druid, and he shapeshifts into several forms over the course of the encounter, each with…